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January 27, 2015

CM First Group began to promote their partnership with iBPM experts, AXON IVY, by attending two BPM conferences lately. In December, CTO, John Rhodes attended Gartner Business Process Management Summit in Las Vegas. Mark O’Brien, Business Development Director, just attended PEX Week 2015 in Orlando, FL in January. Both conferences connected CM First to analysts

January 12, 2015

CA Technologies has announced that they will no longer support CA Plex r7.0 beginning January 15, 2016. They recommend upgrading to CA Plex r7.1 or r7.2 prior to that date. See the full end of service announcement here: https://communities.ca.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/231151574-102-1-12937/CA%20Plex%20EOS.pdf   CM First can make this transition much easier for you with a variety of service

December 22, 2014

CM First Group, a CA Technologies partner, now offers customers a robust IBM i hosting service which includes the IBM i technical infrastructure in a virtual partition and business data protection. Available 7×24, companies can access a development environment and business applications remotely.   See the full news release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/12/prweb12408923.htm Did you like this

December 9, 2014

CM First has a business strategy based on application lifecycle management best practices; a natural alliance was to partner with AXON IVY to help customers automate processes and transform workflows better and faster. AXON IVY AXON IVY’s core product, the Axon.ivy BPM Suite, provides organizations with a single, intelligent and fully integrated process application platform

November 24, 2014

This new release had three purposes. One, to enhance the desktop experience within the browser to improve the way developers can customize and control app development. The second goal was to transform the documentation into an HTML-based system, which makes it much easier to find answers to questions and understand best practives. An additional deliverable

November 12, 2014

Mobile solutions are an important part of CM First’s application modernization strategy.   L-mobile is offering mobile solutions in areas like Warehouse Management, Logistics and Production, as well as Service Management and CRM. Their solutions include the mobile software as well as any necessary hardware, like mobile devices, wireless infrastructure, RFID chips and readers. L-mobile is

November 11, 2014

This article is the first in a series of articles that will provide a basic introduction to the function options for each type of 2E function.  The first function we will look at is the Execute External Function. Commit control Generation mode Copy back messages Send all error messages Reclaim resources Generate error routine Close

November 11, 2014

Hello all! My name is Jason Olson and I am one of the newest members of the CM First team. I’m happy to be with this fine group, and Mark Schroeder has asked if I would pen a series of articles on IBM i administration and system maintenance. I thought a good place to start

November 10, 2014

One of the challenges in any data system is how to share data with other systems. There are many times you need to create a data file that can be exported into other systems. This can be anything like from an ACH file that goes to the back, a Skip Trace file or any other