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CLICK HERE to find out more about our own key product, NotesTracker ... Most organisations don't have any real idea of how effectively their Notes/Domino applications are being used! NotesTracker provides a NEW WAY for you to gather and examine usage information about your Lotus Notes/Domino applications. Whether the databases are accessed via a Lotus Notes Client or a Web Browser, NotesTracker can record all types of document accesses in fine detail and will provide a DocLink back to each accessed document. You can view this application usage information soon after it occurs, simply by using familiar Notes views that "slice and dice" the database activity metrics in many useful ways.

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IBM iSeries and AS/400 - IBM Business Partners
 

  • The Hitchhiking Blogger's Guide To IBM Blogs
     

  • A renaissance for IBM's iSeries?
     

  • How IBM learned to love risk ("emerging-business opportunities", or EBOs)

  • Componentization Big for Big Blue in 2005 - In the past few years, IBM has undertaken a high-profile strategy to focus on solutions rather than individual products. Some industry watchers believe that this componentization strategy will be big for IBM in the upcoming year.
     

  • History galore at IBM museum - Near the German city of Stuttgart, in the small town of Sindelfingen, is an unremarkable building with one of the world's most remarkable collection of computers. The building is called Haus zur Geschichte der IBM Datenverarbeitung, or the House of the History of IBM Data Processing.
     

  • Discover WAS V5.1 - Need to learn about WebSphere V5 quickly and deeply? Here's help finding the right Web site or document.
     

  • Lessons Learned from the World Trade Disaster - At a recent tradeshow, a security officer for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (an agency hard hit by 9/11) drew from personal experience to deliver tips about disaster planning and recovery. "Not all vendors/suppliers reacted to PA needs in the same way," according to Michael Frank, assistant director of the technology services department for the PA, who was especially disappointed in how two of the PA's long-term IT suppliers responded when he tried to procure new PCs. "First they asked, 'Who's the Port Authority?' Then they said, 'We can't deliver,'" he told the attendees. IBM, in contrast, came through right away with both new computers and disaster-recovery services, he said. "Know your [IT] vendors," Frank advised. "At times like these, you really find out who your friends are."
     

  • Migration from the IBM iSeries to Microsoft Windows ...

    • Microsoft aims at Big Blue bull's-eye (the iSeries) - The Midrange Alliance Program, or MAP, will see Microsoft join up with Fujitsu, Electronic Data Systems and a half-dozen other companies to try to convince businesses to look at Windows-based alternatives to IBM's iSeries servers, the latest in the AS/400 family. "We look at the iSeries as having this well-deserved reputation as superintegrated and ultrareliable," a senior product manager at Microsoft said. But "the road map that got it there has taken kind of this left turn."
    • California Software and  Microsoft target the IBM iSeries - they are offering the former's INFINITE iSERIES product to migrate IBM AS/400 and iSeries applications to Windows.

  • Palmisano memo outlines reason for IBM's PC business sale - "IBM is an innovation company. It's why we have invested billions of dollars in recent years to strengthen our capabilities in hardware, software, services and core technologies focused on transforming the enterprise. ... The PC business is rapidly taking on characteristics of the home and consumer-electronics industry, which favors economies of scale, pricing power and a focus on individual users and buyers. These are very different business and economic models, and they will diverge even further in the years ahead."
     

  • The All-Everything Machine (book by Brian Kelly) - To quote: "There is no better kept secret in the computer industry than the new eServer i5 from IBM. Another secret of which most modern computerists are unaware is that IBM makes the finest, most architecturally elegant, most usable, most productive, and most affordable computer system of all time. That system is the iSeries i5, the all-everything machine, and though its birth was on May 4, 2004, its advanced underpinnings go back well over 30 years. That's an awful long time for any company to keep such a secret, but Kelly's speculation is that today's IBM is getting ready to change all that."

  • IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul - IBM's popular iSeries line, in danger of falling by the wayside, is now fully aligned with much more mainstream hardware and software trends.

  • iSeries image campaigns prove ineffective - Despite several campaigns to improve the image of the iSeries, the platform is still viewed as outdated.

  • IBM tries to motivate users off AS/400 - IBM is zealous in its efforts to get AS/400 customers onto the new i5 technology, but the sentiment ... was that some long-time users just aren't budging. ... "A lot of our customers just haven't evolved. Our challenge is to convince them of the value proposition of moving. ... By not upgrading, they're simply losing out on the benefits they could get from newer technology. " ... IBM is stuck in the same sense that Microsoft is with NT users or with certain applications ... If it does the computing you need, from a business sense, why move?
     

  • Office, Beware -- Here Comes Workplace - IBM's new Web-based software package aims to let corporations use as much or as little of Microsoft's software as they want -- or none at all.

  • Ballmer Slams IBM and Novell Partner Efforts With Linux and SMBs

  • Does Excel Open a Security and Compliance Hole in Your IT Environment? - There's not much question about the fact that Excel is used extensively by iSeries shops (and others) around the world. It is, in fact, "the 'data' tool of choice for the non-database professional" ... With such widespread use of Excel, it's certainly reasonable to question the security of the environment. ... Excel is used so frequently "because it is so easy to implement compared to programmatic solutions. It is also one of the most simple ways to model data. ... The challenge with Excel is that it originated as a standalone, desktop spreadsheet and quickly became the world's most popular financial reporting and analysis software. Many companies rely on it to produce their most critical financial reports ..."

  • IBM's Bisconti: Under the Hood with IBM Workplace

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