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BCD Enhances Nexus Portal, Presto, WebSmart Family

June, 2010 - IBMSystemsMag.com

IBM i modernization vendor Business Computer Design Int’l (BCD) has issued new versions of several products. The company has added several new features to Nexus Portal. Version 3.6 of the Web portal solution offers a Google search appliance portlet that lets users use Google searching and indexing on their own content. The product now fully supports Firefox users, and a major code revision has improved page load times by up to 40 percent, according to BCD.

IBM and COMMON Call the Cops

May 10, 2010 - Dan Burger, ITJungle.com

Sergeant Joseph Wynosky, one of two WHPD officers responsible for the department's IT operations, was most impressed with the new capabilities in the DCS mugshot system that allow officers to make positive identification much more easily. "They know for sure who they're dealing with," he says about increased officer safety. "Often individuals will give false or misleading information when questioned."

Proven Approaches to Give Your IBM i Applications a Rich Web Interface

May 18, 2010 - Duncan Kenzie, System iNetwork

There has been a lot hype recently about the new add-on product to RPG, Rational Open Access: RPG Edition (RPG OA), that provides 'open access' to your IBM i applications. The truth is, both RPG and the IBM i have been 'open' for many years. For example, the IBM i provides exactly the same APIs for writing to/reading from web browsers as Unix, Linux, AIX, or Windows systems. Read more »

BCD Invigorates Software for Application Development, Portal, and Query

May 18, 2010 - Dan Burger, ITJungle.com

BCD has produced software for IBM's midrange computers--including the AS/400, iSeries, System i, and now the Power Systems--for more than 30 years. It's one of only seven vendors that has lined up to support iManifest, an independent (read: non-IBM) initiative to promote the IBM i platform. Each year when the COMMON conference rolls around, you can count on BCD to have some product announcements. Here's what the Chicago-based company has done to enhance its product lineup.

WebSmart ILE, WebSmart PHP, and Clover Query All Get New Releases

May 12, 2010 - MCPress Online

BCD Software announced at COMMON new releases of its entire WebSmart family of products that now offer gradient charts, new XML functions, Oracle templates, and the flexibility to schedule reports. The products share the same IDE and provide tight integration between new RPG and PHP Web application development with both editions of WebSmart and real-time Web reports and queries with Clover.

BCD Tools Instrumental in Business Partner's IBM Innovation Award

May 5, 2010 - Chris Smith, MCPress Online

DCS, a privately-held corporation based in South Carolina that markets software solutions for public safety, detention centers and prisons in the United States and the Caribbean, won an IBM Innovation Award in the small and midsized award category, and the company credits BCD Software for providing the tools that made the accomplishment possible.

BCD Makes a Cluster of Product Announcements at COMMON

May 4, 2010 - Agrubb, SystemiNetwork.com

Business Computer Design (BCD), a provider of application modernization products for the IBM i, made a cluster of announcements in tandem with the COMMON 2010 conference this week. The announcements include: * upgrades to BCD's WebSmart family of products * a new version of Nexus Portal * a new release of Presto.

Aldon et BCD en partenariat pour la Web Application en IBM i

Par iTPro.fr. Mise en ligne: 29 Avril 2010

Le BCD WebSmart ILE aide les développeurs à créer des applications Web via DB2, MS SQL et MySql databases. WebSmart PHP permet quant à lui la production d’applications PHP qui tournent sur du multiplateforme- IBM i, Windows, Linux ou Unix.

Reduce the PHP Learning Curve with WebSmart PHP

April 27, 2010 - Duncan Kenzie, System iNetwork

If you are like me, you probably come from an RPG background. You know green-screen subfile programming inside-out, how to organize and process any business data, and how to build complex business applications by calling programs from menus. But moving to the web can be daunting for anyone. There’s a whole new programming paradigm to learn, not to mention different languages. How to reduce the PHP learning curve »

Presto 2 Improves Screen Rendering and Design Flexibility

April 2010 - Chris Smith , MCPress

I guess it's a guy thing, but we just love tools. It doesn't matter whether it's a cool new circular saw or a great computer development tool-it's a tool, we can get a lot accomplished with it, and that's what counts. Guys are expected to get a lot accomplished in little time. It means we're powerful, more potent. Well, a cool tool just got better, and you'll love how much you can get accomplished with it.

Old Code Meets New Ideas in Latest App Modernization Projects

March 2010 - Dan Burger, ITJungle

The heat is on. For all the talk about IT integration and innovation, words that get casually tossed around as if saying them was doing something, there is progress being made in the area of application modernization. The time for talk is turning into the time for action in the IBM AS/400 community, which IBM has renamed the iSeries, the System i, and now just IBM i. The lower case i, IBM used to be fond of saying, is for integration and innovation.

iManifest Gets Boost from BCD. Software vendor chides IBM for allowing a marketing vacuum to develop around the IBM i platform.

November 16, 2009 - Chris Smith, MCPress

The iManifest movement received a high-energy drink in one gulp last week as Business Computer Design (BCD) and its outspoken director of sales and marketing gave the organization a cash donation and committed to promoting the young organization's logo on all future marketing materials.

iManifest U.S. Adds BCD to List of ISV Supporters

November 9, 2009 - Dan Burger, ITJungle

A good start is great, but it's follow through that buys the bacon. When Business Computer Design, better known simply as BCD, joined the iManifest U.S. membership last week, I asked Eric Figura, director of sales and marketing at BCD, how iManifest compares to programs IBM has attempted in the past.

BCD Joins iManifest

November 9, 2009 - Chris Maxcer

"I always knew we were going to do it," he says, noting that it's just a matter of getting everything lined up and together. For instance, BCD is currently working with its business partners in Europe in an effort to get them involved in iManifest EMEA. While BCD solutions are available around the world, it just makes sense to have the business partners who are working more directly with local customers to show support for iManifest EMEA, he notes.

Redesigned Reporting Infrastructure Pays Off in Inventory Reduction - Robert Gast, ITJungle

September 22, 2009 - Robert Gast

One of Key City's new reports looks like a speedometer and displays current orders. "As new orders are entered, the dashboard reflects these entries and management knows exactly where things stand at any given moment," says Ellis. In Key City's case, Clover is set up to refresh every five seconds for several key metrics.

COMMON interviews BCD's Eric Figura, Sales & Marketing Director

August 2009, COMMON Connect Magazine

COMMON recently caught up with Eric Figura, Director of Sales and Marketing at Business Computer Design Int’l, Inc., a long-time exhibitor, advertiser and sponsor of COMMON, to get their unique perspective on their involvement with COMMON and how it has benefited their company, and what they’ve done to maximize and retain customers in today’s economy.

Companies Put PHP to Work With BCD's WebSmart

June 23, 2009 - Robert Gast

The benefits of Web-based applications for purposes such as online shopping and order entry can reduce personnel costs and other bottlenecks when working with suppliers and customers. In IBM i shops, the interest in PHP has been surprisingly vigorous. Two companies that recently went live with IBM i PHP applications are Midwest Fuel Injection (MWFI) and American Foods Groups (AFG), both of which chose WebSmart PHP from Business Computer Design.

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