• IBM Updates Web Content Manager

  April 5, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week launched a new version of Web Content Manager, an IBM i-supported server solution designed to allow non-technical users to create, publish, and update content for websites and portals, without the help of IT experts. IBM says the version 7 release of the software (which formerly went by the name Lotus Web Content Manager) is easier to use and creates more compelling websites than before. Web Content Manager is designed to assist with all aspects of website creation and management, including both static and dynamic websites. For authors, it provides templates for getting basic websites, including wikis and

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• Linoma Touts Security Tool Installation at Connecticut Hospital

  April 5, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Bristol Hospital is using Linoma Software‘s GoAnywhere Director software to ensure the secure transfer of sensitive records with outside parties, Linoma announced last week. Since GoAnywhere Director runs on Bristol Hospital’s central IBM i server, it has avoided the need to move the data to less secure PCs prior to transfers, and eliminated the need for manual file transfers and courier services. Bristol Hospital is a 134-bed hospital serving the greater Bristol area in north-central Connecticut. The organization is a long-standing IBM i shop, and relies on the RPG-based McKesson Series 2000 healthcare information system (HIS) for much of

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• Cetova Widens JDE Reporting Options

  April 5, 2011 Alex Woodie

  JD Edwards shops that use Cetova‘s reporting tools can now access their archived data at the same time they report against their production data. Cetova says the new archived data option, which it unveiled last month, will eliminate the need to rewrite reports or reload archived data into production systems. Efficient management of the data lifecycle is a big priority in IT departments these days. If a business waits too long to archive its older data, it runs the risk of slowing down its production system, and impacting critical systems. Occasionally businesses are faced with the need to access

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• Got Gantt? mrc Does Now with m-Power

  April 5, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that utilize mrc‘s Web application development tool, m-Power, have a new chart type to choose from: Gantt. The addition of the chart type with the funny name will help m-Power users demonstrate how events are expected to occur as a project unfolds. Named after the early 20th century American mechanical engineer Henry Gantt, the Gantt chart has become a popular type of bar chart that’s commonly used to communicate phases and activities of a project. Project managers in many industries often avail themselves of the Gantt chart functionality in Microsoft Excel to illustrate many of the

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• Pacific Timesheet Offers Crew Timesheet Options via SaaS

  April 5, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Pacific Timesheet, a provider of software as a service (SaaS)-based timesheet and attendance solutions, recently announced the availability of a Web-based crew timesheet feature designed to be used by workers in construction and field services. Pacific Timesheet is a Las Vegas-based company that develops a range of timesheet related software products, including time and attendance, time-off, and project time tracking. The company claims about 1,000 customers across several industries, and integration with the payroll, accounting, and human resources modules of many popular ERP systems, including IBM i-specific packages like JD Edwards, Infinium, MAPICS, VistaCare, Series 2000, and Med Series

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• AS/400 i Mystery Solved–Again?

  April 4, 2011 Pat Botz

  I read with much interest the January 31 article, AS400 i Mystery Solved written by ITJ editor-in-chief Tim Prickett Morgan in response to a question posed by a reader of The Four Hundred. Reader Dan had a very good point and may well be partially right. However, after working with numerous i shops in the last 15 years or so, I have come to a somewhat different conclusion. I believe the biggest problem with the declining use of the AS/400 has been the fact that it was too far ahead of its time! Let me explain. About 10 years

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• Oracle to Take a Run at Lawson Software?

  April 4, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Larry Ellison has probably never met a software company that he hasn’t at least thought about owning. With a newfound love for systems–servers, storage, networking, and operating systems–in the wake of its $5.6 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, Oracle, the company that Ellison co-founded and is still chief executive officer of, is looking for a way to expand its software business to pay for its systems aspirations. If the rumor mill has it right, then Oracle is thinking about trying to buy Lawson Software. As The Four Hundred reported three weeks ago, Lawson came clean

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• Mad Dog 21/21: Boiling the Ocean

  April 4, 2011 Hesh Wiener

  General Electric, a company nearly twice the size of IBM, is in an Obamic situation, a position so deeply disappointing that it makes one’s heart break. Its Mark I nuclear reactors lie at the heart of a catastrophe in Japan. Its agility at tax avoidance has become a target of the New York Times, which trims its taxes the old fashioned way, by not making money. Meanwhile, GE’s chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, is trying to help run the USA. IBM is pointing out, with a straight face, that we need a smarter planet. Who would want a stupider

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• IBM’s Brill Says Email is Overrated

  April 4, 2011 Dan Burger

  Email is a big part of business. Before terms like collaboration and social business began dominating the lexicon, email was the digital darling that replaced much of the snail mail and faxing that relied on “hard copies” and filing cabinets. Last week, IBM emailed me. The media relations person wrote to say Ed Brill, the director of messaging for the Lotus division, was in the mood to talk about email and its role as a collaboration tool. That struck me as odd. It’s strange because Brill and the other executives at the Lotus division of Software Group normally don’t have

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• U.S. Economy Whittles Down Unemployment Rate in March

  April 4, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There was good news from the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday, even if it wasn’t great news. According to the statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for March, the American economy added 216,000 jobs in March, outpacing the population growth in the country and shaving the unemployment rate by one-tenth of a point to 8.8 percent. That is a two-year low for the unemployment rate, but nowhere near the 4.5 percent structural unemployment rate that economists agree is as close to full employment that the modern U.S. economy can push down to. By the way, that was

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