• Bellamy Boosts Sales, Thanks to looksoftware GUI

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  First impressions at sales meetings weren’t pretty things for Bellamy Software, a company that develops applications for municipal governments and school districts in Canada. Despite nearly 30 years of honing its RPG-based application into a fast and efficient entity, the face of the product was an “ugly” 5250 green screen–a fact that Bellamy’s Windows-based competitors used to make considerably hay. But now that Bellamy has looksoftware generating browser-based GUIs, the company is giving customers what they expect, and selling more software as a result. From its headquarters in Edmonton, Alberta, Bellamy Software develops i5/OS applications used by small and

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• The Genie’s Browser Presence Grows

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations modernizing their System i systems with Profound Logic‘s Genie can now perform all of the screen design work from the comfort of a Web browser with Genie 3.0, which was just released. Profound says the capability to customize HTML interfaces using drag-and-drop techniques in a Web browser should make using the tool easier to use, and introduce it to a new group of users. Genie is one of a new class of non-invasive tools for modernizing i5/OS screens on the fly, as users access them. The product, which was released less than a year ago, uses AJAX

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• QSystem Monitor Gains Disk Cleanup Functions

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Good System i housekeeping has many aspects. One task that can be of particular importance is the periodic purging and deleting of old records, which keeps hard disks uncluttered and clean. While these functions have been part of the operating system since time immemorial, System i shops that use QSystem Monitor to help run their systems can now use the CCSS product to keep their disks clean and efficient, in addition to all the other disk monitoring functions supported by QSystem Monitor. Even before the current version 12 release 6, QSystem Monitor could monitor System i disk usage six ways

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• Single Person RPG Shop Produces Sharp Self-Service Portal

  February 12, 2008 Robert Gast

  An interesting thing about IBM System i technology is that it’s highly self-sustaining. As an example, United Credit Service, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, provides debt collection services for more than a thousand customers. The server it uses to manage its business is an IBM System i model 270, run by a single IT professional, Bruce Guetzkow, who is responsible for everything from strategic long-term systems planning to backups. For several years Guetzkow discussed with other UCS managers different ways of improving customer service. The collections business, while an indispensable asset to organizations with lots of past due invoices, is also very

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• Centerfield Debuts Installation Service for DB2 Web Query

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Centerfield Technology last week launched a new service offering aimed at saving System i shops time and money in the installation and configuration of DB2 Web Query, IBM‘s new graphical replacement for Query/400. Centerfield’s three-part service offering is accomplished remotely and includes installation of DB2 Web Query, migration of Query/400 reports, and fine tuning and advanced report design. While DB2 Web Query provides considerably more functionality than Query/400, customers may be unprepared for the level of technical proficiency required to implement the new product in an efficient manner, according to Centerfield, the database performance experts based in Rochester, Minnesota.

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• Pat Townsend to Resell Valid’s i5/OS Biometric Authentication

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Patrick Townsend & Associates is not only reselling the i5/OS-based Valid Secure Systems Authentication (VSSA) biometric authentication engine from Valid Technologies, it has integrated VSSA with its i5/OS encryption offerings, the company announced last week. Since it launched VSSA two-and-a-half years ago, Valid Technologies has been carving a niche for itself as the only provider of native biometric authentication software for the i5/OS platform. (Kronos, the developer of time and attendance software, offers biometric authentication for i5/OS applications, but it’s not a native i5/OS implementation.) VSSA runs under i5/OS only and works hand-in-hand with standard USB-based

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• ACOM Cleans Up in HTE Accounts

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  When it comes to selling document management software to governmental entities running SunGard-HTE software, ACOM Solutions is doing a raucous business. Last week, ACOM announced it has added several more SunGard-HTE accounts to its customer list, bringing to total to more than 150. As the fourth quarter of 2007 drew to a close, ACOM sold its suite of document management software to six municipal government agencies that use i5/OS-based software from SunGard-HTE to mange their cities. The new customers included: Battle Ground, Washington, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, with a population of 16,240; Emporia, Kansas, the seat of Lyons

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• Warehouse Design Experts Partner with VAI

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Companies that rely on i5/OS ERP solutions from VAI will soon have a very different sort of expertise at their service. Yesterday, VAI announced it has partnered with National Storage & Conveyor Systems to help its customers design warehouses to be as efficient as possible. For years, New York-based VAI has developed an i5/OS-based warehouse management system that automates and helps speed common warehouse tasks, such as picking, packing, shipping, and unloading. By interfacing with the System i server via wireless barcode scanners and keeping track of what’s coming and what’s going, the WMS system helped warehouse workers get work

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• Malaysian Bank Picks Vision Solutions for HA

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  United Overseas Bank Malaysia Berhad (UOB Malaysia) has implemented ORION HA for i5/OS to provide high availability for its System i servers, ORION HA’s developer, Vision Solutions, announced last week. As a subsidiary of Singapore’s United Overseas Bank, UOB Malaysia is a part of one of the largest financial institutions in Asia. UOB Malaysia has assets of more than 37 billion Malaysian Ringgits (RM), or about $11.5 billion at current exchange rates, and operates more than 500 offices in 18 countries. Like many mid size banks, UOB Malaysia runs much of its business on the IBM System i server,

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• Clothing Company Chooses Lawson

  February 12, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Canterbury of New Zealand, a manufacturer of rugby jerseys and other sports apparel, is installing a preconfigured version of Lawson Software‘s M3 software on a System i server to underpin its growth plans, the software company announced last week. Canterbury of New Zealand’s roots go back to 1880s New Zealand, where two families spun clothing for men to wear in pursuit of the national sport–rugby. The company was formally founded with the joining of two families in 1904, expanded to North America during the rugby-shirt craze of the 1970s, and today supplies clothing for sport and fashion to top

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