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Did you know that there is no support for certain communications cards in an IBM i blade server environment, such as a fax card? Fortunately in the IBM i world, there is an answer – Quadrant Software’s FastFax. FastFax is installed on your IBM i and utilizes an external Windows based server with fax cards to manage both inbound and outbound faxing as well as emailing of documents. There is no need for a fax card on the IBM i itself.

Many people who grow up in a competitive environment understand the value and effectiveness of attaining a common goal with a team. Regardless of wins and losses, all can agree that these goals could not have been met alone. Here at Quadrant Software, there is not one person on the team that does not contribute to meeting our goals.

Be The Program Years ago I was hired right out of the Air Force by an MRP software company. I was one of 12 in an RPG training program taught on site by an employee with RPG development…

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Webster defines green as many things including pleasantly alluring, fresh and new, and tending to preserve environmental quality. Quadrant Software’s document creation and delivery solutions for IBM i allows companies to go green, eliminating the need for paper and reducing a companies overall carbon footprint. There is another meaning for ‘green’ that stands out to me… not yet matured or experienced, learning, new to a subject. That describes my position at Quadrant Software now as a Technical Support Representative.

In this tech tip we will explain how to set up check clustering in Formtastic Checks using distribution lists.

I went through my mail yesterday (probably about 10 postcards and envelopes) only to notice that all of it was junk. There wasn’t one piece of mail that didn’t go into the trash. How much of your mail…

I was recently reflecting on the fact that in today’s challenging business climate the superhero theme is played out often. As a solution provider who assists companies to create, distribute and manage documents more efficiently, we dedicate the majority of our efforts to help customers battle the paper villian (the time, money and resources wasted around the handling of documents.)

In juggling two summer internships, I look to gather a ‘taste’ of two different professions prior to the inevitable realities of the real world that I will encounter a year from now. I have acquired two different perspectives of how the world works and how it could work. My mission – a recommendation of how government can take tips from the corporate world.

We’ve all heard that the sum of all parts is greater than each individual piece, but what does that really mean to process technology? Let’s take this Independence Day weekend as an example. What makes it special and…