• Manhattan Associates Publicizes System i Successes

  January 27, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Manhattan Associates‘ System i-based warehouse management system (WMS) has been the standard of the distribution industry for over a decade. In recent years, the company has been heavily promoting its Windows- and .NET-based WMS and transportation solutions–to the detriment of its System i marketing. But as a cache of recently published case studies show, ManH’s i-based WMS still rules the roost. Between July 2008 and January 2009, Manhattan Associates published more than 50 case studies showcasing some of its largest customers, which can be found in the library at www.manh.com/library/case_studies.html. A quick read of the studies shows the

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• Compliance Software to Support Domino 8.5

  January 27, 2009 Alex Woodie

  The e-mail and records compliance software developed by AXS-One will support the latest release of Lotus Notes/Domino by the end of the quarter with the launch of AXS-One Compliance Platform version 3.8, the company announced last week. The AXS-One Compliance Platform helps organizations administer their electronic records and minimizes their legal exposure by indexing, archiving, and managing retention for all electronic records, including e-mail and instant messages. AXS-One supports major messaging platforms, including Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange, and can be extended to other environments, such as SAP and file management systems, through versions of the AXS-Link product. Bill Lyons, CEO

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• inFORM Commits to Reforestation Through Arbor Day Program

  January 27, 2009 Alex Woodie

  The environmental benefits of using electronic documents are well known. Fewer trees cut down for pulp and less waste and pollution in our landfills and our skies. And now, inFORM Decisions has further extended the benefits of electronic documents by joining an Arbor Day Foundation program that will result in 10 trees being planted every time a customer buys IFD’s i OS document or payment management software. For years, IFD has been a proponent of environmental benefits of electronic document management technology. The Southern California company even maintains a “Green Page” on its Web site (at www.informdecisions.com/green.asp) that describes

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• i Roadmaps: Here Be Dragons

  January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  When I was a kid, I was crazy about maps. In my family, even when I was quite young, when someone was lost, they tossed me the map to figure out where on earth we were. My Dad and Mom trusted me with the maps more than themselves, which I didn’t think of as peculiar until later in life. (I think visually. They don’t. My Dad thinks with his hands and can make or fix anything, and my Mom thinks with her mouth, and can cut right to the heart of the matter.) To this day, just about every place

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• IBM Closes 2008 on a High, i Sales Unclear

  January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Wall Street got a chance to catch its breath a little last Tuesday after the market closed when IBM announced its financial results for the fourth quarter, a quarter that was impacted by the economic crisis last summer and fall but one in which Big Blue nonetheless was able to pull out of the fire profit-wise by cutting costs. More importantly, perhaps, IBM’s top brass reaffirmed that they were on track, despite the state of the global economy, to meet aggressive profit targets. In the fourth quarter, which bore the brunt of the economic meltdown and which saw 1.53 million

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• Data Warehouses: Know One When You See One?

  January 26, 2009 Dan Burger

  People may have problems defining a data warehouse. They may have problems designing and building a data warehouse, too. But that hasn’t slowed down the desire to get a better grasp on data and use it more effectively to drive the business and preserve revenues. “What many people describe as a data warehouse is actually a data mart or something else,” says Bill O’Connell, chief technology officer of data warehousing within IBM‘s Information Management division. What distinguishes a data warehouse is an enterprise design and a definition of the business problem to be solved, O’Connell says. The emphasis is

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• The X Factor: Head in the Clouds

  January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For a while now, people have been talking about utility-style computing, and as was the case a decade ago with application service providing, or ASPs, we are now being barraged with vendors coming out of the woodwork peddling cloud computing or somehow tying what they do to the idea of cloud computing. But the interesting development this time around is that cloud computing is a lot more affordable than ASP was, thanks to cheap iron, open source software, and inexpensive broadband Internet. These are all necessary conditions, of course, for cloudy, utility computing to take off, but they are far

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• UNICOM Acquires Macro 4, Sees i OS Synergy with SoftLanding Tools

  January 26, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Earlier this month, UNICOM Systems announced the acquisition of Macro 4, a British developer of utilities and systems management tools for mainframe, System i, and Unix platforms. While the System z was Macro 4’s forte, UNICOM has put a surprising focus on its i OS offerings. Together with SoftLanding’s i OS change management offerings, UNICOM says it will have a “one stop shop” for enterprise computing customers, whether they run i OS, mainframe, or open systems. In the two and a half years since CICS tool vendor UNICOM shocked the market with its acquisition of i OS change management

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• IBM Layoffs Started Last Week; Time for a New Kind of Corporation

  January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Two weeks ago, we told you about the rumors running around that IBM would cut somewhere from 10,000 to 16,000 of its worldwide workforce, which numbers some 400,000 people, so it could keep its profits growing in the double digits even as its revenues are expected to drop in the first half of 2009. Those layoffs have, according to reports from IBMers, began. IBM has not confirmed that there are layoffs, except to note in its financial reports last week that it is continually rebalancing its workforce, which means firing people where business is slack or projects are not panning

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• IT Workers Conflicted, Dice Salary Survey Reveals

  January 26, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Technology and engineering career site Dice has put out its annual salary survey to take the pulse on compensation rates out there in the tech market, and the news is good and bad. Average salaries were up at the end of 2008 compared to 2007, but IT workers are plenty jumpy because of the economy and what their employers might do to cut costs if things get worse or even just stay bad. Dice put together its 2008-09 Annual Salary Survey by gathering up information from 19,444 tech workers between August and November last year. This was, you will remember,

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