Backup is important, but restore is very important!
We get sad, sad stories in tech support several times a month. The other day a customer called wanting to know how to recover source from an AVR for .NET binary. A PC crashed and, even though they had been doing backups "regularly," no backup of the project could be found. Alas, while there is a […]
Getting to know Take Two and its staff
Take Two, based in LaSalle, Manitoba, Canada (about 550 miles northwest of Rochester, Minnesota), has been an ASNA customer for 20 years. Take Two is a family-run company with two sisters, Deb and Donna Graboweski, at the helm. Let’s get to know Take Two and its staff. The Take Two team. In the back row […]
Getting ready for GDPR
On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect. GDPR is a set of regulations imposed specifically for users in European Union countries to ensure personal data privacy and protection. GDPR encompasses several areas, but most noticeably from the outside, it affects website and emails. And because a website’s reach […]
Things to ponder for 2018
Yet another year is nearly here. We’re sure you have a full list of to-dos for 2018, but here are a few potential things to consider adding to that list. Get current If you are using any of the software below, you’re either out of date of very close to it! Take an inventory of […]
Avoid business disruption
When the software you have is working, it’s easy to fall behind in updating products just as it becomes easy to marginalize the value staying current on product maintenance. To do either, though, puts your business at a risk for disruption. When a bug surfaces in a Microsoft or ASNA product for which mainstream support is […]
Legacy RPG apps don’t age like wine and cheese
By Roger Pence “You see, this profession is filled to the brim with unrealistic (bleep). (Bleep) who thought their (bleep) would age like wine.” Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction The first ten years or so of the AS/400’s life will surely be recorded as the golden years of in-house application development. Around […]
Is IBM i Access for Windows on its last legs?
It’s hard to believe that 5250 emulation has been with us for 35 years. Back in 1980, Joe Frank had an idea about how to connect to PCs to IBM midrange computers. I was lucky enough to spend an evening with Joe. Over drinks in a hotel bar in Chicago he told me the amazing story of how he had […]
Jordi Marin joins ASNA as COO
Jordi Marin has joined ASNA as its Chief Operations Officer. His responsibilities include helming and refining of ASNA’s international expansion strategy, managing its worldwide distributor and reseller channels, and guiding its international development team. Says Jordi, "I am very excited about the possibilities available at ASNA. With our great team and our great suite of […]
Jordi Marin joins ASNA as COO to further ASNA global expansion
Jordi Marin has joined ASNA as its Chief Operations Officer. His responsibilities include helming and refining of ASNA’s international expansion strategy, managing its worldwide distributor and reseller channels, and guiding its international development team. Says Jordi, "I am very excited about the possibilities available at ASNA. With our great team and our great suite of […]
An IBM i rose in a bucket of PC coal
Systems Implementation is an IBM i ISV/business partner that offers a full IBM i software suite for both the sales and services sides of the two-way and wireless communication business. Taber Alderman is the President of Systems Implementation. She’s been with the the company since 1986 and has owned it since 2007. Systems Implementation selected ASNA Wings […]
