• Kawasaki Saves a Bundle with LANSA-Based eKanban System

  February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The American consumer products division of Kawasaki is saving $3,500 per day as a result of its new electronic Kanban (eKanban) system that combines IBM i and iPad technology. The manufacturing system replaces a traditional card-based Kanban system, and was developed using the LongRange mobile development tool from LANSA, according to a new case study posted to the software company’s website. The consumer products division of Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp. U.S.A. (KMM) manufacturers a range of products in its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility, including ATVs, Jet Skis, recreational utility vehicles, and wheels. The company has been a LANSA customer for

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• Oracle Dives into Health and Safety at JDE Summit

  February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The JD Edwards partner ecosystem convened last week in Broomfield, Colorado, for the fourth annual JD Edwards Summit. Oracle used the gathering to launch new software for EnterpriseOne, including a new Health and Safety Incident Management module for tracking incidents, and a related reporting tool for complying with government mandates. Big Red also announced that One View, the EnterpriseOne reporting tool launched last year, will be available to customers running version 9.0, in addition to the current 9.1 release. The new Health and Safety Incident Management application is a component of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne version 9.1, which Oracle announced last

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• The Science and Art of Price Optimization

  February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

  As a retailer, you strive to get top dollar for every item. But you also realize that setting the price too high will cut into sales. Finding that happy medium can be a difficult experience, fraught with false starts, lost profits, and alienated customers. For price optimization service provider Revionics, which just signed a prominent IBM i-based multi-channel retailer to a contract, finding that perfect price involves a lot of science–and a little bit of art, too. You’d think it would be fairly easy to set the correct price for a given item. Potato chips, for example, ship from

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• Rocket Lifts Off with New Mobile Focus

  February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that want to deliver mobile access to their IBM i applications now have another option from Rocket Software. Last month, the Massachusetts company unveiled LegaSuite version 7.1, which can transform 5250 screens into mobile interfaces for smartphones and tablets, using HTML5 and PhoneGap technologies. Rocket says the new LegaSuite Mobile component will deliver a modern mobile experience with the same amount of work required to create Web apps of old. The LegaSuite product line, which Rocket obtained with its acquisition of Seagull Software in 2006, has been asked to do a lot over the last dozen years. Whether

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• Attachmate Delivers Mobile Access to IBM Servers

  February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Attachmate last month unveiled new software that lets users access IBM i- and zSeries-resident data and applications from mobile devices. Verastream Host Integrator version 7.5 brings the capability to serve 5250 and 3270 screens as HTML5 applications to tablets and smartphones running iOS, Windows 8, and Android mobile operating systems. The software is the first deliverable that’s part of Attachmate’s newly launched MobileNow initiative. The mobile bug is now spreading faster than the flu. Companies in every industry are demanding ways to access host assets via smartphones and tablets. Attachmate, which has the second largest base of terminal emulation customers

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• Social Business Benefits Are A Long-Term Investment

  February 4, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  There’s no need to review why your company has to get up to speed on social business. Get on the train or get left at the platform. We’ve all heard the lecture. And it must have sunk in because according to the gurus at Gartner, enterprise social networks are fast-becoming the primary communication channels for noticing, deciding, or acting on information relevant to carrying out work. So everyone is staying on trend and ready to reap the rewards. Good news, right? Now here’s the catch: Gartner estimates that through 2015, 80 percent of social business efforts will not achieve

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• Looks Like IBM Has Some PureSystems Announcements Coming

  February 4, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We know, as The Four Hundred reported last week that IBM is getting set to launch new Power Systems based on the Power7+ processors on February 5. And it looks like Big Blue is going to be making some PureSystems announcements a week later. See for yourself: I have no idea what the announcement is about, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if the two-socket Flex p260+ server node for the PureSystems family was given a Power7+ processor back in November then it stands to reason that IBM will put the Power7+ processor soon into the

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• The Supply Chain Is Good To Manhattan Associates In Q4

  February 4, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Supply chain and warehouse management software maker Manhattan Associates continues to do well in a cut-throat market, and to do so with organic growth and good, old-fashioned software development. In the fourth quarter ended in December, the company’s revenues were $95.4 million, up 14.2 percent compared to the year-ago period, with net income rising an even faster 18.5 percent to $12.5 million. That’s a very respectable 13 percent of revenue dropping from the top to the bottom line. During Q4, software license sales at Manhattan Associates actually fell by 13.9 percent to $14.4 million, but services revenues more than compensated

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• IBM Sells First Power 770+ In Europe, And It Runs IBM i

  February 4, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Big Blue has announced its first big sale for the new Power 770+ servers announced last October in Europe, and the deal was done at SLIB, a software maker and service provider that specializes in for securities order, clearing, settlement, and risk analysis, among other things. SLIB, which is based on Paris and which was founded 25 years ago, has over 100 employees and creates software it sells to broker-dealers and a back-end system to run its securities trading platform as a service. Interestingly enough, its securities trading platform, which processed some 15 million stock orders in 2012 for

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• AIX Service Provider Starts Up An IBM i Practice

  February 4, 2013 Alex Woodie

  For 17 years, Evolving Solutions has met the AIX and System x needs of its customers in the Upper Midwest. Many of its customers also ran IBM i gear, but Evolving didn’t have the expertise to help them. However, with the recent hire of a former IBMer out of the Rochester, Minnesota, lab, Evolving has seen the light and begun an IBM i practice. Evolving Solutions is a full service IT provider based in Hamel, Minnesota, that caters to the needs of mid-size and large companies ($500 million to $5 billion) in the five-state region. Areas of expertise include high

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