• SEC Investigation Weighs On JDA Software

  March 5, 2012 Alex Woodie

  An investigation into the revenue-recognition accounting practices of JDA Software caused the software company to miss the deadline for the filing of its annual report last week. JDA received a note of non-compliance from NASDAQ, which gave the software company 60 days to file the report. JDA disclosed that it was the subject of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a press release about its fiscal 2011 and fourth quarter financial results, which it posted in on January 31. The company says the SEC’s corporation finance and enforcement divisions are looking into JDA’s revenue recognition and

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• As I See It: Unhappy Anniversary

  March 5, 2012 Victor Rozek

  There aren’t many days when I wake up deciding to annoy a lot of people. Nor is this one of them. But that’s the risk a writer takes when tackling any controversial subject: passions run high, tolerance runs low, and minds are usually made up before a single word is uttered. Over the years, few issues have been more polarizing than Affirmative Action, a program which is either: a) well-intended and successful, b) imperfect but still necessary, c) unfair and outdated, or d) outright racist, depending on your point of view. Like it or not, Affirmative Action has been part

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• RFID Looks Better Without The Hype

  March 5, 2012 Dan Burger

  As technology priorities go, RFID seems to be the cheese that slipped off the cracker. You may remember the projections for market adoption that were being tossed around five or six years ago that never came close to reality. As recently as two years ago, the marketing drums still beat loudly. Business focus on cost containment and risk avoidance put the double whammy on RFID. Didn’t kill it–activity can still be found in niches such as the apparel and electronics industries–but the drums are noticeably quieter. Maybe that’s a good thing, because it’s much easier to see the supply chain

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• Server Sales Slump A Little In Q4

  March 5, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Conspiracy theorists think that PC and server makers are making a little too much about the impact of the flooding in Thailand, which led to disk shortages and therefore lower than expected shipments of both PCs and servers in the waning months of 2011. But according to the analysts at Gartner, a shortage of disk drives was one of the contributing factors in a fourth quarter that was a little bit weaker than it might otherwise have been. Not that the situation was all that bad, particularly when measured up against the declines in server revenues and shipments during

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• Saddle Up, Pardner

  March 5, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It was almost a foregone conclusion, given its application-centric nature, that among all the various systems and servers that Big Blue has sold over the decades that the AS/400 and its progeny would be the platform most dependent on the reseller and software vendor communities that sprang up around it to sell it and create application software for it. IBM does not provide statistics about its Power Systems-IBM i business any more, but these business partners are still a key component of the ecosystem. Even if their several thousand numbers are dwarfed by the overall 121,000 business partners that IBM

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• IBM Winds Down Power7 Gen 1 Entry Servers

  March 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As soon as the Power 710, 720, 730, and 740 machines were updated with slightly different processors, more memory capacity, and PCI-Express 2.0 peripherals last October, you knew that they were not going to be long for the IBM catalog. In announcement letter 912-016, IBM said that it would stop selling the original Power 710/730 (machine number 8231-E2B), Power 720 (machine number 8202-E4B), and Power 740 (machine number 8231-E6B) on May 25. The company has also pulled the plug on the 7402-C08 deskside Hardware Management Console (HMC), which is used to manage PowerVM logical partitions on Power Systems

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• IBM Releases Cognos TM1 10.1

  February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week issued the 10.1 release of Cognos TM1, its Windows-based in-memory OLAP database. The new release features several new features that IBM says will help customers get the most out of large or complex data sets. TM1 is one of the product lines that IBM obtained five years ago in its $5 billion acquisition of Cognos. The software, which was previously developed by Applix, features a 64-bit in-memory database that IBM says is very good at consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data, particularly data used for budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. With version 10.1, IBM

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• IBS Touts IBM i Experience for New IBM Business Partner Status

  February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBS, which several years ago changed course and headed down the Windows path as the company’s new strategic platform for running its ERP system, says the company’s experience with the IBM i platform is behind the company’s upgraded IBM business partner status, from Advanced to Premiere Business Partner. It’s too early to say if IBS is re-embracing IBM i (which the company insists on calling iSeries, which ceased to exist as an official name in May 2004 when IBM changed iSeries to eServer i5). The company is still a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft, so it’s clear

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• Cat Dealer Still Likes Coda for IBM i Financials

  February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Thompson Machinery, the authorized dealer for Caterpillar equipment in central and western Tennessee and central and northern Mississippi, has decided to stick with Coda Financials running on the IBM i OS, and in fact will expand its usage of the Java-based software, UNIT4 CODA announced last week. The ability to “fire” a service provider, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney put it recently, is one of the biggest benefits of our capitalist economic system. And while Romney admitted to getting a bit of joy out of firing health care providers that don’t stack up, the same level of fiduciary glee

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• S4i Lands Deal with Retalix Customer

  February 28, 2012 Alex Woodie

  S4i Systems‘s electronic document management software is being used to reduce dependence on paper documents at Lipari Foods, a Midwestern wholesale food distributor that runs the IBM i-based retail ERP system from Retalix. From its warehouse in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods distributes deli, bakery, packaging, seafood, confections, grocery, and food service products to 11 Midwestern states. The company claims that a commitment to investing in advanced technology–including IBM i systems and applications, wireless barcode scanning and voice picking, and GPS vehicle tracking–allows it to meet the tight delivery windows and high expectations of its customers. Now S4i Express

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