Guide
How to Do IT Cost Optimization
Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
Guide
Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It
With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.
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Managing Data and Healthcare Regulations Efficiently
The right Business Intelligence (BI) tool can address the twin challenges of today's healthcare industry and regulations: efficient, secure information retrieval and effective monitoring of day-to-day operations.
In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Title XIII of ARRA, called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical...
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...
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Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data.
The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and...
Case Study
Tablet-Based Forms Reduce Errors and Improve Productivity at FRS
FRS rents commercial dishwashers. Rental agreements include maintenance and chemical supplies. To service these contracts, technicians visit customers monthly to inspect and maintain the equipment and ensure customers have adequate chemicals.
Case Study
Forms Keep on Trucking at Cequent with the Help of Fortra
To optimize efficiency, Cequent wanted a complete form production, management and filing solution that could automatically route documents to users’ electronic inboxes either based on the document’s contents or source or by using pre-defined routing definitions.
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
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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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.
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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.™
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Sequel Helps Stewart & Stevenson Keep Moving Forward
Much like the 24/7 support it provides to customers, Stewart & Stevenson has found around-the-clock service for data access and analysis with Sequel. Sequel helps support continuous operations by reading and converting different types of data.