• Attunity: Moving Big Data for Dollars

  September 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  A year after acquiring fellow data replication software vendor RepliWeb, Attunity is remaking itself as a provider of Big Data pumps. The company, which recently moved up from the pink sheets to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market, excels at moving large amounts of data in a quick fashion. Thanks to its new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a whole lot of data is going to go through the Attunity pump. IBM i shops may have heard of Attunity for its change data capture (CDC) software, called Attunity Stream. That product excelled at continuously pulling updates from source databases,

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• Oracle Completes DB2/400 Support in Data Replication Tool

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Oracle last week unveiled GoldenGate 11g Release 2, a new release of its real time data integration tool, which is commonly used to load large amounts of data, often for business intelligence or disaster recovery purposes. The new release adds support for data capture from DB2/400, which may be useful for organizations looking to move data contained in their IBM i applications to other IBM i servers or other platforms. The product already could load data into DB2/400. GoldenGate is a high speed data integration and replication tool that Oracle acquired in 2009. The tool is based on changed data

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• New Mobile and Cloud Software from IBM is Really Neat, But Doesn’t Run on IBM i

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  IBM last week unveiled nifty new releases of software that give customers super advanced platforms for social and mobile computing. However, neither of the new products, including IBM Connections 4.0 and IBM Mobile Foundation 5.0, run on the IBM i server, despite the fact that there is some demand, and that they can (or will) both run on System z mainframes. IBM Connections is a member of the Lotus Notes and Domino family of collaboration tools from IBM. The Web-based product, which IBM originally launched as Lotus Connections in 2007, allow teams of users to collaborate through Web spaces, blogs,

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• Tango/04 Distills IBM i Operations Knowledge into New Module

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Tango/04 Computing Group, the IBM i systems management software developer. While the Spanish company hasn’t been super active in the PR department the last couple of years, it has continued the hard work of product development, and the fruits of those labors are being rolled out with the introduction of a new IBM i monitoring solution, called the Operations Knowledge Module for IBM i, and a slick new user interface that runs on tablets. The new Operations Knowledge Module for IBM i is a collection of software that aims to speed

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• Kronos Goes Mobile with iSeries Central 6.2

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Managers and employees will be able to access key human resources and time card functions from mobile devices with the latest release of Kronos‘ iSeries Central. Version 6.2, which shipped earlier this summer, introduces several new mobile interfaces, as well as support for the latest Web-based management console, called Navigator. Kronos doesn’t talk a whole lot about its iSeries Central suite, which is composed of iSeries Scheduler, iSeries Timekeeper, iSeries Absence Management, iSeries Activities, and iSeries Gaming. That’s too bad, as several thousand organizations use the IBM i-based software to manage their workforces. The software company once again chose

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• SEQUEL Brings Parity to Web and Desktop Interfaces

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  SEQUEL Software is giving customers more reasons to interact with its reporting tool using a Web browser instead of the Windows-based interface. The Help/Systems subsidiary says its new version of the SEQUEL Web Interface (SWI) is nearly indistinguishable from ViewPoint, its Windows interface. SEQUEL is one of those multi-threat IBM i utilities that can do all kinds of handy things for all different types of users. It’s best known as a reporting tool, but it also provides form design, data and database conversion, and Web enablement, too. SEQUEL’s real forte is reporting and business intelligence. It features its own easy-to-use

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• Seacore Grows Business with VAI on IBM i

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Seacore Seafood, a Canadian wholesale distributor and retailer of fresh and frozen seafood, attributes the recent improvement in sales and business operations to its implementation of VAI‘s IBM i-based ERP software, which replaced largely manual, error-prone processes. Seacore Seafood started out 22 years ago with a small building, one truck, and half a dozen employees, who fulfilled wholesale orders for a variety of fresh and frozen fish and live lobsters. Since then, it has grown considerably, and now employees more than 100 workers and runs a dozen trucks out of its 75,000 square foot distribution center in the Toronto

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• mrc Bolsters Web UI, Launches Cloud Program for ISVs

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Web application development tool maker mrc has upgraded the templates it uses to generate Web pages, resulting in pages that load faster, are easier to maintain, and will give users more flexibility going forward. The new templates will be available to software vendors who sign up for mrc’s new cloud enablement program. m-Power is a Web application development tool that uses a template-based approach to enable rapid delivery of new programs and functionality. After configuring new programs from pre-defined templates, m-Power generates Java code that runs on IBM i and all Java-enabled platforms. The Chicago, Illinois, company last week announced

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• Maxava Goes HTML5 with maxView

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Maxava yesterday announced that maxView, its Web-based console for monitoring and managing IBM i server and HA environments, has been rewritten in the latest HTML5 language, which the vendor says bolsters the product’s usability. Maxava develops three versions of maxView. There is maxView Lite, a free GUI console that shows the status of key IBM i server performance metrics, including CPU and ASP utilization, and WRKSYSSTS- and WRKSACTJOB-related information. maxView Monitor builds on this foundation and also displays information about the status of HA replication and failover readiness, but doesn’t allow users to actually manage the HA product. maxView Manager

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• Terrible’s Casino Taps Agilysys for Inventory Management

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Terrible’s Hotel Casino in Las Vegas recently implemented the IBM i-based Stratton Warren System (SWS) application from Agilysys and soon expects to see improvements in the management of its inventory and procurement activities. SWS (formerly MMS400) is a suite of inventory management applications designed for large hotels and casino resorts that cater to tens of thousands of guests and manage relationships with hundreds of suppliers. The software, which runs exclusively on the IBM i operating system, is often deployed alongside other IBM i hospitality apps, including the Lodging Management System (LMS), which Agilysys also obtained in its 2003 acquisition of

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