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If you are thinking about modernizing your business' IBM i this White Paper is the perfect starting place. 

Glad to have you back for this week's IBM i news roundup! This week we are looking at some IBM i patches and some info on IBM's Watson.  But First...

For companies that run on the IBM i platform (previously known as the AS/400 or iSeries) one of the greatest challenges can be transferring your legacy interfaces into more “user friendly” applications for your employees and customers. We at Profound Logic aim to solve that dilemma for businesses.

Glad to have you back for this week's IBM i news roundup! This week we are looking at some IBMi updates, some security tips and some feel good moments!  But First...

We are excited to partner with iVolution to bring our unique modernization solutions to the business' in Italy. 

• "Our partnership with Profound Logic insures that we will offer the best IBM i modernization, GUI development, and software innovation tools available to our customers in Italy and throughout Europe." -  Carlo Benedetti CEO iVolution.
  
  Source: http://www.mcpressonline.com/industry-news/channel-news/profound-logic-and-ivolution-partner-to-bring-ibm-i-modernization-solutions-to-businesses-in-italy

Glad to have you back for this week's IBM i news roundup! Since it's still early into the year, we've got more 2017 predictions and of course 2016 highlights. It's always nice to reflect. Let's begin.

Paul Tuohy on IBM i Highlights of 2016
by Paul Tuohy

• One of the things I wanted, I wished for, was that I would keep meeting people who were in their 20s on the platform and this came true actually in unexpected ways as well.
• Not only is Liam a young guy working on the platform but he is also a speaker and we actually had him along to speak at the RPG and DB2 Summit that we had in Chicago and looking forward to having back speaking with us at the Summit in Orlando in March.
• I wanted a better database interface. Now this is something that has not been delivered in 2016 but the good news is that there are strides being made in the right direction with ACS Access Client solutions and the database functionality...

It's time for our first IBM i news roundup of 2017. Aside from new articles, you'll also see new website designs from our favorite news sources. Props to IT Jungle and MC Press for modernizing their website interface! ;)

We announced our latest solution - Profound.js - a few months back. Profound.js is a completely new way to modernize your legacy IBM i applications in to modern Node.js code. This is beneficial for a lot of reasons, including helping businesses find new development talent and avoiding costly migration projects. 

We didn't get a chance to express our gratitude on the blog this Thanksgiving; but we figure it's never too late to be thankful, especially before the holidays! Here is what few of us are thankful for this year.

It's time for a pulse of the IBM i industry! Take a few minutes to catch up on any headlines you might've missed in the past few weeks.

Happy Halloween! This week's news roundup covers what tricks and treats IBM has in store for us in the upcoming Refresh. HINT: Node.js and Cloud are part of the picture. Also, if you missed our free webinar on Agile Modernization with Node.js, it is available on-demand here. Now let's get to the news.