Personnel changes happen more often than technology at many companies. If your company has changed IT personnel from experienced IBM i people to IT people who have little background on the platform, watch this video. Afterwards, IT professionals new to IBM i will come away with a deep background and an understanding of key IBM i concepts. Approximately 16 minutes.

ERP systems are the core of your company's operation. They reflect your unique business processes, capture your most valuable data, and represent a multi-million dollar investment over many years. There will always be plenty of people eager to tell you it's time for a new ERP system, but in many cases you can dramatically improve and extend the life of your current ERP system by making a modest investment in modern business intelligence and reporting software. Watch this short video for some ideas to stimulate the discussion in your enterprise. 10 minutes.

Measuring and managing the cost of labor is critical in every industry. If you capture and store time, attendance, and payroll data in an IBM i environment, we hope you'll watch this short video to help stimulate your thinking about ways you might query and analyze that data to help your company's performance. 14 minutes. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

The decisions your company makes about how products get from one point to another can greatly impact your bottom line, but reviewing traditional reports and summarizing hundreds or thousands of transactions don't always provide managers with sufficient insight into opportunities for improving efficiency, reliability, and cost. This video shows some examples of how maps can greatly enhance your visibility into your shipping process. 11 minutes. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

Thousands of companies run IBM i-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software along with customer relationship management software running on another platform or cloud. This video discusses the very different characteristics of ERP and CRM data and suggests some valuable types of reports and analytics that are best generated from your ERP database running on IBM i. 10 minutes. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

If your company runs Friedman Frontier, Varsity Logistics, CSI Order Power, or any of the other Friedman Operating Group business application software systems, please watch this overview of how NGS-IQ can help you improve supply chain visibility and operational reporting. One hour. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

Competitive pressures and customer service demands in the transportation industry have never been higher. You need a comprehensive BI and reporting system to keep pace. Watch this demonstration featuring examples of management dashboards, reports, and Excel output you can generate with NGS-IQ. Approximately one hour. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

See how the NGS-IQ Business Intelligence software can help you manage the critical processes that impact your profit margin, customer service, and product quality - without requiring you to rewrite your current business application software on the IBM i (System i, iSeries, and AS/400). This demonstration highlights features of NGS-IQ using examples of particular interest to manufacturing and distribution companies. Approximately one hour. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)

Learn how NGS can help community hospitals and clinics monitor and improve financial performance and patient care by making it easy to securely access, analyze, and share the vast data stored in patient accounting and clinical applications. Approximately 50 minutes. (Requires Adobe Flash with Java enabled.)