• S4i Systems Goes SOA with Doc Management

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  It will be easier to interface S4i Systems‘ i5/OS-based document management software, called S4i Express, with third-party applications now that the company has adopted service oriented architecture (SOA) standards. Meanwhile, the company also announced that it’s been accepted into IBM‘s SOA Specialty Business Partner initiative, providing assurance that S4i Express’ SOA interfaces adhere to industry standards. S4i Express helps reduce users’ reliance on pre-printed forms while transitioning them to paperless business processes. The software monitors System i print queues, processes the output using report-segmenting or -bundling rules, converts it into PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or plain text

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• New i5 Offering from TurboChef to Speed Batch Runs

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Looking for a little extra power to speed those long-running batch jobs? Sick and tired of waiting for the batch to be over? Then you might be a good candidate for the latest in TurboChef Technologies‘ i-series product line, the i5, which is currently under development at TurboChef headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. TurboChef is currently developing a new line of i-series “speed cook batch ovens” to go along with its other successful products, including the High h Batch, the C3, and the Tornado, which features speeds up to 12 times faster than conventional equipment. But these speeds will be

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• Centerfield Adds More Smarts to Database Performance Suite

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Getting the most performance out of your System i server should be easier when using the new release of Centerfield Technology‘s suite of SQL and DB2 optimization software. With HomeRun version 6.1, Centerfield has added more intelligence and flexibility to HomeRun’s autonomic database maintenance component, called AutoDBA, which should result in faster implementation of database index optimization. The company has also taken steps to minimize the performance impact of the HomeRun suite itself. In 2006, CenterField consolidated its various database performance and security products into a single suite called HomeRun. The move primarily served to make it easier and

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• Aura Equipments Pushes i5/OS-Excel Integration

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Aura Equipments, the French developer of i5/OS software utilities, has repackaged its i5/OS-Excel integration tool to make it more affordable. Launcher 400 Excel, as the product is called, allows Excel spreadsheets to be automatically updated with data from System i servers, providing a productivity boon to Excel junkies who would otherwise be rekeying data or playing with Query. Previously, the product was only available as part of a bigger, more expensive suite of products. There are more than 500 million users of Excel around the world, according to Microsoft, making it the most successful business intelligence tool of

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• Innovatum Adds Biometric Authentication to Improve Compliance ‘Auditability’

  March 4, 2008 Dan Burger

  Regulations that affect the collection, storage, and retrieval of electronic data records have hit IT departments like a snow storm in Miami Beach. IT managers have been shivering ever since mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, and the FDA’s 21 CFR part 11, plus a blizzard of other industry-specific compliance rules have entered their domain. Early efforts to make the grade were manual labor intensive. To get out from under that heavy load, organizations looked to technology for automated solutions. Innovatum, with its data monitoring software, has been in the thick of it. Coupled with the cold blast

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• Surf’s Up for Web-Based Organized Crime, IBM X-Force Says

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  If you’ve noticed that attempts to steal your identity and your money on the Web have grown more sophisticated in recent months, you’re not alone. In its analysis of thousands of attacks, IBM‘s X-Force security group confirmed that the underground criminal economy made a lot of headway last year in its quest to exploit software and human vulnerabilities in its pursuit of ill-gotten gains off the Net. In its annual report on the state of information security, the X-Force team at Internet Security Systems (ISS) describes the trends shaping security for 2007, and what managers, administrators, and programmers should

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• WorksRight Gains USPS Certification, Launches New Product

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use WorksRight Software‘s i5/OS-based address verification software, called PER/ZIP4, can rest easy knowing their software supports the U.S. Postal Service’s latest Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) processing requirement, known as Zip+4. The Mississippi company also launched a new product called HyPER/Sort that PER/ZIP4 customers can use to prepare their USPS documentation. WorksRight develops geocoding and address verification software that organizations with large bulk-mailing operations can use to ensure they qualify for the lowest possible rates from the U.S. and Canadian Postal Services. The company’s flagship product, PER/ZIP4, matches addresses to the national ZIP + 4 postal database

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• looksoftware Gives Adidas Korea’s Green-Screen ERP an Office Interface

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  When sporting goods distributor adidas Korea decided it was time to modernize its i5/OS-based business applications, it was hoping to create a Microsoft Office-based interface to its 5250-based ERP system. While such a setup might sound farfetched at first, it’s not only possible, but it was actually delivered by looksoftware as part of an application makeover. B.H. Lee, team leader of adidas Korea’s IT department, was tasked with helping to improve the IT systems rollout of new products, promotions, and the processing of orders and sales. “To achieve these requirements, we investigated a number of options,” Lee says, “and newlook

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• Lawson to Acquire Developer of HR Software

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Lawson Software recently announced its intention to acquire VasTech, a developer of .NET-based staffing and scheduling software for the healthcare, hospitality, and casino markets. Lawson intends to include VasTech’s products in its Lawson Human Capital Management suite, and complete the acquisition this month. VasTech’s offering, called VasTech 24/7, is a Web-based collection of components–including DemandMapper, ShiftMaker, IntraGate, CredentialManager, CentralStaffer, and ClockWorker–designed to complement customers’ core time-and-attendance solutions with a more powerful and flexible staff scheduling system. Labor benefits from features such as online shift swapping, shift bidding, and vacation request tracking, while management can use the software to build

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• Atempo Cuts Setup Time with Time Navigator 4.2

  March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Atempo last week announced a new release of its backup and archive tool for System i and other platforms, Time Navigator, that should be quicker and easier to implement. Better application support and enhancements to its logs and alarms interface also distinguish Time Navigator 4.2, the first new release of the product in a year-and-a-half. Time Navigator automates the backup, archiving, and regulatory compliance needs of companies running computers based on the i5/OS, Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X, VMS, and NetWare operating systems. The product provides continuous data protection (CDP), disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T), and virtual tape library (VTL) capabilities, and sports

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