Software Engineering of America is developing its own OS/400 systems management tools following a falling-out with its former development partner, RevSoft. SEA, which has been developing and selling mainframe tools for over 20 years, partnered with the established Australian firm for OS/400 tools in 2004, but disagreements between the two companies led to a mutual decision to call it quits, officials with the companies say.

It’s been barely a year since SEA began actively selling and marketing the REV Suite, a collection of nine utilities providing various management and automation functions for iSeries servers, including REV View, REV Backup,

Business Computer Design Int’l is developing new business intelligence software that it says will enable managers and power users to quickly and easily generate a variety of reports from iSeries data, without involving programmers. The new product, called Clover, is based on BCD’s popular Web application development and runtime software, and is slated for availability early next year.

There’s a powerful temptation for developers of programming tools to build the applications most commonly developed using their tools, and to sell it to customers as a shrink-wrapped product. It’s a fairly typical occurrence in the OS/400 software market, and not a

Companies looking to lock down their iSeries and Windows databases as a means toward achieving regulatory compliance have a new tool from Tango/04 Computing Group to check out. The Spanish software house recently started shipping Data Monitor, a utility that keeps a trail of all changes made to specific records in sensitive tables, and sends real-time alerts to administrators when the integrity and confidentiality of data is put at risk.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11. Basel II. If there’s one thing there’s no shortage of these days, it’s

No doubt about it, there’s a ton of hype surrounding Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) these days, and more than a few people harboring doubts about whether these technologies will actually deliver on the promises. But you won’t find Magic Software‘s Glenn Johnson among the crowd of unbelievers. The vice president of marketing for the development tool maker says Web services are providing real benefits in the field, and are here to stay.

“Because we have all learned to be cynical about the hype of new technology, we weren’t expecting it [Web services] to explode three years