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RJS Software Unveils Windows-Based Forms Package

August 9, 2005 Alex Woodie

RJS Software Systems last week unveiled a new forms product that’s designed to save users money by eliminating pre-printed forms and providing an onramp to electronic document distribution. E-Forms runs on a Windows workstation and is compatible with the output of iSeries, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers, which is in-line with the company’s new cross-platform, Java-centric development strategy. RJS Software also unveiled a new release of its Enterprise Workflow product.

The new E-Forms product combines a graphical Windows-based forms design tool and the run-time component that is needed to merge the form overlay with spool file data generated by applications.

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Tango/04 Provides a VISUAL Clue into Server Performance

August 9, 2005 Alex Woodie

iSeries shops struggling to keep the performance of their Windows, Unix, and Linux applications in-line with service level agreements (SLAs) may want to check out Tango/04 Computing Group‘s VISUAL Control for Windows 9, which the Spanish software developer launched last week. This release brings additional Windows server-monitoring and -control capabilities, adds support for SNMP devices, including Unix and Linux servers, and let’s administrators monitor it all from a single console.

VISUAL Control for Windows is a systems management tool aimed at helping administrators spot performance problems before they impact users. The software provides a graphical “cockpit” where administrators can

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DRV Technologies Gets Hip to Forms

August 2, 2005 Alex Woodie

DRV Technologies, the developer of SpoolFlex, has discovered the value of electronic forms. Last week, the company announced the general availability of FormFlex, a relatively low-cost form overlay application for OS/400 that enables users to design their own invoices, shipping labels, checks, and other forms–and thereby send their pre-printed forms packing. Combined with SpoolFlex, the company’s flagship product, DRV Tech now offers a document management solution that can satisfy the needs of most OS/400 shops.

DRV Technologies has been in the electronic document business since its inception many years ago in the greater Atlanta area. SpoolFlex has enabled hundreds

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KCI Updates Excel-Based Business Intelligence Tool

August 2, 2005 Alex Woodie

KCI Computing recently shipped a new release of CONTROL, a business intelligence tool that runs on the iSeries and uses Excel as its primary user interface. By pulling data from DB2/400 and other back-end data stores in real time, CONTROL enables analysts to use Excel to create up-to-the-minute forecasts and budgets. Version 8.7 adds new features in the areas of security, scheduling, and customization of the interface.

CONTROL is a suite of client and server components that, technically, is a relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) tool, according to a company representative. The tool’s main forte is providing financial analysts and

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Farabi Bolsters Host Access Wares with HostFront 4.0

August 2, 2005 Alex Woodie

Farabi Technology last week announced HostFront Enterprise Server 4.0, a new version of its host access and integration technology for connecting to OS/400, mainframe, and Unix servers. This version introduces fairly significant changes to the product’s packaging, simplified set-up and deployment, easier Web services generation, a new management console, and the introduction of high-end features, such as clustering.

Before last week’s announcement, Farabi offered three platform-centric versions of HostFront, including HostFront for AS/400, HostFront for Mainframe, and HostFront for Unix. With HostFront Enterprise Server 4.0, the company has done some consolidation and now enables users to access and build integrations

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No Summer Vacation for Intentia as it Preps for Lawson Merger

August 2, 2005 Alex Woodie

Intentia International may be in the middle of a merger with Lawson Software, but that isn’t stopping it from making the most of its summer. Last month the Swedish ERP software vendor made several notable announcements, including a new release of its ERP system, a new optimization tool designed to improve food and beverage makers’ inventory efficiencies, several new customers, an iSeries award from IBM, and an increase in second quarter revenues.

In early June, Intentia and Lawson announced plans to combine their operations into a single company, to be headquartered at Lawson’s offices in St. Paul, Minnesota

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SafeData Launches Hosting Service for HA and DR

July 26, 2005 Alex Woodie

An iSeries high availability business partner has spun off its hot site hosting business into a separate company with the goal of providing small and medium size businesses with IT resources to get their business back up and running after a disaster. SafeData, which formally launched last week, promises to put iSeries and Windows applications back online from between two and 48 hours, depending on the recovery time objectives of the client.

Peter Briggs, president and CEO of SafeData, gained experience implementing and running iSeries high availability systems with Application Design Services, a hardware reseller and consultancy that

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Circuit City Streamlines Tedious Testing Tasks with TestBench

July 26, 2005 Robert Gast

Circuit City Stores is on a steady course set by CIO Michael Jones to revitalize select areas of its information management structure. Circuit City’s IT department is busy integrating into its core operations a new point of sale system to replace a proprietary one written in the mid-1980s. While the new POS system is Linux based, many of the company’s legacy applications run on iSeries. To guarantee the purchasing process runs smoothly and to shorten the time it takes to complete project segments, Circuit City uses automated software testing solutions from Original Software Group.

Circuit City has used OSG’s

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SoftLanding Enhances Open Source Change Management System

July 26, 2005 Alex Woodie

SoftLanding Systems is helping to bring sophisticated version control within the grasps of non-technical workers with the latest release of TurnOverSVN, the iSeries-based version of a popular open-source change management system that it introduced earlier this year. iSeries shops implementing TurnOverSVN version 1.2 will find a new auto versioning feature that can be used on desktop PCs, as well as a new file-locking feature that will save Java, Web, and PC developers time and frustration.

SoftLanding enthusiastically embraced the open-source development model when it introduced TurnOverSVN and Subversion for OS/400–two OS/400 implementations of the open source Subversion source control system,

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Cozzi Updates RPG xTools, Partners with Linoma

July 26, 2005 Alex Woodie

RPG programmers looking for an alternative to working directly with IBM‘s OS/400 APIs may want to consider Bob Cozzi’s RPG xTools, a collection of more than 200 pre-written RPG IV utilities and subprocedures that that provide wrappers for OS/400 APIs. Earlier this month, Cozzi issued the version 5.0 release of his xTools, which adds more than a dozen new functions, including enhanced encryption/decryption, CGI development, and IFS file management. Cozzi has also partnered with Linoma Software to market, sell, and support the xTools.