• BCD Brings Mobile App Goodness to WebSmart PHP Edition

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Business Computer Design Int’l. last week unveiled the latest version of its flagship Web application development and runtime environment for IBM i servers. A big part of the WebSmart 10 launch is WebSmart Mobile PHP, a new component that combines server-side PHP code generation with new Mobile jQuery templates to speed the creation of Web-based mobile apps on IBM i. The company also took a big step toward object-oriented PHP development. Earlier this year, BCD bolstered its Web-based mobile application cred with the launch of WebSmart Mobile, which added the jQuery Mobile JavaScript library for developing touch-enabled mobile apps

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• LANSA Takes Mobile Apps Offline

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Mobile applications are proving themselves to be useful tools for businesses. But they often don’t work when disconnected from the server running the ERP systems and databases. IBM i development tool maker LANSA is addressing this shortcoming with a new release of its LongRange mobile application framework that allows RPG- or COBOL-based mobile apps to continue working even when the user is outside of cell or WiFi coverage. LongRange is a mobile application framework designed to give IBM i shops the capability to deliver mobile interfaces to existing IBM i resources without learning HTML5, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, Java, or Objective-C.

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• Venyu Hooks Up with CMA for Cloud Backup

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Venyu, a cloud backup and recovery provider, and IBM business partner and midrange server reseller CMA Technology Solutions last week announced the formation of a partnership aimed at providing cloud backup and recovery solutions for IBM i shops. Venyu provides cloud-based backup, disaster recovery, and cloud hosting services to more than 1,200 customers, primarily those in the Southeast and Gulf Coast region. The company operates several data centers across the country, including one at its headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and others in Massachusetts and Missouri. Venyu already had an IBM i business practice, and had a number of

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• HiT Supports SAP HANA with Data Replication Tool

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The growth of big data systems is driving big demand these days for HiT Software, the BackOffice Associates subsidiary that has made a living making database access products. Last month, HiT bolstered its data replication tool, DBMoto, with the capability to move data into SAP HANA. SAP designed its HANA database to house and run operational and analytic workloads at the same time. The idea is that HANA would not only serve as the main in-memory database for operational functions, such as ERP, CRM, and financials, but would also serve analytic needs, such as ad hoc reporting. However, not

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• Coda on IBM i Beats Out PeopleSoft Upgrade

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  When it came time for a financial system upgrade, DecoPac, the world’s largest provider of cake decorations, selected UNIT4‘s Coda package running on IBM i over an upgrade of Oracle‘s PeopleSoft, the software vendor announced last week. DecoPac is an Anoka, Minnesota-based company that markets and distributes a range of cake, cookie, and cupcake decoration products to professional bakeries around the world. For decades, the company has developed its own IBM i software to handle sales and distribution. According to DecoPac, a key consideration in its selection of Coda Financials over a PeopleSoft upgrade was Coda’s track record

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• Austrian Manufacturer Demonstrates IT Simplicity with IBM i

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The Austrian eyewear company Silhouette International Schmied AG has made a name for itself by manufacturing eyeglasses with simple designs, advanced materials, and superior technology. That ethos extends to Silhouette’s IT environment, which runs on IBM Power Systems servers and requires a minimum of manual intervention. Arnold and Anneliese Schmied founded Silhouette in 1964 with the idea of making eyeglasses high-tech fashion accessories. The company is best known for elegantly simple and extremely thin eyeglasses that use super lightweight materials, such as titanium, which was instrumental in NASA selecting Silhouette sunglasses as standard gear for American astronauts. Today, Silhouette employs

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• New Zealand TV Company Taps Zentive for ICOMS Monitoring

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Sky Television, New Zealand’s only pay-television provider, has adopted the 360Service Assurance product from Zentive to help it monitor its IBM i-based ICOMS customer care and billing system. According to UK-based Zentive, Sky Television needed a way to monitor and ensure the availability of API interfaces to its ICOMS platform. The company found Zentive’s 360Service Assurance and its Overseer for API Gateway Availability add-on to fit the bill. 360Service Assurance is an availability and performance monitor designed for use with operations support systems (OSS) and business support system (BSS) in a telecom environment. The software can be used to perform

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• ASTI Records UDO Win in County Court’s Office

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The Sangamon County Circuit Clerk’s office recently implemented a UDO optical media storage solution from Alliance Storage Technologies (ASTI) to store court records that it manages for the Seventh Judicial Court located in Springfield, Illinois, the company announced last week. The road to Alliance and its Plasmon UDO (Ultra Density Optical) solutions started when Sangamon County Circuit Clerk Tony Libri’s office decided that it needed a better place to store data from an IBM i-based application from JANO Justice Systems. “We were looking for an archival storage solution that could meet our requirements: reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, secure Write Once

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• SMBs Lack Cohesive Digital Strategy, IBM Says

  December 3, 2013 Alex Woodie

  If you thought that bigger companies have a leg up on their smaller cohorts when it comes to having a cohesive digital strategy, you’d be right, according to a new survey from IBM. IBM says its global study of midmarket C-Suite leaders uncovers a “surprising” fact about most small and midsize companies: “They may not be as digitally savvy as they’d like.” Apparently, not only do SMBs not have as much revenue as large companies, but the small fry also lack the social media savvy of the big dogs in any particular industry. According to IBM’s survey, 65 percent

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• Open Source Is Here To Stay On IBM i

  December 2, 2013 Alex Woodie

  For years, open source software has been a bit of a redheaded stepchild in the button-down IBM midrange community. IBM i shops were hesitant to use it, and vendors were afraid to adopt it. But with so much of the computing world now running on open source, the aversion to open source has gradually melted away, and it has steadily crept into use among large corporations, and the IBM i world too. It is tough to measure the adoption of open source software, which flows freely across networks by its very nature. Nobody requires you to register to use open

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