Multiple departments in your company want to get their hands on the market intelligence that lies in your IBM Power Servers. Critical decisions that affect growth rely on the ability to quickly create and distribute these reports.
The challenge is that as companies grow and add new systems, or perhaps need to access data from partner vendors, report writing is no ...
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The IBM i platform has always been popular in industries where big money changes hands, like banking, insurance, and gaming. Banks use advanced IBM i, iSeries, and AS/400 software in every part of their business, from financial transactions to credit cards to loans to billing statements.
Aside from financial software, every bank should consider using the following types of IBM i software to reduce ...
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Well, sure. Someday. Everything becomes unsupportable eventually. But not to worry. Nothing imminent. Just a little April Fool’s humor to get your day going.
End of support is coming next week on April 9th. You know who is ...
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This week we are celebrating the birth of our blog nine months ago. Our goals for establishing this weekly communication with our customers and other IT professionals looking for IBM i software solutions were simple:
It’s fun for me to talk about the birth of the AS/400 because I was fortunate enough to be a part of it and there are so many loyal fans of it. But plenty of programming took place decades before the AS/400. I came across an IBM film/commercial shown at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. It’s called The Information Machine, Man, and the Data Processor. Fair warning. It’s almost 10 minutes in length. But it has some ...
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Transformation appears to be the IT buzzword of the moment. While I like my technology leading edge, my business philosophy tends to be old school.
Design it better than anyone. Support it better than anyone. Pay attention to your customers and never stop innovating to meet their challenges.
So buzzwords come and go for me without much ...
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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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There are a lot of celebrations going on to commemorate the 25th anniversary this month of the AS/400. It has been an extremely successful product for IBM that has led to multiple generations including the iSeries and the IBM i among others.
The actual launch took place in 1988. It was exciting to work for IBM and see how they did things, to visit “the Tower” so ...
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