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Multinational Healthcare Organization Implements Fast, Easy, and Secure Data Reporting

Making data accessible and ensuring data privacy are essential in today’s healthcare market. One multinational healthcare organization faced inefficient processes that slowed them down. Employees around the organization were left waiting for reports with vital information like admissions, discharges, bills, and collections. So, they turned to Sequel Data Access. Sequel provided instant data access...
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Performance Navigator

Historical performance monitoring and modeling across your IT environment In an increasingly virtualized world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand performance across your IT enterprise. Performance Navigator performance analysis software allows you to see what’s truly occurring on your mission critical systems. With current day and historical performance data, you know exactly...
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How to Access Meaningful Information with Data Visualization

It's not news that everyone needs accurate business data these days—and they needed it 5 minutes ago. Real-time, actionable information needs to be simple to access and shouldn't require IT to translate it into something a business user will understand. In this webinar you'll see: How Sequel makes your KPIs accessible in powerful dashboards How many ways users can analyze their data in client...
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Your Power Half Hour—From Query to BI with Sequel

Your IT team is asked to provide IBM i data to people from all over the organization. Upper management wants big picture stats to see how your organization is doing with key performance indicators. Operational users need detailed information—sometimes even down to the minute—to improve operations. Sales needs customer information to provide better service and metrics to make data-driven decisions...
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RDi and the Sleeping Giants

How does Rational Developer for i (RDi) empower RPG coders? Watch this webinar with Jim Buck, Susan Gantner, and Charlie Guarino to find out!
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
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How to Download an ODBC Driver

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
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FAQs about Performance Navigator

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...