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Choosing Business Processes for Mobile Apps

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Using Mobile Devices for Business The growing use of mobile devices has brought a new paradigm to software application design and development and also forced companies to discover new ways to publish and distribute information to employees and customers. The evolution of mobile devices has two effects. Firstly, it changes the way developers understand what constitutes an [...]

Empowering your Enterprise Systems Management Team to be Innovative and Best-in-Class

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Your organization has systems helping manage enterprise-critical activities and information – and your team is the key to keeping these systems vital. Sustaining the rapid pace of business and technology is crucial to your company’s success. Let’s look at how you can make change happen and build knowledge within your team, empowering them to take [...]

Business Process Integration Using “Virtual Users” – Risks and Rewards

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The first part of Paul Conte's eBook trilogy “Transforming IBM i Applications – Your Journey Beyond Modernization,” introduces the concept of “virtual users” – referring to the technique of “wrapping” an existing 5250 interactive application with code that intercepts and controls the 5250 data stream. The technique can be implemented in a “batch” program, [...]

Legacy Asset Management and Transformation

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Legacy Asset Management and Transformation is the practice of maintaining older application assets so that you can continue to derive value from your stable line-of-business applications – while executing a plan to gradually transform and possibly even replace them. A common goal with this approach is to move forward in a cost-effective, low-risk fashion. Many IT [...]

How to Justify Application Modernization to your CFO – Episode 3

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This blog series unveils the steps needed to make an ROI-powered business case for Application Modernization to your CFO. Prior episodes outlined your current resources, your goals and the first 5 steps of the process, culminating in a Project Scope or Requirements Analysis. Output from this Project Scope included: Business Vision Statement Non-functional Requirements Functional Requirements Design, which depending on [...]

Building applications for mobile devices

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These days almost everyone has one or more mobile devices, ranging from Smartphones to tablets. From a business perspective, widespread use of mobile devices is useful, as it allows immediate access to information for employees who work remotely and/or travel frequently. Customers also have easy access to information about products and services. While the “App Stores” offer [...]

Using JSON to Build Efficient Applications

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As modern Web applications have become increasingly interactive and data centric, techniques have been sought to make these applications more efficient. A major breakthrough in this area was the advent of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML). Since then, developers have continued to squeeze even more performance and efficiency out of every byte. One way to [...]

iPulse 2011 Survey Results

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The second annual iPulse Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during October 2011 and was promoted to the global IBM i community via email, social media and publicized by leading industry media outlets like Intelligencer Magazine, IT Jungle and MC Press Online. This year’s survey attracted just over 1,500 participants worldwide, which is around 10% down from [...]

The Secret Thoughts of an IBM i IT Manager

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Guest Blogger: Paul Conte, President PCES, is a leading Application Development Strategist. The other day I was reflecting back on what has been a long, and generally fun and interesting IT career. One thing I remember vividly was discovering the IBM System/38, the first incarnation of what would evolve into the AS/400 and the current IBM i. [...]

Using JavaScript Frameworks for Building Business Applications

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Over the past decade, we’ve seen the explosion of information, mobile devices, tablets and the ability to consume and access information from anywhere in the world. Web applications are being built at an ever-increasing pace to satisfy the need for information and deliver content-rich, user-friendly applications to users. With the increased demand being placed [...]