Get Full Lifecycle DevOps Automation using Open-Source DevOps Tools In my many recent conversations with IBM i users regarding modernization, one recurring theme has stood out: a strong desire to harness the power of Git for IBM i source code version control. However, many of these users have used IBM i native change management tools […]
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As a CIO, you’ve likely seen the transformative impact that modern DevOps practices can have across an organization. You recognize that there are reasons over 100 million developers around the world use Git for version control and tools like Jenkins and Azure Pipelines for process automation. Increased visibility to changes, faster debugging, higher productivity, streamlined
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With over 100 million users worldwide, Git is the world’s most popular version control system—and for good reason. Combined with cloud platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket, Git offers unparalleled capabilities for tracking changes, managing parallel development, simplifying audits, automating code promotion, securing source code, and more. Yet, despite its ubiquity, Git has
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Top Technology Trends for IBM i Professionals: Part V The good news is that all of us who have avoided modernizing our IBM i green screens until now may have dodged that bullet. We might be able to avoid screen modernization altogether. The days of filling in fixed forms to share data, whether between individual
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Top Technology Trends for IBM i Professionals: Part IV Way back in the early 80s, we used to joke that there was a machine that could write application programs automatically – the problem was it required three meals a day, a salary, and eight hours of sleep each night. We would tell customers that you
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As the CEO of Eradani, I’ve had countless conversations with trucking and logistics executives across North America. One theme comes up time and time again: the challenge of modernizing EDI processes while preserving investments in legacy IBM i systems. Just last month, I sat down with a CIO who summed it up perfectly: “We love
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Last week, I received a call from a distraught CIO of a major trucking company. “Dan,” he said, his voice tinged with worry, “our EDI expert just retired, and she took 30 years of knowledge with her. We’re in the middle of a major merger, which means onboarding a whole new set of EDI trading
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I was skeptical of the value that generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.ai could provide for building code until one of our salespeople showed me how he could generate real-world, useful IBM i-based integrations without having any programming skills. He used the latest release of Eradani Connect with its new AI-based Eradani Assist module
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Last week, I spoke with two separate IBM i companies struggling with the same issue. They had the opportunity to onboard new customers, but their EDI vendor told them it would take weeks to set up the EDI connections. The companies risked losing the deals before they even got started. Their frustration struck a chord
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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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