XAware recently announced it is shipping the commercial version of XAware 5, the most recent release of its eponymous graphical open source data integration suite. The company released the open source version of XAware 5 last fall, when it made the open source plunge. Now that the open source community has had its chance to take a whack at it, XAware is announcing the availability of the commercial version of XAware 5.

XAware is a Java-based data integration tool suite that allows users to create reusable logic to move data among disparate systems. Instead of writing one-off integration points

iQ4bis Software, the business intelligence software developer that previously went by the name Q4bis, recently delivered a new release of its Windows-based business intelligence tool for J.D. Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics customers, iQ4bis Analysis 4.0, which features a new AJAX interface and new data visualization tools. The Southern California company also announced a new partnership with AMX International, a JD Edwards business partner to develop supply chain scorecards based on iQ4bis software.

These are exciting times for iQ4bis Software, which was founded by Herbert Schoenek more than 20 years ago to help companies analyze their data. Since it

LogLogic this week introduced a new line of log collection and analysis appliances geared toward helping mid size businesses address regulatory compliance mandates. The new MX appliances offer the same level of regulatory reporting and forensic analysis capabilities as LogLogic’s enterprise class LX and ST appliances, thereby giving customers more automation and control over their compliance initiatives, but with a simpler all-in-one architecture and a lower price.

The wave of regulatory compliance initiatives is not just impacting large enterprises, but mid size companies, too, says Dominique Levin, executive vice president of marketing, products, and business development at LogLogic. “The drivers

How would you like a graphical view of your company’s outbound deliveries continually updated throughout the day? It could help you spot costly errors, especially compared to reading printed manifests one by one, or monitoring EDI transactions. Such an application is possible with the latest release of EXTOL‘s i5/OS-based EDI translation software, EDI Integrator 6.2, which introduces a new real-time graphical dashboard capability.

For companies in certain industries, such as consumer goods and automotive, EDI transactions are the lifeblood of the organization. Employees don’t produce and machinery doesn’t roll until those purchase orders, invoices, and shipment notices are sent

Organizations are increasingly reliant on their IT infrastructure to deliver the solutions they need to drive the business forward. As a result, many organizations are turning to ITIL to help them to address IT support and delivery challenges and deal more effectively with operational processes. The configuration management database, or CMDB, is a fundamental component of the ITIL framework, yet despite increasing awareness and demand for CMDBs by ITIL adopters, many still struggle to understand exactly what a CMDB is and how it can be used and implemented to maximize the potential of their ITIL framework.

At its best, the

Help/Systems last week launched a new release of Robot/REPLAY, a companion product to its i5/OS job scheduler, Robot/SCHEDULE, that’s designed to provide a greater degree of automation in the scheduling of System i jobs. The product’s usability and security have been improved with the version 3 release, Help/Systems says.

When setting up a job schedule to automate the workload of a System i server, an administrator will typically work with batch jobs that are, more or less, self contained and don’t require user input. However, every now and then, an administrator will run into interactive jobs that need to be

Oracle is giving JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers access to the latest release of its Demantra supply chain and promotion planning software, the company announced last week. The move is designed to provide consumer goods companies that use EnterpriseOne better visibility into the effectiveness of their promotions activities, and greater overall profitability.

Oracle first announced the integration of EnterpriseOne and Demantra, which it acquired in 2006, last July. At that time, Oracle hooked EnterpriseOne into Demantra version 7.1.1. With last week’s announcement, Oracle is enabling users of EnterpriseOne version 8.12 to various components of the Demantra version 7.2 suite, including the

Packeteer last week launched a new line of wide area network (WAN) optimization appliances, the PacketShaper 900, which is designed to fit into space-constrained environments. Despite its small size and modest cost, the PS900 line of network appliances provides enterprise-strength network monitoring, shaping, acceleration, and compression capabilities, the company says.

Packeteer’s new PS 900 line includes two devices, the PS 900 and the PS 900 Lite. Both provide full visibility and control over all seven layers of the network stack, allowing network administrators to withhold bandwidth for noncritical applications like FaceBook, while giving priority to critical applications like ERP systems.

Pragmatix, a New York IT consultancy and managed services provider, is now providing access to VAI‘s S2K suite of i5/OS ERP software via the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model, the companies announced yesterday.

VAI’s S2K suite is used by nearly 800 mid size manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to manage their businesses. The RPG-based application is traditionally deployed on a System i server running i5/OS, and users access it via graphical Web or Windows screens, or through green-screen interfaces.

Now that Pragmatix has signed on as a SaaS partner, that model will change slightly. For starters, customers

i5/OS shops using Gumbo Software‘s SpoolMail and Spool-a-Matic products can now create digitally signed PDF documents from their System i’s spool files, the software developer recently announced.

Seattle, Washington-based Gumbo Software develops a range of software utilities designed to spruce up the System i server’s native print output mechanism. Key among these are Spool-a-Matic, which converts i5/OS spool files into PDF, RTF, HTML, and other PC formats and then places them in a predefined location on the IFS, and SpoolMail, which automatically e-mails spool files as ASCII or PDF attachments.

With SpoolMail version 2.4 and Spool-a-Matic version 2.2, Gumbo