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IBM i Has a Future “If Kept Up To Date,”‘ IDC Says

March 22, 2023 Alex Woodie

The slow demise and death of IBM i has been greatly exaggerated, at least in the eyes of IDC. In a white paper for Rocket Software, an analyst for the storied firm says that IBM i does indeed have a future in customers’ digital strategies, provided it’s “kept up to date.” That’s good news for the community, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.

Application modernization has been an important topic for IBM i shops for decades, particularly when it comes to organizations that believe they’re still living in the early 1990s. While you technically can run …
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When You Need Us, We Are Ready To Do Grunt Work

March 22, 2023 Andrew Johnson David Fahrenkrug

There are two secrets to success for any cloud or any service provider. First, get the best people, ones that understand people, business, and technology. Second, automate everything that can be automated because that is the only way the business will be able to scale and not collapse under the weight of the expense of – and difficulty in – hiring the next batch of people to grow the business.

A third thing might be hire people who can constantly automate themselves out of a job, but who also find new and valuable jobs to do.

To be a managed …
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Generative AI: Coming to an ERP Near You

March 22, 2023 Alex Woodie

Don’t look now, but generative AI technology like ChatGPT is spreading into every aspect of computing, including the large enterprise applications at the heart of business. The technology may not be on IBM i-based ERP suites yet, but it’s just a matter of time.

The sophistication of AI technology has been building steadily for the past 10 years, thanks to the adoption of massive neural networks that can be trained on huge amounts of unstructured data, such as text and images.

Dubbed deep learning, the brute-force approach paid handsome dividends for two computational problems in particular: computer vision and natural …
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Four Hundred Monitor, March 22

March 22, 2023 Jenny Thomas

We’ve seen the layoffs of tech employees ramping up as of late. Amazon, Meta (nee Facebook), Twitter, Yahoo, Zoom, and the list goes on, have all announced significant personnel cuts in 2023. It’s a big turnaround from the midst of the pandemic, when tech companies were on a hiring spree to keep up with the surge to go online when everyone was stuck at home. The good news is IT pros with cybersecurity, cloud, and data analytics/machine learning skills have remained in high demand. We hope our efforts to keep you informed on these topics and learning opportunities have kept …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 12

March 22, 2023 Doug Bidwell

We are always on the hunt for something new, but sometimes we find something that is not new but is new to us and maybe you, too. Here is a case in point: The IBM i 7.4 section on the IBM documentation site was last updated in the last half of the year 2021 and now describes the enhancements made to ILE RPG after 7.4 with PTFs. You can see it here. Also, we wanted to point out that we have re-organized the ACS_NAV worksheet contents, adding a bunch of links to documents and several YouTube links. That is …
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IBM i Has a Future “If Kept Up To Date,”‘ IDC Says

When You Need Us, We Are Ready To Do Grunt Work

Generative AI: Coming to an ERP Near You

Four Hundred Monitor, March 22

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 12

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