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| Looksoftware announces re:new |
| Looksoftware recently announced re:new – a new application development toolset that enables IBM i customers to extend existing applications and rapidly deliver new functionality which leverages the .NET framework. According to the press release, "Using re:new, companies can significantly reduce time to value by leveraging framework-based generation to provide pure SOA-based applications. With re:new, developers can modernize existing systems, build new ones, or a mixture of both." In addition, "re:new allows developers to quickly and easily provide integration and interoperability with existing IBM i applications. It produces loosely-coupled agile service oriented software that includes backend operational management, security, and authentication. This ensures best practice and dramatically reduces programming time throughout the development life cycle." Read More |
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| Maximum Availability Adds Flexibility for IBM i HA/DR with MAXView |
| Maximum Availability (Maxava), worldwide provider of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for IBM i, recently announced the release of MAXView – a real-time mobile technology that brings new levels of flexibility and control to the management of Maxava’s *noMAX Garrison product. According to the press release, "Maxava’s *noMAX High Availability Suite protects data and applications by creating a real-time copy of production data which is always available. Providing a flexible and convenient way to monitor critical IBM i application resilience was a key driver for Maxava in creating this new mobile technology." Simon O’Sullivan, Senior VP with Maxava, said, "MAXView allows customers to easily check and report on the current HA readiness and their general IBM i system resources." Read More |
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| The Modernization Tempo Picks Up Momentum at COMMON |
| COMMON’s 50th Anniversary conference was last week, and according to Chris Smith, the themes of the conference were modernization, consolidation, automation, and virtualization. According to Smith, "announcements coming out of the COMMON conference were significant, and developers and ISVs appear to have their work cut out for them for years to come. Companies including IBM, Halcyon, CCSS, Help/Systems, Vision Solutions, and Maximum Availability, among others, have upgraded their management and monitoring solutions, giving administrators the ability not only to manage vast numbers of inter-dependent systems but even to do it from mobile devices. The introduction of PowerVM into the midrange space greatly expands the utility of the Power Systems platforms, allowing the incorporation and consolidation of IBM i, AIX, and Linux onto a single box. The industry's big challenge today is how to modernize thousands of legacy applications to run on the advanced POWER7 platform. This chipset is so powerful, so fast, and so efficient that it has catapulted IBM into the forefront of the hardware technology space. Ross Mauri, general manager of the IBM Systems and Technology group, told a gathering of editors at COMMON that for the first time he felt he could compete with any platform on the market, based on cost or speed, given the characteristics of the POWER7 systems." Read More |
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| NGS Extends Multidimensional Analysis in New Release of OLAP Module |
| New Generation Software (NGS) recently announced the release of SmartView, an integrated OLAP module of the NGS-IQ business intelligence system. The new release gives users the ability to create calculated fields from data fields in their SmartView OLAP model. This function is especially useful and beneficial when further analysis of data is required for critical decision-making, such as to quickly determine gross margins, averages, totals, percentages of totals, and other information not furnished in their production database or created by the underlying NGS-IQ query. "We continue to design SmartView to be an OLAP module for any business user, not just for analysts who spend all day looking at data," says NGS President & CEO, Bernard Gough. "The new calculated fields function is important because while some values must be calculated at the record level in the underlying query, other values like average order quantity or average order amount by product and territory need to be calculated after the data is delivered to the SmartView user," adds Gough. Read More |
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| Big Leap for iManifest Made at COMMON |
| The global iManifest effort to promote the IBM i-focused ecosystem made a big leap forward when it met at COMMON in Orlando last week. According to System iNews blogger Chris Maxcer, "Representatives from the iManifest Japan, EMEA, and U.S. groups met face-to-face for the first time to hammer out the next-step goals for iManifest. The most interesting new development is the creation of an IBM i success story database that the groups will fill with 1,000 examples of companies putting IBM i to work in innovative and effective ways." "It's the first time the iManifest groups are working together on a common goal. Besides the stories themselves being a great marketing tool for the IBM i, they also provide another potential source of new members for the iManifest initiative," said Jeff Olen, chief operating officer at Olen Business Consulting, Inc., and founding member of iManifest U.S. Read More |
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