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I recently went online to buy a speakerphone for use with our company conference calls. In less than 5 minutes, I was able to browse

The world of paper documents, fax machines, phone calls and even old style EDI is rapidly being replaced by online, real-time API communication. APIs make

From online shopping to healthcare to banking and just about everywhere else, APIs are transforming our lives. APIs increase productivity, eliminate manual efforts, streamline business

  IBM i users are moving their applications to the leading edge by taking advantage of the explosion of new web service enabled functions available

There is nothing like being there in person! That is one of the most important things I learned by going to Columbus, Ohio for this

If you are a user of an IBM i software package or a vendor of IBM i applications, then API enablement creates significant opportunities for

An IBM i user contacted us with the requirement to combine shipment data residing on their IBM i with real time tracking of the location

A few weeks ago, a customer of ours asked if Eradani could provide them with a dashboard for tracking all the API calls that were

Because of the productivity benefits, business-to-business communication via APIs is growing at an exponential rate. The IBM i world is no exception as more and

As more IBM i users begin integrating APIs into their application development strategy, we are hearing increasing concerns about API performance. IBM i users are

“I feel like I have been working with hand tools and somebody just gave me a power saw and drill.” That’s how a customer described

It’s exciting to see the number of IBM i users who have discovered the power of extending their RPG and COBOL applications using APIs and

After my last blog post on using publicly available web services to quickly and easily add new functions to your RPG applications  (https://www.eradani.com/2020/10/26/quickly-add-exciting-new-capabilities-to-your-rpg-applications-using-open-source/), I had

A customer of ours responded to one of my blog posts on APIs and said, “you are missing one of the great benefits of using

Every time I talk to a customer, I learn about great new use cases for calling web services from IBM i applications or calling IBM

It’s time to get aggressive about leveraging APIs to build your business. In previous blogs, I’ve written about the power of open source for rapidly

  How would you like to add thousands of programmers to your staff at little or no cost? Would it help your organization if you

  A customer asked me recently to help them solve the problem of directly calling web service APIs from RPG. They told me that their

Is it possible to be working with IBM i and not even know it? You bet! Is that a good thing? Yes. I often talk

I’ve noticed several threads on LinkedIn and the IBM i message boards recently discussing the difficulty of bringing JSON data into IBM i programs. Well,

Last week CNN printed an article highlighting the struggles of several state governments to handle the tsunami of unemployment claims in the wake of the

Easily set up the new, free Community PHP using RPM and YUM on IBM i It is so exciting to see how many IBM i

I was visiting an IBM i customer recently for a presentation on IBM i “modernization”. After the presentation, I got the opportunity to spend time

The popularity of Python has spiked over the last couple years according to the Tiobe Index (a measurement of programming language popularity https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/). Looking to

How would you like to add millions of programmers to your staff without having to pay for them? Sound too good to be true? Well,

With all the new Open Source announcements for the IBM i in 2019, many IBM i users are justifiably excited and anxious to start using

In 2019, IBM made the exciting announcement that you could now manage IBM i instances in the Public Cloud (eg. the IBM Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure

Oftentimes when I speak with IBM i users about moving to the Cloud, they tell me it is too expensive. When I dig deeper, I

  I just got back from a customer visit where I heard that the executives were frustrated because they could not move their IBM i

It is time for us (IBM i IT professionals) to drive new technology initiatives. Every day, I speak with IBM i users who, like me,