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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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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.

Guide

A Single Pane of Glass for Multi-Platform Systems Management

Bring disparate systems, platforms, devices, and applications together in one place and on one screen to make systems management easier and create a consistent and common methodology to varying departments within the IT infrastructure. Combining Halcyon’s Enterprise Console, Operations Center Suite, and Network Server Suite can provide a single pane of glass for managing your IT environment. See how here.

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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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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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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.

Article

All About Alert Intelligence

By Andrew Bullivant on Thu, 02/13/2020

Thanks to intelligent filtering, the Alert Intelligence feature included in IBM i Server Suite improves the quality of IBM i alerts while reducing the quantity, providing increased application availability and system uptime.

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Availability Reporting for Managed Service Providers

By Paul Ratchford on Wed, 02/12/2020

Proving that you are meeting service-level agreements shouldn’t be a wasted effort. In fact, it should strengthen your relationship with clients and help your team manage performance in the future. See how.

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Log File Monitoring in IBM i Server Suite

By Paul Ratchford on Mon, 01/27/2020

Log File Monitor can monitor the contents of files in the integrated file system (IFS) and raise alerts based on this content. Read on to learn more.

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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How to Get Your BI Project Approved

Fri, 09/22/2017

Your organization needs business intelligence. But how will you sell upper management on your BI project?

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What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?

By Paul Ratchford on Thu, 09/14/2017

Guard against degraded system performance, data loss, and downtime. Make sure you’re monitoring these 15 metrics on the IBM i operating system.

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6 Enhancements in IBM i Server Suites Version 7

By Paul Ratchford on Fri, 06/23/2017

What's new in version 7 of IBM i Server Suites? Read this article to find out.

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Use Conditional Logic in Sequel Data Access to Convert Data into Meaningful Information

By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 03/30/2017

Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era . A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky. If you...