• Manufacturer Picks IntelliChief for Paperless Project

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  A.T. Cross, a manufacturer of engraved pens and other gifts, says its recent decision to implement IntelliChief‘s electronic document management and workflow software will enable it to get the upper hand on previously paper-based processes. A.T. Cross is a 165-year-old company that’s established itself as a designer and marketer of branded personal and business accessories, such as pens and watches, which it sells around the world via retail and corporate channels. The company, which had revenues of $165 million last year, uses the IBM i-based MAC-PAC ERP system from TDCI to help automate critical processes. Not every process is

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• UNICOM Wheels and Deals for Two Public Companies

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  UNICOM has been active in the mergers and acquisitions department over the last month. Last week, the owners of SoftLanding Systems completed the acquisition of government IT service firm GTSI for about $75 million. It also announced plans to buy server appliance maker Network Engines for about $62 million. GTSI is based in Herndon, Virginia, and counts more than 1,700 government agencies as clients. The company, which has about 450 employees, was ranked number 73 on Washington Technology’s 2012 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors. UNICOM first announced its intent for a subsidiary called UNICOM SUB

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• Data Storage Signs Partner Deal with Maximus

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Data Storage Corp. last week announced that Maximus Data, an IT service provider based in Boston, will sell its line of backup and recovery solutions for the IBM i server, including the SafeData Cloud, to customers in the Northeast. Data Storage, which acquired SafeData in 2010, provides several IBM i data protection services, including SafeData/Vault, which is based on Asigra‘s agentless disk-to-disk backup technology; SafeData/HA, which provides logical replication of IBM i objects and data from the customer’s production server to a backup server; SafeData/DR, where Data Storage provides IBM i capacity and services to assist customers with

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• Trailer Tracking App Gets IBM i Hooks

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  TrackPoint Systems last week announced that the latest release of its trailer tracking application, called CONNECT, has been verified to work with Innovative IES, the IBM i-based trucking dispatching application from TMW Systems. TrackPoint worked with IBM i experts at Add On Systems to complete the integration. TrackPoint develops software that helps trucking companies keep track of their trailers while they’re in use in the field. The company’s main products are CONNECT, a Web-based application that gives companies detailed information about the state of individual trailers, and the Tr/IPS Master Control Unit, a solar-powered device that installs on the

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• Customer Fails to Break EXTOL’s Latest EDI Software

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  EXTOL International put the new release of its IBM i-based EDI software to an interesting test: it asked a customer to break it. But despite the transactional deluge that EXTOL EDI Integrator for i version 6.3 received at the hand of an insurance company client, the software kept on ticking. EXTOL says it made several changes to the latest release of EXTOL EDI Integrator for i (EEI), which was unveiled a month ago, that give the product higher throughput, including advanced pipelining, improved enveloping, and log purging enhancements. As part of the beta test of EEI 6.3, EXTOL handed the

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• Bug Busters Tackles Journaling Issues with HA Software

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Problems can crop up in even the best-run high availability environments, which is why HA products typically have a collection of tools and reports to assist with trouble-shooting. Users of the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering‘s high availability software, RSF-HA version 9.1, will find new tools for tracking down journaling problems that occur during data replication. The release also includes new features for handling spool file replication, and a bandwidth estimator. Replication errors are a frequent occurrence for IBM i HA products based on logical replication. In a busy production environment, the task of keeping a perfectly

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• Synergivity Touts Workflow Enhancements in MDCMS

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use Midrange Dynamics‘ IBM i change management system will see a big improvement in the way that change requests flow through the system with MDCMS version 6.8. Officials with Synergivity Software, the North American distributors of MDCMS, say that as a result of enhanced integration between the CMS and the workflow systems, users will be able to drive change management processes directly from the workflow product. Synergivity Software has been selling MDCMS to IBM i shops in North America since it signed a distribution deal with Switzerland-based Midrange Dynamics two years ago. The Peterborough, New

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• Misys Partner Launches IBM i Client for Subversion 1.75

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  A Russian partner of IBM i banking software developer Misys last week announced that it has completed work on a new IBM i client for the popular open source Apache Subversion version control system. A developer at Banking Technologies & Consulting says the IBM i client, called iSVN, enables RPG and CL programmers to access external SVN repositories and utilize SVN features, such as code checkout and update commands, from the comfort of the 5250 green screen. Moscow-based Banking Technologies & Consulting (BTC) provides support and localization for the EQUATION core banking system from Misys for financial service companies in

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• Cybele Goes Mobile with 5250 Emulator

  June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that are looking for a 5250 terminal emulator that runs on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and other smartphone and tablet platforms may want to check out the latest news from Cybele Software. Last week, the Delaware company unveiled the beta release of z/Scope Anywhere 7.0, a new version of its terminal emulator that has been rewritten with a new HTML5/Javascript client, which simplifies installation and enables it to run inside a greater variety of Web browsers. IBM i vendors have been hawking mobile wares for a very long time. It was a big thing even when IT

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• European Server Market Swoons, Quite Predictably

  June 25, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The box counters at IDC gave their overview of the server racket in the first quarter on a global basis a few weeks ago, and now the company has done a deep sort on its data and drilled into the data for the EMEA market. And man, it sure doesn’t look good if Europe is any kind of leading indicator for the global economy and server sales are a kind of canary in the coal mine. As The Four Hundred explained two weeks ago, the overall server market had a 2.4 percent revenue decline in the first quarter, falling

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