We’ve had lots of reasons to celebrate lately at Linoma Software, and here are just a few.

Sales Are Soaring

Thanks in no small part to having well designed and executed products and a superior support team, our enthusiastic sales team spent 2012 shattering sales records, and have already topped themselves in the first quarter of 2013.  We’ve been able to help customers from virtually every industry, including healthcare, finance and banking, insurance, manufacturing, education, retail, and government, and as we hear back from them about how GoAnywhere or Crypto Complete or Surveyor or RPG Toolbox has made their lives easier and their data more secure, we can share their stories with others seeking an affordable, enterprise-level solution.

Trade Show Season Is In Full Swing

We’ve already met lots of new people — and reconnected with old friends — at the RPG Summit, RSA Conference, COMMON, and InfoSec in Orlando, and this weekend we’re exhibiting with HANDD Business Solutions, one of our partners in the UK, at InfoSec Europe.  Then, we’re first-time exhibitors at the FOSE government conference in Washington D.C. in May and then we’re back in Europe for the COMMON-Europe conference in June.

We’ve Launched a New Website

If you haven’t visited our new GoAnywhere.com website yet, you should check it out.  Our team worked very hard to redesign not only the look and feel, but also the navigation to make it easier for visitors to find what they need.  We hope you’ll take a look and let us know what you think.

GoAnywhere OpenPGP Studio is Now Available

Last month we published a free desktop tool that can encrypt and decrypt files using OpenPGP encryption.  It’s a great solution for those who need to occasionally encrypt files, and OpenPGP Studio also helps organize and manage keys.  You can download OpenPGP Studio for free here.

We’ve also added some new faces to our team and are working on some pretty cool software enhancements as well as our first mobile app, which should be available very soon.

As always, we welcome your ideas and your feedback, and if you’ve got a great story to share about how one of our products has helped you work more efficiently or kept your data better protected, let us know. We’d love to hear it!

Susan Baird

Susan is the Marketing Manager at Linoma Software, helping promote our secure file transfer and encryption solutions. Her specialty is content creation and social media marketing, and you can find out more about her by viewing her LinkedIn profile.

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Over the last few months, we’ve been building a video library of customer reviews for our GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer solution.  GoAnywhere simplifies, automates and secures file transfers across most platforms, including IBM i, Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX and more.

In today’s issue of IT Jungle’s Four Hundred Stuff, Alex Woodie takes a closer look at these customer success stories.  Customers include AAA Cooper Transportation, American Fidelity and Liberty Insurance (AF&L), BlueGrass Mailing, Londen Insurance, Monterey Mushrooms, P.C. Richard and Son, and United Security, Life, and Health.

We’ve also been getting lots of feedback on our video showcasing the rave reviews our customer support team is getting. Given that our top priorities are creating superior products and delivering exceptional customer service, it’s gratifying to get these kinds of comments from our customers.

If you’d like to share your experience with Linoma Software, we’d love to hear from you! You can leave a comment on LinkedIn or on Google+, or you can contact us about doing a case study or video.  And, if you have questions or want more information about any of our products, please let us know.

Susan Baird

Susan is the Marketing Manager at Linoma Software, helping promote our secure file transfer and encryption solutions. Her specialty is content creation and social media marketing, and you can find out more about her by viewing her LinkedIn profile.

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As we kick off 2012 with several major product enhancements we’ll be publicizing soon, I’d also like to take a minute to reflect on the record year Linoma Software had in 2011, with over 40% growth in new business.

Bob recently presented at several East Coast Users Groups, including here at the Long Island System Users Group.

Many factors contributed to our banner performance.  For one, meeting compliance requirements for data privacy and security is a huge issue for most organizations, so we have been working hard to help meet these challenges.

We have made significant R&D investments over the past 12 months in our products, including major enhancements to our GoAnywhere™ managed file transfer solutions, as well as new features for our Crypto Complete™ encryption product.

We also gained many new customers outside of the United States as we have partnered with several new international resellers for our products, and seen increased sales performance from our established distributors.  Data security is a worldwide challenge that has no borders.

Another factor in our growth has to do with the openness of our GoAnywhere products, which allows them to run on a variety of platforms including IBM i, Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX.  This gives our customers a choice on the operating system environment that best meets their needs.

For a more detailed announcement about Linoma Software’s sales growth in 2011, you can read our press release.

We’ve enjoyed talking with many of you over the last year.  If you are coming to any of the trade shows that we’ll be exhibiting at this year, please stop by and say hello.  Otherwise, give us a call or email if you have any questions or comments about our solutions.

We sincerely appreciate the support of our loyal customers and look forward to working with you this year. If you’re not yet a customer, we hope to talk with you soon about how we can help you solve any data automation or security challenges in 2012.

We’re ramping up our activity on various social networks, so we also hope you’ll connect with us there.

Linoma wishes you a successful 2012!

Bob Luebbe

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As a technology administrator at a major healthcare administration company, sending and receiving sensitive files between various systems used to be a daily grind and a consistent source of stress. We were using PC-based freeware FTP tools and the built in FTP functions on the IBM iSeries. The best we could do with scripting was to use CL command scripts to call the FTP function and hard code the login information. RPG programs would then call the CL scripts and retrieve and send the needed files, but there were insufficient logs and alerts for such automated activities.

The biggest headache for me was that these scripts, and the resultant sending of files, had to be error-free and reliable! Add to that the pressure of knowing how critical exchanging files is to the operation of the business and the challenge of  having a single person responsible for its success — it all became an unrealistic expectation.  On top of this, because most of these files are sent over the Internet, and because of the inadequate tools we had at hand, the security of our FTP processes was insufficient.

I knew it was time to find a better solution and after doing some evaluation of available managed file transfer products for IBM iSeries, I selected GoAnywhere™ Director from Linoma Software.

Our installation of GoAnywhere Director made a huge difference almost immediately.

First, Director provides me with all the possible security protocols available, including SFTP, FTPS, and standard FTP with PGP encryption.  It also has powerful scripting functions to login to HTTP and HTTPS sessions in order to automate logins to partner sites for file transfers.

Director makes it possible to automate all of the company’s file transfers with a schedule and log so we know the path and time of every transaction.  Alerts are automatically sent to us if there are any problems, or if we wish, every time it succeeds.  Responsibility can be distributed to various departments as needed to receive these alerts and/or to begin the execution of the transfers when ready.

The simple-to-navigate web interface makes it easy for any user to view, verify, change and execute these file transfers.  The scripting is easy for the average user to setup. If there are any challenges that we come up against with our file transfer processes, Linoma support has always been extremely effective at showing me how to do a successful execution.

I know how frustrating it can be to initiate, monitor, and track the ever increasing number of file transfers my company requires, especially without an all-in-one tool like managed file transfer.  It amazes me how many IT people still don’t realize there’s a better way to do things — a way that gives them more control, and more time to devote to all the other projects demanding their attention.  I know managed file transfer — and specifically GoAnywhere Director — changed my life at work.  I hope more of my IT colleagues discover the advantages soon.

Daniel Cheney

Daniel has been the IT Director at a healthcare company for the last 12 years and a longtime beneficiary of GoAnywhere Director and the IBM i platform. He is also a freelance writer for various technical and social media projects.

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