• AMR Research Bullish on ERP Software Market

  July 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Worldwide ERP software sales grew by 14 percent in 2006 to $28.8 billion, according to a recent report from IT analyst firm AMR Research. While 2006 was “spectacular,” according to AMR, the good times should continue to roll for the next five years, with an average annual growth rate of 11 percent, a percentage point more than the group predicted nine months ago. At least once a year, and sometimes more, AMR publishes a report analyzing the past, the present, and the future of the market for ERP and related software, and ranking the top enterprise software vendors by

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• JDA Picks Up Midrange Veteran Ferrere

  July 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

  JDA Software, a developer of i5/OS- and Windows-based enterprise software for retailers, has hired midrange veteran Larry Ferrere to be its new senior vice president of product management and chief marketing officer, the company announced recently. Ferrere’s resume includes stints at two well-respected OS/400 ISVs: J.D. Edwards (now part of Oracle) from 1992 to 1997, and Manhattan Associates, where he was CMO and vice president of sales operations, from 2004 through 2006. Along the way, Ferrere worked at several other tech firms, including Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) from 1981 to 1992; Vastera, an ERP software

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• Aldon Opens Office in the Middle East

  July 23, 2007 Alex Woodie

  A week after announcing its expansion into the Nordic countries through a new partnership, application lifecycle management software vendor Aldon revealed that it has opened a new office in the Middle East to serve the fast-growing IT market in the region. Aldon, which was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners about two months ago, says the Middle East represents “an important and strategic region” for the company, particularly in the banking industry, its strongest segment. Heading up the company’s Middle East efforts is Samir Bekdashi, a technology veteran from the Middle East who has taken the position of regional account manager

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• Bring Back My Qshell Output

  July 18, 2007 Hey, Ted

  I just ran a CL program that has an embedded QShell script. It produced some output to my display and gave me a message that told me to press Enter. I did, and the Qshell output display went away. Now I want to bring that display back and look at the output again. Can I do that? –Len Yes, and it’s easy. So the readers can see what you’re talking about, let’s look at an example. Here’s a CL program that includes a QShell script. pgm dcl &Script *char 1024 dcl &QshStatus *dec 10 value(0) dcl &MsgDta *char 256 dcl

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• Customize the PC5250 Popup Keypad

  July 18, 2007 Hey, Ted

  I just found out that I can change the function of the keys on the Personal Communications Popup Keypad, similar to the way I can map the keyboard. I created a new keypad with six functions on it. Here’s how I did it. From the PC5250 session within iSeries Access (Client Access), pull down the Edit menu, then select Preferences and Popup Keypad. (Editor’s note: In some versions of Personal Communications, use the Assist menu and select Popup Keypad Setup.) Select the User-Defined keypad, rather than the IBM Default, and click on Customize. At this point, you can expand the

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• Admin Alert: FTPing Save Files from Windows to i5/OS

  July 18, 2007 Joe Hertvik

  In administering third-party software on iSeries and System i machines, it’s common to receive program updates as save files delivered to a Windows desktop. Once received, these save files must be uploaded and restored to an i5/OS or OS/400 partition for installation. To make this process easier, this week’s column presents a basic checklist for using FTP to transfer a save file from a Windows PC to an i5/OS partition. Save files updates usually reach Windows desktops in one of two forms. They are either downloaded as a zip file from a Web site or they can be sent directly

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• IBM Buys HA and Data Replication Software Maker DataMirror

  July 17, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Private equity firm Thoma Cressey Bravo has been driving a wave of consolidation in the market for high availability and data replication software in the i5/OS and OS/400 server market since last fall, having acquired three of the four biggest players and merging them under Vision Solutions. In a surprising move yesterday, IBM, which has always been a strong partner with the makers of HA software for its proprietary server line, acquired the fourth big player in this market, DataMirror, for $161 million. DataMirror is based in Markham, Ontario, which is fairly close by IBM’s Toronto software

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• NGS Takes Deconstructive Approach to Business Intelligence

  July 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  While it may sound trite, there’s an element of truth to the expression “You don’t know what you don’t know,” and it may hold more significance when it comes to business intelligence roll-outs at smaller businesses. To get customers through the knowledge gap, New Generation Software has created a series of solutions, called Decision Assist, that deploy quickly and, perhaps more importantly, allows customers to disassemble and figure out how they work so that additional BI capabilities can be developed. “The biggest challenge in business intelligence is customers don’t have a concrete idea of what they want, or the ones

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• Kisco Cranks Up Security Tool’s Horsepower with V8

  July 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems put the peddle to the metal with the latest release of SafeNet/400, its security tools for OS/400 and i5/OS servers. With version 8, the company entirely rewrote the product’s kernel, providing a performance kick of as much as 2,000 percent on certain workloads, Kisco says. A text-based security report was also introduced. Kisco introduced the SafeNet/400 network security utility in 1996, when the Internet first started to take off. At that time, the product, which is developed by MP Associates of Westchester (Kisco provides sales and marketing) was the only network security product of its kind, according

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• ACOM Supports Firefox with Content Manager

  July 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  System i shops that prefer Mozilla‘s Firefox to Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer Web browser will rejoice at the latest news from ACOM Solutions, which recently started shipping a new release of EZContent Manager that supports Firefox. Version 3.1.1 also includes improvements in the area of encryption, document retention, and electronic shredding. ACOM launched EZContent Manager in early 2006 to fill a void for what the company viewed as a lack of low-cost (starting at $10,000) and easy-to-use content management systems for iSeries and System i shops. “Why buy the Rolls-Royce when the Hyundai will do?” said Gregory Church,

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