Guide
Key Performance Indicators and the Reporting Tools for Success
Learn why KPIs are a must for any business intelligence strategy—and how you can apply them.
Guide
Dispelling the Myths of IBM i Data Access
Ironically, many IBM Power Systems™ users are sitting on top of a “gold mine” of data that they could use to make their lives easier, their jobs more productive, and their companies more profitable—if they only knew how to harvest it. Yet, they don’t have the first idea about how to do that. They might even be considered “power users” on their computer systems and not know how to transform the...
Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Fills Encryption Gap With Linoma Buy
Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.
Press Release
HelpSystems (now Fortra) Expands its Business Process Automation Offerings with Acquisition of Network Automation, Inc.
With this acquisition, Fortra offers one of the industry's most comprehensive IT and business process automation portfolios with virtual and cloud-based technology, as well as a broad set of application integrations.
Case Study
Telecom Company Meets Strict Service Requirements & Prevents Major Service Failure
Organization Description: Voice and data services provider focusing on serving customers in rural areas and small to mid-sized cities. The company has greater than three million customers in 22 states and annual revenues of $2.4 billion.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Client uses Vityl to identify bottlenecks in applications and to eliminate unnecessary hardware...
Case Study
Selling the Capacity Upgrade
Company Overview: This financial technology provider delivers banking and payments technologies to more than 8,000 financial services firms and businesses worldwide.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): The company’s capacity planners use carefully chosen workload definitions in conjunction with predictive modeling to show their management the business rationale for...
Case Study
Legislature Uses Capacity Planning Software to Optimize IT Services
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): This legislative body uses Vityl Capacity Management to find and identify performance problems, plan for the future, assist in time management and be more proactive.
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Case Study
Simcona Connects Electronic Data Distribution to Savings with Sequel and Esend
Business pundits promised us paperless organizations decades ago. Simcona Electronics has taken great strides toward that lower-cost, more productive future with the help of SEQUEL and ESEND.
Case Study
Mayline Quickly Turns Data into Insight with Sequel Data Access
It took too long for Mayline to access iSeries data with Query/400 and report on it with RPG programming. Find out how Sequel saved time all-around.
Case Study
Improving Informatica ETL Processing
"Now Automate Schedule manages the schedule and we save four to five hours a day and get everything finished on time.”
Case Study
Data Analysis Software Helps Urban Outfitters Analyze Customer Behavior
To understand trends and customer behavior, Urban Outfitters needed an IBM i data analysis tool. They got it with Sequel.
Case Study
Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital Uses Sequel Data Reports to Deliver First Class Care
Houston Orthopedic & Spine Hospital (located in Houston, Texas) had a data reporting problem.
They needed a better way to bring information together. And they found it with Sequel Data Access, data analysis and reporting software from Fortra.
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Case Study
Tipton Hospital and Sequel: A Great Team
IU Health Tipton Hospital found that the Return On Investment for Sequel was fast. “We’ve really cut down on printing—we cut our report volume in half and that means a nice savings. Sequel has saved us a lot of money. It’s also nice that it’s so easy to put the data into Excel.
Case Study
Texollini's Relies on Sequel: The Right Tool for System i Data Access
One of the day-to-day challenges faced by Texollini was how to deal with its System i data. Texollini found the right tool for these tasks in Sequel Data Access, the HelpSystems business intelligence solution for the IBM® System i.™