• Quadrant Unveils IntelliChief for Paperless Process Management

  September 27, 2005 Alex Woodie

  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

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• Web-based Document Management Gets the RJS Treatment

  September 27, 2005 Dan Burger

  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

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• Linoma Bolsters Security of iSeries Database Tool

  September 27, 2005 Alex Woodie

  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

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• MaxAv’s New Wizard Simplifies Remote Journaling Setup

  September 27, 2005 Alex Woodie

  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

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• Plasmon’s New UDO Media Destroys Records, By Design

  September 20, 2005 Alex Woodie

  In the hit TV show “Mission: Impossible,” team members were told “this tape will self-destruct in five seconds,” and it always did, in a tiny puff of smoke. While AS/400 shops typically aren’t involved in fighting international espionage, they do need a (legal) way to keep the prying eyes of lawyers off their backups and archives. Plasmon recently unveiled a new line of Ultra Density Optical (UDO) media cartridges aimed at helping users comply with data-retention regulations, while limiting their legal exposure from keeping certain records unnecessarily long. Companies today are grappling with a slew of new regulations, including SOX,

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• Cape Clear’s Enterprise Service Bus Avoids WebSphere Gridlock

  September 20, 2005 Dan Burger

  Just last week IBM announced plans to crank up its service oriented architecture (SOA) efforts with new hardware and services designed to help companies develop more scalable and flexible applications that are more closely aligned with business goals. Service oriented architecture is a method for redesigning technology foundations and improving interoperability between disparate systems. Big Blue sees it as an important next step in the evolutionary process for IT. Cape Clear Software agrees. However, on matters relating to WebSphere, the two companies are on opposite sides of the fence. Cape Clear has just announced the availability of its enterprise service

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• Chick’s Digs iSeries as Replacement for Windows Farm

  September 20, 2005 Alex Woodie

  Chick’s Sporting Goods used to rely on several Windows boxes to serve e-mail, among other applications. The MIS manager also used to work nights and weekends managing those Windows servers. But since consolidating those servers onto a single iSeries that runs Domino and its ERP system, the Southern California chain has joined the chorus of former Windows shops who are now signing the song of iSeries. Founded in 1949, Chick’s Sporting Goods is California’s oldest sports retail chain, even if it’s not the largest. With 11 locations and 1,200 employees, the L.A.-based group is a solidly mid size company, with

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• Red Oak Rides Eclipse to Application Integration Party

  September 20, 2005 Dan Burger

  Two things can be said about integrating legacy applications: a majority of companies have projects to accomplish integration and few can boast about achieving it. Legacy application integration can be executed in several ways. The most common is terminal emulation for the desktop or the Internet. Red Oak Software takes a different tactic. It creates its Web-to-host connectivity environment through a process referred to as programmatic integration. The company’s latest tool, built on the Eclipse framework, is called the Legacy Composer–Eclipse Edition. Tools based on programmatic integration rely on data streams for their input, but they distinguish themselves from what

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• PowerTech Translates SOX Requirements Into iSeries Terms

  September 13, 2005 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops preparing for Sarbanes-Oxley Act audits can find some help in a new release of PowerLock SecurityAudit unveiled by The PowerTech Group last week. With SecurityAudit 2.0, PowerTech is including a new AuditAdvisor function that encapsulates the knowledge of the company’s OS/400 security experts, as well as COBIT and ISO standards, and helps generate the required SOX reports. The company is also making it easier to configure security on multiple iSeries with new releases of its NetworkSecurity and CentralAdmin products. One of the most common complaints that companies have voiced about SOX compliance over the past three years is

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• NGS Puts the Graphics Into Business Intelligence

  September 13, 2005 Alex Woodie

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then why are your top business analysts ruining their eyes reading line-for-line the reams of reports output from your ERP system? That’s the question New Generation Software wants you to ask, especially since it unveiled its Business Performance Dashboard software earlier this year. This month NGS is shipping a new Starter Pack of templates designed to get users up and running quickly with graphical reports based on iSeries data. The Business Performance Dashboard, which NGS launched earlier this year, enables business analysts and corporate executives to get a handle on the

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