Quadrant Software pulled out the stops at the COMMON conference last week to unveil IntelliChief, a new suite of document and content management software designed to help iSeries shops break their reliance on paper-based processes and make the move to electronic documents and workflow. The new product has been a long time in coming for Quadrant, which celebrated the occasion by welcoming several hundred conference attendees to an open-bar party and a chance to win a $90,000 Porsche 911 Carrera.

While nobody won the Porsche (or, more correctly, nobody won a chance to win the sports car), Quadrant generated plenty

Companies are interested in Web-based access to documents, reports, and files for one reason–it’s the quickest way to distribute critical business data. The spotlight is on productivity, but the side benefits of decreasing paper, postage, and storage costs are not unobserved either. As Richard Schoen, president of RJS Software Systems, points out, these storage and management advantages apply internally, where employees capitalize on easier and quicker location and distribution of documents, and externally, where customers and suppliers gain accessibility.

RJS Software has been rolling out document and image management products for OS/400 shops since 1997. Its product line is

In the past, the primary users of Linoma Software‘s Surveyor/400 were programmers and administrators who required fast and powerful DB2/400 access from a graphical interface. But that user profile is changing as customer service representatives and other workers find the tool fits the bill for a variety of everyday tasks. Last week at the COMMON conference, Linoma unveiled a new version of Surveyor/400 that enables admins to restrict user access to sensitive information, and track people’s use of the tool.

Surveyor/400 is a versatile Java-based client-server program that enables users to accomplish a range of tasks on the iSeries

While Maximum Availability has taken pains to simplify the installation and configuration of OS/400 high availability, there has still been a certain level of time and patience required, particularly in the area of setting up local and remote journaling. Now much of that, too, has been automated through a new *noMAX wizard unveiled at the COMMON conference last week. The company has also made strides with resellers, particularly in Germany, where its agent has averaged a deal a month for the last year and a half.

Before the *noMAX Set Up Wizard became generally available last week, it would often