Live webinar: user-friendly, real-time IBM i Business Intelligence with Business i™
As BCD and Quadrant Software (now Fresche Solutions) Premier Business partner, we are delighted to provide details of a free to attend webinar on 18 September 2014 at 7pm BST about how Quadrant Software’s Business i™ reduces the reporting burden and improves decision making with business intelligence (BI) that’s easy to access and analyse. Business […]
Success Story with WebSmart ILE: Avery Weigh-Tronix
Mobile web application with offline support and signature capture provides a return on investment in less than one year. Avery Weigh-Tronix partnered with BCD Software (now Fresche Solutions) to develop a mobile web application that would enable their service technicians to complete work orders while servicing scales in the field, regardless of whether or not […]
Formtastic Now Available from Quadrant Software
IBM i customers in the UK and Ireland will now be able to access Quadrant Software (now Fresche Solutions)’s Formtastic tool through Premier Business partner, Proximity. Formtastic enables users to create custom-designed forms, cheques and bar code labels through an easy-to-use desktop interface designer. The document automation solution extracts spooled data from users IBM i […]
Enhancements to Presto 5.6
Providing the ability for you to easily export a set of customised screens and override out-of-the-box auto-detection functionality are amongst a range of new features in the latest release of BCD Software (now Fresche Solutions)’s Presto green screen modernisation tool. Presto 5.6 also provides users with the ability to override the default spool queue giving […]
WebSmart: Draper Tools
For professional tradesmen and do-it-yourself enthusiasts, the sprawling 400,000 square foot warehouse of iconic British brand Draper Tools is a dream come true. It is considered to be the largest cache of such items under one roof in the entire United Kingdom. Founded in 1919, the company is now is the brand of choice for auto […]
The case for 5250 green screen modernisation
“Sooner or later, you need to bite the bullet and modernize. If you want to keep the application and the value it gives, you’ve got to modernise it.” Mark Even, IBM System Lab Services Working, as I do, with BCD Software (now Fresche Solutions)’s complete suite of IBM i development, modernisation and mobilisation tools, I […]
New bcdsoftware.co.uk Website Launched on IBM i Platform
Welcome to the new BCD Software (now Fresche Solutions) UK website developed by Proximity, a BCD and Quadrant Software Premier Business partner aimed at organisations based in the UK and Ireland. The new website provides information on the range of products available for developing, modernising and mobilising IBM i systems including AS400, iSeries and System […]
IBMi Modernisation Software Webinars
If you are planning an IBM i development, modernisation or mobilisation project in the coming months – or planning next year’s budgets for such a project, you might want to get some insight into the capabilities of BCD Software’s suite of tools. BCD Software, now Fresche Solutions, has produced a series of on-demand webinars into […]
Webinar: Which PHP Coding Style Should IBM i Programmers Use?
We have written a lot about the use of PHP for modernising, developing and mobilising IBM i systems before on this blog. PHP has become a firm favourite for developing web applications for a number of reasons, not least because it is an open-source programming language that is relatively easy for traditional RPG programmers to […]
Catapult version 7.9 released
BCD Software has made available a new release of Catapult, the multi-award-winning automated real-time web querying report distribution tool for IBM i spool files and PC documents. Catapult 7.9 now works with Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure eliminating the requirement for an on-premise Windows Server to run the Catapult Poller. Other improvements include: An option has […]