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It’s Not Always Sunny in ERP Land

March 31, 2021 Alex Woodie

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems remain central to company operations. The expansive application suites are heavily relied upon to automate the core business processes that businesses rely on. However, they’re notoriously difficult to implement, and they do not always do what they’re supposed to. And according to a recent survey, they’re often lousy when it comes to providing a return on investment.

For its Technology Trends 2021 study, Computer Economics polled nearly 200 IT professionals to gauge what types of technologies they’re using, and whether they’re getting a good ROI out of them. When the results were tallied, ERP came …
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Meet The 2019 Champions For IBM i

February 6, 2019 Alex Woodie

It’s a new year, which means a new crop of champions has emerged from IBM. More than 600 souls can call themselves IBM Champions this year, but only 64 identify as IBM Champions for Power Systems. We whittled away the AIX and Linux experts to leave you with the folks who will lead the IBM i charge in 2019.

IBM does not have a specific category for IBM i Champions. Big Blue breaks out its System z leaders, along with champion categories for Data & Analytics, Cloud, Collaboration Solutions, Storage, Watson IoT, Blockchain, and Security.

For the Champion program, IBM …
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Data Analytics And Business Intelligence: Too Little, Too Much, Too Late?

November 27, 2017 Dan Burger

There’s no slowing down the amount of data and the number of data sources. Drinking from that informational firehose is a success for a few, an in-progress experiment for others, and an incentive to find some other way to quench analytical thirst for many. Improving the data mining, to use a term that was popular before the big data firehose was turned on, of structured data continues to be a useful endeavor for many IBM i shops. And, by the way, that doesn’t make them dinosaurs stumbling down the path of extinction, unless you get your news from press releases. …
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Unwinding Python’s Data Science Potential On IBM i

February 13, 2017 Alex Woodie

There’s a revolution occurring in the world of big data analytics and data science at the moment, and Python is playing a starring role. Python is one of the languages that IBM has brought to the IBM i platform, so that’s clearly a good thing for midrange shops. But is enough being done to grow Python’s potential on IBM i? The answer to that question is not clear.

Python was originally conceived by Guido van Rossum as a “hobby” programming language to keep him busy over the 1989 Christmas break. “My office. . .would be closed, but I had a …
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It’s Not Always Sunny in ERP Land

Meet The 2019 Champions For IBM i

Data Analytics And Business Intelligence: Too Little, Too Much, Too Late?

Unwinding Python’s Data Science Potential On IBM i

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