Respond to system events and notify people using Twitter.

Kisco Information Systems (www.kisco.com) has announced a significant new release of SNDTWEET, its System i interface to the Twitter social networking service that can be used to post messages through Twitter. 

The new version, release level 1.03, now includes a fully featured message queue monitor function that includes the ability to send message replies to the System i using Twitter. Any System i shop can create a message queue monitor using SNDTWEET. When a qualifying message arrives at the message queue, SNDTWEET will convert the message text into a tweet and send it out via Twitter. Everyone who is "following" the customer's System i will get the notice of the message. 

If the message requires a response, then any of the users can simply send a directed tweet back to the System i with the desired message response value. If configured correctly, this can even all be done from a cell phone or portable PDA device. SNDTWEET will check Twitter for qualifying directed tweets arriving from Twitter and respond to the message queue as directed. When a message is replied to successfully, a new tweet will go out advising all of the followers that the situation has been dealt with. 

In addition to this capability, SNDTWEET continues to provide a System i interface to the Twitter service for all other networking functions. In addition to message queue monitoring, customers can implement system event monitoring, personal tweets, project coordination, company informational tweets, file monitoring and a whole host of other applications limited only by creative thinking. Any time something happens on your System i that multiple people need to know about right away, SNDTWEET can be used to notify the group easily and immediately. 

SNDTWEET, is priced at $295 for a single partition installation on any IBM System i computer including Power Systems, i5, iSeries and AS400. For companies with several systems, Kisco offers multiple-license discounts. An LPAR price of $495 lets you install SNDTWEET in multiple partitions for a single price. Kisco Information Systems offers a free 30-day evaluation of the product that can be downloaded with complete software documentation in PDF format from http://www.kisco.com/sndtweet. To obtain a free evaluation on CD, call Kisco at (518) 897-5002 or e-mail sales@kisco.com.