|
ASYSCO
Announces Addition to ASYSCO Migration Technology
Suite
ASYSCO,
a leader in Unisys mainframe migrations, has announced
the latest addition to its ASYSCO Migration Technology
suite: AMT-VS (Visual Studio). With AMT-VS, ASYSCO
automatically migrates Unisys COBOL or LINC applications,
OS/2200 or MCP, to Visual Studio (C# or VB.NET) with
a SQL database with no changes to customers' business
logic.
“There
are not many people out there that actually will take
a Unisys application, COBOL or LINC, and truly migrate
it to another language,” Janet Jackson, marketing
and technology consultant, ASYSCO, told 5 Minute Briefing.
“To actually migrate it and preserve all the
business rules and everything that goes along with
it, is kind of rare to find. That is what we do,”
Jackson said.
“What
we pride ourselves on is that we do the migration
automatically. We have translators that we’ve
built, and we have experts onsite that have years
of Unisys experience, so they know all the little
nuances of either Unisys A series or Unisys 2200 customers
and everything that goes into those applications.
We have built those nuances into the filters so when
that code and data goes through the filters, all of
those nuances are automatically handled.”
While
there are many customers who continue to
use ASYSCO's flagship product, LION, “and
absolutely love it,” said Jackson, ASYSCO has
also found with some larger organizations that either
the proprietary aspect of LION swayed them away or
they had an internal declaration to go into a C# or
VB .NET environment. “That is what precipitated
this whole new tool that we are offering to migrate
organization’s Unisys applications to Visual
Studio. We saw a need in the environment to offer
them that,” said Jackson.
AMT-VS
will be available to the general public January 2008.
For more information, go here.
Back
to top
Unisys Unveils New Compact Remote Deposit Scanners
for Banks and Corporate Clients
Unisys
Corp. has announced the Unisys SmartSource Series,
a family of image capture devices that allow banks
and corporate clients to process checks and other
payment items remotely at faster speeds and in a more
efficient and secure operating environment. The new
family of image capture devices has a similar name
to its predecessor, John Wezner, program manager for
payment systems operating unit, Unisys, told 5 Minute
Briefing. “We have had the Source NDP since
1999 and there have been over 35,0000 of those deployed
worldwide,” said Wezner, adding it is known
for its reliability. The new devices offer that same
level of reliability, he said, “but we have
also added a lot more intelligence into the machine.”
The
new devices’ compact design allows for front-counter
(at the teller station) or back-office capture, and
provides the speeds necessary to handle increasing
volumes of check image exchange. Immediate image capture
allows customers to more quickly identify item defects,
save time in corrections, and help improve fraud detection.
In addition, on-board intelligent processing features
improve image quality and security, including the
ability to digitally sign the image while the item
is still in the scanner. “With the incorporation
of Check 21, it has really caused a shift in the industry
to a more distributed capture,” observed Wezner.
“When Check 21 first started out, the thought
was that the banks were all going to jump on this
very quickly and they did start to jump on it,”
said Wezner. But just as quickly, he noted, the cash
management area within the banks also saw that if
a store that receives 50 or 100 checks a day for example
had a scanner, they could easily send the image to
the bank as well, thereby increasing speed and security.
The Unisys SmartSource series includes three model
product lines: the Value series, the Professional
series and the Expert series. For low-volume users,
the Value series offers a low-cost of entry as well
as easy integration with current systems. The Professional
series offers customizable capabilities including
speed and feeder size and can be upgraded to increase
functionality from 30 document scans per minute to
120, as remote deposit capture needs change. Like
the Professional series, the Expert series is designed
for medium-to-high volume users. It provides scalable
scanning capabilities and one or two pocket sorting
for greater flexibility. The Expert series is the
only scanner to work as a truly intelligent device
with its own operating system. It works independent
from a personal computer by connecting directly to
the user’s network. Users can also directly
connect it to printers or other peripheral devices.
Built
on a common platform, the SmartSource series devices
capitalize on Unisys SOA Vision, a service-oriented
architecture (SOA)-based suite for distributed capture
and image analysis. The use of Web services provides
clients with the ease and flexibility to more quickly
incorporate new products and services within their
enterprise. The Professional series is available now,
while the
Expert series and Value series will be available in
April 2008. For more information, visit here.
Back
to top
KMSYS Worldwide is Moving
KMSYS
Worldwide is moving. The new address is 1905 Woodstock
Road; Suite 2100; Roswell, GA; 30075. The phone numbers
for the company will remain the same. For more information
about the company, go here.
Back
to top
Database Management Professionals in Hot Demand
Overall hiring in IT should remain solid in the first
quarter of the year and database management professionals
are among the most in demand, according to the Robert
Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report,
released last week. The report is developed by Robert
Half Technology, a leading provider of IT professionals
and based on a survey conducted by an independent
research group.
According
to the report, 13 percent of CIOs plan to add information
technology (IT) staff and three percent anticipate
personnel reductions in the first quarter of 2008
The net 10 percent hiring increase compares with a
net 12 percent increase projected last quarter. The
majority of respondents, 82 percent, foresee no change
in their staffing activity in the next three months.
The Hiring Index and Skills Report is based on interviews
with more than 1,400 CIOs from a stratified random
sample of U.S. companies with 100 or more employees.
Database management professionals are third most in
demand, according to the report, trailing only Windows
administrators and network administrators. Twenty-seven
percent of CIOs polled said business growth is the
leading reason for expanding their IT departments.
Increased need for customer and/or end-user support
(20 percent), and the management of systems upgrades
(19 percent) were also cited as leading factors. For
more details from the report, go here.
Unisphere
Research, the research arm of Unisphere 5 Minute Briefing
and Database Trends and Applications magazine, conducts
proprietary research with leading IT user groups.
To read abstracts of these studies, go here.
Are you interested in having proprietary research
conducted for your company about issues of concern
to you? For more information, send an email to Tom@dbta.com.
Back
to top
|
