IBM, Oracle to build on I solution Edition momentum - IT jungle

IBM, Oracle to build on I solution Edition momentum

by Timothy Prickett Morgan of here's welcome good news for the IBM I market: closed big blue has its best quarter in history to do solution Edition bundles for iSeries, System i and power systems machines with OS / 400 and I operating systems. The uptick was no doubt that the used based machines offer, Edition offers price breaks by IBM for solution software licenses and hardware configurations, and wider participation of the enthusiasm of ISV partners which enabled better value for money.How IT jungle previously reported in our four hundred stuff newsletter in January, in the fourth quarter was expected a good for the IBM I solution editions available, which offer customers options for certified application and system software programs on the IBM I run. At the time, we ran our original story that IBM could was reporting its fourth quarter in his time, and not from particular numbers before the. but last week, Guy paradise, worldwide IBM I marketing manager told me", that the entry 720 and 740 machines announced in August last year, and the offers, the IBM in conjunction with the ISV partners power also provides better traction for the solution Edition received machines in the fourth quarter, you might have expected."In the fourth quarter was the best by a long stretch we had ever offered editions for the solution, "said paradise." "It is not just about packaging and discounts." "It comes to reactivation with the customers, to drive the partnership focused joint demand generation activity and a TKTK set of ISVs,."Not numbers be paradise, but he said that IBM sold more solution Edition machines in the fourth quarter of 2010 than it ever in the history of do solution has sold editions in each each quarter. "The track is really strong," paradise of the pickup is to emphasize. And this step up much with ISV partners and has investments in the solution to do Edition program and coordinating with IBM instead of going off on their own.It solution Edition now has 100 participating ISVs, and IBM is working more in the list, in particular the regional ISVs add the target niche and serve as a premier partner for many OS/400 and I shops. I think that IBM helps i5/OS V5R4 licensing prices in January also used solution Edition sales increase trigger, and so are the additional offers IBM offers including price breaks on user activations ($ 70 instead of $250 regular IBM I customers pay). Adding a smaller, four-core power 720 machine in November 2010, probably in the fourth quarter, helped back and will undoubtedly help solution Edition sales in the whole 2011.IBM for ISVs in the solution Edition program, to things that help, get motivated their customer base, and with more modern systems and application software updates. Here is an example for Oracle, the partnership with big blue on as many fronts as it competes with it on. A partnership is for the JD Edwards suite of ERP applications, the most popular to use OS/400, and I support.Two weeks ago Oracle and IBM gathered and announced a new express Installer, with which I solution Edition machines working to simplify and speed up the configuration of the current version of the JDE EnterpriseOne. In particular the Oracle has developed Universal Installer from Oracle tweaked, so can put a stack of JDE EnterpriseOne app release 9.0 Update 2 and the related tools version 8.98.4.1 on a solution Edition-based computer and have it in about four hours. All tuning and configuration required to make to the fields used hum is all store sales by this installer, business partner JDE software or customers who do it itself somewhere between one and two weeks, according to IBM. IBM has allowed for the free service document, perform a dealer for this express installation of JDE the stack using a solution Edition Setup numbers used. Solution over a month earlier than planned, by the way do the configuration of this express installation tool expenditure, which could a little more than expected to help boost sales in the first quarter of this year.The Oracle Universal Installer express works only on the JDE EnterpriseOne 9.0 Update 2-install version, but if for some reason, you need to stay on an earlier release, you can of course each JDE suite to run a solution Edition box. Loop through just a more manual installation process, and that costs you time and/or money. Express Installer is only for used solution editions, available so if you ältere-on iron - use even to install the latest JDE software whish - then you back to the process labor intensive are.IBM and Oracle have also cooked up an ROI tool to upgrade to justify hardware and software of the company bean counters. Questions as to when you talk with your IBM and Oracle reps here is a sample output for initial screen for a hypothetical company, that IBM is shared with me:
As you can see, IBM and Oracle can some bigtime economic arguments to ROI, for money Edition move in a solution used and zuzupfen EnterpriseOne 9.0 Update 2 to make. Here is a little deeper to show where these advantages are in a drilldown:
The IBM Oracle ROI tool pumps from much more data than this, and if you are much like me, you are probably cynical about such ROI tools. But having said that, if no one anything from the modernisation and upgrading their systems, we would all still with System / 360 s and COBOL. Or, worse still, IBM 1401s and punch cards. Use your case these tools to the bean counters, helps you your own analysis do but based on metrics that are important for your company. More data are generally good. Related STORIESNGS business intelligence now a solutions Edition option more software prices carrots for IBM I ShopsIBM I solution Edition program takes SteamIBM adds smaller power 720 I solution EditionThe carrot: i5/OS V5R4 receives execution stay stick to the MayThe: IBM jacks up i5/OS V5R4 PricesIBM I makes solution editions of power 720 and 740 ServersIBM round entry Server system used LineupNew I 525 solution editions debut, 570 gets I goes after Windows with user-priced system TweakedIBM Servernein closer look at the efficiency of the solution Edition for JDEIBM, Oracle go 520 solution of EditioneServer i5 after Wintel boxes with an i5 solution editions hit the streets