• Lennox Takes CMO Job as Zend Plans for Growth

  July 11, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Elaine Lennox, the former IBM vice president of marketing for the System i platform, has been hired as the chief marketing officer of PHP tool vendor Zend Technologies, it was announced while IT Jungle was on hiatus for the holiday. The hiring of Lennox, along with appointment of a new CFO, sends a signal that Zend is getting ready for a growth spurt, particularly as it pertains to the two hottest growth areas in IT: cloud and mobile computing. It’s no great secret that IBM i shops have a love/hate relationship with IBM. While IBM i types absolutely adore

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• Business Is IBM’s Middle Name

  July 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM did not for one second like being criticized for not doing enough for its midmarket independent software vendors, resellers, and other partners to help them peddle hardware, software, and services to midrange shops. But Andy Monshaw, who is general manager for the cross-group Midmarket Division at Big Blue, which sits inside of its Sales and Distribution organization, has been at the company for 27 years and he knows how to handle such a situation. Monshaw picked up the phone and talked to The Four Hundred to explain what IBM is, in fact, doing for the midmarket and how it

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• Maidenform Picks CYBRA for RFID

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The next time you or your loved one purchases intimate apparel from Maidenform, it will include a little something extra: an RFID tag. What’s more, that RFID tag will be encoded by Maidenform using software from CYBRA. The Yonkers, New York, software company announced this month that Maidenform selected its EdgeMagic software as part of its item-level RFID tagging program. This will enable Maidenform and downstream retailers to track the whereabouts of individual items, which will bring efficiencies to inventory handling in the supply chain. (Consumers need not worry that Maidenform items will transmit location information.) Maidenform’s vice president

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• LTO Gen 6 Licenses Now Available

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The companies behind the Linear Tape Open (LTO) format announced last week that they have begun selling licenses the LTO Gen 6 format. While the release of the final LTO Gen 6 specifications won’t happen for at least 12-24 months, the LTO group says giving licensees a sneak peak into the development of the LTO Gen 6 format will allow them to enhance their own products. It’s been just over a year since the companies behind the LTO program–IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Quantum–extended the roadmap for the LTO Ultrium half-inch tape format out to eight generations. LTO

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• SkyView Partners Goes AIX with Policy Minder

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  SkyView Partners recently announced the availability of a new security administration tool for IBM AIX environments. SkyView Policy Minder for AIX, which is slated to become available this summer, is the company’s first non IBM-i product. SkyView launched Policy Minder in 2005 with the goal of helping IBM i shops automate the process of monitoring compliance with security policies. The software ensures that, once a server environment has been correctly configured to be in compliance with a given security policy and regulations such as SOX, PCI, or HIPAA, that it will stay in compliance over time, even as the organization

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• ASNA Hooks Up with Transoft in European Expansion

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  A newly freed ASNA is looking to the European continent to grow its IBM i modernization business. This month, the company announced that it’s established a partnership with Transoft to represent ASNA in Northern Europe. It also hired a new technical sales and support representative who will be based in Europe. ASNA is rebuilding parts of its business following the January breakup with BluePhoenix, a mainframe modernization and migration specialist that had acquired ASNA back in 2007. Part of that rebuilding involves redefining its partnership with Transoft, a subsidiary of the U.K. software company IRIS, which sells IBM

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• DRV Generates PDF417 Barcode with FormFlex

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that find themselves needing to print Portable Data File 417 (PDF417) barcodes to comply with requirements from the Department of Homeland Security or FedEx can now get that capability with an update to the FormFlex electronic forms software from DRV Technologies. The PDF417 standard is a stacked linear barcode label that’s commonly used in transport, identification cards, airline boarding passes, and inventory management. According to its Wikipedia entry, the two-dimensional barcode standard is useful for several reasons, including the capability to link PDF417 barcodes to other symbols when they’re scanned in sequence, thereby boosting data storage;

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• VAI Launches New Purchasing Module

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  VAI yesterday announced a new addition to S2K, its IBM i-based suite of ERP solutions for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The new suggested purchasing module in S2K version 5.0.3 is designed to help buyers make better decisions about their purchasing activities, thereby boosting profits and making customers happier. According to VAI, the new suggested purchasing module in S2K 5.0.3, which was rewritten from the ground up, helps customers in several ways. For starters, VAI has consolidated three previously separate ordering formulas into a central dashboard, which VAI says provides a more accurate view of product usage, seasonality, and trending. Buyers

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• LANSA Adds jQuery to Visual LANSA

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The introduction the jQuery JavaScript library in Visual LANSA version 12 service pack 1 (SP1) should make it easier for Web developers to create aesthetically pleasing and feature-rich Web applications, LANSA announced this month. The update will benefit any Web developers seeking to rapidly create sophisticated AJAX-based Web interfaces for applications running on IBM i or Windows. jQuery should make a wonderful addition to Visual LANSA, the rapid application development platform that has its roots in LANSA’s 4GL, called RDML. While development of user interfaces has always had a role in LANSA, the LANSA platform has traditionally focused more on

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• InfoPrint Offers ADF Software as a Service

  June 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Mid-sized companies that have wanted to create an automated document factory (ADF) to handle their printing, sorting, and mailing workflows, but were put off by the high cost, have another option now that InfoPrint Solutions is making its ADF software available as a service delivered over the Internet. As part of InfoPrint’s Managed ADF Services, which was unveiled in March, companies can get the benefits of a centrally managed and monitored ADF for less than $5,000. The concept of an ADF is not new, according to InfoPrint Solutions’ worldwide offerings manager John Hankins. The concept, which was put on paper

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