• ICS Bolsters FormSprint Document Management Tool with New Features

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Integrated Custom Software is now shipping FormSprint Version 201201, a new release of its electronic document management software for the IBM i server. With this release, the company has added several new features that should be useful to customers, such as better duplex controls and support for encrypting generated PDF files. FormSprint is a document management software solution that’s used by more than 1,000 IBM i shops across a variety of industries. At its most basic level, FormSprint enables companies to go from using expensive and inflexible preprinted forms and line printers to using software-based form overlays, blank paper stock,

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• Bytware Updates IBM i Message Management Tools

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Bytware last week unveiled a new version of its line of message management and alerting software for IBM i, which includes MessengerConsole and MessengerPlus. With version 7, the products gain new options for using email to notify administrators of potential problems with the IBM i server. Better support for multi-processor servers, support for pagers, and an update to the message archive are also part of this release. MessengerConsole and its little brother, MessengerPlus, are designed to help automate IBM i operations by continuously monitoring the various message queues, logs, and journals for critical messages. The software can be configured to

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• Infor Hooks ERP Data to Salesforce.com

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Infor last week unveiled Inforce Everywhere, a new solution that enables customers to move their on-premise ERP data into cloud-based CRM systems hosted by Salesforce.com. Infor created Inforce Everywhere to simplify data integration tasks for customers. Data updated by their ERP systems will be automatically available in their CRM implementations at Salesforce.com, thereby eliminating the need to built point-to-point integration flows. Another benefit is this: Any additional applications that an Infor customer runs on Salesforce.com’s platform will also have access to the data originating in the ERP system. There are a plethora of social media and mobile applications available

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• Rimini Street Now Offering JD Edwards CNC Services

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Rimini Street is expanding the breadth of services it offers in support of customers’ JD Edwards environments. The company this month announced the general availability of its CNC Managed Services offering, in which it will provide full support for its JD Edwards customers’ Configurable Network Computing environments. CNC is the JDE EnterpriseOne network architecture, and is important for many aspects of EnterpriseOne ERP implementations. Rimini says it began providing CNC-related services in 2011, but it wasn’t until this month that the company announced the general availability of the new service. Rimini will focus on five areas of CNC support. Under

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• IBM ‘Boot Camps’ Turn Social Media Newbies into Hardened Veterans

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  If you’re a social media greenhorn who can’t tell a Twitter feed from a Facebook wall posting or a microblog from a YouTube video, then perhaps you’d be a good candidate for IBM‘s new Social Media Boot Camp program. IBM says its eight-week social media boot camps help small and midsize businesses get the skills they need to successfully engage in social media, and integrate social media into their organizations’ daily activities, particularly for marketing and sales efforts. The boot camps include one-on-one time with IBM’s social media “coaches,” who set goals for boot camp attendees and help them

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• Recall Lets Customers Track the Movement of Their Tapes

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IT shops that are concerned about the chain of custody of their backup tapes after they’re sent off site may be interested in a new tape tracking solution unveiled recently by Recall. The Georgia company, which stores physical and digital assets for more than 80,000 companies at 300 temperature-controlled “operations centers” around the world, this month unveiled ReQuest Web, a new app that allows customers to track the custody of their backup tapes through a Web portal. ReQuest Web tells customers the location of their tapes or other media, and also displays proof-of-service signatures for tracking purposes. Customers can

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• ASG Updates Job Scheduler

  March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

  ASG Software Solutions last week unveiled ASG-Zena 3.1, a new release of its multi-platform workload automation utility, which supports the IBM i environment. The new release of the job scheduler brings several enhancements that the vendor says will improve workload automation tasks. A new graphical process whiteboard will provide a handy way to visualize process flows, minimize redundant definitions, and provide more flexible scheduling of machine resources. Zena 3.1 also gets better support for VMware environments. Specifically, the new release will automatically provision the required VMware resources as part of the job execution task. This was also listed as an

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• Wanted: Power 745 M3 For IBM i SMBs

  March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Call it a case of server envy. While I think IBM has the right server design for small and medium businesses that employ its workhorse IBM i operating system and database double whammy, it has unfortunately put the wrong processor in that machine. I am, of course, talking about Intel‘s long-awaited “Sandy Bridge-EP” Xeon E5-2600 processor, which debuted two weeks ago and started shipping in System x machines last Friday. The Xeon E5-2600 processors, also known by their internal code-name “Jaketown,” are designed for two-socket servers in the same power class as the Power 740 machine in the Power

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• What Is A Used 520-Class Machine Worth?

  March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I must be getting old, there’s no doubt about that. And perhaps my memory is not as good as it used to be. But I thought something was funny when I looked on the IBM Global Financing’s refurbished equipment site to check out what second-hand Power Systems machines running earlier versions of the i5/OS V5R4 operating system cost. With i5/OS V5R4 being mothballed in September 2013, it seemed pretty relevant to see what Big Blue was charging for gear that ran V5R4 and that could also possibly run IBM i 6.1 or 7.1. The used equipment market has always been

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• IBM Looks Back At 2011 And Forward To 2015

  March 19, 2012 Alex Woodie

  One hundred was IBM‘s lucky number for 2011. For starters, last year was the 100th year that Big Blue has been in business. The company also got back to the $100 billion revenue mark for the first time since the economy imploded in 2008. In its recently released annual report, IBM discusses how it intends to replicate the market success that IBM had in 2011, and keep it going through 2015. In her introductory letter to shareholders, new IBM CEO Ginni Rometty touted IBM’s recent success. She threw out a lot of numbers that undoubtedly impress stock analysts,

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