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Solimar Updates Output Management Software, Receives Xerox Award

March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

Solimar Systems announced new releases of three of its products last week at the On Demand Conference & Expo in Boston. In addition to new releases of its enterprise output management products, the company received an award from Xerox.

Solimar Print Director Enterprise, or SPDE, 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 that rely on the AFP and IPDS print architectures.

Improving the function of high-speed, full-color IPDS is one of the new

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Cleo Updates B2B Communications Software

March 4, 2008 Alex Woodie

In this age of e-commerce, sending and receiving orders over the phone, the mail, or fax machines is too slow, too manual, and too prone to error. Instead, companies are increasingly adopting B2B technologies like AS2 and encrypted FTP to ensure their orders are handled expeditiously. Cleo Communications, one of the unheralded developers of business communications software used by more than 10,000 companies, recently introduced a minor release of its core B2B technology, called VersaLex.

VersaLex is the core Java-based communications engine behind several products used to send and receive EDI documents over the Internet using standards such as

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i5/OS V6R1 Compatibility an Issue for Software Vendors

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

IBM will ship i5/OS V6R1 next month, but System i customers may have a bit longer to wait before third-party software developers can roll out support for the new operating system. More than half of the software vendors contacted by IT Jungle for an informal poll on V6R1 readiness said they would be ready for the new operating system at general availability. But questions remain about the readiness of the other 40 percent of vendors, particularly the ERP application vendors.

When IBM ships i5/OS V6R1 next month, it will mark only the third time in the history of the platform

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IBM Patches Security Flaw in Quickr for i5/OS

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

IBM has issued a patch for a cross-site scripting security vulnerability in Lotus Quickr for i5/OS, the computer security research and development company Secunia reported last week. The flaw was given a “less critical” rating. Meanwhile, another security flaw in i5/OS reported earlier this month has been partially patched by IBM.

According to a Secunia advisory published last week, a security vulnerability in Lotus Quickr for i5/OS version 8 can be exploited by hackers to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The problem is the result of not properly validating certain input before it’s returned to a user when anonymous access

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BOSaNOVA Adds Encryption to Thin Clients

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

BOSaNOVA last week announced that it has added SSL encryption capabilities to the 5250 emulation running on its thin clients. The technology was added to help customers comply with the Payment Cardholder Industry (PCI) mandates, according to the company, which has been moving strongly into the IT security arena over the last year.

Twin-ax controllers were once a big part of BOSaNOVA’s business. But today, you’re more likely to call the Phoenix, Arizona, company to beef up your IT security than you are to squeeze more life out of your aging SNA architecture.

A year ago, the company started down

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Symtrax Seals Deal with Attractive Pricing

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

A more attractive pricing model was one of the key reasons the Symtrax electronic forms package was selected by Andrews Sykes Hire, an English company that rents heaters, air conditioners, and other equipment manufactured by its parent company, according to a recent Symtrax case study.

MapForm is an electronic document management system that allows users to move away from preprinted forms and print business output on standard laser printers. The software works by applying document overlays to output from a variety of systems, including i5/OS servers, and then either distributing the final document via e-mail or sending it to a

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iWay Adds File Transfer to SOA Suite

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

There are lots of benefits to implementing a service oriented architecture (SOA), according to iWay Software, which is in the SOA middleware business. Unfortunately, streamlining the transfer of files in enterprise environments is not one of those benefits. In fact, SOAs tend to complicate the matter. That’s why last week iWay added a new file transfer option to its suite of SOA software.

As SOA adoption creeps forward, organizations begin learning what works and what doesn’t work in an SOA. Apparently, there is quite a bit of work to do in enterprise file transfer in SOA frameworks, according to

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Magic to Help ISVs Move to SaaS

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Magic Software last week announced plans to deliver a new set of development tools aimed at helping independent software vendors (ISVs) deliver their applications using the software as a service (SaaS) approach. The Israeli company also delayed filing of its quarterly and year-end financial results by a week.

Magic says it has already completed a round of beta testing for its new offering, called the SaaS Enabled Application Platform, or SEAP, and plans to officially roll it out later this year, starting in Japan.

SEAP is based largely on eDeveloper, the 4GL-based integrated development environment (IDE) for i5/OS and Windows

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Informatica Launches Data Migration Suite

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Informatica last week launched a new suite of software and services aimed at migrating data among enterprise systems. The offering, called the Data Migration Suite, includes specially packaged versions of Informatica’s popular data integration and data quality tools, along with professional services.

Moving large amounts of data among critical business systems can be a harrowing task. Whether it’s for a new ERP application implementation, a consolidation of enterprise systems, or as part of a merger or acquisition, a data migration project should be planned well in advance to minimize the chance of errors.

But that’s not how organizations typically approach

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HiT Takes IT Solutions to South America

February 26, 2008 Alex Woodie

Data integration tool vendor HiT Software last week revealed a series of new partners who will represent the Silicon Valley company in the burgeoning South American IT market. The company also hired a Latin American sales manager, and translated sections of it Web site into Spanish.

HiT Software develops a series of tools designed to make it easier for companies to move data among their major relational databases (including DB2/400), XML, and Windows and Java applications using an assortment of .NET, OLE DB, ODBC, and JDBC techniques.

Interest in HiT’s tools among South and Central American organizations has increased considerably

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