There is a new player in the market for OS/400 document imaging and workflow software. Core Imaging of Southern California has developed a suite of software designed to make the accounting departments of manufacturers and distributors more efficient by replacing paper-based workflows with electronic equivalents. Last week it announced CoreConnect Host Access, which makes it easier for employees to find and pull up documents from a 5250 emulator.

Core Imaging has accumulated some interesting facts about the inefficiency of relying on paper forms to document transactions, which is still the case for 85 percent to 90 percent of all transactions,

Up to this point, Web services have been talked about in terms of how they can technically connect different systems and architectures. But what’s missing from this debate, according to Attachmate, is how end users themselves can benefit from Web services technology. Making it easier for employees who aren’t technologically sophisticated to make and reuse composite applications in a services oriented architecture (SOA) is the focus of Attachmate’s new Synapta product strategy, which it officially unveiled for the first time yesterday.

Attachmate is one of the largest providers of emulation packages for OS/400, mainframe, Unix, Unisys, and Tandem hosts,

Listen up iSeries users who are looking to break Windows grip on their desktops. iSeries Access for Linux, which IBM introduced last spring as part of the eServer i5 and i5/OS announcements, enables users to open 5250 sessions and access DB2/400 from a Linux client. Two weeks ago, IBM quietly rolled out a new release of this product.

For years, IBM supported its Client Access and iSeries Access family of products on just two PC operating systems: Microsoft Windows, and whatever’s left of OS/2. Third-party providers offered more options with their emulators, like Mac OS and Linux. But if you

In the midst of the resignation of its CEO and very disappointing financial results, Versata last week unveiled a new version of its Enterprise Java development and runtime environment. Versata 6 offers support for externally described business rules, compatibility with the Eclipse workbench, and built-in business activity monitoring, and represents a bet by Versata that service oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services will become more popular as a means to simplify application development.

Versata is an advanced Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development and runtime environment designed to be used by business analysts. Instead of hiring expensive J2EE developers to