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| COMMON Redefines Budget Priorities in Face of Reduced Revenues |
| Newly elected COMMON President Wayne Madden recently sent a letter to COMMON's team of Annual Meeting volunteers, detailing the need for organizational changes to ensure viability and keep COMMON healthy. These decisions were based on the 48 percent drop in meeting attendance from the 2008 Annual Meeting, a number that is in line with the average industry trend of dropping conference attendance due to the economy. The Board approved several changes to the 2010 meeting, including reducing to 15 total sessions, eliminating one education day of the conference, eliminating one Expo day, eliminating one Power Down social event, downsizing the COMMON staff, and dramatically reducing volunteer benefits. Read More |
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| XML and Web Services Developments |
by Aaron Bartell
During these tough times technology has become the go-to solution for making companies more efficient. With the economy in the state it's in it is no wonder that IT is being asked to refine core business processes to better the bottom line and make people more efficient at what they do. The latter point has been of particular interest to me as of late (i.e. making people more efficient) because that is what people have been asking of me.
They are looking for ways to make their applications work better together and "talk" with each other so people don't have to duplicate effort (i.e. enter the same data in two different applications). Read More |
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| Vision Solutions University Brings Classroom to the Cubicle |
| Vision Solutions recently announced its Vision Solutions University education program now offers Web-based training for its numerous solutions, making it more convenient and less costly for IT professionals to learn how to plan, implement, monitor, audit, manage or troubleshoot their HA tools. "Vision Solutions' online training enables customers and business partners to get product education without incurring travel costs associated with offsite training," Peter Sa, vice president of services for Vision Solutions, says. "In addition to the comprehensive Web-based curriculum, we focus on specific topics and allow customers to review course material at their own pace." The web-based courses are high-quality training and range from basic principles to in-depth knowledge and are offered as a series of modules that can be purchased individually or in bundles. Read More |
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| Wholesale Distributor Reports Large Increase in Online Sales with Profound Logic's RPGsp |
| RPGsp is Profound Logic's award-winning rapid Web development tool for the IBM i, and it was recently used with great success by Western Power Sports to quickly develop an online commerce solution that could handle their rapidly growing Web sales. "I had never touched HTML prior to using RPGsp. All I had to do was use the available wizards and then view the output to see how it functioned - that's how I learned the system so quickly," says Rody Cummins, IT Director at Western Power Sports. "Within the first four weeks the product did everything we needed it to do. Since then, I have learned HTML extensively even though a user only needs to utilize the RPGsp built-in wizards..I usually do not endorse a product like this, but Profound Logic's RPGsp does everything they say it's going to do." Read More |
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| Programmers' Strategies for a Commodity-Proof Career |
| With the economy the way it is right now, there's a lot of general career advice floating around that I'm sure would be helpful to anyone - but if you're looking for advice specific to the tech industry and the IBM i, then you've come to the right place. I recently found a great article by System iNetwork blogger Chris Maxcer with several points that will help you stay employed. Here's one of the essentials: Acquire varied skill. Maxcer suggests modernization as the key - it's not enough to be an RPG programmer any more. Being familiar with PHP, SQL, XML and SOA will all help you to stay relevant. "By having multiple skills, you're more likely to fit into better positions like a business analyst or slide into new projects as business requirements change," says Maxcer. He also suggests you understand new technology in all sectors, by reading iSeries and non-iSeries news and blogs, so you have an understanding of general technology updates and can speak intelligently when asked. Check out the article for more great tips. Read More |
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| Lieberman Software Provides Multi-Factor Authentication for User Account Password Management |
| Lieberman Software recently announced a new version of their Account Reset Console, a product that strengthens enterprise security by enabling a strict password reset regimen. It allows end-users to unlock their own accounts via the Windows Logon page, or through a web interface, without involving IT staff. The product addresses one of the most common problems encountered by IT groups in large organizations - users losing access to systems because of forgotten or expired passwords. The new version offers enhanced enterprise performance and scalability and increased protection, using RSA SecurID authentication, which provides multi-factor authentication capability, ensuring that only staff with physical possession of a hardware authenticator and properly provisioned credentials can access passwords through Account Reset Console. Read More |
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| IBM Networking Services Now Available |
| IBM's new Networking Strategy and Optimization Services were designed to help you plan and justify a networking infrastructure that fully supports a consolidated and virtualized IT environment. The services include analyzing the costs, strengths, and liabilities of your networking infrastructure, creating a roadmap to an optimized networking infrastructure, and using a structured approach to develop a plan with an optimal balance of cost savings and business benefits. The IBM Network Integration Services for data center networks provides the services to help you design and implement a data center networking infrastructure that takes advantage of networking technology choices and approaches to meet your requirements for today and to provide future flexibility. This service helps you design and implement a data center networking infrastructure that supports the constantly changing requirements of a dynamic IT environment and addresses the networking aspects of virtualized servers across multiple industry hardware platforms. Services are now available and pricing information is given upon request. Read More |
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