The implementation of STREAM, a cloud-based order, delivery and transport management software application has enabled Scandinavian House with Proximity to scoop its second major award this week after winning the European Supply Chain Excellence ‘Best SME’ Award. Now in their nineteenth year, the awards celebrate the ‘very best in supply chain and logistics’ across Europe.…

PowerWire has a new publisher in the form of NC Communications. Lymm, Cheshire-based NC Communications is already well-known in the British midrange sector as the co-host of UK user group i-UG’s International Power conferences. The company took over PowerWire in November 2015 after negotiations with the site’s former owner, Cue Communications, based in Manchester. Former publishing editor…

Oracle put the boot into IBM’s Power Systems last month but it may find its users are unimpressed. Oracle launched a new programme called Exa Your Power at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. The idea is to wean Oracle database users off their AIX-flavoured Power Systems hardware with proof-of-concept promises of 15 times better…

i-UG, the UK’s IBM i user group, is to hold a big event in Wolverhampton next month. Its winter conference will take place at the city’s Mount Hotel (pictured, above) on November 26 and is free to all i-UG members. Colin Spofford, i-UG secretary and treasurer, says: “This event would normally be a single stream…

IBM made a slew of Power Systems announcements on Monday including new hardware, an updated version of AIX and two Technology Refreshes for IBM i. Big Blue also removed free-form RPG’s 80-column limit. IBM i OS version 7.1 got its eleventh Technology Refresh and the more up-to-date version 7.2 got its third. Both will be…

SoftLanding Systems, the IBM i software division of Unicom Global, has launched Columbus, an enterprise content management solution for Power Systems. Columbus was developed by Macro 4, Unicom’s document management arm, and runs on IBM i, AIX or Linux. It takes output from existing apps, including spool and data files, transforms it into new digital…

Britain’s biggest children’s charity has completely revamped a crucial IBM i-based application that looked like it was up for the chop. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is one of the UK’s best-known third-sector organisations. Founded in 1884 and headquartered in London, it employs around 2,500 staff and 1,700 volunteers…

Once again, PowerWire is getting behind HelpSystem’s mission to find out what’s going on in the wonderful world of IBM i. Yup, it’s time to fill out the 2016 IBM i Marketplace Survey. The multifaceted midrange specialist’s annual questionnaire provides an intriguing snapshot of the global i ecosystem. What’s more, this year you can choose…

In my experience, most IBM Power shops are either AIX or IBM i, but rarely both. As a predominantly AIX type, I have admired the enthusiasm of the IBM i people I’ve run across, but I’ve really had very little crossover in terms of common projects. Until pretty recently, that is. What brought this hardened…

Organisers at next week’s International i-Power conference have made a last-minute addition to an already jam-packed agenda. American expert Scott Forstie will present a 45 minute session entitled Introducing IBM i Services. International i-Power 2015 is British midrange user group i-UG’s biggest event of the year. PowerWire is media sponsor. It will be held at…

The company behind some of the UK’s best-known culinary brands has used STREAM from Proximity to improve its order-taking. Leigh, Lancashire-based AB World Foods produces Patak’s, Blue Dragon and Levi Roots sauces and condiments. It runs Infor’s IBM i-based LX (née BPCS) ERP package on Power7 hardware to process orders from Britain’s big supermarket chains…