Application Software

SugarCRM Offers i5/OS Compatibility for CRM Software

SugarCRM announces that Sugar Enterprise now runs on the System i. Sugar Enterprise is one edition of SugarCRM that offers offline client synchronization as well as reporting and Oracle database support. The product features compatibility with the MySQL database server and the Zend Core for i5/OS PHP platform.

SugarCRM is open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software. It provides business users with a single view of customer interactions across sales, marketing, and service operations with reporting and collaboration tools. Also, SugarCRM enables companies to customize and integrate customer-facing business processes.
SugarCRM. 877-842-7276. sugarcrm.com.

Services

ASNA Unveils Professional Services for Monarch Users

ASNA, Inc., presents the ASNA Services Group. The services group provides System i customers of ASNA's Monarch product suite with expertise in application development, migration, and modernization.

Monarch automates the processes required to transform RPG programs or entire applications to the Microsoft .NET architecture while preserving the original program logic and application functionality, useful in such situations as improving System i client/server application functionality and performance. Once transformed using Monarch, applications may be extended, modified, or enhanced by both RPG and Visual Studio development teams.

The ASNA Services Group includes Windows, web, and web services development, and consultation in the design, architecture, and implementation of Microsoft .NET applications.
ASNA, Inc. 800-289-2762. asna.com.

Security

SkyView Updates Security Policy Aid

SkyView Partners, Inc., improves Policy Minder for i5/OS and OS/400 with version 1.3. The product monitors user profile settings, ownership, authorities, auditing, and system values to see whether they are in compliance with a stated security policy. Policy Minder can then generate reports of the results in PDF format. In version 1.3, the product acts on inactive profiles and reports on or fixes many i5/OS system values. V1.3 also features an enhanced authorization list category and enables third-party companies to integrate Policy Minder functionality with their own applications.
SkyView Partners, Inc. 425-458-4975. skyviewpartners.com.

5250 Emulation

Ericom Provides Desktop Virtualization Solution

Ericom Software, Inc., releases its desktop virtualization solution, PowerTerm WebConnect DeskView. DeskView helps organizations deploy virtual desktops and provide users both secure access to virtual desktops and a variety of servers, including the System i. WebConnect involves installing and running users' desktops (Windows or Linux) on virtual machines hosted at a data center instead of on local computers. DeskView provides companies with centralized management and control, managed user access, and regulatory compliance. With customizable logging and auditing capabilities, managers can monitor and audit users' access to applications, services, and documents.
Ericom Software, Inc. 201-767-2210. ericom.com.

Backup and Recovery

SonicWALL Offers Site-to-Site Data Backup and Recovery

SonicWALL adds to its Continuous Data Protection (CDP) product series with CDP Box-to-Box Backup, which provides a comprehensive solution for backing up and restoring data remotely without using third-party off-site facilities and supports System i servers.

SonicWALL CDP Box-to-Box Backup is an off-site backup and recovery solution operating in conjunction with local SonicWALL CDP devices on a network. The solution automatically receives data from CDP appliances on a continual basis and then transmits and encrypts the data via AES 256-bit encryption.

In the event that a local disaster occurs or the local site CDP unit fails, IT administrators can recover data from the remote CDP device. Users can also configure the off-site CDP appliance to back up multiple local CDP appliances.
SonicWALL, Inc. 408-745-9600. sonicwall.com.

Application Software

EtQ Announces Risk Assessment Module

EtQ, Inc., unveils a standalone module for configuring and integrating risk-based assessment tables for version 5 of its Reliance Quality Management System, an application for the System i and other platforms that tracks manufacturing quality control operations. From the EtQ Risk Assessment module, users can create risk assessment templates with tables or charts identifying severity, frequency, and other criteria associated with individual product-quality events. Users can access the templates for an independent risk assessment event or link them to modules within the EtQ Quality Management System. Risk assessment events incorporate risk mitigation tracking, so managers can ensure that corrective and preventive actions reduce the risk to appropriate levels.
EtQ, Inc. 800-354-4476. etq.com.

Programmer Tools

PlanetJ Provides Dashboard Tool to App Builder Users

PlanetJ Corporation offers System i users of its Web Object Wizard (WOW) product access to a flash-based web reporting and executive dashboard tool with WOWFusion Charts. WOWFusion Charts provide business information to users in a graphical format.

WOW is PlanetJ's Internet-accessible application builder for the System i and other platforms. WOW generates applications in Java without requiring knowledge of the Java language for core functions, and it also helps developers extend existing applications to the web by integrating with existing RPG, CL, and Cobol code, as well as Eclipse and WebSphere Development Studio.

By using WOW with WOWFusion Charts, developers can utilize platform independence, multisystem searching, data-driven dashboards, and a graphical user interface to develop web applications and charts against a DB2 or other JDBC-compliant databases. The solution features multilevel security, graphical drill downs, and automatic updates.
PlanetJ Corporation. 760-432-0600. planetjavainc.com.

Programmer Tools

MKS Adds Requirements Management to Life-Cycle Platform

MKS extends its application life-cycle management platform with MKS Integrity 2007, which helps managers control and monitor software projects by providing IT business-process automation, requirements management, software-configuration management, multiple-version management, and software-deployment capabilities. New in this version is support for requirements change management, enforced process control, SAP and Oracle/PeopleSoft change management, unified test management, and IT service management. This release also adds a new document view and rich-text support.
MKS, Inc. 800-265-2797. mkssoftware.com.

Networking

Sybase Facilitates Managed Mobility Services

Sybase, Inc., introduces the Information Anywhere Suite, a mobile software platform that combines e-mail, messaging, mobile device management, security, and back-office application extension capabilities so employees can work from any mobile device. Information Anywhere supports heterogeneous environments and works with Notes, Domino, and Sametime. In addition, users can access e-mail, data, and applications on frontline systems and devices whether or not they have a live connection to enterprise systems.
Sybase, Inc. 808-801-2069. sybase.com.