• Infor Goes In-Country with M3 Accelerators

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Infor in December rolled out a pair of country-specific Implementation Accelerators for its M3 product line that will speed implementation of the ERP suite in the US and the UK. According to Infor, each Implementation Accelerator Country Version is designed to enable the rapid deployment of the Infor M3 application in a specific geography–in this case, the US or the UK. The offerings are designed to make it easier to adhere to the specific statutory regulations and reporting requirements for daily business transactions and operations. “Typically, an M3 customer will operate across international borders,” said John Chandler, Infor’s senior product

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• Bone Up on Free-Form RPG with developerWorks

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  The new free-form RPG specs delivered with IBM i 7.1 TR7 are the most exciting thing to happen to the language since RPG Open Access was unveiled four years ago. Last week, IBM published a developerWorks guide on how to program within the new free-form method. Free-form RPG is intended to move the language away from its fixed-format roots and put it on par with other commonly used languages, such as Visual Basic, Java, and PHP. The idea is to make RPG more enticing to learn, and introduce the language to a new generation of programmers. IBM software engineers Scott

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• CIOs At Risk of Becoming Irrelevant on Technology Decisions, Logicalis Survey Says

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  A survey conducted last year by Logicails indicates that CIOs are losing clout in the board room when it comes to technology decisions. Unless they do something, CIOs and other tech leaders risk being overshadowed by line of business managers. According to the survey conducted by the managed service provider (MSP), 60 percent of CIOs agree that line-of-business managers will gain sway on technology purchases over the next three to five years. It’s an ongoing issue facing technology leaders and is being driven in large part by the consumerization of technology and the availability of increasingly sophisticated Web-based services. To

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• Forgotten Password Problem Solved, Kisco Says

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Help desk personnel will be free to pursue more fulfilling activities as a result of Kisco Information Systems‘ latest software, iResetMe. Unveiled last week, the new product allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords from a secure Web connection, thereby alleviating help desks from the burden of resetting forgotten user passwords. Password resets are the single most common activity at IT help desks in the Western World. According to Gartner, 20 to 50 percent of calls to the help desk are for password resets, and each reset cost from $14 to $28. Those figures are from 2003,

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• GoAnywhere: Linoma’s Anti-Dropbox

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  It’s hard not to like Dropbox. You simply drag your files to the pretty blue icon on your desktop and voila! They’re instantly accessible from multiple devices–in fact, any Web browser in the world! The only problem: Dropbox isn’t that secure and has a history of security problems. For a business that takes security seriously, a proper managed file transfer (MFT) solution is a much better choice for moving files. Last week, MFT vendor Linoma Software updated its GoAnywhere product to give it some of the ease-of-use features that Dropbox is known for. It’s not that Dropbox can’t be secure.

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• Set Your RPG Apps Free with ODF, looksoftware Says

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  RPG developers will be able to create new Web-based GUIs using IBM‘s Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (ROA) technology without touching a lick of DDS thanks to the new Open Display File (ODF) technology unveiled last month by looksoftware. The new technology, which will become available later this month, is standards-based, and essentially takes the development in ROA to the next level, the company says. Since IBM unveiled the ROA technology about four years ago, it has seen some use. Like any new technology, it has taken a while for the IBM i faithful to consider it a

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• Six IBM i Predictions for 2014

  January 14, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Hello, and welcome to 2014! The new year began for the IBM i community in just about the same place it began 2013: With a slightly smaller customer base running systems that are just a little bit older. But do not despair! If owning the world’s most stable and predictable business computer doesn’t send you into a fit of rapturous joy, then perhaps these predictions on IBM i products and technologies for the coming year will. Prediction No. 1: IBM Delivers ‘Power’ Boost, World Shrugs It’s not like we had to go out on a limb for this, seeing as

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• US Jobs Hit By Big Chill–IT Workers Relatively Warm

  January 13, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Blame the bad weather that blanketed much of the country in December. Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy only added 74,000 net new jobs, which is a lot less workers than is needed to be hired for the unemployment rate to come down and, more importantly, is needed to get people who have long since stopped working getting a paycheck again. According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people who were unemployed in the United States went down by 490,000 to 10.4 million in December, which should be

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• Enterprise Software Dominates IT Spending Forecast

  January 13, 2014 Dan Burger

  How’s that IT budget for 2014 coming along? Got that executive seal of approval, or are you still noodling revision number 13? Most budgets in the IBM midrange will likely remain flapjack flat compared to a year ago, but overall worldwide IT spending is predicted to pick up speed. According to the analysts at Gartner, IT spending will tiptoe upward at a 3.1 percent pace reaching a projected total of $3.8 trillion in 2014. One of the expected economic drivers will be enterprise software led by customer relationship management (CRM), a marketing and sales department favorite, and supply chain

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• IT Jungle Editor Added To RPG Summit Speakers

  January 13, 2014 Dan Burger

  Ted Holt, senior technical editor of the “Four Hundred Guru” newsletter published by IT Jungle has been selected to the cadre of speakers lined up for the next RPG & DB2 Summit, which will take place March 18 – 20, in Grapevine, Texas. Holt joins a group of instructors that includes Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Paul Tuohy, Scott Klement, Aaron Bartell, Mike Pavlak, Mike Cain, Tom McKinley, and Barbara Morris. Paris, Gantner, and Tuohy are the proprietors of System i Developer, the training and education organization that stages the twice annual Summit conferences. Holt has been on the

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