MB Foster sets Web training schedule
July 22, 2010
A 3000 software provider with a busy migration services arm has rolled out a busy September webinar schedule. MB Foster will be giving three straight Wednesdays of webinars, including a tour of the new MBF Scheduler which the company developed in its own labs, aimed at customers moving to Windows.
The company notes that the Scheduler is a good fit for an Ecometry customer who's making a transition to the Windows version of that e-commerce app. The Ecometry community has been choosing Windows in significant measure when sizing up environments to take over HP 3000 operations. MB Foster's Scheduler tour, showing off the weekly and monthly processing possibilities, takes place at 2PM EDT on Sept. 22.
Ecometry sites running on an HP 3000 today -- still prospects for migration -- number about 150, according to Cliff Looyenga of Ecometry experts FluentEdge Technologies. In the meantime, MB Foster's also delivering training on data replication, archival data migration, and even education issues. Registration for all the web training is online at the MB Foster site.
A Sept. 8 webinar at 2PM examines data integration on the HP 3000, a modernization process that homesteading customers or interim migrators can employ. David Greer, the marketing and sales director for MB Foster, leads a look at replication to targets such as SQL Server databases, as well as historical access to HP 3000 data after a migration is complete. The company has sold and supported its UDALink data migration and integration tools for more than 25 years in the HP 3000 market, as well as versions for HP-UX and Windows.
An Identity Management in Education webinar on Sept. 15 helps define strategies and productivity options for log-ons in the education sector. MB Foster signed an exclusive distribution and support center deal for identity management software EasyIQ in March. Single sign-on is a mission-critical requirement in education systems, as students and faculty need secure access across a range of applications that share data between the apps. Greer will teach an overview of the challenges in identity management and the best practices for solving them today and into the future.