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As I See It: Virtual Pheromones
October 7, 2013 Victor Rozek
… Read moreHelen Morrison was a single woman with an age-old dilemma. Entering midlife, she wondered if she would ever meet a suitable partner and, frankly, she was getting lonely. But although Morrison longed to be married, she had no acceptable way of meeting men socially. Respectable women did not frequent taverns, nor were desirable partners likely to be found loitering over pints at the nightly watering hole.
But Morrison found what would become a visionary solution to her quandary: She placed a personal ad in her local paper, the Manchester Weekly Journal. Her “Lonely Hearts” ad was the first of
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As I See It: All Things Big
March 25, 2013 Victor Rozek
… Read moreMany years ago, 60 Minutes did a segment on the Israeli Air Force. At the time, the United States had just sold the Israelis a handful of our latest jet fighters and 60 Minutes wanted to see how Israeli pilots were using their new toys. Turns out they had made a number of low-tech modifications (some classified), which the Israelis believed would make the planes more user friendly. For one thing, they installed an inexpensive rear-view mirror so that the pilot could track enemy aircraft without turning his head. The reporter also asked about the vast array of gauges, flashing
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Boomi Grows Cloud Integration Under Dell
February 19, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhen Dell acquired Boomi just over two years ago, the B2B integration firm was just starting to ramp up its cloud integration service. Today, Dell says its cloud business executes more than 1 million integration processes every day, which led a company executive to declare “the end of middleware as we know it.”
Boomi was an early participant in cloud-based integration business when it launched Boomi On-Demand back in 2007. The software as a service (SaaS) business model was just getting off the ground, and Boomi wanted to be there to help customers integrate their on-premise applications and data,
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Rocket Lifts Off with New Mobile Focus
February 5, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreOrganizations that want to deliver mobile access to their IBM i applications now have another option from Rocket Software. Last month, the Massachusetts company unveiled LegaSuite version 7.1, which can transform 5250 screens into mobile interfaces for smartphones and tablets, using HTML5 and PhoneGap technologies. Rocket says the new LegaSuite Mobile component will deliver a modern mobile experience with the same amount of work required to create Web apps of old.
The LegaSuite product line, which Rocket obtained with its acquisition of Seagull Software in 2006, has been asked to do a lot over the last dozen years. Whether
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IBM’s Social Media Addiction Intensifies
February 4, 2013 Dan Burger
… Read moreWhen it comes to eating its own dog food, IBM can’t get enough of social media. Everyone at the Big Blue enterprise is expected to chow down. In turning social media into social business, Big Blue figures it is best to lead by example. Last week, IBM’s social technology soapbox Connect 2013, the conference formerly known as Lotusphere, was talking with their mouths full. Naturally, this was a good time to announce new software and cloud-based services. Warning: Buzz shields required beyond this point.
The statistical bombardment is the first thing that hits you.
IBM claims 61 percent of the
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Jitterbit Unveils New Version of Integration Tool
January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie
… Read moreToday marks the general availability of Jitterbit 5, a new version of the data and application integration toolset from commercial open source software vendor Jitterbit. The company says Version 5 will make it easier for customers to build, test, and deploy integration processes that connect front- and back-office applications, including popular ERP systems and cloud services.
Jitterbit is a data and application integration tool that’s been used by more than 20,000 customers, according to the company. The product started out as an open source product in 2005, but in 2011 the Oakland, California, company moved away from its open
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Liaison Connects to Clouds with Updated EAI Offering
November 27, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreLiaison Technologies is close to shipping new versions of Electronic Commerce Server (ECS) and Delta, two components of its enterprise application integration (EAI) offering. The big feature here is a new cloud connector in ECS 7.0 that will simplify the process of integrating cloud-based applications and data with on-premise resources.
ECS and Delta offer complementary capabilities in the area of application integration, and together make up a complete EAI solution. ECS is the engine that moves data across platforms and protocols; it also includes managed file transfer (MFT) functionality. Delta, meanwhile, is a universal data mapping and translation solution that
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Attachmate Add Features with MFT Update
September 6, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreAttachmate recently updated two members of its FileXpress family of managed file transfer (MFT) products. The new version 7.2 releases of FileXpress Internet Server and Command Center deliver new data integration, authentication, and administrative capabilities that are intended to streamline MFT functions.
Attachmate has been selling the FileXpress product line for about three years. The software, which was based on technology it OEMed from Proginet (now part of TIBCO), includes four components, including the core MFT engine, called the Platform Server; a Web portal for customers and trading partners called Internet Server; a central, Web-based management console called Command
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Liaison Grows Its Cloud with Acquisition of HubSpan
September 4, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreLiaison Technologies, a developer of security and data integration software that runs on IBM i and other platforms, has acquired Hubspan, a provider of a cloud-based business process management (BPM) integration platform.
You can think of HubSpan’s cloud, called the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform, as an EDI translator on steroids. The hosted application does the grunt work of executing, choreographing, validating, and monitoring the flow of data and business documents among multiple parties. But WebSpan goes beyond traditional EDI translation or even newer FTP-based AS2 messaging to support the vast array of technologies and techniques used to integrate
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Misys Partner Launches IBM i Client for Subversion 1.75
June 26, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreA Russian partner of IBM i banking software developer Misys last week announced that it has completed work on a new IBM i client for the popular open source Apache Subversion version control system. A developer at Banking Technologies & Consulting says the IBM i client, called iSVN, enables RPG and CL programmers to access external SVN repositories and utilize SVN features, such as code checkout and update commands, from the comfort of the 5250 green screen.
Moscow-based Banking Technologies & Consulting (BTC) provides support and localization for the EQUATION core banking system from Misys for financial service companies in
