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Top Three Reasons Mobile Data Access Will Be Your Savior
Tue, 11/22/2022
In today’s business world, you need data access beyond the green screen and GUI. Read this article to learn how mobile data access in a friendly browser interface will save you.
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Sequel Tips and Tricks: Simplify Data Access with the Excel Add-In
Thu, 07/21/2022
Find out how to work with your Sequel data directly in Microsoft Excel.
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The Difference Between OCR and IDP
Thu, 06/23/2022
Compare optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) to learn when to use each to make structured and unstructured data more usable.
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Content Intelligence: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
By Greg J. Schmidt on Fri, 02/18/2022
There are many different strategies a company can employ to help drive their organization to the next level. But why not use what you already have in your hands? Connect your content, documents, and information together to drive your business to the next level.
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5 Things to Try During Your Sequel Data Access Trial
By Stacy Jensen on Mon, 12/13/2021
Ready to start your Sequel Data Access business intelligence (BI) software trial? Here are five things you need to try.
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5 Reasons IT Teams Purchase Sequel Data Access
Thu, 12/09/2021
IT teams are under a lot of pressure to keep up in today's business world. Sequel can help relieve the pressure. Learn how.
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5 Time-Saving Tips for Smart Data Access on IBM i
By Stacy Jensen on Wed, 11/17/2021
Is there too much on your IT department’s plate? Get five tips for saving time today with smart data access on IBM i.
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13 FAQs on Switching from Query/400 to Sequel
By Heath Kath on Wed, 10/20/2021
Find out why you should choose Sequel Data Access for your IBM i queries—and leave Query/400 behind.
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Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management
Tue, 08/24/2021
Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.
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Performance Navigator vs. IBM PM400
By Randy Watson on Mon, 01/25/2021
This article presents a technical review of how Performance Navigator stacks up as a replacement for IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM400).
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IBM i Can Be Your Data Warehouse
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 08/10/2020
Thanks to Sequel Data Warehouse, shops using both Windows and IBM i can move their essential data storage and reporting back to the more reliable IBM i. See how here.
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FAQ: How Does Sequel Data Access Go Beyond SQL?
Mon, 08/10/2020
Got questions about moving beyond SQL to Sequel Data Access? Get answers, and get the business intelligence your organization needs from your IBM i data.
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How Do I Know When I Need a Data Warehouse?
By Alan Jordan on Fri, 08/07/2020
It can be a challendge to bring information together from across disparate sources, especially when the data is stored in different formats or with mismatched identifiers. You're likely to encounter issues that a reporting tool by itself simply cannot solve. Read on to learn why you should consider a data warehouse vs. just a database.
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Three Advanced Scripting Tips That Help Solve Reporting Challenges
By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/08/2020
See how Sequel scripts make it easy to link together multi-step processes rather than manually running a series of steps to accomplish a complex task.
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Why Relying on Scripted Operations Can Be a Problem for Your Business
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/31/2020
Scripting provides a powerful platform to automate simple tasks, but overusing custom scripts is hazardous for your business.
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Capacity Planning and the Culture of Proof
By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Fri, 05/31/2019
Capacity planning is one of the most important things that a company will do, and yet there are still many companies that do it on the back of the envelope. Read this article and learn how to do it right.
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Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.
Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
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How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.