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Date: Thursday, November 3
Time: 9:00am-4:15pm
Location:
Hilton Philadelphia Airport, 4509 Island Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19153
Meet the new Infor, and get all the details on their new direction, management, vision, mission, and how this translates to speed for Infor customers.
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| Issue: 26 | October 19, 2011 | |
We are dedicated to bringing you important industry news and updates, as well as, information on live events and webinars to help boost your competitive edge.
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Backed by $1 billion in financing, IBM drives innovation and growth 03/10/11 | | |
While global economic challenges continue to be headline news, IBM is making $1 billion available in new financing options specifically aimed at small and medium businesses (SMBs) to pay for purchases of new hardware, software and services. Small businesses, defined as fewer than 1,000 employees, contribute nearly 65 percent of the global GDP and employ more than 90 percent of the world's workforce.
The amount of money spent on technology by these organizations amounts to a quarter of a trillion dollars. It is their hope that the enhanced availability of financing will open the door to more SMBs taking advantage of technologies such as business analytics and cloud computing. IBM is offering easy financing, with some lease and loan packages starting at 0 percent for 12 months, with no money down, for IBM software. This financing will be made available to credit-qualified SMB clients through IBM Business Partners who can benefit from enhanced online financing tools to generate price proposals and get fast approvals for credit applications, all available by a simple click of the mouse.
As IBM's primary route to SMB sales, Business Partners are delivering IBM "Cost Buster" solutions for midmarket clients - middleware and hardware small-deal bundles that are wrapped with affordable financing. Many IBM Cost Buster solutions are less than $5 per user per month (over 36 months) for 100 users. New solutions specially designed for SMBs include software, systems, and services offerings focused on cloud, analytics, collaboration, and security. They bring together technologies from such recent IBM acquisitions as CastIron, BigFix, SPSS, Netezza, and Cognos. |
IBM Solution Edition Promotions for Infor ERP | | |
IBM i Solution Editions are designed to help businesses take advantage of the combined experience and expertise of IBM and Infor in building business value with IT investments. The Solution Editions are built on POWER7 processor-based systems, which represent a true leap forward to more intelligent systems that reduce complexity, decrease energy consumption, minimize downtime and drive down operational costs.
Coupled with the total integration delivered by IBM I and the Solution Edition discount, these solution offerings deliver the performance today's businesses need along with low cost of ownership. Each Solution Edition provides a simplified, easy-to-manage, high-performance IT environment for core business applications.
This special offering is for the IBM Power 720 Express and the IBM Power 740 Express. The Power 720 Express and IBM I integrate features to simplify your IT environment and deliver a complete, cost effective business system that can grow with a business. The Power 740 Express provides the same integrated value as the Power 720 Express with additional expandability, enabling system growth as your business grows. Both systems deliver the outstanding performance and workload-optimizing features of the POWER7 processor. For details on this promotion, click here.
For additional information, please contact Steve Kurzban - 631-738-0500 ext. 111. |
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GXS Shares Development Plans for IBM i Customer | |
It's been nearly two years since GXS acquired Inovis, which had inherited the Harbinger and Peregrine brands that were so familiar to AS/400 shops of old. GXS still has about 2,000 EDI customers running on today's IBM i platform, and while they represent just a small part of GXS' $420 million business, the company has big plans for helping its IBM i customers take advantage of GXS' cloud services, as well as its managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities.
GXS' IBM i-based EDI translator, called TrustedLink IBM i edition (TLi), is an elder statesman in the software world, with 25 years of service under its belt. Over that time, the software has processed billions of transactions among tens of thousands of manufactures, distributors, and retailers running the most popular IBM i-based ERP, WMS, and MMS applications. Most of those transactions went over slow dial-up value added network (VAN) lines.
The RPG-based product has kept up with technological change, without compromising its primary duty, says Murray Brook, the former Inovis TLi product manager who today is the manager for GXS' entire product portfolio. "The product is very much alive and well, and has a strong roadmap going forward," Brook says. "We're always looking to push the boundaries of the capabilities of that piece of software, while remaining core to its particular content."
GXS aims to ship a new release of TLi every nine to 12 months. It delivered a release earlier this year, and the next release, TLi version 6.3.2, is expected in the June 2012 timeframe. Most of the new features are the result of customer requests, and are typically evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Localization of TLi interfaces and validation in high availability environments are two areas the TLi development team has been working on. In terms of localization, GXS is targeting double byte character set (DBCS) languages such as Japanese (expected before the end of the year) and Chinese, in addition to expansion into French and German.
On the HA front, GXS recently worked with its partner IBM to showcase TLi running in a high availability setup, using PowerHA SystemMirror, GeoMirror for IBM i, and a DS8000 array using Copy Services. Download info sheet.
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About MCS
MCS is an IBM Premier Business Partner and INFOR Channel Partner providing effective integrated software solutions to our customers. We specialize in a variety of industries across North America, including but not limited to, wholesale distribution and light manufacturing. For over 21 years, MCS has helped many customers advance their business with improved technology. Our company installs, implements, customizes, and supports INFOR Global Solutions software to help customers streamline their business operations and maximize efficiency for a better competitive edge. MCS is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York. For more information, please call 631-738-0500 x103 or visit www.maximumcomputer.com.
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