• Vision Shares GUI Across IBM i and AIX HA Products

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions may not have found the secret sauce that forces IBM i and AIX to lose the grumpiness and finally play nicely together in the same Power Systems sandbox. But when it comes to matters of high availability, the vendor will no longer tolerate any OS detachment that costs time in serious situations. With yesterday’s updates to MIMIX and Double-Take, administrators now have a single graphical user interface to monitor and manage critical HA processes occurring in both IBM i and AIX. While AIX isn’t popular among midrange IBM i shops, a good number of larger companies run the

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• CNX Bolsters ‘Nitro’ Enhancements in IBM i Web Toolset

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops should see a boost of speed in their Web application development projects with the latest release of the Valence development toolset from CNX. Valence 3.1 introduces new members of the Nitro family of products to its IBM i customers, most notably the Nitro App Builder, which lets users build simple JavaScript dashboards without any coding. “It’s like training wheels for RPG programmers jumping into Web development,” a company spokesman says. Valence is a collection of software for developing modern Web 2.0 and mobile applications that run on the IBM i platform and its Apache-powered Web

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• InterForm/400 Gets Better PDF Support

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  InterForm next month will begin delivery of the Spring 2012 release of its InterForm/400 document management system, which is called ArtForm/400 in the United States. Major new features with the Spring 2012 release include better compression of PDF output, capability to electronically input PDF files into the IBM i-based software, and input support for PNG and GIF images. InterForm develops a suite of IBM i document management solutions that’s used at 3,100 sites around the world, including large European customers like DHL, Porsche, GlaxoSmithKline, and Boehringer Ingelheim. American customers may know the Danish company’s software as ArtForm/400, a change necessitated

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• College Makes IBM i Apps Appear Less Old, More Cool

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Baker College’s IBM i applications now look a little younger and a lot cooler as a result of an application modernization project that was recently completed with Profound Logic‘s tools. The revamp of the UI might just have saved the IBM i from being scrapped for another platform. Baker College of Michigan is a longtime (and mostly happy) user of the IBM i platform. The college, which serves 43,000 students across 17 physical campuses and the Web, uses the computer platform to run a variety of critical applications. Over the several decades of use, the college has more than

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• Maxava Claims 150 Customers Running HA in the Cloud

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Maxava has more than 150 customers accessing its IBM i high availability (HA) software from a cloud provider, the company said last week. The revelation demonstrates the high level of growth that’s occurring in the HA cloud market. A cloud-based high availability service makes perfect sense for organizations that can’t justify the purchase of a second IBM i server or the additional care and feeding that an HA application requires. By tapping into an HA cloud, an organization can utilize the cloud provider’s shared resources–including hardware, software, and skills–at a substantially lower investment point than if the organization tried to

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• Discriminating IBM i Shop Taps Quiterian for Marketing Analytics

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Station Casinos knows a thing or two about the IBM i server. The company has used the platform for the last 20 years to run its collection of casinos (currently 18) in the Las Vegas area. So when one of its most experienced RPG programmers praised predictive analytics software developer Quiterian, it made the news, so to speak. Station Casinos was on the hunt for new data analytics and mining tools so it could do more profiling of its customer base and craft more profitable marketing campaigns. The company, which runs its core property management, gaming, and financial systems

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• Solarsoft Gets Boost from Tech Eval.com

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Prospective ERP buyers who use Technology Evaluation Center‘s helpful website to research ERP products will now see Solarsoft‘s IBM i-based ERP software listed among the available options. Last week, Solarsoft announced that TEC has certified iVP, its RPG-based ERP system designed for discrete manufacturers. Certification by TEC verifies that iVP “supports industry-specific standard business processes chosen by TEC analysts, and that TEC analysts have reviewed Solarsoft iVP RFI data against known benchmarks,” the software vendor says. This could give iVP a needed visibility boost. Compared to its tier-one competitors like Infor and Oracle, Solarsoft doesn’t immediately ring

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• SEEBURGER Runs MFT Software on Amazon’s Cloud

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  SEEBURGER last week announced that SEEBURGER File Exchange (SEE FX), its managed file transfer (MFT) software that creates a Web portal for file sharing, is now available to run on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. As a component of the SEE MFT suite, SEE FX delivers fairly typical MFT capabilities, including encryption, authentication, full auditing and logging, checkpoint restarts, Web browser and Outlook interfaces, and unlimited file sizes. SEE MFT (and thus SEE FX) also supports the movement of IBM i files. The big difference with SEE FX compared to SEE MFT is that SEE FX creates a secure

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• EXTOL Updates ERP Adapters, Enhances AS2 Software

  March 27, 2012 Alex Woodie

  EXTOL International issued updates to its adapters for Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP‘s ERP suite. The Pennsylvania company also updated its AS2 software, and hired a new sales manager. EXTOL is a company that has its roots in EDI and the AS/400, but which has broadened its reach in recent years to support other platforms and business integration methods. Its flagship product today is the Java-based EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI), a multi-purpose suite of integration broker tools that supports IBM i and other major platforms. The company recently updated two of its ERP-specific EBI adapters. The new adapter for

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• JDE Throwdown: IBM i Versus Oracle Stacks

  March 26, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last fall, I told you all about Oracle‘s database appliances and its desire to pitch its new Sparc T4 series of Solaris servers running its eponymous database against various IBM Power-based midrange gear. Oracle, as the owner of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suites, is particularly interested in pitching the Sparc T4 machines against entry and midrange Power7 iron running IBM i. So how does Oracle stack up? I promised that I would try to figure this out back in October, when Oracle launched the eight-core Sparc T4 processors and the servers that use them. The Sparc T4 machines come

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