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Halcyon Software, Inc. |
Martin Norman, industry expert, provides recommendations for managing users on IBM Power Systems i in today’s world.
Over the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift in the importance of security and audit issues with more laws and regulations. In the beginning some vendors were claiming that the only path to total security compliance was using their solution - otherwise you could find yourself in jail!
Compare those days to the reality of data security practices today. The big difference is the focus on the “real world” that we all work in rather than a standardized, perfect world approach to security.
Martin introduces a more realistic approach to addressing security concerns using modern tools for user authority challenges and recommendations for real-time event auditing.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Carol Woodbury discusses the security concerns of cloud computing and provides resources you can check into as you address the security issues of this new technology.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Never heard of Application Administration? Don’t be surprised. Although it’s full of function, it’s one of little-known features of IBM i. Application Administration (or App Admin as it’s commonly called) has been around for a while but the additional features provided in the latest releases as well as recent Technology Releases makes this a feature worth exploring again. Carol Woodbury, President of SkyView Partners, has written a white paper describing how you can use Application Administration (a feature of i Navigator) to control access to various client functions as well as functions available on the IBM i and network features such as ODBC and FTP access.
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Help/Systems |
Survive the climb toward scheduling automation with this indispensable guide. Clear internal and external hurdles, and succeed in each phase of your rollout, from research to implementation.
Our New Must-Have Resource: IBM i Scheduling Survival Guide
Download it free.
Help/Systems has been helping customers automate their IBM i environments for over 30 years.
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Connectria Hosting |
IBM's remarkably persistent i platform continuously defies the conventional wisdom that he platform should gracefully retire. Although the customer base isn't actually growing, neither is it in rapid decline.
How is it the IBM i has so consistently beat its naysayers? What does the future hold for this venerable business system architecture? Can it be a player in the Cloud? Long-time i-technologist Mel Beckman answers these questions and more, in this "State of the i" white paper.
Download the free white paper now.
Brought to you by Connectria Hosting.
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Intellichief |
As we await the imminent arrival of the paperless office, we acknowledge that most organizations are awash in a sea of paper, struggling to keep their heads above water. Paper still drives, or more accurately, bogs down, many business processes—one of which is Accounts Payable (A/P).
Paper is a major source of A/P inefficiency. The receipt, filing, copying and processing of paper takes a tremendous bite out of profitability. The average cost of processing a paper invoice can be more than $8.00, while the average cost to search for a misfiled document is $120.
Because paper is the problem, eliminating paper is the solution. This paper examines these issues in depth, suggests solutions, and provides case studies illustrating how document management helps.
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LANSA, Inc. |
In this paper, we explain the basic concepts and terminology behind Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) without entrenching the reader with details of SOA and Web services academia and implementation specifics.
Rather, our goal is to provide coaching on how an IT professional managing a dynamic, legacy-rich infrastructure can sensibly take steps towards this architecture and the potential benefits that can be achieved, without risking the organization’s stable business applications environment and operations.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
You’ve seen the “alphabet soup” of compliance standards and regulations. Carol Woodbury examines the more notable of these standards and regulations and compares and contrasts them, helping the reader gain a better understanding of how they relate to security.
Download your copy today!
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PowerTech Group, Inc. |
Threats to your sensitive data are more diverse and more dangerous than ever. Hackers are no longer satisfied with disrupting your operations—they want your intellectual property and other sensitive information. And there's an even bigger threat inside your company's walls, coming from users with blank-check authority and no way to be monitored.
To prevent this, you need more than the built-in IBM i features. Download this free white paper to see how intrusion detection mitigates the threats facing your business.
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Help/Systems, Inc. |
IBM i Collection Services provides administrators a vast amount of performance data. Unfortunately, without paying IBM for expensive analyses, administrators are left to guess at what it means. "Analyzing IBM i Performance Metrics" helps administrators do it themselves by:
- Introducing performance monitoring benefits for SLAs, real-time processing, and end user service.
- Providing and explaining the top 24 performance metrics and 11 commands to boost collection.
- Outlining how establishing system-specific intervals, real-time alerting, and system consolidating builds on Collection Services.
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Intellichief |
Exclusive case study illustrating how to streamline Purchase-to-Pay using Document Management
Wenger Corporation leveraged their Infor ERP system to go paperless and improve their operation. Learn what they did to make the most of their IBM environment by:
- Reducing the time & effort to get invoices paid
- Automatically routing incoming orders to the correct location
- Sending acknowledgements without user intervention
- Making all documents available digitally from their ERP screen
When order processing and payables get bogged down, the whole company suffers. In order to prevent this, Wenger Corporation’s goal was to bring their company completely paperless. Read how Wenger Corporation enabled business growth using document management!
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ADVANCED BusinessLink Corp. |
Do you think SOA is irrelevant because you have legacy applications and your developers’ skills are primarily RPG or COBOL?
Many iSeries technology managers assume that SOA concepts and benefits are primarily for Java architects or relevant only when designing entirely new applications.
ADVANCED BusinessLink’s white paper “SOA What? Why SOA is crucial for iSeries RPG Shops” discusses why SOA is so important for traditional iSeries shops and how SOA can be a life-changing event for your team.
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Maximum Availability, Ltd. |
Bust through all the HA/DR Jargon with this free download.
The Maxava Jargon Buster is a quick reference guide to Maxava HA and industry technical terms related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery. It is an easy-to-use tool to help simplify the discussions companies need to have about their HA/DR requirements for their IBM i environments. By explaining technical terms in simple language, Maxava’s Jargon Buster can help an organization’s management quickly gain a greater understanding of the important factors relating to IBM i availability in their enterprise and what is required to protect it.
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Connectria Hosting |
Despite many predictions of its demise, the IBM System i remains a viable platform.
In fact, many organizations continue to invest in the System i, due to its high reliability, performance and support of legacy applications.
InfoTech Research Group has conducted a study of System i users and the market, and they’ve outlined a strategy that:
Evaluates the future viability of the System i platform.
Assesses the fit, purpose, and price of the System i.
Develops System i strategies for overcoming potential challenges.
Determines the future of the System i for your organization.
Read the full InfoTech report today and determine your organization’s System i strategy for the future.
Download the free report now.
Brought to you by Connectria Hosting.
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Help/Systems |
Learn how to combine automation software and IBM i to increase revenue and enhance customer experiences. Download the exclusive Help/Systems White Paper “Building a Sound Investment Strategy Through Technology.”
This free four-page PDF, written by Help/Systems Director of Automation Technology Chuck Losinski, is packed with concise tips for IBM i. You’ll learn why Power Systems running IBM i are the key to a sound investment strategy. You’ll also discover how automation technologies such as batch processing, agent tasks, interactive processes, backups, report management, and system and message monitoring can save your company money while making your operations more reliable than ever.
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Linoma Software |
This paper identifies how organizations need to deploy new solutions to protect their information assets from theft and misuse. It explores the landscape of legal liabilities and identifies the technical hurdles facing both management and IT.
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Linoma Software |
Leading edge IT shops are rethinking the use of underlying components within its data transfer arsenal, and are arming themselves to meet the ever changing requirements of PCI DSS and other compliance requirements.
This white paper examines how managed file transfer can help companies stay ahead of compliance regulations by keeping data transfers secure while saving time and allowing staff time to be reallocated to other projects.
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inFORM Decisions |
Boost profitability through document automation and learn the cost benefits of going paperless. This white paper explains the economical reasons for going green and helps you identify key areas for cost savings. Also included are tips on how to evaluate and implement effective paperless systems.
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StoragePipe Solutions |
Laying A Stable Foundation For Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity
In order for critical business data to be considered “securely protected”, it must meet 3 key requirements. These requirements are similar to the legs of a tripod, which must all be preserved in order to maintain strength and stability.
Download this white paper today, and learn how to optimize your company data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
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Symtrax Corporation |
This eight-page whitepaper is a guideline for improving the rendering and efficiency of the complete SAP production reporting system. It discusses how to leverage the value of existing systems reports, and how to deliver timely, properly formatted reports and business documents.
Get expert advice on:
- Employing an Output Management System
- Enhancing Existing Production Reports VS Building New Ones
- Delivering Reports without affecting SAP System Workload
- What to look for in a Reformatting Solution
- Output Management Solution’s Architectural Considerations
- Major Benefits of Enhancing SAP Production Reports
- The Importance of a Global Production Reporting Strategy to an SAP based Company
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Bytware, Inc. |
Even for the smallest organizations there comes a time when monitoring operations with your eyes alone isn’t enough. This white paper shows you how to implement automation, the key starting points to consider, how regulatory compliance demands automation, and how to supplement IBM i's built-in tools.
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New Generation Software, Inc. |
Are you on information overload from the barrage of announcements and ads for BI solutions, including IBM’s new DB2 Web Query V2.1? End the confusion and get informed. This White Paper guides you in evaluating which solution may be the best fit for your company, users, budget, environment and more. It also examines:
- IBM’s analytics and services strategy
- the repackaged DB2 Web QueryV2.1
- IBM’s Cognos solution
- other BI software in the market
The White Paper offers a comparison of these products with NGS-IQ, NGS’ scalable, proven BI suite of products used by thousands of i customers of all sizes in virtually every industry.
It concludes with a section designed to help IBM i and DB2 supporters explain the strengths of the environment to critics and the uninformed.
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LANSA, Inc. |
Future-proofing your Applications and Development Strategies
This white paper provides a guide to help you cope with the dramatically increased pace and scope of business application development brought on by the Internet revolution, sweeping regulatory changes, stakeholder pressure for more transparency, corporate acquisitions and mergers and a host of other pressures in the modern, global business environment.
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Halcyon Software |
Industry expert Ash Giddings, shares his tried and tested 3-step plan to successful performance management.
It’s an effective approach that works for organizations that have IBM i (iSeries) as their core platform but the same formula will work for IT teams that need to manage a hybrid cross-platform computing environment.
This White Paper, aimed at IT Managers and System Administrators, provides the background on why the art of performance management can often seem cumbersome and complex.
By using modern monitoring software and some common sense, you can ensure that not only IT but the business as a whole see you and the work you perform as a real asset.
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Profound Logic Software, Inc. |
The Benefits of Using RPG OA and JSON to Store Metadata in the Display File
Scott Klement, IBM Champion and Product Developer
Profound Logic Software, Inc.
While RPG Open Access is nothing new, there is still some confusion in the IBM i community as
to what it is and how it is used. Additionally, there has also been much talk lately about Open
Access metadata and how it should be leveraged with regard to RPG application modernization.
This white paper explains what Rational Open Access for RPG is all about, clarify what metadata is and cover how metadata is related to Open Access. It also covers how Profound Logic stores metadata in the Profound UI Rich Display files, and why we think it’s the best solution for storing metadata.
Get the clarification you need, request this white paper today.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Left to their own preferences, many programmers will ask to be given all possible authorities on the system. That’s because most – not all – but most programmers are focused on getting their work done and would prefer not to be concerned with security. However, many organizations have policies or have to comply with laws or regulations that limit the authorities that programmers can have – especially to production systems. This white paper describes the authorities that programmers typically need along with techniques for determining the exact authorities your programmers need to continue to perform their job functions without having an all-powerful profile.
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Linoma Software |
As more and more companies are implementing managed file transfer solutions, they often overlook a critical piece in the data protection cycle. This paper explains the role of the gateway, a buffer that resides in the DMZ between trading partners and a company's private network that serves as a proxy for file exchanges, and helps companies meet compliance regulations such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX and state privacy regulations.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Compliance is not a one-time event.
Some of you have found this out the hard way. You’ve made it to “compliance” and then sat back and ignored all of the items you worked so hard to implement or modify. A year passes and it’s time to prove compliance again. Because nothing was done to maintain compliance, your efforts are almost as expensive – both in terms of person-hours and actual expense - as the first time.
Through helping our clients – large and small – attain and maintain compliance, Carol created a collection of tips and techniques to help every organization address compliance and assembled them into a book The goal of this book is to help establish a security compliance “lifestyle” so that compliance becomes a habit, not an expensive and time-consuming annual project.
Request your copy of Carol’s “Compliance without the Complexities”, FREE of charge.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
These slide handouts are from a 2009 presentation by SkyView Partners Inc. and nuBridges Inc. that examines the major reasons companies fail PCI audits.
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Halcyon Software |
How to improve the flow of essential information around your organization, save costs and free up your time
Ash Giddings, IBM i industry expert, gives advice on how not to fall into the trap of ignoring or sometimes deleting large volumes of spooled files. These unassuming files can contain information and data that may be critical to your business.
This whitepaper aimed at IBM i System Administrators, discusses smarter ways to handle spooled files by considering the confines of disk space, backup and restore techniques and more efficient procedures for the retrieval, archiving and distribution of files. Ash challenges whether the traditional ‘green-screen’ view is the best way for working with spooled files and examines alternative methods to improve the flow of information around the business and reduce the administrator’s workload.
Download this document to learn his 6 key recommendations for smarter ways to manage spooled files, save resource time and ensure your organisation doesn’t get caught out.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Carol Woodbury addresses discusses the compliance mandates that organizations face and discusses the advantages of using the SkyView Partners Inc. products to automate compliance tasks and help improve their accuracy and efficiency of the compliance mandate facing organizations.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
Your auditor may not know much about the IBMi but they do have a “playbook” covering typical things to look for during a security audit. In this whitepaper, Carol Woodbury discusses the items that most auditors typically look for on the IBMi. Further she explains how you can use the products she designed for SkyView Partners Inc. to address these and more.
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Maximum Availability, Ltd. |
Learn how to select an HA solution that will meet your business needs.
The Maxava Critical Elements for Business Continuity White Paper will give you important insights into High Availability solution criteria that will enable you to choose the appropriate continuity solution.
The goal of an HA/DR system is to help you avoid losing data and prevent damage to your business systems and marketplace reputation, selecting a solution that is effective and affordable is easy when you have a complete understanding of the most critical requirements for ensuring a successful HA/DR deployment.
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LANSA, Inc. |
LANSA's Rapid Application Modernization Process (RAMP) is a single integrated solution that addresses both your immediate and strategic modernization requirements.
What's unique about RAMP is it's a "reengineering" product that lets you rapidly consolidate your applications into a graphic application framework and then incrementally replace your legacy programs with new reengineered components — in a timeframe that makes sense to your organization.
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Help/Systems |
Meeting healthcare regulatory requirements doesn’t have to mean enormous IT projects that last for months and consume your budget. Download this whitepaper and learn how to handle today's healthcare challenges of managing data:
- Securely meet government regulatory requirements for data
- Manage your electronic healthcare data efficiently
- Get your data into the hands of those that need it
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
John Vanderwall Chairman and CEO of SkyView Partners, has written a white paper to explain the hidden cost of compliance. This white paper will be especially helpful if you are an executive trying to understand the true costs of compliance or a member of the IT Staff trying to explain to your executives, the effort involved in responding to auditors' requests for information.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
An organization’s data is a vital corporate asset. So how do you determine how much security is enough to adequately protect the data? Carol Woodbury discusses the considerations you’ll want to make to determine how much security is enough.
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LANSA, Inc. |
Building a Stable and Agile Software Foundation in a Dynamic IBM i and Microsoft World
Whether dealing with new or legacy applications, just running faster to keep pace with business demands and changing technology isn’t enough. You need to have a better plan and work smarter to stay ahead. A better plan requires an enterprise application architecture that improves the functionality and quality of delivered software, while providing the foundation for increased productivity and flexibility in application delivery.
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Profound Logic Software, Inc. |
Since its beginnings at the turn-of-the-century, Baker College prepares Michigan students for careers in high-demand fields, including business, health sciences, engineering and information services.
Running on the IBM i platform, Baker College's IT department over time has compiled well over a million lines of legacy RPG code which supports over 1300 menu items.
Baker College knew they needed to update their aging IBM i application environment to support end-user adoption and efficiency. But did that mean chucking their i platform altogether? Learn how the College's IT team found the perfect modernization solution using Profound UI in this Profound Logic Case Study.
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Intellichief |
Restructuring your company to become electronic and paperless can seem like an overwhelming task.
Because your company structure and workflow touches so many different parts of the business, planning a company-wide move away from paper-based documents and manual invoice processing routines can easily become an unmanageable nightmare.
This white paper is a guide to successfully completing this undertaking, detailing seven critical steps to going paperless, including:
1. Involve key users/departments and understand the problem
2. Identify goals and requirements
3. Map the current process
4. Design the solution
Read this paper to learn the other three steps and to get the information you need to prepare a kick-off meeting, organize your project, and avoid common pitfalls.
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
An IBM i system can be configured to audit security-relevant actions of every profile on the system or just a handful. Or it can be configured to audit the use of objects. The amount of information available in the audit journal is really quite amazing. Unfortunately, it’s one of the system’s best kept secrets! Even when people are aware of the audit journal, they often have no idea of what type of information is available. They assume – incorrectly – that it’s strictly information needed by auditors. Unbeknownst to many system administrators is the vast information in the audit journal that they could use on a daily basis. Even more of a mystery is how one “harvests” or retrieves information out of the audit journal in a readable format.
In this white paper, Carol Woodbury presents SkyView’s Audit Journal Reporter product. This product includes a number of pre-defined reports that could be used to help shed light on security issues or help you quickly respond to auditor requests.
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PowerTech Group, Inc. |
Data breaches are more likely to come from inside your walls than outside. Without a way to manage user access, a privileged user can endanger your system at length before you discover it. To protect against that risk—and the chance of failing a PCI or SOX audit—you need to ensure privileged users can't abuse their access. PowerTech's exclusive white paper shows you how with:
- Exclusive analysis
- Top 24 powerful commands
- Real-world examples and solutions
- Step-by-step instructions
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SkyView Partners, Inc. |
These are the slide handouts are from a "Coffee with Carol" presentation by Carol Woodbury where in which she discusses the audit journal, and the information that it contains, and ways to get to that information.
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MC Press Online, LLC |
When it comes to choosing the right IT solutions there’s a lot of static out there. The MC Resource Centers cut through the noise and deliver only the best and widest selection of white papers, software, webcasts and more solutions to save you time and money. We’re even giving one lucky person a pair of Beats Solo HD Headphones. Visit the MC Resource Centers today and select as many of the FREE offerings you would like to receive. Enter the contest and you may just win a pair of Beats Headphones!
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CCSS (USA) Corp. |
Achieving Lights Out Automation on your IBM i Network.
CCSS sheds some light on the likely challenges and benefits of achieving a partial, selective and even full Lights Out Automation status in an IBM i environment.
Lights Out, the near utopian vision of a totally automated systems environment, has long been held as the ideal but somewhat unachievable systems management goal. In its purest form, the benefits of massive cost efficiency and a total elimination of human error incidence means the case for Lights Out maintains a strong following. More commonly, we’re seeing the application of a Lights Out condition to specific elements, areas and tasks within a systems environment. By considering the overall approach to systems management and identifying such areas, IT Managers can easily implement a partial or more extensive Lights Out state to deliver the same efficiencies with the use of intelligent automation solutions.
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Halcyon Software, Inc. |
Martin Norman, the acknowledged systems management expert, looks at common scenarios faced by operational staff and senior management at IBM Power Systems (iSeries) customer sites and identifies the top ten job scheduling challenges.
This free whitepaper discusses how these challenges can be solved and provides three examples of how companies solved their particular issues through job automation.
Videos resources show how you can simplify even the most complex scheduling tasks across an IBM i environment.
Martin provides his observations about what the future holds for the experienced IBM i (iSeries) workforce, and identifies trends in working practices in some of the largest data centers where the “IBM i” is still the core platform of choice.
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