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Warning Signs: Inside Travis Perkins’ Failed ERP Migration

November 3, 2021 Alex Woodie

When UK construction supplier and home improvement retailer Travis Perkins announced last month that it had selected Oracle Fusion Cloud’s Financials as the core of its new ERP deployment, it marked the latest in a long series of decisions about the company’s computing infrastructure. Unfortunately, it came after many poor decisions and failed ERP migrations along the way. Hopefully they will serve to educate others who might travel the same path.

Travis Perkins’ current ERP woes began in 2016 at Infor’s annual Inforum user conference in New York City. The UK company’s then CEO, John Carter, announced that it …
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A Preview Of The Comarch Cloud Calculator

November 3, 2021 Tomasz Wachnicki

For many IBM i shops, the cloud is a new consumption model and cloud-based applications and infrastructure is still a new way of doing things. If the cloud means anything, it means reducing the friction of buying and using capacity and moving from capital expenses that have to be amortized to utility-style consumption that does not have to be. But there are a lot of moving parts, and customers have to be aware of how these things plug together and how they are priced so they can reckon what their cloud bill will be each hour, day, week, month, and …
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Precisely Ships MIMIX 10

November 3, 2021 Alex Woodie

Precisely last week unveiled Assure MIMIX 10, the latest release of its high availability software for IBM i. With this release, Precisely has simplified the initial setup and configuration of the journal-driven replication at the heart of the product. It also has broken the product up into three distinct packages.

After a slew of acquisitions of IBM i-based high availability software providers by Vision Solutions (now Precisely) over the years, Assure MIMIX 10 remains the flagship HA offering in the company’s lineup, particularly when it comes to providing application and data continuity for larger enterprises.

With version 10, Precisely …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 3

November 3, 2021 Jenny Thomas

Fast foodies might have caught the recent news the IBM is working with McDonald’s to help automate the drive-thru window. It’s hard to ignore that this development will eliminate jobs, but artificial intelligence makes for interesting reading for our audience so we figured it was worth mentioning. Turns out, McDonald’s has already piloted an AI drive-thru system in 10 stores in Chicago. Those restaurants saw 85 percent order accuracy, with only one-fifth of orders needing a human to intervene and help. It’s rage inducing to leave a drive-thru without everything you ordered, so those numbers are not super impressive, but …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 44

November 3, 2021 Doug Bidwell

Here is to hoping that all of you enjoyed the Halloween weekend, which is the unofficial beginning of the holiday season here in the United States at least. Mercifully, this has been a quiet week on the PTF front. Don’t get used to it. The situation never stays this way for very long. Variety, like the colors of the leaves and the seasons of the year, is the stuff of life.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- MQ for IBM i – v7.1.0/v8.0.0/V9.0.0/V9.1/V9.2
- QMGTOOLS
PTF Groups 7.3:
- MQ for IBM i
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Warning Signs: Inside Travis Perkins’ Failed ERP Migration

A Preview Of The Comarch Cloud Calculator

Precisely Ships MIMIX 10

Four Hundred Monitor, November 3

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 44

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