• Info Builders Debuts Mobile App with Write Capability

  August 23, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Information Builders last week unveiled WebFOCUS Mobile Data Collection, a new offering that allows mobile application users to perform write transactions and update the database, as opposed to just reading reports. According to Info Builders, customers who accessed its WebFOCUS business intelligence software from a mobile device were restricted to viewing reports. If a user saw something in a report that warranted further action, the user would have to take it up later with a full WebFOCUS client accessed through a larger computer. That read-only limitation has been removed with the launch of WebFOCUS Mobile Data Collection. The new software

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• CNX Delivers Mobile Tooling as Valence 3.0 Goes GA

  August 23, 2011 Alex Woodie

  CNX last week announced the general availability of Valence 3.0, a new Web application development tool that introduces native support for smartphones and tablet devices running Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems. The tool, which is targeted at RPG programmers looking to create Web 2.0 apps to run on the IBM i server, includes several other promising new features as well. Valence is a unique tool designed for creating modern-looking Web applications that run under the IBM i server’s Apache Web server and access existing RPG business logic. The product has several components, including an OEM version of the

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• PowerTech Gives Compliance Tool New Smarts

  August 23, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that use PowerTech‘s Compliance Monitor to ensure their server environments are in compliance with regulations like PCI, SOX, and HIPAA won’t have to do as much babysitting of their compliance checks thanks to a new batch scheduling feature added in version 3. The new version, unveiled last week, also gets a Web browser-based GUI, support for object-level security, new reports, and a better installation process. PowerTech first released Compliance Monitor in 2005 with the goal of helping IBM i shops satisfy the security audit components of regulations like PCI, SOX, and HIPAA and to ensure that

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• Grid-Tools Carves Itself a Niche for Test Data Management

  August 23, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Effective testing plays a big part in running a successful in-house IT department. Whether it’s functional testing, user acceptance testing, or regression testing, no CIO worth her salt would promote a new or modified application into production without first making sure that it actually works. And since testing requires data, it’s usually a good idea to have something in place to manage all that test data. Such is the purpose of Data-Maker, the flagship test data management software from Grid-Tools. Test data management is one of those classes of software tools that often gets overlooked. After all, most companies

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• Flash Builder for PHP 4.5.1 Gets iOS Support

  August 23, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that use the latest release of Zend Technology Flash Builder for PHP can now compile their Flash user interfaces into native iOS applications that will run on Apple devices. Flash Builder for PHP version 4.5.1, which was released late last month, enables developers to target all major client devices–including Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs; Web browsers; and iOS, Android, and Blackberry Playbook mobile devices–with a single development effort. Zend launched the first release of Flash Builder for PHP (version 4.5) in May. The offering combines Adobe‘s Flash Builder development tool with a full copy of the

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• Status Update: Sick and Tired of Social Media

  August 22, 2011 Jenny Thomas

  Remember the good old days when managing your email inbox was your biggest time drain? Then along comes Tweets and Status Updates that have to be posted and monitored for responses, which can quickly eat up a chunk of your day. Before you know it, you’re in the throes of social media overload. It all started innocently enough. You were charged with getting your company into one of the growing menagerie of social media sites to see what it was all about, to keep up with the competition, or to make sure you didn’t get left behind in the digital

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• Kronos Sells Lots of HR Software On Premise and In Its Cloud

  August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Workforce management software maker Kronos continues to grow despite the troubling job market in the United States. Perhaps people are trying to do a better job managing the people and expertise that they have? In its third fiscal quarter ended in July, Kronos, which is privately held, said that sales were up in the double-digits. Specifically, the company said that revenues were up 13.9 percent year-on-year to $210.8 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA in the accounting lingo) rose by 27.6 percent, to $60.5 million. Software license sales were up over 30 percent, with sales of the absence

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• Services Power Jack Henry to Record Revenues in Fiscal 2011

  August 22, 2011 Dan Burger

  A strong showing on the services side of business has propelled Jack Henry and Associates to impressive gains in its Q4 of fiscal 2011 ended in July. This comes despite a weak economy and much turmoil in the banking industry as a result of bank failures and a stormy season of mergers and acquisitions in the credit union sector. JHA has long been a major contributor to the IBM i ecosystem. JHA president Tony Wormington, in a prepared document, stated, “We ended fiscal 2011 with record levels of revenue, gross profit and net income. Our company continues to prosper in

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• IBM Cuts BNT Switch Tags, Adds Fibre Channel SAN Switches

  August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As a long-time IBM customer, you are probably not used to the fact that there is an IBM System Networking division that sells data center and storage switches. And as a really long time IBM customer, as many AS/400 shops certainly are, you are probably wondering why the hell Big Blue sold off its networking business to Cisco Systems in 1999 and basically gave the company a decade of high margins. No matter. IBM has acquired and partnered to build up its own portfolio of switching products, and the company is eager to dislodge the incumbents whose switches are on

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• Big Blue Tweaks Red Hat Deal for Power Systems

  August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM has updated a special Linux promotion it announced last year for Red Hat and SUSE Linux variants running on Power Systems machines. Under the Linux on Power Systems Capacity Upgrade on Demand offering in announcement letter 310-240, announced August 17 last year, IBM gave customers with spare and unused processor capacity on selected Power Systems machines freebie Linux licenses and memory capacity to support them. The deal offered free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 and free SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 licenses on Power 570 servers using Power6 and Power6+ processors, Power 595 servers

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