The other day, I was chatting with a company CEO who’d just completed a major merger. He was excited about the growth opportunities but had one big concern: “60+% of our business transactions are completed via EDI documents and our EDI costs are out of control,” he confided. “We are charged by EDI document processed […]
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“Our EDI expert retired, and we don’t employ an EDI person anymore – I want a company to be responsible instead of another hire.” When a logistics company CEO told me this last month, it crystallized something I’ve been hearing across the industry. Companies aren’t just struggling with EDI technology. They’re facing a dramatic loss
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Recently, I have heard from many leading companies across various industries that are seeking modern EDI solutions to enhance their existing, challenging-to-maintain solutions. From retail giants processing millions of POs to manufacturers coordinating complex supply chains, businesses are discovering that EDI doesn’t have to be a bottleneck in business processes. Modern EDI solutions are revolutionizing
Last week, I had a conversation with the CIO of a mid-sized manufacturing company about IBM i integration services that has stuck with me. “Dan,” he said, “we just lost the programmer who did all of our integration work (APIs, EDI, etc.) to retirement, and now we need to connect our system to three new
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In today’s interconnected computing landscape, IBM i security has become a critical concern as these systems often find themselves in a precarious position. They typically house an organization’s most vital data while sometimes operating as “security islands” within the enterprise architecture. As I speak with CIOs and IT leaders, I frequently hear confidence about enterprise-wide
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Do you know with certainty what code you actually have running in production? Does the source location match the location identified in the object description? Are you really aware of what changes are being made to the code and whether that code is protected from potential security vulnerabilities? Implementing proper IBM i DevOps security practices
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Our previous security blogs explored how IBM i systems are often isolated from enterprise security architectures and discussed implementing technologies like Okta for Multi-Factor Authentication. Our last blog focused on the vulnerabilities inherent in using Basic Authentication and the reasons to replace Basic Authentication with more modern authentication methods. Today, I want to focus on
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In our previous security blogs, we’ve discussed how IBM i systems are often treated as “security islands” within enterprise architectures. Today, I want to tackle a practical solution to this problem: integrating your IBM i with Okta for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Single Sign-On (SSO). Why IBM i Security Integration Matters Almost weekly, I meet
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Last month, I had an eye-opening conversation with a development team lead who was in the final stages of completing a several months long project building his company’s first APIs for their IBM i. They were struggling with a few final bugs and some performance issues but he told me that their biggest concern was
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IBM i API security has become a critical concern as organizations expand their integration strategies. Many IBM i teams unknowingly compromise their system security through outdated IBM i access authentication practices. The most concerning vulnerability? Using and storing IBM i credentials for IBM i access from other systems is a practice that creates multiple security
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