• GeneXus Brings Web 2.0 Home with Version X

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  System i shops that use the GeneXus development environment from Artech were given a clear path to Web 2.0 yesterday when the company announced the release to manufacturing of GeneXus X, the 10th version of the popular 4GL tool. Now that two and a half years of development and testing are over, organizations can start taking advantage of the software to develop new applications using the latest Web 2.0 technology, or even retrofit older apps with the new screen style. We are in the midst of an explosion of interest in Web 2.0, a term that’s loosely applied to a

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• Terminix Overcomes Hurdle to New B2B System, Thanks to LANSA

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  When executives at Terminix hatched a new plan to drum up business through third-party companies, it made the company’s IT department a little buggy at first. The plan called for the new partners to include Terminix’ fees in the bills they send out to customers, but manually integrating the various billing systems at play presented a potential problem, especially as the program ramps. Instead, Terminix found the needed level of automation in Composer, a new business process workflow tool from LANSA. From its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, Terminix International has established a worldwide customer base for its termite, rodent,

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• NSPI Launches CBU as a Service Offering

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The IT consultancy NSPI recently announced “System i CBU as a Service,” a new offering that enables System i shops to park their low-priced Capacity Backup (CBU) System i servers in NSPI’s data center, where they will be synchronized with data from their primary server, and be kept ready for the customer to access in the event of a disaster. From its headquarters in Roswell, Georgia, NSPI provides a variety of technical services for its customers, with specialties ranging from System i services, Microsoft, VMware, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco Systems. The company also runs three data centers,

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• Infor Gives Southern Distributor an A+ for ERP Selection

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  B&D Industrial, a mid size distributor of industrial equipment in the South, will standardize its business on ERP A+, an i OS-based application Infor, the software company announced last week. The new ERP system, which perhaps was better known by its previous owner, Daly.Commerce, will help B&D consolidate the customer, product, and financial information from its various businesses following recent acquisitions. Based in Macon, Georgia, B&D Industrial provides industrial equipment and services to companies in several industries, including mining, manufacturing, and engineering. The outfit employs about 350 people in 40 facilities across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and

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• ALTech Taps ASNA to Migrate Food App from RPG to .NET

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  ALTech Software, a developer of software that helps food manufacturers create new products while complying with industry regulations, has successfully migrated its RPG-based Vision NPD software to the Microsoft .NET language, enabling the software to run on standard Windows Servers as opposed to expensive IBM i-based Power Systems servers (formerly System i). ASNA provided ALTech with software and expertise enabling the migration. From its headquarters in Hawthorn, England, (about 80 miles west of London) ALTech develops a product called Vision NPD (New Product Development). As you may have gathered, food makers use Vision NPD to automate many of the

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• Oracle Supports i 6.1 with JD Edwards World

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Companies that rely on Oracle‘s JD Edwards World ERP software to run their businesses can begin seriously thinking about migrating to IBM i 6.1 (formerly i5/OS V6R1) now that the ERP application officially supports the new operating system. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers will have to wait a little longer for i 6.1 support, however. Representatives for Oracle confirmed last week that Oracle has gone through the i 6.1 certification process for all versions of JD Edwards World release A7.3 cumulative 08 and above, A8.1, and A9.1. EnterpriseOne is still being tested for compatibility with the new operating system, the

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• AAA Carolinas Gains Greater i Visibility with Software from CCSS

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Keeping an eye on the AS/400 was largely a manual task for operators at AAA Carolinas, a branch of the American Automobile Association that insures and supports drivers in North and South Carolina. As a result, the company’s reaction to unusual events wasn’t always as swift as it could have been. But now that it’s implemented the i (formerly i5/OS and OS/400)-based systems monitoring and management suite from CCSS, the company’s computer operators have become more proactive in identifying and resolving issues before they become problems. AAA Carolinas started selling insurance only eight years ago, but it’s already the

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• TallyGenicom Introduces Hybrid Thermal Barcode Printer

  May 6, 2008 Alex Woodie

  TallyGenicom next week will begin delivery of the new 7000 series of thermal printer, a so-called “hybrid” printer because it can be used as a desktop barcode printer or as a dedicated midrange printer. There are three printers in TallyGenicom’s new line, including the Model 7005, the Model 7006, and the Model 7008. All three printers work with a wide range of computer systems via support for the ZPL, EPL, PCL5 datastreams. They also support direct thermal and thermal transfer printing at resolutions up to 203 dots per inch (DPI) and feature metal print mechanisms as opposed to ones made

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• IBM Previews “Blue Business” SMB System Sales Approach

  May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last week, at its Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, IBM gave its partners and customers a sneak peek at a future application and systems strategy, code-named the “Blue Business Platform,” that Big Blue could roll out this year or next. While that doesn’t sound like much of a code-name, the Blue Business Platform project represents a new and potentially game-changing way in which IBM will chase the $500 billion IT market driven by small and medium businesses worldwide. According to Mike Prochaska, program director for the Blue Business Platform, the project has been underway for the past nine

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• Micro Focus to Acquire NetManage for $73.3 Million in Cash

  May 5, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In these times of tight credit, cash is without a doubt king. Or at least a knight, considering how inflation is affecting the cost of the consumables we all buy to live. Nothing demonstrates the power of cash more than the contrast between Rocket Software‘s failed $69 million attempt to acquire host connectivity and application modernization software maker NetManage, which was launched in December 2007 and withdrawn in March because Rocket Software could not raise the capital it needed, and an a $73.3 million all-cash deal announced last Thursday by COBOL and application modernization tool maker Micro Focus

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