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  • Lawson’s ‘Landmark’ Plans Following Infor Acquisition

    June 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Prior to Infor‘s acquisition of Lawson Software, Lawson had embarked upon an ambitious project called Landmark, which would standardize the way the company and customers developed, integrated, presented, and ran Lawson software. Now that Lawson has been absorbed into Infor, the work on Landmark continues, but it’s no longer the overarching priority that it once was. Instead, getting Lawson products to work with Infor’s various ION components and Infor’s Workspace user interface appear to be higher priorities.

    Lawson unveiled Project Landmark in 2005, soon after its acquisition of Intentia. The main idea behind Landmark was to standardize the way

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  • Q&A With Colin Parris, IBM’s Power Systems GM

    June 11, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Q&A With Colin Parris, IBM’s Power Systems GM

    Just ahead of the COMMON midrange conference back in early May, Colin Parris, who had been vice president and business line manager for the Power Systems line, was named general manager of the division, replacing Tom Rosamilia, who was GM of a combined Power and System z mainframe division. Parris, whose background is in software and research, takes charge of Power Systems when it has vanquished its Unix and proprietary rivals but is looking for a way to expand Power-based computing in the enterprise.

    (Rosamilia, as The Four Hundred previously reported,

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  • MCS Expands Westward to Serve Infor A+ Customers

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Maximum Computer Systems, a New York-based consultancy that specializes in providing solutions for wholesale distributors, is opening a new office in Las Vegas that will enable it to better serve customers who run the Infor10 Distribution Enterprise i (A+) suite from Infor.

    MCS is an Infor Gold Channel partner based in Ronkonkoma, New York. The company specializes in Infor10 Distribution Enterprise i, an RPG-based ERP suite for distributors that was previously called Application Plus (A+) when it was owned by Daly & Wolcott. The company has been in business for 23 years, and has been an A+ partner

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  • IBM Unveils New ‘DevOps’ CLM Tools for the Cloud

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    IBM yesterday unveiled new software and services designed to help customers streamline the application development lifecycle, or what IBM calls “development operations,” or simply DevOps. As part of the announcement, which was made at the annual Rational Collaborate conference in Florida, parts of Rational’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) suite will be made available as a DevOps tool hosted in IBM’s SmartCloud.

    The CLM suite, which IBM unveiled at last year’s Collaborate show, is built on IBM’s open development platform, called Jazz, and combines three Rational products, including Requirements Composer, Team Concert, and Quality Manager, in one suite that IBM

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  • Kisco Bolsters WebReport with New PDF, Distribution Features

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Kisco Information Systems last week unveiled a new release of WebReport/i, its report distribution tool for the IBM i server. In addition to a new name (it was previously called WebReport/400), version 12 of the product sports the capability to include editable fields in generated PDF forms, as well as new HTTPS and FTP capabilities.

    WebReport/i allows IBM i shops to make more effective use of the spool files and reports generated by their applications. The software can automatically convert IBM i spool files to PDF, HTML, TIF, RTF, XLS, or CSV formats, and then distribute them via email, fax,

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  • i-Centric Teaching Paid by SoCal Vendors

    June 5, 2012 Dan Burger

    Three IBM i software vendors are combining efforts to sponsor a free one-day education opportunity in Southern California. The event is being called iNSPIRE 2012 and it’s scheduled for Friday, June 22, at the IBM Center in Costa Mesa.

    The session lineup–which is focused on technologies such as application modernization, document management, and high availability–is anchored by two of the top educators in the IBM midrange: Susan Gantner and Jon Paris of Partner400.

    Also on the agenda are IBM’s Isabelle Sato, Profound Logic‘s Alex Roytman, inFORM Decisions‘ Alex Rodriguez, and Vision Solutions‘ Steve Romweber. Profound, inFORM,

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  • Info Builders Unveils New Solutions at User Conference

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Business intelligence and analytics software maker Information Builders showed off its latest creations at its annual user conference that’s taking place this week in Orlando, Florida. Among the new offerings are solutions designed to help its WebFOCUS customers take advantage of big data, social media, cloud deployments, and Salesforce.com.

    On the big data front, Information Builders announced that WebFOCUS can now be deployed with a column-oriented database, which should substantially improve the performance of certain types of analytic workloads that rely on a large number of queries or are accessing large data sets. The vendor said its column-oriented developments

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  • Linoma Gets Hip to FIPS 140-2

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    FIPS 140-2 is a short, acronym-laden term floating in an IT world filled with short, acronym-laden terms. But for organizations that do business with the U.S. Government, the term FIPS 140-2 is absolutely critical, and determines whether a product has the necessary level of security to be implemented. For customers on the hunt for managed file transfer (MFT) software, the news that Linoma Software has received FIPS 140-2 certification puts its GoAnywhere suite in the government game.

    The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a U.S. government computer security standard that was set by the National Institute of

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  • Rocket Updates Aldon Change Management Products

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Rocket Software last week unveiled new releases of three change management products it obtained with its acquisition of Aldon last year. Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition) for IBM i was updated with new application deployment capabilities and integration with Apache Subversion, while new releases of the Rocket Aldon Web Portal and Rocket Aldon Report Manager products help organizations track build deployments and user activity, including from smartphones and tablets.

    Last week’s announcement of Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition) 6.2 for IBM i, Web Portal 1.2, and Report Manager 1.6 mark the first substantive release of the Aldon software since

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  • RUMBA 8.3 Brings New Productivity and Security Features

    June 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Micro Focus is close to shipping RUMBA version 8.3, an updated release of the terminal emulator that’s popular in IBM i shops. The new release, which should ship in about a month, will bring a new productivity feature making it easier to export data from a 5250 screen to Microsoft Excel. It also features a more modern security architecture that may keep your network security officer’s hair from prematurely turning gray.

    Micro Focus started building connections between RUMBA and Microsoft Office with RUMBA 8.1, which shipped in late 2010. That release included an MS Office toolbar in the RUMBA

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