I read something this week that struck a chord with me. “Many IT shops make bad decisions because they only look at the cost of doing, not the cost of not doing.” Frank Rodegeb said that. Frank is an IT Management Consultant in IBM’s High Availability Center of Competency (HACoC). That’s a complicated ...
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As we look ahead to 2014 and for additional ways to leverage output from the IBM i, iSeries and AS/400, we have some exciting news. We will be releasing an update soon to our Forms software. It’s a new module that will greatly improve the time it takes to generate forms as a PDF file. Our in-house testing shows that ...
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I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a peaceful and happy holiday season. Our customers are the best and we are sincerely thankful for each and every one of you. It is always a pleasure working with you to maximize your IBM Power System output. And if you are reading this and are not a customer…yet…I thank you too. You probably found us while searching ...
It’s that time of the year when employees lobby management and each other for premium time-off over the holidays. Even if vacation time is set months earlier, most companies are juggling to cover lights-on IT during holidays. So who is covering your AS/400 or IBM i power systems during these next few weeks?
It’s not too late to put the “employee that never sleeps” on your wish list. Message monitoring and notification software is ...
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On the first day of Christmas, my IBM i asked of me…
for a tool to help productivity
In 2013, IT staff is being asked to do more with less. This is not headline news. IT is always being asked to do more with less. The difference is that the “more” is being linked to business outcomes, and not just infrastructure. The more IT ...
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One of our customers made a comment recently on a blog I wrote on the reasons to be thankful for the AS/400 and its brethren IBM Power Systems. She has programmed for years on the IBM series of servers and said she continually searches for new functionality and ways to stay current. It got ...
This week most of us will be taking off from work to celebrate Thanksgiving – the gratitude holiday. We all have our personal list of things for which we are thankful. But maybe we should also make a job-related “gratitude” list. This year, IBM has been in the hot seat here and there. But when it comes to the AS/400, iSeries, System i, ...
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A priority for your CIO is aligning their IT organization with marketing and other departments, as we discussed in last week’s blog. It’s part of the “one business” philosophy that creates companywide ownership of business outcomes and moves departments, particularly IT, out of silos.
One of the motivators for this new philosophy is to create business agility. Forrester Research defines business ...
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Earlier this week we talked about what is likely on the mind of your CIO: moving away from a reactive list of technology projects requested by other departments to a proactive approach that aligns IT with business outcomes. So what can IT staff do to prepare for or get in line with this new philosophy? The answer is plenty.
The big picture debate about big ...
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As 2013 starts winding down, it’s a good time to take a look at the big picture of IT, specifically what is likely on the mind of your CIO and how it will affect the whole IT staff in 2014. For a few years now, there has been a push to integrate IT into core business goals instead of keeping it in a silo. This makes sense since IT is now so heavily entwined into executing new business strategies that ...
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