• Spinnaker Touts Growth in Third-Party ERP Support Business

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  2012 was a good year for Spinnaker Support, which provides third-party support services for customers running JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JDE World, and SAP ERP software. The company claims that it grew revenues by 38 percent in 2012 compared to 2012, while sales bookings are up more than 100 percent. “2012 was a year for tremendous growth and accomplishments for Spinnaker Support,” states the company’s CEO Matt Stava in a press release. “Our team has grown in ways we could have only dreamed of a few years ago and our current pipeline is three times larger than it was this

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• Native, Web-Based, or Hybrid Apps for Mobile? mrc Weighs In

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Mobile application development has taken the world–and the IBM i midrange–by storm. But there are important decisions to make before embarking upon a mobile app development strategy, namely, should you develop native apps, build apps that run in the Web browser, or take a hybrid approach for mobile devices? Development tool maker mrc recently published a white paper on the topic. The title of mrc’s white paper, “Native mobile apps: The wrong choice for business?” makes mrc’s position on the matter fairly clear from the get-go. In almost no situations does it make sense for a business to build native

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• Next Up on IBM i: Worklight and Forms Experience Builder?

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The pressure applied on IBM to get several former Lotus products running on IBM i worked, as IBM has committed to supporting Lotus Notes Traveler and IBM Connections on the platform. Now, the Power Systems Champions are shifting their focus to getting additional products supported, too. At the recent IBM Connect (formerly Lotusphere) conference, Justin Liu, an IBM developerWorks correspondent, and a camera crew tracked down Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, the Power Systems Champion and tireless IBM i promoter, to chat about the intersection of Power Systems servers and IBM’s collaboration platform. The interview was recently posted on IBM’s YouTube channel. Reynolds-Lair,

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• Software AG Delivers iPad Client for webMethods JIS

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Software AG has just put the finishing touches on a major new release of webMethods JIS, the Web-enablement solution for IBM i and z/OS servers that was formerly owned by Jacada. Version 9.2 brings the first taste of mobility with a new iPad client. It also introduces a new 64-bit Java runtime, simplified installation, and various other enhancements and fixes. In 2007, Software AG spent about $26 million to acquire three products–Jacada Interface Server (JIS), Jacada Integrator, and a terminal emulator–from Atlanta, Georgia-based Jacada. Today, Jacada retains rights to some of these products only for use in its call-center

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• Got the Software Licensing Blues? You’ve Got Company

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Companies are clamoring for new and flexible software licensing models, such as subscription-based licensing and usage-based licensing, to replace outdated models, according to a new survey from Flexera Software. For years, enterprises have been growing increasingly dissatisfied with traditional models, such as perpetual licensing with annual maintenance fees. The good news is enterprise software vendors are beginning to listen, and have started giving customers what they ask for. You don’t have to go far to find a dissatisfied consumer of enterprise software. In fact, there may be one in your shop right now (it may even be you!). Any

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• Zend Adds Mobile, Problem-Resolution Features to PHP Stack

  February 12, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Zend Technologies today is expected to announce the general availability of its latest PHP stack, including Zend Server version 6 and Zend Studio 10. The development tool gains new mobile tooling, specifically the inclusion of the PhoneGap mobile app framework. The Zend Server runtime, meanwhile, brings new features to help programmers and operators work together more efficiently to track down problems in production PHP apps. The IBM i version of Zend Server, when it ships, will have a new edition as well. Consider these sobering statistics, which Zend chief marketing officer Elaine Lennox shared with IT Jungle last week: 50

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• January Sees North America IT Jobs Explosion

  February 11, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  The folks at Janco Associates have some good news for IT job seekers. According to a new Janco report, based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, the IT job market exploded with 73,500 new jobs in January. Even with the unemployment rate rising to 7.9 percent in 2013, Janco is seeing the number of new jobs for IT professionals is at levels high enough for IT mid-level manager and developers to say IT is in full recovery mode. According to data Janco extracted from the January jobs report from the BLS, there were 73,500 more IT professionals employed

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• Wisconsin Tech Conference A Smart Move

  February 11, 2013 Dan Burger

  There is a strong win-win for the attendees of the annual technical conference hosted by the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professionals Association and the companies that send IT staff to the two-day educational conference. You could call it leading IT in leaner times, or leveraging human resources, or better investing in IT as a company asset. There’s a payoff for smart employees and smart companies. WMCPA has chosen a session agenda made up of lectures and labs and keynote addresses that covers topics that the majority of IBM i shops want and need to hear about with a lineup of speakers

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• Jack Henry’s Fiscal Winning Streak Continues

  February 11, 2013 Dan Burger

  Jack Henry & Associates, the banking software and payment processing services provider that is a well-known vendor in the IBM midrange, has tacked on healthy increases in revenue for its fiscal second quarter of 2013. The financial report, released last week, showed a revenue spurt of 9 percent compared to the first fiscal quarter of 2012. Net income was bumped up 5 percent in the same year-to-year comparison. For the first six months of the company’s fiscal 2013, revenue increase maintains that 9 clip and net income increases are on an 11 percent gain. Closely shadowing Jack Henry’s established

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• Storage, Software, And Services Drive Up Arrow’s Systems Biz In Q4

  February 11, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Enterprise Computing Solutions group of master distributor Arrow Electronics ended the fourth quarter on a high, with business being brisk enough to almost make up for decline in the component business that is the other engine of Arrow and its main competitor in the distribution racket, Avnet. In the quarter ended in December, overall sales at Arrow fell by just under 1 point to $5.4 billion, and if you look at it in local currencies, sales were actually off 3 percent. So the weakening dollar helped the numbers a bit. Sales at the ECS group rose by 11

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