• CPU MMS Teams with Gateway EDI for Data Interchange

  April 14, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Hospitals and doctor’s offices that use CPU Medical Management Systems‘ i OS-based medical billing and revenue cycle management software, MED/FM, were given a new option for healthcare EDI last month when CPU struck a deal with Gateway EDI, a provider of electronic data interchange solutions for the healthcare industry. MED/FM is a comprehensive practice management solution for medical practices and medical billing services that’s used by more than 10,000 doctors across the country. The software, which runs exclusively on i OS (it’s also available as a service over the Internet), helps to automate a range of common healthcare

  …

  Read more

• Global Goes After Infor ERP Visual Customers with New Partner

  April 14, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Global Software and Visual South last week announced a partnership that will see Global’s spreadsheet automation software being offered to users of Infor‘s ERP Visual, which is the market that Visual South targets. “We are pleased to introduce the Global Software, Inc. spreadsheet automation tools to our customer base,” said Jack Shannon, president of Visual South, which sells and implements Infor’s ERP Visual software suite around the country. “Global’s ability to turn Microsoft Excel into a powerful VISUAL dashboard will allow our customers to view key performance indicators in a familiar environment.” Infor ERP Visual is a collection of

  …

  Read more

• Power vs. Nehalem: Time to Double Up and Double Down

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The first TPC-C online transaction processing benchmark tests are in for the new two-socket “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 processors from Intel, and as I suggested would be the case in last week’s coverage of that chip announcement, IBM had better get its fingers out of its ears and get to work goosing the two-socket and four-socket servers with some Power6+ chips, or be prepared to cut prices on the i 6.1 software stack to compete against Windows on these Nehalem machines. The news is not, perhaps, as bad as it could be. First, let’s take a deep breath and

  …

  Read more

• The IBM-Sun Saga Continues–Or Rather, Doesn’t

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Well, so much for that idea. About a day after I wrote about the impending acquisition of Unix server maker Sun Microsystems by IBM for last week’s issue, the deal came apart. And why? Apparently–and we all have to say apparently out here because no one has said anything officially–because the two parties could not agree on money or the firmness of their commitments. This seems to be a typical bad engagement gone worse before the nuptials are even exchanged. Which is when you want things to go bad, particularly if you are most Sun employees, people who want

  …

  Read more

• Clone Memory Maker Dataram Buys Rival MMB

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  While the IT press focuses on all the big merger and acquisition deals that are going on as the economy moves along at its sluggish pace, there are plenty of smaller deals going on as companies realize they are too small to go it alone and they meet up with other companies that want to acquire them for one reason or another. So it is with clone memory maker Dataram‘s acquisition last week of rival Micro Memory Bank, both of which are located in my neck of the woods. Dataram is based in the suburbs outside of Princeton,

  …

  Read more

• Lawson Ekes Out Profit in Q3, Partners to Peddle in Quebec

  April 13, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Currency fluctuations and a downturn in IT spending, particularly among manufacturing customers, combined to drive third quarter revenues down 18 percent to $174 million for Lawson Software, but cost cutting enabled the company to post a profit anyway. The St. Paul, Minnesota, ERP software vendor also announced a deal with a French Canadian reseller, Commsoft Technologies, to sell Lawson’s M3 suite, which is primarily implemented on i-based Power Systems machines. Conventional wisdom says that during periods of macro economic uncertainty, such as we find ourselves in now, companies will put the brakes on big new ERP purchases and

  …

  Read more

• Automation: Monitoring the Monitors Isn’t It

  April 13, 2009 Dan Burger

  A few weeks ago, I noticed that Tom Duncan was making a presentation about Management Central, a component of System i Navigator, at the The OMNI User meeting in Chicago. I was curious how the group responded to his topic because Management Central can be a little quirky. As it turned out, Duncan says, the topic was quite well received based on the amount of questions the audience had about Management Central. Most people know about Management Central, but like a lot of things on the AS/400 and its successors, the familiarity varies from having simply heard about it to

  …

  Read more

• Reader Feedback on Power vs. Nehalem: Scalability Is So 1995, Cash is So 2009

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  TPM, Why do you have to be so right and why does IBM have to generally ignore your insightful, thoughtful advice on how to compete? ARGH! Thank you for the wonderful writing you and your team produce. My simple words cannot show my appreciation enough. Sincerely, Ethan Hi Ethan, Thanks so much for your kind words about my team and what we do here at IT Jungle. And simple words do show appreciation. Some days, appreciation is the only force that keeps us going, since money surely is not enough. So don’t think I don’t appreciate your appreciation. (OK, this

  …

  Read more

• Managers Lament Lack of Attention to Legacy Apps

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Stick to your knitting. Keep your eye on the ball. These are phrases we use to remind us to not forget why we are in business in the first place, but they apply equally well to IT departments. It is easy to get distracted and seduced by new technologies; remember that whole dot-com thing and all the disruption it caused a decade ago? But it is important to not lose skills relating to the core IT systems at your company, which are often encapsulated in legacy applications and databases on IBM mainframe and midrange gear. While COBOL application specialist Micro

  …

  Read more

• How Do SMBs Decide On What IT To Buy?

  April 13, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The economic crunch is turning small and medium businesses into more savvy shoppers, as you might expect. So how are SMBs making their IT buying decisions these days? According to research done by IDC, there is a good, old-fashioned way that is still popular: talking to people they trust about the technology they use in their organizations. Yup, despite all the good information that is available on the Internet–information that was largely unavailable 15 years ago, when the IT market was less complex–word of mouth is still a key part of the IT buying process for SMBs. But before

  …

  Read more

Previous Articles Next Articles