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  • Joomla 3.1 Adds Dynamic Content Tagging

    May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

    A new release of the Joomla content management system (CMS) supports dynamic tagging out of the box, thereby enabling users to generate new content using pre-existing associations. Joomla 3.1, which runs on IBM i as a PHP application, also brings new mobile capabilities.

    Tags are a form of metadata that allows a user to classify or otherwise note a particular piece of content. They’re often used in social networking websites, like Facebook, to help sort and identify unstructured content that would otherwise fly under the radar of search engines, such as pictures, sound and video files. However, tagging is

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  • Infor Adds NTT Data to Equipment Cloud

    May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Infor has a new partner working on its equipment cloud: NTT Data, a Japanese IT services firm with operations around the globe. The company recently signed on as the third managed service provider (MSP) to host the cloud version of the M3 application tailored specifically to companies in the heavy equipment business.

    Infor launched its Equipment Cloud about six months ago to provide customers with another option for running the M3 application. IBM and Velocity Technology Solutions were the original MSPs selected to run the Equipment Cloud.

    With the addition of NTT Data, customers have another option for running

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  • Aqua Data Studio Gets Better at Big Data

    May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Programmers and analysts who use the newly released Aqua Data Studio version 13 from AquaFold will be able to work with large data sets housed in specialty databases, including Hewlett-Packard‘s Vertica and EMC‘s Greenplum.

    Aqua Data Studio is a Java-based utility designed to provide programmers, database developers, and systems administrators with a single interface to work with multiple databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 for i, DB2 for z/OS, Sybase, MySQL and others. The software helps users administer, explore, and query their databases; create SQL scripts; explore entity relationships; conduct comparisons between files, directory structures, and database schemas;

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  • The Sweet 16 Of Mobile App Dev Tools for IBM i

    May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

    Over the last 12 months, there has been unprecedented progress in third-party mobile development tools. Whether your shop wants to take a native or a hybrid approach, or whether it wants to use pre-built templates or to build from scratch, this is a great time to bring IBM i content to the latest iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows mobile devices. Here is a handy dandy roundup of 16 of the most well-known mobile development tools for the IBM i platform.

    A quick scan of the 12-year Four Hundred Stuff story archive shows a flurry of mobile activity in the last

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  • Dances With Elephants

    May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you are a typical IBM i shop, you have spent decades turning the transactional data in your application stack into information that business managers and other workers within the company can not only use to keep the money rolling in and the products rolling out, but to do a better job of managing those two processes. And you are probably pretty proud of the fact that it takes relatively modest resources to accomplish this, and you are no doubt wondering what all of this yammering about so-called “big data” is all about.

    Well, the first thing big data is

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  • Knee Deep In Database Modernization

    May 13, 2013 Dan Burger

    Twenty years ago, the DB2/400 database from IBM was not being asked to do the things that the DB2 for i database for the IBM i operating system is being asked to do today. Database limitations sometimes sneak up on us. Even though the handwriting has been on the wall for some time, there has to be a reason to stop and read it. Jim Ritchhart read it. He knows database modernization because he is living it. His story of database modernization is a good one.

    Ritchhart works for Uline, a shipping supplies and packaging materials manufacturer with headquarters near

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  • As I See It: Abiding Solitude

    May 13, 2013 Victor Rozek

    Arguably the most memorable part of the movie Cast Away is watching Tom Hanks slowly going mad from an excess of solitude, eventually befriending a Wilson volleyball. Conversations and arguments ensue, and even though they’re one-sided, so deep is Tom’s character’s longing for a connection that an inanimate object is preferable to the terror of prolonged aloneness. If only Tom had texting.

    Since the advent of the Internet, the business of assuaging loneliness has reached a feverish pitch. Self-help books and bars have been displaced by social media and pornography. And if connection is the new frontier, there are few

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  • IT Hiring Growth Slows For Third Month In A Row

    May 13, 2013 Jenny Thomas

    We are not even to summer yet and the hopeful prognostications of 2013 being the year of the rebound in the IT jobs market is melting away faster than the winter snow. The good folks at Janco Associates, who keep a close eye on IT industry trends, are reporting slow growth in IT hiring for the third month in a row.

    It is human nature to start a new year with an optimistic outlook for the coming months, anticipating happy and prosperous times ahead. At the beginning of 2013 we were reporting on a IT job explosion in North

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  • Arrow Boosts Sales And Profits For Enterprise Computing In Q1

    May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Various IT suppliers have had a tough time in various parts of their businesses as 2013 has gotten rolling, but master electronics and IT distributor Arrow Electronics seems to be having an easier time than some of the upstream vendors whose products it peddles in the data center.

    In the first quarter ended in March, Arrow said that its overall sales contracted by 1 percent to $4.85 billion, mainly by a reduction in its electronic components business, which fell by 5 percent to $3.19 billion. Keeping that revenue coming in selling components came at a cost, however, and operating earnings

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  • Salesforce.com Was The Top CRM Software Peddler In 2012

    May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Call it a sign of the times. According to the latest rankings available from IT market researcher Gartner, online and SaaSy software supplier Salesforce.com has blown by SAP to become the top supplier of customer relationship software in the world.

    The rankings from Gartner are based financial figures for the full 2012 year, and have Salesforce.com raking in $2.53 billion for its online, subscription-based CRM wares. That is an increase of 26 percent over the revenues that the company generated in 2011. Salesforce.com was by no means the only fast-growing CRM software supplier, so don’t get the wrong idea.

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