LANSA expands Modernization Portfolio with acquisition of aXes

WOW....LANSA has done it again!  They continue to amaze me.  When many organizations are hunkering down to weather the economic storm, others like Oracle and LANSA charge forward!

 

Quick recap: The aXes eBusiness suite consists of three software modules:

 

•  aXes Terminal Server provides web enablement of 5250 applications with the automatic generation of a highly customizable graphical user interface (GUI).
  
• aXes Data Explorer Server provides an easy way to extract and then publish live DB2/400 data in a browser or to send query output to desktop applications like Microsoft Word and Excel.
• aXes Spool File Server provides point-and-click access to output queues and spool files, with print-ready documents available in PDF, XML, HTML or Text formats.  See complete story and take the product for a spin.

 

Mike Albers of our firm has been having a more in-depth look and thinks several vendors (to be named later) should be very nervous about now and the future direction this suite provides LANSA.

Sharing Internal Data with Google Apps

If you use things like the Start Page (now sites)  or Google App Engine with your Google Apps account, you might find  that you cannot create applications or gadgets that Connect behind your firewall on your internal network. 

 Google released Google SDC — a tool that you can install on a linux box in your organization that basically exposes internal URL’s to things like Google Spreadsheets, Google Gadgets and Google App Engine applications. With access to these local URL’s, you can basically create services that access any of the data that you want to expose.

This definitely makes Google Apps more attractive to organizations that recognize the importance of internally sharing data and creating applications that can use it.  Now we can fully replace corporate portals like WebSphere, SharePoint and Oracle!

Add Images to a Gmail Message

Add Images to a Gmail Message

Until now it wasn't possible to embed or insert an image into a Gmail message using the web based interface; however Gmail Labs have now made iit possible as an optional feature.   

To enable this feature go to the Gmail Labs tab, look for "inserting images" and select enable followed by clicking "save changes."

R&K Partners with Google

Rippe & Kingston is pleased to formally announce that we are a Google Partner. This partnership allows Rippe & Kingston to help businesses of any size take advantage of Google's cloud computing-based office productivity suite.

For the past two years we have been providing deploymnet, development, integration and training service for Google Apps to our existing clients and has been exciting to see the productivity improvements and cost savings realized.

Learn more about our Google Offering.