Archive for July, 2010

Igxglobal adds altor network’s market-leading software to its cloud security portfolio

July 31st, 2010

A leading information technology integrator of performance and security based IT solutions, today announces that it has enhanced its cloud security product and service offerings with software from Altor Networks, the leading innovator and solution provider of virtualization and cloud protection.

With the addition of Altor’s platform, igxglobal is able to offer its broad base of enterprise and government customers with the visibility, control and compliance they need for their virtualized data centers and private clouds.

igxglobal selected Altor based on the company’s comprehensive solution and established dominance in virtual security innovation. Named the “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2010,” Altor provides layers of security for virtualized environments, including continuous monitoring, stateful firewalling, intrusion detection, VM introspection, compliance assessment and automated virtual machine (VM) security.

This powerful feature set delivers the highest levels of security and cloud resource isolation possible in a high – performance VMware VMsafe-certified package.

“igxglobal has distinguished itself by providing the solutions and expertise their clients need in order to streamline operations and fortify their security initiatives,” said Media Landry, Vice President of Sales and Partner Relations for igxglobal North America.

“Altor gives us the technology that enables our customers to securely virtualize their environments. igxglobal provides the skills and services that helps our customers get the most out of their investments.”

The number of organizations that have virtualized their data centers and implemented private clouds are experiencing double-digit growth – therefore more critical workloads are taking the form of virtual machines.

Altor ensures that each VM and VM group remains isolated from its neighbors with a continuously applied security policy that ensures proper access and compliance state.

“From our experience with customers, they want to virtualize sooner rather than later, however security concerns are the main roadblock to the efficiency gains and cost savings offered by virtualization platforms,” said Neil Stratz, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Altor.

“With Altor v4.0, igxglobal offers its customers the most in depth view of their virtualized environment and the highest protection. igxglobal’s expertise in implementing and optimizing virtualized data centers is what our customers are looking for in a provider of comprehensive and secure cloud-computing solutions.”

Source:http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/07/prweb4327294.htm

Realtyjuggler real estate software adds video tutorials

July 31st, 2010

Today, RealOrganized, Inc. announced the availability of video tutorials for their flagship real estate CRM product – RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software.

RealtyJuggler is an online organizational tool for real-estate agents and other real estate professionals.

The software allows Realtors to track prospects, listings and deals, send letters, print mailing labels, and much more.

“Pull up a cozy chair, and pop some popcorn. These video tutorials cover the most common questions that our clients have asked us over the past 7 years. We have distilled this information into small video tutorials covering specific topics.

So, if you have a question about something in particular, just watch the short video clip and you are all set.” says RealOrganized, Inc’s president and CEO, Scott Schmitz.

These video clips are available for free to all RealtyJuggler users and are available by signing into RealtyJuggler and clicking on the YouTube Video Tutorials icon from the main screen.

In addition to video tutorials, this latest upgrade includes over 30 user-requested feature enhancements.

These enhancements cover the full range of the product including automatic formatting of phone numbers, SMTP eMail support, wildcard category filtering, support for the Apple iPAD, improved tab support, improved custom mail merge variables, and much more.

RealtyJuggler is sold on a subscription basis and costs $99 / year. Subscription includes automatic data backup, technical support and free upgrades.

RealtyJuggler requires no installation and runs from any modern web browser such as Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox on either a Mac or Microsoft Windows PC. Visit the company web site for a 90-day free trial.

A free trial is exactly that – a no-cost free way to try out the software. You are never charged or billed for a free trial.

About RealOrganized, Inc. – RealOrganized is a corporation founded in 2003 by a former executive from AOL and a top real estate agent, each with over a dozen years experience in their respective fields.

The company’s mission is to create organizational software for the real estate industry.

RealOrganized and RealtyJuggler are trademarks of RealOrganized, Inc. Realtor is a registered trademark of the National Association of Realtors.

Source:http://www.prleap.com/pr/157686/

Oracle launches serialisation software for pharma

July 31st, 2010

Oracle has launched its Pedigree and Serialisation Manager (OPSM) software application designed to help pharmaceutical manufacturers implement mass serialisation and traceability of their products.

Serialisation is seen as a way for drugmakers to defend their products against counterfeiting and diversion by allowing packs of medicines to be tracked through the supply chain or at least verified at the point of dispensing.

Oracle’s platform comes at a time when pharmaceutical manufacturers are starting to upgrade their packaging lines to accommodate serialisation initiatives in a number of countries around the world.

A number of national serialisation initiatives are already in place in Europe and neighbouring Turkey, while other countries such as the USA, Brazil and China are also working towards this objective.

Meanwhile, various states in the USA as well as the federal authorities are looking into the feasibility of implementing a more comprehensive ePedigree-type system – involving a non-repudiable, electronic provenance document that would follow a product through the supply chain, recording the chain of custody and ownership.

Oracle says its new platform can handle either model and will “reduce business and reputational risk associated with the rising incidence of drug counterfeiting and product diversion while extending value across the pharmaceutical supply chain.”

The OPSM application generates serial numbers for products, stores the data and transmits and authenticates it as pharmaceutical products move across the supply chain, says Oracle.

It is built on the company’s core Fusion middleware software and a service-orientated architecture (SOA) to ensure it can be integrated into any enterprise software platform.

The application is also Web- and cloud-friendly with a user interface designed to let managers quickly view and access the entire life history of any given unit of medicine.

Benefits outside of supply chain security include making product recalls more efficient and reconciling product returns against product shipped.

“Ensuring supply chain integrity is not only about compliance and protecting your brand, it’s also about protecting your bottom line,” said Oracle’s Jon Chorley.

“By definitively identifying your products in the supply chain and providing a broad set of analytic insights on that data, OPSM will deliver both.”

Source:http://www.securingpharma.com/40/articles/536.php

2010 ezpaycheck payroll software enables first time users calculate payroll and printing paychecks immediately

July 31st, 2010

ezPaycheck 2010’s interface is so intuitive and user-friendly that first time users can start calculating payroll and printing paychecks immediately.

The long learning curve typically associated with financial software is non-existent with ezPaycheck, even if the user does not have an accounting background.

The affordable, super-simple, custom streamlined payroll and tax software – was designed with direct input and guidance from those who use it “in the trenches” every day.

The newly upgraded version of the already popular product was updated with new state and federal tax tables, plus other intelligent changes recommended by customers.

“We believe payroll and tax software should be designed for the non-technical people who are actual end-users,” explains Mark Ge, President and Founder of ezPaycheck.

“We always keep in mind that our customers are small business owners, not computer whizzes or financial gurus. But that makes them the best possible people to listen to when designing payroll software, so we include them as members of our design team.”

Source:http://rfpconnect.com/news/2010/7/30/2010-ezpaycheck-payroll-software-enables-first-time-users-calculate-payroll-and-printing-paychecks-immediately

CSC named a leading vendor in celent’s insurance software deal trends study

July 31st, 2010

Today announced it has been named a leading technology provider in multiple categories of Celent’s 2010 Insurance Software Deal Trends study, published in two editions.

Celent, a financial services technology research and advisory firm, identified CSC as a leader in Property and Casualty (P&C) core claims in the P&C edition and as one of the leading vendors in the Infrastructure & Financial, Distribution and Policy Administration subcategories in both the Life/Health/Annuity and Property/Casualty editions.

This recognition reflects CSC’s deal volume in each of these subcategories.

Celent’s 2010 Insurance Software Deal Trends study ranks insurance software companies based on number of contracts signed in 2008 and 2009 and collected data on more than 2,000 deals with insurers. In the same reports, CSC was named as a “Traction Index” leader, ranking in the top five, out of 40 industry vendors.

The Traction Index is more a measure of activity than it is of revenue or expertise.

“The data reported in the sixth edition of our Deal Trends report suggests that deal flow has increased, despite conditions in the general economy, as insurers seek solutions to help them grow, improve services and lower costs,” said Karen Monks, Insurance analyst, Celent.

“We also found that, in recent times of financial constraint, insurers chose to stay with the vendors they know and trust.”

“Delivery excellence in support of client projects is a top priority at CSC,” said Ray August, president of CSC’s Financial Services Group.

“For more than 30 years, CSC’s mission-critical software, comprehensive services and global IT infrastructure have helped insurers reduce costs, improve productivity and achieve their business objectives.”

The Deal Trends reports provide readers with a snapshot of leading software vendors in the insurance vertical and insights into functions that carriers are targeting for investment.

They were written as independent reports for Celent’s insurance research subscribers and were not sponsored or directed by CSC or any other company.

Source:http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/software-deal-trends-study,1404081.html

IBM offers vars bounties for displacing competing software products

July 31st, 2010

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is offering its channel partners some added incentives to displace software from competitors SAP (NYSE:SAP), Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ).

In a note sent to software resellers Friday, Sandy Carter, vice president of IBM Software Group business partners, said the company would pay up to twice the usual margins — what IBM calls “software value incentives” — for the competitive displacements.

The “Up to Double SVI” offer expands on a program IBM launched in April to provide resellers with incentives to target Oracle and Sun Microsystems software customers. The bonuses can be worth as much as 40 percent of a contract’s value — twice the average margin for partner software sales.

“Our partners are really accelerating these migrations,” Carter said in a phone interview this week, adding that IBM partners have some 40 deals in the pipeline that qualify for the bonus.

IBM is offering the incentives to resellers of its Cognos business intelligence software if they displace Oracle Discoverer or Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher software in a customer account, Carter said.

Also eligible are Cognos reseller wins among customers who own Hyperion Enterprise, Pillar, Brio and Essbase — products Oracle acquired when it bought Hyperion Solutions in 2007 for $3.3 billion.

Resellers of IBM’s WebSphere middleware are likewise eligible for the bonus if they convince customers to swap out Oracle’s WebLogic Server (which came with Oracle’s BEA Systems acquisition in 2008) or Sun’s Java Composite Application Platform Suite (JCAPS), which Oracle has said it will continue to support, but will no longer develop.

SAP just completed its $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase (NYSE:SY ), and IBM is offering the SVI bonus for channel partners who can migrate Sybase database software owners to IBM’s DB2 database. “We’re seeing a lot of requests from our clients who still have Sybase,” Carter said.

And IBM is targeting owners of HP’s software testing tools, which HP acquired in 2006 when it bought Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion, with its IBM Rational development tools.

Carter said the idea for that specific incentive came from Rational channel partners at the IBM Innovate 2010 conference in Orlando last month.

Carter said IBM is looking to its channel partners to help expand its market share in the middleware arena.

Last week IBM reported that its software sales grew only 2 percent in the second quarter, although WebSphere sales were up 17 percent and sales of the company’s Tivoli systems management toolset grew 18 percent.

But Rational software sales were up only 1 percent sales of IBM Lotus applications dropped 6 percent. Information management software sales grew 7 percent.

Source:http://www.crn.com/software/226400064;jsessionid=KO4SO1NXIOAP1QE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN

Irs develops tax helper software for prompt submission of tax returns

July 31st, 2010

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has designed and developed a Tax Helper Software to facilitate prompt submission of tax returns by taxpayers and clients.

The application of the software system, dubbed, (Pay-As-You-Earn), facilitates the processing of tax returns and produces accurate calculation as against using either the excel method on the computer or manual calculation, Mrs Freda Badger, the District Manager of the IRS, in Takoradi, stated on Thursday.

She
was addressing a workshop to sensitize tax payers in Small and Medium Enterprises from the Western Region on the application of the software.

Mrs Badger noted that though the system was introduced a year ago to assist taxpayers in the preparation of the monthly returns, patronage was still low.

The District Manager said the change in the Social Security Rate from five to 5.5 percent and the introduction of new tax rates by the IRS should compel the tax payers to apply the innovative technology for faster processing of the returns.

Mr Patrick Danso, Information Communication Technology (ICT) analyst of the IRS, took the participants through the application of the software and urged the management of their Enterprises to ensure that their accountants applied it to solve the problem of underpayment and other mistakes.

He said the software system would also help address the imposition of penalties caused by undue delay in the submission of tax returns.

Source:http://accra-mail.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20505:irs-develops-tax-helper-software-for-prompt-submission-of-tax-returns&catid=62:business&Itemid=211

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