Here's how sharing data can improve relationships with suppliers and customers and can vastly improve corporate efficiency.
Editor's Note: This article is an introduction to the white paper "Be Nice. Share Your Data."
Information is the fuel for click-driven commerce as well as brick-and-mortar businesses. How your organization uses information is a critical differentiator separating it from every competitor.
Organizations that are the most successful at collecting, evaluating, and applying information are consistently industry leaders. This article provides some insight into how to solve these challenges and help organizations find new ways to deliver the right information at accelerated speeds throughout the business.
More Information Expectations, Less Time and Budget
Do these situations sound familiar?
- Your company recently merged with a rival. Your centralized applications have used the same standards for years and have been consolidated onto one UNIX platform with several Windows servers. The new acquisition relied on a distributed environment and comes with a mix of IBM i, Oracle, and SQL databases and both Oracle and SAP critical applications. How do you integrate these organizations without undertaking a costly, year-long integration effort?
- One user community needs real-time query access to selected production data kept on an IBM Power Systems server running IBM i with a DB2 for i database. They would like this data rendered to a SQL Server database that hosts GUIs and applications that are familiar to end users.
- A large retail firm acquired a new pricing application that runs on a Windows/SQL Server platform. The organization needs to share pricing updates, in real time, with back-office applications that run on Solaris/Informix.
If you're like most small and mid-sized organizations, your environment evolved into this conglomeration. Some applications were internally developed, some bought from third parties, while others were acquired through mergers and acquisitions.
The inability to easily share data across platforms and application silos poses a significant obstacle to business strategies that require a more nimble, adaptable and knowledgeable enterprise.
Today, information is a boardroom issue. That puts pressure on IT executives to determine how all of these application silos can share data in a timely manner. Meanwhile, they must find a solution that keeps costs low.
More than ever, there is a demand for IT to deliver innovation. Your IBM i has been an essential part of your business operations for years. However, your organization may struggle to maintain the current system and implement new projects. The thousands of customers we've worked with and surveyed state that expectations regarding the digital footprint and vision of the company are not aligned with the current IT environment.
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Forms of ransomware has been around for over 30 years, and with more and more organizations suffering attacks each year, it continues to endure. What has made ransomware such a durable threat and what is the best way to combat it? In order to prevent ransomware, organizations must first understand how it works.
Disaster protection is vital to every business. Yet, it often consists of patched together procedures that are prone to error. From automatic backups to data encryption to media management, Robot automates the routine (yet often complex) tasks of iSeries backup and recovery, saving you time and money and making the process safer and more reliable. Automate your backups with the Robot Backup and Recovery Solution. Key features include:
Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory pressures require faster application updates and delivery into production. Your IBM i developers may be approaching retirement, and you see no sure way to fill their positions with experienced developers. In addition, you may be caught between maintaining your existing applications and the uncertainty of moving to something new.
IT managers hoping to find new IBM i talent are discovering that the pool of experienced RPG programmers and operators or administrators with intimate knowledge of the operating system and the applications that run on it is small. This begs the question: How will you manage the platform that supports such a big part of your business? This guide offers strategies and software suggestions to help you plan IT staffing and resources and smooth the transition after your AS/400 talent retires. Read on to learn:
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