5 Critical Items for IBM i Electronic Forms Software
Studies have shown that managing paper documents (printing, collating, folding, mailing, distributing, storing, retrieving, and destroying documents) can consume up to 15% of the annual revenue in your organization.
Going Native with IBM i TCP/IP Servers
For CIOs who may not be familiar with the IBM i environment, it helps to understand how you can leverage an IBM i system in a Microsoft Windows network.
Get Your IBM i Programmers Out of the Forms Design Business
Here’s a question to consider when evaluating IBM i electronic forms design software: “Would you let your Marketing department create program code?”
A Full ROI Breakdown of IBM i Laser Check Printing
People often ask me – “How much money can I save if my shop switches our IBM i check-printing from pre-printed continuous form check printing to MICR Laser check-stock printing on laser printers” ROI is important for any technology project. For the average shop, switching from pre-printed checks to laser checks will see significant cost […]
Make Your IBM i Run More Efficiently Using Database Query Software – Part 2 of 2
When you get your programmers out of the report writing business and use professionally written software to generate queries and reports, it can help increase the efficiency of your IT department, your IBM i systems, and your business. Here’s how it works.
Translating IBM i for the Windows World
Through acquisitions, job changes or reorganizations, Windows-based managers who aren’t familiar with the IBM i may suddenly find themselves in charge of several IBM i partitions. It can be like travelling to a foreign country, where the natives speak a different language and the customs are different. If you’re in this position, don’t panic. While […]
What Else Can I Do with My IBM i Package?
In an earlier post, I talked about what makes for a great IBM i software vendor. Today, I am going to add to those ideas by talking about vendor software families and how good integrated packages increase the benefits you receive when installing new software. Here are four areas where your software and vendor selection […]
How to Empower Users to Write & Distribute IBM i Reports, Part 2
In our previous blog, I started talking about empowering your IBM i users to create and distribute reports based on your databases. I listed the following eight ways users can get started with producing their own reports:
How to Empower Users to Write & Distribute IBM i Reports, Part 1
<pro/p> My personal philosophy has always been: if you need a programmer to set it up and use it, it’s an outdated software model. That’s especially true in the IBM i query tool and report writing world. IBM Power servers are rich databases of business information but too often, it requires a programmer to extract […]
5 Ways to Secure Sensitive Data when Distributing IBM i Reports
While it’s easy to set up IBM i report conversion and distribution to automatically email or post spooled file information, there will always be data that needs to be secured or restricted, including: