TFH Volume: 30 Issue: 11 Archives

Your ERP Contract is Worse Than You Thought

February 12, 2020 Alex Woodie

Marcus Harris knows a bit about ERP contracts and litigation. As a former lawyer for SAP and Infor, he’s the guy that ERP customers would have gone up against in court or a mediation room when a disagreement arises. But he switched sides and now he works on behalf of clients looking to hold their ERP vendors to account. He provided some worthwhile advice at the recent Digital Stratosphere 2020 conference in San Diego.

Like most lawyers worth their salt, Harris would rather not represent you in court. Sure, it gives his firm, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, lots …
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Security Still the Top Concern as Privacy Regs Loom

February 12, 2020 Alex Woodie

For the fourth year in a row, security is the number one concern of the IBM i installed base, according to HelpSystems’ 2020 IBM i Marketplace Survey. IBM i shops are clearly concerned about the need to prevent unauthorized access to applications and data. But security’s first cousin, data privacy, also stands to gain more attention with the recent passage of data privacy laws, such as GDPR and CCPA.

HelpSystems released the results of its latest marketplace survey last month, as it has done for the past six years. And just as it has for every year since 2017, security …
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Why Koch Is Buying the Rest of Infor

February 12, 2020 Alex Woodie

Koch Equity Development last week announced that it has bought the remaining shares of Infor that it didn’t previously own. The move puts Koch Industries in charge of the world’s third largest ERP software company, and the IBM i market’s biggest vendor. But what, exactly, drove the $110-billion industrial conglomerate into making such an investment is the subject of some speculation.

Infor, which has been flirting with an IPO for years, appeared to be on the fast-track for a Wall Street listing in January 2019, when it raised $1.5 billion in what, ostensibly, would be the last private equity …
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Four Hundred Monitor, February 12

February 12, 2020 Jenny Thomas

We take great pride in being a respected and reliable purveyor of information in the IBM i ecosystem. But in order to distribute information, we have to find it. In the IBM i world, that data can be hard to come by. Fortunately for us, we have our editor in chief Timothy Prickett Morgan who is able to slice and dice whatever data nuggets he gets and coax out their relevance to our favorite platform. Another valuable resource for data are the surveys more and more players in the IBM i space are conducting. Your responses tell them about your …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 6

February 12, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Alright people, the big news for the week is that Rational Developer for i, version 9.6.0.7, has just been released. Other than that, it has been relatively quiet on the PTF front. There are some nips and tucks for the three releases that are still being supported.

They are as follows:

PTF Groups 7.4
- SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i
PTF Groups 7.3
- SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i
PTF Groups 7.2
- SAP support requited PTF list for IBM i
- Temporary Storage PTFs
PTF Groups 7.1
- Nothing to see here, move along. . . .
New …
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Your ERP Contract is Worse Than You Thought

Security Still the Top Concern as Privacy Regs Loom

Why Koch Is Buying the Rest of Infor

Four Hundred Monitor, February 12

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 6

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