• Apple iPad Now Runs JDE E1

  October 11, 2011 Alex Woodie

  JD Edwards EnterpriseOne users take note: the ERP suite’s screens are now accessible from the Apple iPad, according to Oracle‘s announcement last week. Oracle says that it has achieved a first in the industry by making the entire ERP suite available on the popular tablet computer, as opposed to publishing just a “handful of specialty mobile apps.” Oracle is rarely one to boast. But it made a point last week at its OpenWorld conference to highlight the unveiling of the entire JDE EnterpriseOne ERP suite running on the iPad. Of course, only the user and administrative screens are on

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• IBM Updates RDP and RDi for SOA Tooling

  October 11, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week unveiled new releases of two of its Rational development tools used by IBM i shops, including IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software version 8.0.3 and IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction version 8.0.3. The minor refresh of RDP brings several enhancements for AIX and Linux on Power Systems and a security update for IBM i development. The SOA suite, meanwhile, includes the latest releases of the underlying tools that make up the suite. Rational Developer for Power Systems Software (or RDP) is the core Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for developing IBM i,

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• QlikTech Boosts Collaboration with New BI Release

  October 11, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Multiple users in different locations will be able to interact with the same business intelligence (BI) dashboard screen using new software unveiled today by QlikTech. The new capability–along with a new threaded comments function–is aimed at improving the way that people collaborate and make decisions. Other new features in QlikView 11, which becomes available later this quarter, include better comparative analytics and broadened support for mobile phones and tablets. Even in the most button-downed corporate settings, decision making tends to be a very social process. Groups of people get together to throw around some ideas, feedback is given and

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• GXS Shares Development Plans for IBM i Customers

  October 11, 2011 Alex Woodie

  It’s been nearly two years since GXS acquired Inovis, which had inherited the Harbinger and Peregrine brands that were so familiar to AS/400 shops of old. GXS still has about 2,000 EDI customers running on today’s IBM i platform, and while they represent just a small part of GXS’ $420 million business, the company has big plans for helping its IBM i customers take advantage of GXS’ cloud services, as well as its managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities. GXS’ IBM i-based EDI translator, called TrustedLink IBM i edition (TLi), is an elder statesman in the software world, with 25 years

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• IBM Offers Tech Support Try-and-Buy Services

  October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM‘s Global Services unit down in Australia and New Zealand is trying to coax customers who have been off maintenance to come back in to the Big Blue fold. In announcement letter ZA11-1049, IBM is offering customers who have been off Enhanced Technology Support contracts since October 2010 a chance to come back, and is willing to give them three-months of service under a try-and-buy program if they sign up between October 6 and December 31. The tech support contract is administered through tier 1 and tier 2 channel partners and can be canceled at any time during

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• Future Tivoli Tools Extend SSO To Clouds, Analyze Services

  October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Password management and the security issues (mostly human) that surround it continue to be a bone in the throat of IT departments. Having established standards like Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OpenID to control how users access applications within the network and behind the firewall, now app-crazed employees want to roam outside the firewall and use the same single sign-on (SSO) tools that they have for enterprise apps to get them access to the cloudy apps. The good news is this is exactly what IT departments want to have happen, too. So IBM is starting to tell customers about

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• IBM’s Wheels And Deals On 10 Gigabit BNT Switches

  October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM is a relative re-newcomer to the switch market, and it is trying to pump up sales of its Blade Network Technologies top-of-rack switches. Back in July, in announcement letter 311-101, IBM gave a 38.5 percent discount on the RackSwitch G8052, a 48-port Gigabit Ethernet switch with four 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (commonly used for uplinks but also available for 10GE connectivity). IBM cut the tags on this switch from $8,949 to $5,500, a 38.5 percent slash, if customers bought them from the IBM web store. (You would think this would annoy the heck out of IBM’s channel partners,

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• IBM Grabs Q1 Labs and Creates New Security Division

  October 10, 2011 Jenny Thomas

  If the security of your company’s data isn’t a top item on your priority list, it’s becoming clear that IBM thinks it should be. Big Blue’s recent announcement of its acquisition of Q1 Labs, a provider of security intelligence software, is another in a string of clues that IBM is going to be putting a lot of emphasis on security. Another clue is that with the Q1 acquisition, IBM also revealed a new Security Systems division that aims to blend security and analytics. According to IBM estimates, the Security Systems division will target a $94 billion opportunity in security

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• Infor Wants You, Channel Partner

  October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Making good on its promise earlier this year, enterprise software supplier and midrange specialist Infor is ramping up its effort to recruit channel partners and build its business as well as theirs. Infor announced the Infor Partner Network back in June as a keystone in its plan to double its sales through the channel. Having gotten its existing partners up to speed on IPN and rebranded its myriad applications, including the recently acquired Lawson suites, under the common Infor10 brand, Infor has now put out the call to all channel partners around the world to join up. “Our commitment

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• Oracle Has Built A Modern, Cloudy AS/400

  October 10, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I just spent a week off and on with Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive officer at Oracle. I wasn’t playing against him and tennis buddy and former Hewlett-Packard CEO, Mark Hurd, at the Pacific Athletic club, laughing about how the rest of the world lives. No, I was attending Oracle’s OpenWorld customer conference, which besieged San Francisco last week with 45,000 attendees, and a bunch of announcements that preceded it. Luckily, I was attending these events through YouTube, from the comfort of my very own office. For the past several weeks ahead of the OpenWorld extravaganza, the top

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