• Adobe Eases Deployment with New Release of LiveCycle Suite

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Adobe Systems today is expected to ship a new release of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES), a collection of software aimed replacing paper-based processes with PDFs and other electronic forms of communication. With LiveCycle ES Update 1, the company is now including an enterprise content management (ECM) with the suite, which should speed the deployment of rich Internet applications based on Adobe’s Flash technology. New solution accelerators and support for three-dimensional PDFs for engineering documents round out this release. LiveCycle ES is Adobe’s integrated suite of J2EE software that blends electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation, with the

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• PowerTech Updates i OS Log Management Software

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The PowerTech Group last week launched a new release of Interact, its log management software that converts i OS (formerly i5/OS) security events to the Syslog format, which can then be consumed by third-party security information and event management (SIEM) tools. With the launch of Interact 3.0, PowerTech added support for 25 additional security-related events tracked by the i OS. The update also brings more details for remedying i OS systems with regulations like PCI, CoBIT, and ISO. PowerTech officially launched Interact as a separate product in late 2007 to address the growing need to capture and tally System i

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• Help/Systems’ SEQUEL Gets More BI Tooling

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems launched a new release of SEQUEL last week that will give users more reasons to use it as a business intelligence tool. With a new Gauge Wizard in SEQUEL version 9.0, adding graphical representations of data through speedometers and dials is a matter of making a few mouse clicks. Better integration with Help’s i OS-based job scheduler and Google Maps highlight this iterative release of the popular and multipurpose tool. SEQUEL has so many uses, it must be difficult at times for the folks at Help/Systems to figure out how to market it to potential users. The software, which

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• Varsity Teams with NGS for New BI Product

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Two i OS software vendors, Varsity Logistics and New Generation Software, are teaming up on a new product that will deliver targeted business intelligence and analytics to shippers and other logistics operators. The new product, which will be called ShipView Plus, is expected to ship later this summer. South San Francisco-based Varsity Logistics develops a collection of shipping applications that run only on the IBM i OS. The company’s ShipSoft and TMS suites helps automate a range of shipping tasks, including picking the best carrier, finding the best rate, printing the required documents, and tracking the package to arrival.

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• Professionally Speaking, Lotus Users Getting Better Connected

  June 17, 2008 Dan Burger

  Building on its strength of integrating Web-based business applications with Web 2.0 capabilities popular in social networking Web sites, IBM Lotus last week introduced a new version of its collaboration software called Connections 2.0. Among the new capabilities is an impressive user interface with greater functionality and a broader range of social services. IBM continues the open standards drum beat. This time REST and Atom are highlighted as important contrasts to similar proprietary offerings from Microsoft. “We see a lot of customers who want to get value from applications they are already using whether it is Excel or their

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• InfoPrint Solutions Introduces New Printers, AFP Options

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The InfoPrint Solutions Company launched two new entry-level monochrome laser printers at the DRUPA printing conference last week in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company also highlighted enhancements for its InfoPrint 4100 industrial-strength printer. The new InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100 continuous forms laser printers offer speeds of 115 pages per minute (PPM) and 154 PPM, respectively, and support print quality up to 600 dots per inch. The two printers support both PostScript and PCL data languages. Support for Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) is planned for 2009. InfoPrint Solutions says the InfoPrint 75 and 100 are ideal entry-level printers for companies

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• iSeries-to-Windows Conversion Successful at Admiral Beverage

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  When Admiral Beverage migrated its JD Edwards software from the iSeries to a Windows-based xSeries solution, it was left in a quandary over what to do with its ACOM Solutions document and payment management software, which also ran on the OS/400 server. The solution? Admiral found that the Windows versions of ACOM’s software ran just as well as the OS/400 version. Admiral Beverage is a Pepsi distributor that was founded in Wyoming in 1947. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, and now employs more than 1,200 people in 30 facilities across seven states. An iSeries-based JD Edwards ERP solution

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• LANSA Touts Eight RAMP Successes

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  LANSA is lifting the veil on the recent success it’s had helping customers to modernize their System i applications using its RAMP offering. The customers include Cinram UK, a division of the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of prerecorded entertainment media, which modernized its System i-based application into a Web-based portal that looked more like a Windows-based SAP application. CHS, a Fortune 200 company that supplies grain, food, and energy products from its headquarters in Minnesota, used RAMP to upgrade a legacy COBOL application, and enjoyed a 25 percent productivity improvement by streamlining the customer service system. DEMCO, which supplies

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• Happy 20th Birthday, AS/400!

  June 16, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  This week, and probably into next, IBM, its partners, and its customers will be celebrating the 20th birthday for the AS/400 system, which came to market on June 21, 1988. It has been an incredible–and sometimes unbelievable–two decades for the venerable OS/400 platform, whose roots go back a decade earlier to the System/38, the first integrated system in the world with a relational database and easy-to-use programming language designed for people who speak business, not assembler or C or some other alien computer language. I am not sure how much celebrating Big Blue will be doing, particularly since a

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• The Power 595 Takes the Top TPC-C Benchmark Ranking

  June 16, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is a goal of all the makers of big iron boxes to push the performance envelope, and not just because vendors have big egos–oh, they certainly have those–but because their customers are always pushing them to push the performance envelope a little further. Sometimes, a lot further. For the past six years, the cold war in the big iron space has been especially intense between IBM, the Unix upstart and proprietary system leader, and Hewlett-Packard, the Unix stalwart and Windows and Linux upstart with a smattering of proprietary big iron. The two server makers have been leapfrogging

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