Versata recently followed through on its promise to support the iSeries with its J2EE development tool, which, it claims, can automate 98 percent of the process of generating Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and cut Java development costs in half. In August the Oakland, California, company announced that Versata Logic Server Version 5.6.2, which, together with the Versata Logic Studio, make up the Versata Logic Suite, is now available on iSeries servers running Linux.

In March, Versata announced plans to support the iSeries with its Versata Logic Suite (see “Versata to Bring Java IDE to OS/400”). The Versata Logic Suite is

Publishing your own newsletter or product bulletins is a strategy used by many companies to achieve a polished and professional method of communicating with business partners, customers, employees, and other stakeholders. For years this was accomplished with printed publications that required substantial amounts of time and labor and costs. If you could reduce production expenses, primarily printing and mailing, and also accommodate the inclusion of more timely information, you would probably be looking at publishing content via an e-mail newsletter, Web site, or portal.

One organization that has taken advantage of this publishing opportunity is the United States Olympic Committee.

Supplier performance is a key success factor in the fiercely competitive food distribution business. How quickly and how well suppliers fill orders affects not only service to retail customers but also profitability. So it’s no surprise that the first datamart tackled by Tree of Life, an international food distributor based in St. Augustine, Florida, was the supplier datamart.

Owned by Dutch food giant Royal Wessanen, Tree of Life distributes natural foods and gourmet foods to more than 15,000 retailers across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Its customers range from chains, including Wal-Mart and Safeway, to independent health food

Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers won’t need to go live with their radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging operations until January 1, but that isn’t stopping one third-party logistics company from trying it out early. The RFID Deployment Center in Dallas is helping customers comply with Wal-Mart’s mandate, using RFID hardware and software from multiple vendors, including SSA Global, whose RFID middleware enables the 3PL provider to automatically generate Advanced Ship Notices from its SSA warehouse management system.

The RFID Deployment Center was created in January, when Wal-Mart announced that the Dallas area would be the test bed for RFID technology.