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NEW Announcement: iAdapt announces Genero GBC 5.00.11 new features and upgrade notes

iAdapt is pleased to announce that Four J’s have released a Maintenance Release of Genero Browser Client 5.00.11.

What's new for GBC...

New degraded mode alerts: The degraded mode feature provides information when certain functions of GBC might not work properly due to limitations in the environment or configuration.

GBC supports the headerPosition presentation style attribute for setting the position of column headers (the name of the columns) relative to the field position. This attribute applies only to flipped table rendering.

There has been a review of the visual feedback shown to the user when they hover, click/touch, and focus field widgets and buttons in the GBC.

Several theme variables were added to control the new visual feedback.

New variables are introduced for setting theme state (hover, focus, active) for widgets.

The usage of old CSS classes should be considered obsolete and be replaced with the new name.

Some changes have been applied to JavaScript, we recommend that you review your existing customizations for some elements.

Dear Customers,

iAdapt is happy to inform you that FourJ's has finally opened the Genero Web Apps and DB SYNC Early Access Program (EAP).

But what is Genero Web Apps and DB SYNC?

The Genero Web Apps (GWA) empower users to run lightweight, offline-ready applications directly within a browser  — no server connection needed. Perfect for challenging environments like remote areas or industrial spaces, GWA keeps data flowing smoothly even when connectivity is limited.

DB Sync equips users with a high-level database synchronization service that efficiently reconciles local data with a central server, making it ideal for applications operating offline. Whether gathering data in no-network zones, industrial areas, or buildings with signal interference, DB Sync keeps data safe and ready to sync whenever connectivity is restored.

You will be able to test the Genero Web Apps and DB SYNC during the EAP and get dedicated help for 2 months.

More information about Genero Web Apps and DB SYNC  is available here: https://4js.com/2024-genero-web-apps-and-db-sync-early-access-program-eap/

Join the EAP now! Discover how Genero Web Apps and DB Sync can transform your offline operations.

https://4js.com/download/eap/

Thanks,

iAdapt R&D Team

Please take note of our new contact number

After supporting Neotel for many years it seems as if they have unilaterally switched off ALL customers using their landline facilities iAdapt has subsequently had to revert back to a Telkom line for business continuity.
Please take note of our new landline number below.

Office : +27 (0) 11 432 7077

iAdapt is pleased to announce the release of Genero Enterprise V3.10

There are many new features over and above the base product and there has been a major effort put into areas such as:

• Latest updated and upgraded User Experience front end structure for GUI, Web and Mobile - all on the same source code

• Support of Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from Web services.

• New methods to allow you to save passwords as BCrypt results

• The fglgar command line tool is now delivered with the FGLGWS package

• Connectivity to all the very latest versions of the SQL Relational Databases including Oracle, Microsoft, DB2 and Informix as well as MySQL and PostGreSQL

• Updated open Operating System Port List including Engineered Systems, Linux and Windows

So as you can see there is many new enhancements and features built into the new versions.
A detailed Technical document is available for you should you wish to receive this then please email publicrelations@iadapt.co.za and let me know.

Genero 3.10 Technical Summary

Look forward to hearing from you.

Many thanks

iAdapt Public Relations Team

iAdapt invited to discuss exclusion of South African ERP software vendors in the IFMS tender aware process

The program was shown on channel 405 on Sunday 18th June and included an esteemed panel of analysts to discuss the flouting of the tender process's in favour of Oracle.. Our readers can go to the following links noted below in order to gain better insight into this major controversial issue.

PURCHASE OF INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOFTWARE LICENCES CONCLUDED

There will be further follow ups and expose's relating to this as this is not the first time this has happened.

In 2007 SAP was awarded the HR and Payroll component of the IFMS (iteration #2) and the erstwhile SITA Executive that awarded the tender to Gijima - just happened to join Gijima shortly after the awarding of the contract. That component was R800m for licenses and a further R400m for services.

Prior to that award the IFMS Supply Chain component (iteration #1) was awarded to ICT-Works for a "bespoke solution: which ended up being a customized version of Oracle ERP SCM modules. Again all of these projects are now for nought as it will all be replaced by another version of Oracle!

So essentially the moment any Executive finds a need for a new position in Software and the two ERP conglomerates, SAP and ORacle, need to reach new numbers then suddenly IFMS/ERP tenders appear out of the blue and Billions of Rands are squandered with absolutely nothing to show for it. But SITA and Treasury continues slogging ahead with these tenders.

And for all the technological research and development done in SA, it is a really sad state of affairs when South African companies are SPECIFICALLY excluded from these tender process's.

And there is no specific reason for this delinquent view about our solutions.

iAdapt successfully delivers Genero project ahead of time

Windhoek, Namibia -6 th March 2017- iAdapt implements FourJ's Genero, an application development environment that helps customers create innovative database applications and modernize existing legacy code, has successfully been implemented for all 300 users within SSC during a 6 month major upgrade and overhaul of their Benefit Fund Management system
 

To better manage their current legacy environment Social Security Commission decided to entrust its entire Fund Management upgrade and conversion to the South African based Software Development company iAdapt.

Social Security Commission is the only organization within Namibia that currently manages and disburses payments socially based on business rules to all its citizens for maternity, disabilit, pension and Workman's Compensation. This project was deemed to be a very high profile project with Senior Government Ministers and the SSC Board of Directors taking a keen interest in the project delivery - as it affected every single citizen of Namibia.

The Challenge for SSC: The Legacy Environment
 

SSC invested in the legacy Unix environment in the mid 1990's and using the iAdapt Business Development Framework Tools (iBDF), developed a complex and business process driven Social Fund Management system. It went live in 1998 on the Hewlett Packard platforms. As was typically the case in the 90's the User Interface was Text based and the User Experience was extremely limited. Further issues compounding the environment was the lack of Unix and RBMS based skills. A final compounding factor was that the current HP Servers had outlived their useful life and were literally running on empty - there were no drivers for printers, no backup facilities and the hard drives had started to fail over. HP no longer kept the 1997 version of the Hard drives in stock - which posed a massive risk at SSC.

Lastly the version of their Accounting system was also no longer supported and they were compelled to upgrade to the new SAGE L1000 web based version. Therefore the upgrade and conversion had to include the SAGE product and the current table level integration had to be carried over to the new environment. Integration testing was of paramount importance.

And it was this Risk that the Board of SSC had to mitigate against by accepting the Project.

The Solution: iAdapt and FourJ's

In June 2016, the Board of Directors at SSC awarded the multi-million N$ Conversion and Upgrade project to iAdapt to undertake this mammoth task. The Project commenced officially on the 1 st September 2016 and the Project Plan Go Live date of 14 th February was considered to be cast in stone, as the entire upgrade had to be signed off and delivered before the 28 th February 2017 - which coincided with their fiscal Year End. The solution entailed a number of steps in the process and these were

• to take their current fourth generation language developed Funds system and recompile it using the Genero Compilers. This allowed the now newly compiled source code to be ported over and "connected" to the Microsoft Windows Operating System and the MS SQL Server database

• Upgrade the entire infrastructure, environment and platforms
• All the Programs in the system were now presented in a GUI format - without any lines of business logic or source code being written or changed (ie all business logic and process's were retained making User Acceptance easy)
• Undertake a full DBExport of the data from old RDBMS, convert, migrate and import the data into MS SQL Server
• Convert all the database schema's, triggers and stored procedures
• Test the entire process
• Complete the Change Management process in a Geographical spread of 16 branches throughout the country and with 300 Functional users
• Deploy and Process Live

The result of this collaboration and project, is that iAdapt delivered on its mandate to sign off and "Went" Live 6 days earlier than the initial project date. This was a monumental feat in that a previous attempt at an upgrade resulted in more than a year being spent just on Testing Phase which unfortunately failed. All 300 users in the 16 Branches and Satellite offices have successfully been using the system since the 8 th February 2017 - which was the date the system was switched from Test to Live. Social Security committed its entire Technical and IT team to this project who all ensured that the project was delivered on time and on budget. Their immense efforts were well rewarded when the system went live.

Debswana Diamond Inventory System updated

Jwaneng based public partnership company Debswana, recently commissioned iAdapt to assist in some major functional updates to their DIIS system (Diamond Inventory Information System). This system manages and tracks the gem stones once they are sorted into the various categories and manages the process just prior to final shipment.
The project was managed both here and in Botswana by iAdapt's new Country Manager Doctor Matenge assisted by Andy Parsons - the iAdapt CFO. As Doc puts it "This was no small task as the business requirements have grown within Debswana over a long period time and the system was not kept abreast of these requirements. Not only did we have to change the source code to cater for these new requirements we also had to undertake a whole new BPR process as this was entirely new - especially to the CAC team."
The total duration of the project was 3 months which included the change management process as well as the final audit and cutover process. Debswana are considering a total upgrade to their environment which will include the Genero middleware layer as well as the operating system and databases.
 

iAdapt appoints a new Country Manager in Botswana

Local ERP software company iAdapt has recently appointed Doctor Matenge to head up its new business operations for Botswana. His appointment was effective 1st March 2014. Doc Matenge spent a considerable amount of his working life in Jwaneng as a Systems Analyst and Programmer at Debswana Diamond mine. Doc is hoping to grow the footprint for iAdapt and push the products and services into both Government and Private enterprises. The intention is to build on our solid reputation with Botswana for high quality products and services.
A particular focus for iAdapt is the move into providing mobile solutions as well as assisting with Consulting services for business readiness and ERP projects.
Doctor Matenge has a Bachelors of Sciences degree with majors in Information Technology and Systems.

iAdapt releases ERP V6.0

South African based ERP software development company iAdapt today formally released its new and major upgraded version of its ERP software to Version 6.0.
This product has been in Quality Assurance for some time and after a major success at one of our Blue Chip sites the product has now gone into Commercial Release. In todays age of Web 2.0, Collaboration and Integration have become vital Tools for any company wishing to streamline its Business Process's and Workflow process's into one wholistic organisation wide objectives.
While ERP is accepted as a core element to running any successful business, many companies do not fully understand or relaise the benefits of integrating their core ERP systems into CRM and other Enterprise Management systems used to drive business. iAdapt will be releasing additional product updates relating to the BDF Tools as well as some of the more technical details coming down the line. All of which has been fully tested and Q&A'd.
It is with these fundamentals that iAdapt has spent many man hours in ensuring and delivering a World Class suite of tightly integrated modules to the market. The attached broshure covers in detail a lot more of the basic functionality that encompasses the latest versions howver if there is any specific component or question that yo would like to ask which may be beneficial to your business then please do not hesitate to contact us at info@iadapt.co.za or alternatively sales@iadapt.co.za

iAdapt ERP Version 6.0 Release Notes 11.pdf

iAdapt's philosophy for our software is Software for Life!

iAdapt release e-Recruitment module

South African owned software development company iAdapt has released its eagerly awaited fully integrated web based e-Recruitment module. This new module manages the process from the time a candidate's info is entered onto the system right up until a person is accepted and transferred onto the Personnel module and in turn the Payroll module - all automatically and online real time. This module compliments the other iAdapt developed and fully integrated web based component modules called iAdapt Web HR Portals which encompasses Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service and finally e-Recruitment (the rest of our ERP system such as e-Procurement is still under development).

To make matters a lot more simple, iAdapt has developed the e-Recruitment module using a modern language called Genero so that there are no intermediary databases allowing for the full integration of the Self Service module into the base corporate functional HR modules and in turn the relational database.

If a candidate goes to the company's web page there will be a description (in text form) of what positions are available within the company and then there will be a link next to the job. All the candidate has to do is then proceed through the menus and this is automatically logged and entered directly onto the Recruitment module where after the data is further managed by the module (i.e. resource management, interviews , preferred location, preferred language etc). A further benefit of this tight integration is that there are a proliferation of different formats for CV's that are usually emailed to a company. At present each CV must be manually re-entered into the Recruitment module. This eliminates the need for recapturing as the candidate does all the static information inputs real time and online.

The vacancy that is available is automatically created if an employee is terminated or resigns and completes the exit interview stage within the Personnel module (all the modules are kept in sync via the relational database). The Job itself is always there, so it now becomes a process of managing this vacancy. Jobs can be "frozen" in the Personnel module which again will automatically "freeze" the post in e-Recruitment.

This module is not a very complicated module but is very tightly integrated into the base Human Resources systems. Part of the process contained in this module is that a candidate entering data directly onto the system via e-Recruitment enters only relevant data for that job which may include his qualifications are job preference. The system then automatically filters this information to ensure the correct fit via internal algorithms. Once the candidate has accepted and verified that his data is correct then he is loaded onto the system. Due to the clever use of the Genero language, the drawback of the HTML language such as before and after field validation is eliminated due to the way the Web based applications are integrated into the primary HR systems and this allows a user to fill in fields that are required to be filled in line by line (and not reentered after going through the whole process to the end only to find they did not enter a contact number).

The primary benefit of this is that there is no duplication for data entry and a candidate can also see what other vacancies exist in the company and the press of a button on the web site. This further implies that corporate reports can be managed and obtained out of a centralized database rather that Excel spreadsheets and Access databases - resulting in a mismatch of accurate and online data. The module can also be customized to a company's exact requirements.

Web Services

A future release will ensure that once the candidate has verified and accepted his CV on the system then the system will automatically generate a web service to a service provider whereby all the candidates biological and academic background is verified including criminal and credit checking. This process will be seamless to the company which automatically eliminates the need for reference checking of standard information.
The module is available for immediate release and forms part of the iAdapt Web based HR Portals.

Please contact us at sales@iadapt.co.za for more information.