• Admin Alert: What To Do with Vendor Profiles During an Audit, PLUS Two Other Great Features

  November 2, 2011 Joe Hertvik

  System auditors generally don’t like i OS vendor-supplied profiles. You know, those user profiles that vendors require for software installation, ownership, or running special jobs. Some vendors even require you to give these profiles security officer (*SECOFR) or security administrator (*SECADM) authority. This can create audit points because auditors generally don’t like excessive security officer-enabled profiles on the system. Here are two strategies for handling this situation. What Is a Vendor-Supplied User Profile? A vendor-supplied user profile is any profile that exists on your i OS system in order to load software objects, or run vendor programs. It may also

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• Help/Systems Streamlines IFS Backups with Robot/SAVE 12

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems yesterday unveiled a new version of its popular backup and recovery tool for IBM i. Robot/SAVE 12 introduces more granular backups of the IFS that the company says will save customers time and resources. The new release also brings new restore and reporting features for IFS content. Robot/SAVE is arguably the most popular third-party backup and recovery and media management utility in the IBM i marketplace. For organizations that seek more capabilities than can be provided by IBM‘s backup utility, BRMS, Robot/SAVE is often at the top of their list. The capability to perform granular saves of IFS

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• VAI Unveils New Cognos-Based BI Solution

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  VAI last week unveiled a new release of S2K Analytics, a business intelligence solution that’s pre-integrated with its IBM i-based ERP suite. The new version of S2K Analytics is based on IBM‘s Cognos product family, giving customers access to capabilities that weren’t available with the previous release of the product, which was based on QlikTech‘s software, VAI officials say. VAI launched S2K Analytics over a year ago to satisfy its customers’ demand for a low-cost, easy-to-use business intelligence solution. The original version of S2K Analytics was based on QlikView, the enormously successful Windows-based BI solution sold by QlikTech.

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• Adaptive Planning Delivers CPM Without the Geeks

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Less can be more. Take the Republican presidential candidates, all of whom say the best government is a small government. Corporate performance management (CPM) software as a service provider Adaptive Planning espouses a similar approach. Instead of getting the IT department involved in a big, slow, and expensive implementation of BI software to enable budgeting and financial planning, the company allows CFOs and other financial pros to shortcut the geeks, and control their own destiny. Rob Hull founded Silicon Valley-based Adaptive Planning in 2003 with two aims in mind. For starters, he was pretty sure that other CFOs were tired

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• Venyu Delivers Online Backup and Recovery for Kawasaki

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Kawasaki Motors Corp. USA has selected Venyu to provide it with online backup services for its IBM i and Windows servers, the vendor announced last month. After comparing the various online backup providers, Kawasaki says it picked Venyu (formerly AmeriVault) for its capability to house large amounts of data at a reasonable price. Venyu provides online backup, disaster recovery, and cloud hosting services to about 1,200 companies, primarily along the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. As a partner of i365, the vendor uses the EVault online backup technology to move data from its clients’ IBM i, Windows, Unix,

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• Halcyon Bolsters IBM i Security Tool

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Halcyon Software unveiled a new release of its Audit Journal Manager tool last week that should help IBM i shops keep a close watch on suspicious behavior. Enhancements in the areas of reporting and configuring rule sets should make the software easier to set up, while a performance boost helps the software function in the biggest IBM i environments. Audit Journal Manager is a multi-pronged security product. Its core function is automatically filtering the millions of entries written to the IBM i OS’s security audit journal (QAUDJRN), and identifying entries that reflect security policy violations. When a security violation is

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• Actuate Unveils Android Interface for BIRT BI

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Open source business intelligence software developer Actuate last week unveiled a new interface for the most popular open source mobile operating system on the planet, Android. BIRT Mobile enables users to consume reports, dashboards, and other BI content from the comfort of their Android phones and tablets. Actuate is a publicly traded company that develops the free and open source BIRT BI software. The company also sells ActuateOne, a commercial version of the Java-based BIRT that is supported by Actuate. ActuateOne has supported iOS-based mobile devices for some time with both BIRT and ActuateOne, but the availability of BIRT Mobile

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• Ryobi Die Casting Taps Solarsoft for ERP

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Ryobi Die Casting will implement an IBM i-based ERP system from Solarsoft, the vendor announced recently. The manufacturer will implement iVP across its three plants in Indiana and one plant in Mexico. Ryobi Die Casting Inc. (USA) manufactures a range of high pressure aluminum die castings for transmission cases and housings, cast engine blocks, steering housings, and structural parts for vehicles. The company, which is a tier-one supplier to the automotive OEMs, is based in Shelbyville, Indiana, where it operates a machining facility and two die casting plants. It also operates a die casting plant and a machining facility

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• JDA Says Big Deals Drive Record Q3 Results

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  JDA Software Group, which develops enterprise software for large retailers that runs on IBM i and other platforms, set records for its third quarter revenue and earnings, the company said last week. The logistics software company recorded revenue of $171.6 million for its quarter ended September 30, an 8 percent increase from last year, and net income of $16.8 million, a 100 percent increase. The third quarter was expected to be really good as the result of sales pipeline that JDA three months ago said appeared to be “uncharacteristically strong” at the end of a rotten second quarter, which

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• Sensage Touts Growth of SEIM Sales

  November 1, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Sensage, a developer of security information and event management (SEIM) solutions, says it had a very good third quarter, with a 100 percent increase in sale bookings over the previous quarter, and a 100 percent increase in the number of large deals as well. Sensage develops SEIM and log management software that helps organizations spot suspicious activity occurring across their IT infrastructure. The company, which can source IBM i security data through one of its 250-plus log adapters, stores data in a patented columnar database that it says scale into the petabyte range. The Redwood Shores, California, company attributes

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