DRV Technologies, the developer of SpoolFlex, has discovered the value of electronic forms. Last week, the company announced the general availability of FormFlex, a relatively low-cost form overlay application for OS/400 that enables users to design their own invoices, shipping labels, checks, and other forms–and thereby send their pre-printed forms packing. Combined with SpoolFlex, the company’s flagship product, DRV Tech now offers a document management solution that can satisfy the needs of most OS/400 shops.

DRV Technologies has been in the electronic document business since its inception many years ago in the greater Atlanta area. SpoolFlex has enabled hundreds

KCI Computing recently shipped a new release of CONTROL, a business intelligence tool that runs on the iSeries and uses Excel as its primary user interface. By pulling data from DB2/400 and other back-end data stores in real time, CONTROL enables analysts to use Excel to create up-to-the-minute forecasts and budgets. Version 8.7 adds new features in the areas of security, scheduling, and customization of the interface.

CONTROL is a suite of client and server components that, technically, is a relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) tool, according to a company representative. The tool’s main forte is providing financial analysts and

Farabi Technology last week announced HostFront Enterprise Server 4.0, a new version of its host access and integration technology for connecting to OS/400, mainframe, and Unix servers. This version introduces fairly significant changes to the product’s packaging, simplified set-up and deployment, easier Web services generation, a new management console, and the introduction of high-end features, such as clustering.

Before last week’s announcement, Farabi offered three platform-centric versions of HostFront, including HostFront for AS/400, HostFront for Mainframe, and HostFront for Unix. With HostFront Enterprise Server 4.0, the company has done some consolidation and now enables users to access and build integrations

Intentia International may be in the middle of a merger with Lawson Software, but that isn’t stopping it from making the most of its summer. Last month the Swedish ERP software vendor made several notable announcements, including a new release of its ERP system, a new optimization tool designed to improve food and beverage makers’ inventory efficiencies, several new customers, an iSeries award from IBM, and an increase in second quarter revenues.

In early June, Intentia and Lawson announced plans to combine their operations into a single company, to be headquartered at Lawson’s offices in St. Paul, Minnesota