• Enforcive Delivers Better SQL Monitoring for IBM i

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Enforcive (formerly Bsafe Information Systems) last week unveiled a new release of its IBM i security suite, called Enforcive/Enterprise Security. With version 7.2, the company delivered support for monitoring interactive SQL queries in real time, providing a way to monitor the execution of both written and embedded SQL statements. This release also brings enhancements to file integrity monitoring, auditing, and alerting features of the suite. Enforcive has helped IBM i customers keep an eye on SQL for some time. The company’s SQL monitor looks for SQL activity, including interactive SQL statements submitted by users and statements embedded in RPG, DRDA,

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• Why You Need a Data Warehouse

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  If your IBM i shop is like most, it uses some type of business software, such as an ERP system built atop DB2/400, to process transactions. And while it may excel at processing data quickly and efficiently, the setup is not ideal for answering detailed questions that a manager may have about the business, i.e. running analytical workloads. For various reasons, a separate data warehouse will be a far superior solution–especially if it’s implemented on an IBM i server, says data warehousing expert Alan Jordan. There are lots of good reasons to run a data warehouse. Perhaps the most obvious

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• Oracle Revs JDE EnterpriseOne and World

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Oracle yesterday unveiled new releases of both JD Edwards ERP suites, including JDE World version 9.3 and JDE EnterpriseOne 9.1, at the vendor’s Collaborate 2012 conference in Las Vegas. The new releases contain hundreds of enhancements, with an emphasis on user interface improvements, enhancements to industry- and process-specific functionality, and continued regulatory compliance. EnterpriseOne also gets a new operational reporting tool, called OneView, while World now requires IBM i 7.1. The simultaneous launch of new releases of both major ERP suites is a first in JD Edwards history, according to Lyle Ekdahl, group vice president and general manager of Oracle’s

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• A ‘New’ Infor Proclaims Need for Speed

  April 24, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Infor is using this week’s user conference in Denver, Colorado, as a coming out party to reintroduce its customers to the company. During his opening keynote yesterday, CEO Charles Phillips explained to several thousand Infor and Lawson attendees how dramatically Infor has changed over the last 18 months, and told them to expect a rapid period of product development in the near future, with a strong focus on standardization across ERP product lines. “This is really kind of a unique event because you’re really being introduced to a new company. . . called Infor,” Phillips said during his keynote. “I

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• Coglin Mill And Help/Systems Tag Team For Analytics

  April 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  It’s fair to say business analytics on the IBM i platform has a more serious business attitude compared to some of the lightweight activities that get lumped into this category on less robust systems. And you’ve probably heard the complaints about insufficient analytical capabilities that do little or nothing to solve real business problems. The failure of deployments to achieve the hoped for objectives shakes the confidence of CEOs contemplating business intelligence projects at all levels. It also raises questions about the wisdom of taking data from the IBM i platform and feeding databases on other platforms when the decision

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• What’s Your Digital Personality?

  April 23, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  No, you haven’t accidentally clicked over to the results of the latest Teen Beat poll. IBM recently released the results of a survey that reveals an individual’s digital behavior, part of IBM’s continued effort to help its customers understand and capture the elusive and growing digital consumer. You might be wondering how this news is relevant to the IBM i aficionados who rely on IT Jungle for all things i-related? So let’s go straight to the most interesting finding from this survey before we hash through the details and discover your digital personality: IBM’s Beyond Digital study discovered that the

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• IBM Rochester Gets A Piece Of the PureSystems Action

  April 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The PureSystems converged system platform might be largely a product of IBM‘s System x division, which was officially renamed the Modular Systems division several years ago but no one uses the name. But the Power Systems division has a hand in the design and manufacturing of the machines, too, as it turns out. Tim Alpers, a local product manager at IBM’s Rochester, Minnesota, facility, told the local Post-Bulletin newspaper that the PureSystems launch “was a big deal” for the facility, which had a hand in the research and design of the converged systems and will be taking part in

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• IBM Sells Retail Systems Biz To Rival Toshiba For $850 Million

  April 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  IBM, the global leader in point of sale and related retail store systems, has checked out. Big Blue has bagged another portion of its hardware business, and the IBM cash register is singing to the tune of $850 million. Stepping up as buyer and partner is Toshiba TEC, which cartwheels from fourth to first in the POS field leaving behind the likes of Hewlett Packard, NCR, Panasonic, and Fujitsu. That trio has yet to react to the sale and multi-year agreement between IBM and Toshiba, which creates a formidable tandem. Toshiba, which is Japan’s

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• IT Spending Projections Crimped For 2012

  April 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The strengthening U.S. dollar and slightly higher spending last year on hardware, software, and services as well as a reduction in projected spending by companies have combined to make Gartner revise its IT spending expectations for 2012 downward a bit. Here’s the deal. Gartner reckons that IT spending was a little bit stronger in 2011 than its projections earlier this year pegged it, with sales of $3,661 billion worldwide across all categories of IT spending, including computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services, telecom hardware, and telecom services. In January, just after 2011 had ended but before many of the IT

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• Third Party’s A Charm For JDE Maintenance Contracts

  April 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  Like a fur coat on a hot summer day, the cost of software maintenance is making a lot of companies sweat. Maintenance has always been a factor whether it relates to purchased or home-grown software, but in recent times its shadow grew while budgets were pinched. Nowhere in the IBM i community has this issue been more apparent than among JD Edwards users. JDE apps have a large installed base, and ever since Oracle took over JDE, it has become the lightning rod example. On average, the annual software maintenance fees come in at around 20 percent of the total

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