• PeopleSoft Gives World ERP Suite a Web Interface

  March 23, 2004 Alex Woodie

  While the younger generation has been widely lauded for its ability to program a VCR, it’s usually the youngest workers at Cargill who make the biggest stink about using a green screen to access the company’s PeopleSoft World applications. That should change soon, as Cargill, the world’s largest user of the venerable RPG-based ERP suite, implements new features in World that PeopleSoft announced last week, including a native HTML interface, as well as 250 other enhancements. With sales close to $60 billion last year, and 101,000 employees, Cargill is one of the world’s largest privately held companies, with subsidiaries in

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• StructuredJ: The Perk of Java, Without Learning J2EE

  March 23, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Software startup StructuredSoft launched a new Java-based Web development environment, called StructuredSoft Developer, at the Northeast iSeries User Group Conference yesterday. The new software, which is based on open-source Eclipse tools and includes its StructuredJ Java scripting language, will appeal to OS/400 shops that are looking for an easy onramp to Java programming but can’t justify the time, expense, and complexity of learning to write Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the company says. StructuredSoft, a young company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, aims to shoot the gap between procedural programming languages, such as RPG and COBOL, and the opportunities that

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• EXTOL Scales Down Offering for UCCnet Compliance

  March 23, 2004 Alex Woodie

  EXTOL last week launched Windows-based software designed to help smaller suppliers with a handful of products to synchronize their product data with their retail partners using UCCnet. The new software, called the “plug and play” version of the full EXTOL Integrator for UCCnet Services offering, costs $2,500 and allows suppliers to manually enter data for a limited number of products into a catalog, which the software then synchronizes with the UCCnet global data repository. Every year $40 billion is lost in this country due to product data inconsistencies in the retail supply chain, analyst groups report. These errors range

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• Chrono-Logic Offers Cross Reference Tool for LANSA

  March 23, 2004 Alex Woodie

  If you develop in LANSA, you may want to check out a new cross-reference tool announced by Chrono-Logic last week. The new product, iAM Analyser, is a cross-reference tool designed to help Visual LANSA and LANSA for iSeries developers discover the relationships shared by LANSA functions, files, fields, and components, which can be very useful during impact analysis testing. Whether you’re making system-wide changes or just enhancing one small part of your LANSA application, you’ll want to know how a change in one part of your LANSA application will affect other parts. Failure to do so can lead to

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• Discount Tire Zooms Through POS Rollout with ON iCommand

  March 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  The IT folks at Discount Tire were not looking forward to rolling out the new Dell Optiplex point-of-sale systems last year. With close to 3,000 POS systems to replace, at more than 500 retail locations, the migration would probably still be underway if Discount Tire had used its biped-based “sneakernet.” Instead, the company used a software package called iCommand, from Symantec, to automate the roll-out, and finished the job, in January, within five weeks. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Discount Tire Company is the largest independent tire dealer in the United States, and it’s growing. The company employs 8,415 people,

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• MKS Addresses SarBox Transparency with Implementer 5.5

  March 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  MKS has delivered enhancements to Implementer, its OS/400 software configuration management (SCM) system, that it says will help companies provide greater transparency into business process changes, as required by government mandates such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Software developers are rarely the ones who must justify to management and shareholders the changes being made to core applications. But before Implementer Version 5.5, non-technical decision makers lacked the appropriate tools to help them understand changes at a business process level, and then deploy them. Marty Acks, the iSeries product manager for MKS, says developers and business managers have radically different views of

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• Magic Throws iBOLT into RFID Fray

  March 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Magic Software made its first move into the burgeoning market for radio frequency identification (RFID) technology last week. Magic officials provided a high-level view of how its integration software, called iBOLT, will be used to glue events captured by RFID readers with ERP and “legacy” OS/400 applications. Meanwhile, IBM upped the RFID ante with its acquisition of Trigo Technologies, for an undisclosed sum. Wal-Mart created this buzz about RFID last year, when it told suppliers they would need to start putting electronic chips, called RFID or EPC tags, onto shipments starting January 1, 2005. Several Wal-Mart competitors, including Target

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• DRV Technologies Expands Output Options with SpoolFlex 3.0

  March 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

  Companies gained the option of converting OS/400 spool file output into RTF, XML, and the native Excel XLS format with the newest version of DRV Technologies‘ SpoolFlex. Last week the Atlanta company announced the immediate availability of SpoolFlex Version 3.0, which, in addition to the new supported formats, features a new OS/400-based address book for frequently used e-mail addresses and fax numbers. SpoolFlex is a collection of native OS/400 utilities designed to eliminate the time and expense associated with printing and hand-delivering OS/400 reports, and to reduce errors introduced when financial data is rekeyed into Excel spreadsheets. The basic

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• Lakeview Targets SMBs with New MIMIX ha Lite Solution

  March 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, iTera and Maximum Availability have got to be blushing by now. Lakeview Technology, considered by many to be the top dog of the OS/400 high availability racket, is finally going head to head with the companies from Utah and New Zealand, with a remote-journaling-based high availability solution for the small and midsized business (SMB) marketplace. Lakeview says that MIMIX ha Lite addresses areas customers often complain about when it comes to OS/400 high availability software–namely cost, complexity, and ease of use. The Chicago company based its new software on IBM‘s

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• Versata to Bring Java IDE to OS/400

  March 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

  OS/400 shops developing large-scale, transaction-intensive enterprise Java (J2EE) applications will soon have new tools from Versata to help them. Late last week the Oakland, California, company announced plans to support the iSeries with its Versata Logic Suite, a two-part product suite that combines Java development tools and runtime components that operate within IBM‘s WebSphere and BEA Systems‘ WebLogic application servers. Versata is a publicly traded company focused on providing J2EE development tools for Fortune 1000 companies looking for a way to automate the handling of the business logic that drives their high transaction business systems. The company says

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