E-Biz Applications: Beyond the Web
Are you aware of everything the Internet and the WWW can do for your company?
View ArticlePortals: Gateways to Whole New Worlds
Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) open up worlds of locked, hidden, or inaccessible information. By Duncan Kenzie
View ArticleLiving the Active (Server Pages) Lifestyle?
If you're not using Active Server Pages, you don't know what you're missing.
View ArticleSelecting and Deploying Portals
Portals are teetering on that razor's edge between ubiquity and obscurity. How does a company decide whether to join the portal party?
View ArticleState-of-the-Art Web Services
Web services are quickly becoming the method of choice for many organizations looking for interoperable application integration.
View ArticleGlobal Data Synchronization Network: An Update
What happened in 2005 and what's coming in 2006?
View ArticleVoice over IP: The State of the Technology
This article will show you how the System i is the newcomer that will dethrone the current leaders of the Voice over IP market.
View ArticleWho Built the Internet, and Is It for Sale?
Beware HR 5252: The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency Act of 2006 (COPE).
View ArticleApplication Server Architectures
Web application serving is now a given, but which server architecture is the best? Read on to find out.
View ArticleIBM's System i Telephony Offering at Your Company
Position your infrastructure for the future.
View ArticleDesign and Implementation Strategies for Portals
The word comes down from on high to implement a portal. But what exactly does that mean?
View ArticleItem Alignment: Bringing Accuracy and Efficiency to the Supply Chain with GDSN
What happened in '06 and what's coming in '07.
View ArticleThe Next Coup: Browser-Based UIs, Utility Computing, the Web as a Platform?
A future technology is now here in the present, but IT shops may never be ready for SaaS.
View ArticleThe Next-Generation Internet Protocol Invites Adoption
IPv4 will run out of addresses within a few short years, but adoption of IPv6 has been slow in coming. By Chris Smith Among the new features in IBM i 6.1 (V6R1) is expanded support for the...
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Easily Created Mashups for Business Applications
The new technologies available in Web 2.0 make it easy to combine multiple applications into a single interface. By Joe Pluta In a recent article, I discussed JavaScript frameworks, tools that help you...
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Exploring Second Life Presents Tantalizing Opportunities
As in real life, you may not find what you seek in this virtual world, but you probably will emerge with a smile and desire to return. By Chris Smith The big news this week is that there's hope--hope...
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Increase Productivity and Decrease Costs with Advanced Telephony Feature Sets
Are you aware of the many benefits of implementing IP telephony in your business? By Zane Gramenidis Modern-day communication is changing at an ever-accelerating pace. Since the inception of the first...
View ArticleWill the 2008 Presidential Election Be Derailed by Electronic Voting Machines?
Easy federal money prompted many states to move to electronic voting, a decision they are now trying to reverse. By Chris Smith Imagine you're on the Titanic. The captain has set a course across the...
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Google Poised to Launch Video and Voice Chat Service
Gmail users soon will be able to launch a video session as easily as they send an instant message. By Chris Smith Back in the early '90s, I used to work for Verizon when it was known as GTE. The...
View ArticleSocial Networks and Web 2.0 Technology Were Key to Obama's Victory
Effective use of broad-based, inexpensive social networking tools to generate political and financial support helped put President Obama in office, say the authors of a new book. By Chris Smith Whether...
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Integrated Web Services Server for IBM i
The integrated Web services server makes creating ILE-based Web services as easy as 1-2-3 (well, almost as easy)! By Nadir Amra and Dan Hiebert You've all heard the hype surrounding Web services and...
View ArticleKeeping Up with Today's Youth Can Be Risky
Social networking sites have proven to be incredibly popular, but they also are proving to be less than secure. By Chris Smith You have to be agile to keep up with teenagers if you're well into middle...
View ArticleIBM Unveils Smart New Mobile Applications to Keep Up to Date with Wimbledon 2009
Written by IBM Corporation The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM last week unveiled smart mobile applications designed to transform how fans access information and keep up with the action at...
View ArticleWill Your System Need an Upgrade Before Implementing VOIP?
Network bandwidth and usage are only two of many issues to consider before implementing an IP telephony solution. By Chris Smith While it's true that toll-call charges, both nationally and...
View ArticleWhile U.S. Adoption of IPv6 Increased in 2009, Will 2010 See a Sharp Upswing?
China set the pace at the Olympics with IPv6 Internet services, but the U.S. is starting to pick up the pace of adoption. Written by Chris Smith Internet service providers in the U.S. and network...
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Social Networking: What Can It Do for Your Business?
Businesses shouldn't be locking down social networking as a matter of principle. They should be embracing it and squeezing every opportunity out of it on a case-by-case basis.Written by Steven C....
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Improving the Supply Chain Through Global Standards
The GS1 Item Alignment initiative via the GDSN now includes foodservice and healthcare and is rapidly advancing worldwide.Written by Jeff Holzman This article provides an update on the status of GS1...
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Power i Forecast: Web Services
Businesses are utilizing Web technology to further system integration and business interoperability.Written by Chris Smith While IBM i computers traditionally have been standalone servers taking care...
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Power i Forecast: Web 2.0
Where is Web 2.0 headed in the next several years, and what does it mean to the IBM system manager?Written by Chris Smith After interviewing a number of experts in the area of Web technologies and...
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The Online Social Network Revolution and Why You Should Care
If you think it's a fad, don't bet your job or your company on it.Written by Bill Rice If you watched the movie The Social Network, there was a story that was even bigger than the one about Mark...
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Social Networks and the Enterprise: Why IBM Wants to Show You the Way
IBM's betting big on social technologies and showing the world the benefits of becoming a "social" business.Written by Bill Rice Technology is continually evolving, which is why business operations...
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Where GS1 Item Alignment Is Now and Where It's Headed
GS1 US and 1SYNC have made remarkable progress, and much more is yet to come.Written by Jeff Holzman This article provides an update on the status of GS1 standards-based initiatives from January 2011...
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Technology Focus: Cloud Service Options for IBM i
Cloud computing is touted as the wave of the future for IT, promising better economies of scale for its users. The IBM i has its share of service providers in this arena.Written by John Ghrist Cloud...
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Creating an Interactive Information Screen in a Browser: Is It Possible?
You can build your own stable, modern, and easy-to-maintain information platform. Written by Jan Jorgensen Users want stable applications that just run and run. On the IBM i, it's not very hard to give...
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Instrumentation and Automation Fuel Customer Experience Data Collection
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from the book Customer Experience Analytics published by MC Press.Written by Dr. Arvind Sathi Large automation investments in customer touch points, products,...
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Navigating the Tortuous Road of Electronic Data Interchange
It's not free, and it's not easy, but if you want to grow and attract new customers, EDI is a requirement.Written by David Shirey The first thing I want to make clear is that the title for this article...
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Technology Focus: Electronic Commerce Apps and Services
The importance of Electronic Commerce continues to grow. EC product vendors weigh in on the future of the market and the best ways to get started with an implementation.Written by John Ghrist With...
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What Are Fabric Data Networking Devices, and What Do They Offer?
Are they really the future of the Internet?Written by Thomas M. Stockwell The Internet continues to evolve in ways that its founders had not initially anticipated. Yet we take for granted that its...
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One Click Away: Where Does the Data Come From?
GS1 and the GDSN continue to enhance consumers' ability to feel confident about supplier-provided product data. Written by Kevin Corcoran Consumers today rely on the Internet and mobile applications to...
View ArticleIs 2014 the Internet's Last Good Year?
Without our input, the Internet's fate is left to the whim of career politicians, lobbyists, and marketing departments. Written by Roger Pence The destiny of the Internet as we know it today hangs on...
View ArticleIBM i Devs Get Some REST with OData!
Adopt the OASIS Open Data Protocol to consistently publish and consume REST services. Written by Michael Sansoterra In the article "Implement a Service-Oriented Architecture with REST APIs," I covered...
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How Regulatory Agencies Affect Social Media Guidelines
Or why there's no excuse for not including that disclaimer in a 140-character Tweet.Written by Bill Rice After a meeting of the Board, the CFO of a prominent clothing retailer sent an upbeat and...
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State of the Tech: Web Application Servers
Which Web Application Server makes sense in today's technology landscape? You might be surprised.Written by Joe Pluta The concept of a Web Application Server (WAS) has been around for a long time and...
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Chrome DevTools: The Indispensable Toolkit for Interrogating Web Page Data
Inspecting application data has evolved a bit since the 5250 green-screen days.Written by Robert Swanson There once was a time in the midrange computing world when developers tasked with tracing the...
View ArticleInternet of Things: Creating a Connected, Smarter World
What exactly is IoT, and what does it mean to us? How will it impact our lives? Written by Joydip Kanjilal The Internet of Things (IoT) has quickly become a buzz amongst the technology giants and the...
View ArticleReady or Not, Internet Explorer 8 Is Headed Your Way
Release Candidate 1 still has a few bugs, but IE8 promises improvements in performance, stability, and most importantly, security. By Chris Smith The Microsoft Internet Explorer team released Internet...
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Have You Looked at RFID ROI Lately?
RFID pioneers are experiencing such numbers as a 14 percent increase in sales, a 30 percent reduction in labor costs, a 27 percent improvement in inventory accuracy, and ROI in three months.Written by...
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Case Study: Modernizing Barcode Technologies
T.L. Ashford's Barcode400 provides unparalleled resilience.Written by Thomas M. Stockwell What do you do when the mission-critical technology infrastructure that runs your company begins to erode...
View Article8 Very Good Reasons to Use Your Power i for Shipping
Consolidate PC-based shipping/transportation management systems (TMS) on IBM's Power i platform. Written by Varsity Logistics, Inc. Editor's note: This article introduces the white paper 8 Very Good...
View Article2015 Guide to Manufacturing Software
2015 manufacturing outlook—optimism, expansion, and hurdles. Written by Infor Editor's note: This article introduces the white paper "2015 Guide to Manufacturing Software" available free at the MC...
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