Prescription Solutions had the password disease. The company’s 300 call center workers needed access to a dozen or more applications running across OS/400, VMS, and Windows servers. Each application required a separate password, and, as you might expect, the workers had trouble memorizing them, which led to the “Post-It” note syndrome and increased the help desk’s workload. But after installing single sign-on (SSO) software from BNX Systems and fingerprint scanners, the company got the upper hand on this crippling affliction.

Prescription Solutions is a pharmacy- and medical-management company that handles the prescription drug benefits for commercial, Medicare, and governmental health

We’ve just seen the beginning of the acquisitions of Infor Global Solutions. The ERP software company, which has been in existence for barely three years, has made dozens of acquisitions over the past three years, including OS/400 software vendors like MAPICS, BRAIN, Daly.commerce, and Lilly Software Associates. But the company plans many more as part of its strategy to become the premiere provider of ERP software for manufacturers and distributors.

Infor Global Solutions was spun out of Systems & Computer Technology, a Malvern, Pennsylvania, provider of hardware and software to educational institutions, in June 2002. Soon thereafter, the company

RJS Software Systems last week unveiled a new forms product that’s designed to save users money by eliminating pre-printed forms and providing an onramp to electronic document distribution. E-Forms runs on a Windows workstation and is compatible with the output of iSeries, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers, which is in-line with the company’s new cross-platform, Java-centric development strategy. RJS Software also unveiled a new release of its Enterprise Workflow product.

The new E-Forms product combines a graphical Windows-based forms design tool and the run-time component that is needed to merge the form overlay with spool file data generated by applications.

iSeries shops struggling to keep the performance of their Windows, Unix, and Linux applications in-line with service level agreements (SLAs) may want to check out Tango/04 Computing Group‘s VISUAL Control for Windows 9, which the Spanish software developer launched last week. This release brings additional Windows server-monitoring and -control capabilities, adds support for SNMP devices, including Unix and Linux servers, and let’s administrators monitor it all from a single console.

VISUAL Control for Windows is a systems management tool aimed at helping administrators spot performance problems before they impact users. The software provides a graphical “cockpit” where administrators can