The other day, I was chatting with a logistics company CEO who’d just completed a major merger. He was excited about the growth opportunities but had one big concern: “Our EDI costs are out of control,” he confided. “Every time we onboard a new customer or need to make a change to a current trading […]
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In recent years, logistics companies have been leading the way in increasing revenue, reducing costs, and enhancing customer service via online business-to-business connections. Tenders, Invoices, Status Updates, Acknowledgements, POs, Bills of Lading, and other critical documents are being shared and processed electronically without the need for human intervention. With this technology trucking companies can respond
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In the musical “The Music Man,” there is a song in which the townspeople of River City, Iowa, sing about the arrival of the Wells Fargo wagon. In the show, businesses and individuals eagerly await goods they may have ordered weeks or months earlier. How quaint that seems! Today, we can order items in the
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Top Technology Trends for IBM i Professionals: Part III According to a recent Imperva survey, API calls make up more than 70% of all internet traffic. Most Fortune 500 companies are using APIs to transform their companies and their entire way of doing business. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable seamless integration of data and application
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Top Technology Trends for IBM i Professionals: Part II Imagine the power of enhancing your existing applications with exciting new features, all without the need to start from scratch. Open-source modules offer a compelling solution, accelerating your development process while meeting maintenance demands. With countless open-source modules available, many under free licenses like MIT,
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Top Technology Trends for IBM i Professionals: Part I Imagine a world where your customers can effortlessly make changes to their orders without the need for a lengthy conversation with a customer service representative. Picture a world where your IBM i applications can intelligently communicate with your customers, understand their needs, and provide personalized solutions.
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Beyond Legacy Thinking: Embracing the Future of the IBM i All too often, I hear executives dismiss the IBM i as a legacy system slated for replacement. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Innovative companies worldwide continue to leverage the rock-solid IBM i as the core platform for adopting cutting-edge technologies like
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Eradani Connect: The Secret to IBM i (AS/400) Modernization Traditional IBM i environments built on RPG, COBOL, and green-screen interfaces result in technical debt that drags down agility. Modernizing the applications is essential for competitiveness. But transforming those entrenched systems is daunting. This is where Eradani Connect comes in. Eradani Connect provides the secret weapon
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RPG + Python: What to Expect as a First-Time Python Developer The Similarities Between RPG and Python If you’re an experienced RPG developer looking to expand your skills into Python, you may be wondering – just how different are these languages really? While RPG and Python share some common procedural programming concepts, Python offers a
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OCEAN TechCon ’23 Recap The Value of Connecting in Person with the IBM i Community I recently had the pleasure of attending the OCEAN Conference at the Community Center at the Marketplace in Tustin, California. As always, it was a great opportunity to connect face-to-face with our peers in the IBM i community. There’s immense
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