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Guides

Integrating Mainframe Performance Data into APM Solutions

This guide covers the concepts, objectives, and approaches to integrating IBM Z performance data—produced and stored by IBM System Management Facility (SMF)—into an enterprise Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution and other analytics platforms.

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Webinars

z Modernization: Practical Considerations for z Batch and Reducing Spend

This Webinar explores practical, tangible & cost-effective Z modernization opportunities in batch output/report mgmt, JCL Testing & automated z batch application knowledge transition.

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Reengineering SMF Data Management to Achieve IBM Z Observability

Shows how DevOps & network professionals can stream and transform SMF data into valuable,actionable information, traces, & metrics consumed by APM, DevOps, big data, and other applications. Also shows how to provide high-speed SMF data retrieval for DevOps and how to analyze real-world IBM Z uses cases using your APM systems. 

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JCL Defect Management for DevOps using JCLPlus+

This Webinar discusses the benefits of using a JCL defect management toolchain to accelerate the adoption of batch testing services 

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Time to Replace Your Legacy Mainframe Batch Output/Report Management Product?

This webinar discusses the benefits of replacing your batch output/report management system

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Mainframe Visibility for End-to-End Application Performance Monitoring

How to reengineer actionable mainframe SMF data for end-to-end application performance monitoring, enterprise problem detection and analysis

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JCL Testing Engineered for the Z DevOps Environment

This webinar explores what characteristics a modern enterprise must incorporate into its JCL testing services, in order to leverage its proven investments in  mainframe testing capabilities, while also increasing its velocity to Quality delivery.

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Reengineering SMF Data Management for Operational Intelligence & Analytics

Explore and discuss how IBM Z organizations can reengineer actionable mainframe SMF data for enterprise problem detection and analysis.

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Integrating Mainframe Observability with Your APM Solution

This recorded webinar discusses how the z/IRIS solution uses OpenTelemetry standards, APM traces, metrics and time-series databases to integrate mainframe performance data with popular enterprise monitoring and observability solutions such as AppDynamics, IBM (Instana), New Relic, Splunk and Sumo Logic.

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z/OS Output Management Orchestration

How to orchestrate and enhance your existing output management system with new technologies & methods, going beyond automation to create a significantly better system.

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Enabling IBM Z Observability for DevOps

How to utilize open standards and scalable technology to integrate IBM Z performance data with popular Application Performance Monitoring solutions, such as AppDynamics, IBM (Instana), New Relic, Splunk, and Sumo Logic. 

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IBM Z Batch Quality and the DevOps Tools Landscape

We explore how the SEA JCLplus+ Technology and Architecture assists organization in improving the quality of their JCL by effectively integrating with the other tools and capabilities.

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Enabling IBM Z Observability Using z/IRIS

In this webinar, we introduce z/IRIS and how it enables IBM Z performance data to integrate with popular enterprise solutions, such as AppDynamics, IBM (Instana), New Relic, Splunk, and Sumo Logic. 

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Replacing Your Outdated JCL Management Solution

How the functionality of the world’s leading JCL Management solution, SEA Plus+Pack, enables you to implement best practice techniques to ensure the highest quality batch JCL Production environment. 

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Better JCL Management with the enhanced Plus+Pack Suite

See how the functionality of the world’s leading JCL Management solution, SEA Plus+Pack, enables you to implement best practices techniques to ensure the highest quality batch JCL Production environment.

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DevOps on the Mainframe - Managing the Cultural Divide

Discover the unique challenges and opportunities in adopting a DevOps approach on the mainframe.

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Key Areas to Modernize for IBM Z Report Output Management

How SEA´s Enterprise Output Management Solution, TRMS, helps you to reduce cost while successfully managing your report output and providing the flexible data access and convenient interfaces that today´s users demand.

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JOB Data and Syslog Management for z/OS

Modernizing for Today’s Heterogeneous Z Enterprise and the aspects of transforming and modernizing Job data and Sysout archive services for adding customer value today.

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DevOps and Batch Processing - Management Requires Measurement

The emergence of Enterprise DevOps presents a renewed opportunity to leverage the power of metrics to facilitate collaborative success across the systems development life cycle (SDLC).

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An Overview of JCL & Sysout Capabilities for your Eclipse Environment

Within this webinar we explored SEA's Eclipse Plug-in's new features and capabilities and discussed how they allow developers to quickly find defects and more easily identify the impacts of their changes.

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Is Your Mainframe Output Management System Too Costly?

Is your current z System Output Management solution plagued with spiraling costs and limiting architecture? Are you looking to contain mainframe costs yet still deliver the accessibility and flexibility for your customers that today’s market trends demand?   

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Migrating Your Report Management Solution Efficiently

Common migration issues, and how to avoid them by using proven practices. Learn how to migrate to a better system without unnecessary stress or potentially costly errors.

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Enabling JCL & Sysout Capabilities in your Eclipse Development Environment

In this webinar we explore SEA's batch / Sysout practice and framework, current Eclipse Plugin solutions available, as well as current trends and best practices to keep an eye on.

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z/Os 2.3: Is your JCL & Batch Environment keeping pace with the latest OS Update?

Watch this webinar to see us discuss the key changes and modifications in the latest OS releases and how they impact your JCL & Batch environment.

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Whitepapers

Critical Steps when Migrating Mainframe Report Management Solutions

An in depth break down of the process for organizations considering moving to a new output management solution into manageable steps.

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Bringing Batch and Agile Together

Mainframe data centers respond faster through DevOps and Agile, an approach that combines development, testing, and deployment in one fluid process. Learn more about how Batch and Agile can work together to boost mainframe efficiency.

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Best Practices in JCL Management

Understand the issues that must be addressed in every IT organization for production error prevention through the deployment of Best Practices for managing JCL as an asset.

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10 Steps That Remove Barriers to Continuous Integration

These practical and incremental steps will help drive quality as early as possible in the development process and take todays Dev and Ops Teams a long way toward rolling out new releases much more frequently.

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Key Performance Areas for an Agile Batch Environment

Learn how you can identify, validate and measure the key performance areas for a Optimized JCL Environment.

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Case Studies

Avon Modernizes Report Distribution With TRMS

Avon’s existing online report distribution solution was aging. With 6 million independent agents around the world, and a $6B business to run, the need for online report distribution and viewing was paramount. See how Avon modernized their report distribution with SEA's TRMS solution. 

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Salt River Project opts for JCLplus+ and XREFplus+ DBr

With no recent improvements to the incumbent vendor's tool and with no forward looking roadmap, the choice turned out to be pretty obvious. SRP opted for JCLplus+ and XREFplus+ DBr which are part of the Plus+Pack suite of JCL management products from Software Engineering of America (SEA).

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Product Information

Expand your Datadog Enterprise Monitoring Value by Integrating IBM Z Performance Data

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Guides

Guide to Automated IBM i Message Monitoring

In this guide, we'll discuss why thoroughly implementing your IBM i message monitoring solution matters. Includes an interactive checklist outlining which messages/resources can be monitored, and why.

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SIEM Implementation Guide

In this guide, we'll discuss the tools you need to collect and organize IBM i machine data, and why it's important to do so.

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Webinars

POWERcast: Advanced Techniques for Upgrading IBM i Security

Advanced techniques to upgrade your IBM i security, audit & compliance systems, including using MFA, anti-ransomware software, monitoring field level changes & more

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IBM i Best Practices for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Best practices for evaluating & providing MFA user verification on IBM I servers & discussion of future IBM i MFA products

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IBM i Monitoring & Ticketing-Help Desk Integration

How to effectively integrate IBM i message & resource monitoring with ServiceNow and other Help Desk/Service Desk solutions

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Best Practices for Protecting IBM i Data with Field Encryption

How to best enable IBM i Field Level encryption.

 

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Yes, IBM i is Vulnerable to Ransomware

How ransomware attacks the IBM i, steps you can take to protect against ransomware and how to respond when you're attacked

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Multi-Factor Authentication for IBM i

This on-demand webinar provides several considerations and best practices for evaluating and implementing MFA on IBM I, 

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Managing IBM i Users with Special Authorities

How iSecurity Authority on Demand significantly reduces the number of user profiles with elevated security authorities, while also granting elevated authorities on an emergency basis

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3 Ways to Protect Your IBM i from Ransomware

How ransomware attacks the IBM i IFS, steps you can take to protect against ransomware and how to respond when you’re attacked.

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IBM i Password Reset Trends

This Webinar reviews the problems associated with manual IBM i password resets and demonstrate how self-service password reset programs reduce costs, increase productivity, meet compliance requirements, and increase security.

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Enhancing IBM i Exit Point Security: Remote & local user control, alerts, auditing & reporting

How iSecurity Firewall can enhance and automate IBM i exit point security,

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COMMON POWERcast: Seven Advanced Techniques for IBM i Monitoring (registration required)

Seven techniques for enabling advanced IBM i monitoring capabilities, using SEA’s absMessage software.

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Streamline Your IBM i Monitoring

We demonstrate the newest features and capabilities available within absMessage for the IBM i, including how you can integrate your IBM i monitoring with non IBM i Applications such as for help desk, incident response, and enterprise monitoring.  

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IBM i SIEM Integration: Best Practices for Your Data Management

Watch our webinar as we discuss what IBM i data should be sent to an enterprise SIEM product and the best ways to manage the transmission of data from the IBM i to an enterprise SIEM solution.

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Safeguarding the IBM i from Ransomware Attacks

How Ransomware works on the IBM i, how to guard against it, and what to do if you get hit.

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COMMON POWERcast: IBM i SIEM Integration (registration required)

What IBM i data should be sent to an enterprise SIEM product and the best ways to find, select, and transmit data from the IBM i server to a SIEM solution.

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Integrating IBM i Security Data with an Enterprise SIEM solution using iSecurity Syslog

Learn about the capabilities of iSecurity Syslog, the types of data that can be integrated into an enterprise SIEM solution, and the key criteria for implementation.

 

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An Introduction to Auditing and Compliance on the IBM i

An introduction into Auditing & Compliance on the IBM i, where we review the 4 pillars for auditing an IBM i system 

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5 Tips for Monitoring & Securing Remote Access to the IBM i

We discuss best practices for monitoring and securing IBM i remote access, ensuring IBM i security and preventing unauthorized system access

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Easily Identify 5 IBM i Security & Data Issues in under 15 Minutes

How to use iSecurity's Visualizer Business Intelligence tool to identify five common security and data issues.

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Database Journaling on the IBM i: Difficulties and Solutions

How to manage the implementation, monitoring and maintenance of database journals to better fit your business needs.  

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Viruses and Malware on the IBM i - How to Safeguard your System

Watch our webinar to learn how Viruses and Malware affect your IBM i systems, how to safeguard your system and what to look for in an IBM i based Anti-Virus and Malware solution.

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Field level Encryption on the IBM i using iSecurity Encryption

How to effectively encrypt your IBM i data in a multi-layer key encryption using iSecurity Encryption.

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5 Reasons to Go Beyond the Native IBM i Scheduler

In this webinar we discuss 5 reasons why your company should move beyond the native IBM i Job Scheduler to a more robust scheduling platform.

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Solving 5 Monitoring Implementation Issues on the IBM i

we discuss how we solve 5 common issues companies face when implementing a monitoring solution for the IBM i, as well as the risk of leaving certain messages to manual monitoring and what to consider when automating monitoring & reactions across the enterprise.

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FieldProc for the IBM i using iSecurity Encryption

In this webinar, we discuss how to effectively encrypt your IBM i sensitive data columns at rest as well as in transit using iSecurity Encryption.

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Top 5 Security Threats To IBM i And How To Avoid Them

Although the IBM i platform could be considered the most securable platform in any business or organization, many still haven't fully taken advantage of this incredible technological feature. In this webinar we outline 5 critical risks to your IBM i environment, as well as what you can do to avoid them.

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The Expected and Unexpected Benefits of an IBM i Monitoring and Resource Solution

Find out what features and benefits to expect when implementing a message and resource monitoring solution, tips & strategies for getting your implementation started, and some of the unexpected benefits you may experience afterward.

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5 Risks Associated with Manual Password Reset

Within this webinar we'll break down the money and time utilized with manual password reset, the risks you may be exposing your company to, and show you how automated password reset solutions work.

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Introducing absScheduler

View our Introducing absScheduler webinar, as we explore the challenges IBM i users face when it comes to scheduling and automating workflows. We break down the key pain points of scheduling and give a live demo of our latest solution, absScheduler. 

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Understanding How Viruses and Malware Affect IBM i Systems

Learn more about how Viruses and Malware affect IBM i systems and learn more how about an IBM i based Anti-Virus solution can enhance your security and eliminate virus and malware.

 

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Videos

iSecurity Audit

Part of the iSecurity Suite, SEA's iSecurity Audit is a system security audit module that enhances native IBM i auditing through enhanced features, a user friendly interface, and much more.

 

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iSecurity Encryption

The iSecurity Encryption solution, part of the iSecurity suite, allows you to fully protect all sensitive data and meet your compliance and regulatory requirements.

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iSecurity Syslog

iSecurity Syslog provides real-time transmission of IBM i (AS/400) security event information to enterprise SIEM solutions. See how it works in this quick video.

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iSecurity Suite

iSecurity Suite includes end to end security, monitoring, auditing and reporting solutions for the IBM i (AS400, iSeries) systems. See what it can do for your system in this short video.

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iSecurity Firewall

See how iSecurity Firewall gives users the ability to monitor, report, & control access over many IBM exit points in this quick video.

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iSecurity Anti-Virus

This overview of iSecurity Anti-Virus discusses how the IBM i IFS can host viruses & malware, and how iSecurity Anti-Virus can provide flexible anti-virus protection for the IBM i (AS/400).

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absScheduler

See how absScheduler automates and simplifies the management and monitoring of batch processes on IBM i systems in this short video.

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iSecurity Assessment

iSecurity Assessment provides an in-depth look into your IBM i/AS400/iSeries system security. The iSecurity Assessment by Software Engineering of America is provided at no cost and is non-intrusive, installing directly to your PC and not your IBM i/AS400/iSeries system. See how to get started by watching by watching this quick video.

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Whitepapers

Reduce Help Desk Costs with Self Service Password Reset

Learn how Self Service Password Resets Can Increase Productivity, Repair Relationships, Reduce Risk, and Lower IT costs

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Better Automation Beyond the Native IBM i Job Scheduler

The native IBM i job scheduler is a basic product that offers limited capabilities for scheduling and managing batch jobs. It satisfies basic processing needs, but prevents organizations from using more advanced scheduling and management capabilities for business needs.

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Sarbanes Oxley Compliance on the IBM i

Organizations that have to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) have realized that IT controls are essential to complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Learn how SEA's solutions for the IBM i assist in achieving SOX compliance. 

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HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA was enacted in 1996 with the goal of establishing a set of laws to protect individuals’ health information, document the rights of health providers and patients.  This whitepaper highlights the areas of importance for your IBM i environment and how SEA Solutions can help you achieve compliance.

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Advancing Beyond The Native IBM i Scheduler: The Business Case for Third-Party IBM i Job Schedulers

After decades of faithful service, the benefits of the Native Scheduler for the IBM i have passed their prime. In most instances, users of the native scheduler are missing out on key features, such as Job dependency, Run days, and more.

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GLBA Compliance

The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), or the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, was enacted to protect consumer financial information and personal records. All financial institutions are required to adhere to these standards, as they protect consumer confidential information. Learn how SEA's IBM i solutions help you comply with GLBA requirements

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FISMA Compliance

The Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA, is Title III of the EGovernment Act. The act requires each government agency to secure the information and information systems that support its operations. Learn how SEA solutions for the IBM i can help your organization comply with FISMA. 

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IBM i 7.1 End of Life Strategies

The IBM i 7.1 operating system has reached end of life and is no longer supported by IBM. But what does end of life mean for you if you're still running IBM i 7.1 partitions? Find out in this whitepaper.

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PCI Compliance on the IBM i

This whitepaper highlights how SEA solution's for the IBM i help to companies in to comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations.

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Integrating Your IBM i with Syslog Servers

The IBM i is fully capable of integrating its system and security data with a syslog server, at a reasonable cost. Any shop needing a SIEM integration solution can use this white paper as a guide in implementing their own project.

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Case Studies

PEI-Genesis Goes Lights-Out for IBM i Monitoring, Compliance & Security

How PEI-Genesis solved 2 of its biggest monitoring and security problems
by integrating the absMessage and iSecurity Firewall solutions into it's IBM i strategy.

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AbsMessage Helps Keep Shaw Broadcast Services Running

How Shaw Broadcast Services uses absMessage for their Centralized Message Management and Resource Analysis.

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Columbia Insurance Group Automates Processing Schedule with absScheduler

SEA tools enable Columbia Insurance Group to automate their manual nightly IBM i processing schedule, create dependencies across all systems, and monitor running jobs using absScheduler.

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iSecurity Makes Sox Compliance a Breeze for First Acceptance

After making the switch to iSecurity, First Acceptance feels more confident about the security of their systems, especially with SEA's customer support behind them.

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Polaris Cuts Costs, Improves Operations with absMessage

Polaris’s existing IBM i system and message management software had functional limitations. AbsMessage provided increased functionality while cutting costs.

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Carhartt Solves PCI Compliance Conundrum

SEA helped create a three-pronged solution that helps Carhartt meet and maintain PCI DSS compliance, protect it from incurring non-compliance penalties, avoid possible suspension of credit card processing capabilities if a major breach occurs, and help Carhartt maintain its reputation as a secure credit card processor with its customers, business partners, and vendors.

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BTC Minimized Backup Time and Space Needed with absCompress

System backups were using too many of Bahamas Telecommunications' resources. AbsCompress helped solve their space issues while saving BTC money.

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Toyota Boshoku America Inc. Uses iSecurity to Comply with International Regulatory Requirements

Faced with having to comply with J- SOX due to a partial ownership of the company in Japan, Bob Bodinof (Business Analyst) and the IT staff selected iSecurity to provide the reporting and security necessary for their J- SOX audits.

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Heartland Finds the Key to Security Compliance

See how SEA helped Heartland solve four of its biggest auditing and reporting challenges by integrating iSecurity products into Heartland’s IBM i security scheme.

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