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IBM Updates Alphablox Business Intelligence Software

October 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

IBM last week unveiled a new release of its Alphablox for Linux, Unix, and Windows business intelligence application development software. With Alphablox version 9.5, IBM is now allowing both Java and non-Java developers to build Web-based business intelligence dashboards and scorecard applications. It has also added new features to help developers design, develop, and test their analytic applications, and to help users interact with data and perform calculations.

Alphablox is a collection of business intelligence tools IBM acquired more than three years ago to flesh out its DB2 information management business. Fast development and reusability have always been strong suites

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Continued Enhancement of Post Modern Applications? BluePhoenix Has You Covered

October 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

So you’ve heeded the call to modernize your legacy RPG or COBOL application, and are reveling in the business process improvements. So now what? If you’re looking to continue enhancing the application even more, but don’t have the resources to do it in-house, you may want to check into BluePhoenix Solutions, which last week announced a post modernization application development service offering, utilizing developers based in Russia.

BluePhoenix has lots of experience in mainframe application modernization and outsourcing services, and thanks to its acquisition of midrange application modernization software vendor ASNA earlier this year, the company is now building

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CYBRA Teams with Solzon to Develop i5/OS RFID Software

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

IBM doesn’t think i5/OS is an appropriate platform on which to develop a radio frequency identification (RFID) application, but that doesn’t mean there is no demand for such an application. In fact, CYBRA and Solzon, by their account the only two software companies developing RFID software that runs under i5/OS, announced earlier this month that they are joining forces, and combining their respective strengths in i5/OS product development and real-world implementation to give System i customers the strongest option for native RFID deployment.

CYBRA and Solzon have been partners for the last two-and-a-half years, during which time Solzon has

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ProData’s Remote Database Access Tool Gains Automation

October 16, 2007 Dan Burger

There are several ways to access remote databases from the System i. They range from complex and expensive to simple and inexpensive. One of the least expensive and easiest to use methods has been developed by ProData Computer Services. Its Database Utility (DBU) is used by thousands of System i shops to access relational database systems, and earlier this year DBU Remote Database plug-in (DBU RDB) opened up cross-platform database access. This week ProData is releasing Remote Database Connect (RDB Connect), a new access avenue for RPG, COBOL, and CL programs.

The difference between RDB Connect and DBU Remote

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Real Vision Software Delivers RVI 8.0

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

Real Vision Software is now shipping a major new release of Real Vision Imaging (RVI), its document scanning and content management solution for OS/400 and i5/OS users. With version 8.0, Real Vision has made a number of enhancements, including more indexing options, better scanner support, enhancements to the Web interface and HATS support, more mark-up capabilities, new “system linking” capabilities, and other new features.

RVI is an image capture and retrieval system designed to help iSeries and System i users reduce their dependence on paper-based processes. The software enables users to capture and index documents from various sources, including i5/OS

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Vision Tackles i5/OS Application Performance with Director 7.0

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

Vision Solutions is best known as a provider of high availability software for the System i server. After all, since it has purchased three of its former competitors, Vision pretty much now owns that market. But thanks to its acquisition of OS Solutions two-and-a-half years ago, the company is also designing and marketing i5/OS performance management tools, and last week it shipped a major new release of its key offering in that arena: Vision Director 7.0.

Vision Director, which evolved from OS Solutions’ old OS Director product, is a systems optimization and performance utility that’s geared toward freeing up DASD,

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BOSaNOVA Joins PCI Security Group

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

BOSaNOVA, a provider of thin client and security solutions for System i shops, has joined the PCI Security Vendor Alliance, an industry group devoted to helping members understand and comply with the new Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, the company announced last week.

PCI has become one of the most feared (and respected) data security regulations enacted over the past couple of years. Unlike Sarbanes-Oxley, which has vague requirements for IT and affects only public companies, PCI introduced very specific minimum requirements that all parties to credit card transactions–including merchants, software makers, and device manufacturers–must meet

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Kisco’s WebReport/400 Now Converts Spool Files to XLS

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

Kisco Information Systems has added the capability to convert i5/OS spool files into the Excel format with the latest release of WebReport/400, its utility for transforming i5/OS output and distributing it via e-mail and the Web.

WebReport/400 is a versatile utility aimed at allowing i5/OS shops to make more effective use of the spool files and reports generated by their applications. The software allows output to be automatically e-mailed to recipients, posted to a Web site, or sent to another machine via FTP, enabling wider and more effective communication.

Launched in late September, WebReport/400 version 9.15 brings support for the

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First Option Chooses Invision to Host System i Hosting Business

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

First Option, a provider of System i server and application hosting expertise, has picked Invision, which runs a big data center near New York City, to house the iSeries and System i servers it runs for its clients, the companies announced last week.

First Option has been running i5/OS servers and applications for customers since it was founded in 1995. Today the company, which is based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, provides i5/OS expertise to customers like Consolidated Communications, a telecommunications company serving rural Illinois and Texas, and DAPREX, a developer of i5/OS accounting software that’s based in Stamford,

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Solimar Streamlines Output Management for Xerox Printers

October 16, 2007 Alex Woodie

Solimar Systems reached a milestone in its quest to optimize high-volume print output (including System i output) for Xerox printers earlier this month when it announced that Solimar’s Print Director Enterprise (SPDE) software has achieved the “Optimized for FreeFlow” designation by Xerox.

Solimar, which is based in San Diego, California, achieved the Xerox designation by incorporating elements of the FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection into SPDE, which is a collection of Windows-based products aimed at centrally managing the production print environment, including enabling practically any printer to support practically any host, including proprietary environments like IBM mainframe and midrange servers.

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