Imagine getting a text message on your cell phone the minute your iSeries detects that inventory levels have reached critically low levels. It could save your company thousands of dollars and hours of hassle by getting a jump on the ordering process. Such a notification system is now available from Boost Information Systems, a Rochester, Minnesota, software company that recently launched Boost IntelliSense for the iSeries Version 2.0.

Boost IntelliSense for the iSeries is a unique product designed to free users’ time by alerting them to specific events when they occur on their OS/400 systems. It can alert employees

The planning and analysis group at drug-maker Upsher-Smith Laboratories was in a special kind of Excel hell. With a monthly data feed from a pharmaceutical information clearinghouse topping 50 million rows, technicians had to do some fancy summarizing or risk breaking the celebrated spreadsheet program, which bottoms out at 64,000 rows. So the company decided to implement a data warehouse, and when it came to connecting to its core OS/400 systems, including SAP, it found success with Informatica‘s data integration tools.

Upsher-Smith is an established pharmaceutical company based in Plymouth, Minnesota. When the company was founded, in 1919,

You don’t have to be a Java developer to get something out of Jinfonet‘s latest reporting tool. Not that you did with previous versions, but JReport Version 7.0, announced this month, features new ad-hoc reporting capabilities that allow people at practically any skill level to build reports from JDBC data sources, on the fly. There’s also a new migration utility for Crystal Reports, JReport’s primary competition.

Anybody who can command their pointer to drag and drop data elements in a Web browser can create reports with the new on-the-fly report writing capability in JReport Analysis, the updated ad hoc

THOUGHT last week added support for IBM‘s DB2 database to CocoBase Enterprise O/R Version 4.5, Service Release 6, the latest release of its Java-based object-to-relational mapping tool. CocoBase was designed to automate much of the work that goes into allowing applications written in object-oriented languages, such as Java, to access relational databases. With support for DB2, CocoBase also now supports the iSeries.

Traditionally, Java developers have spent a good portion of their time hand-coding SQL or JDBC to address the difference between objects and relational data stores, known as the “impedance mismatch.” In addition to being time consuming, this