Application Development

Agilysys is one of the leading technology providers in the worldwide hospitality and food service markets. The company’s Lodging Management System® (LMS) powers many of the largest hotels in the world, including most of the mega-hotel-casinos in Las Vegas. Although extended with LANSA for online Web reservations, the LMS RPG-based core modules could only be deployed to the IBM i. Agilysys sought to grow its market share and used Visual LANSA to develop Guest 360™, its new generation of property management system. Agilysys was able to bring the Guest 360 solution to market 50 percent faster than originally planned saving more than a year and enabling the company to capture additional sales.
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Apria Healthcare, America's leading provider of home healthcare products and services, uses a Visual LANSA built system to manage sales commission data and send the sales commission transactions to its SAP Human Resource system. Apria also uses a VL built system for generating customer satisfaction survey forms and for presenting survey results graphically to its customer satisfaction department. Read the Case Study

The Argus Group, the largest local insurance company in Bermuda, has used LANSA to redevelop and integrate its previously separate core systems for group insurance (including health, life and disability), pensions and property. See IBM Argus Case Study from 2006.
More recent development has been with Visual LANSA Framework and LANSA Integrator, applications include:

• Treasury System, for the recording of customer payments integrating with non-LANSA systems and credit card gateways.
• International Life policy application, which automates the generation and email distribution of policy statements and payment requests to customers and brokers, again integrating with third party applications.

Bangkok Airways offers regular passenger and charter services to destinations in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar and Singapore. The airline operates from Don Muang, Bangkok's international airport, and is continuously exploring new destinations to help develop the local tourism industry. Bangkok Airways uses KEOPS, an operational planning solution for the aviation industry from IFR France. KEOPS, developed with Visual LANSA, is multilingual and offers flight scheduling, crew management and operations control to airlines worldwide. Read the Case Study

The Office of the Board of Studies New South Wales (OBOS) is the certifying authority responsible for the content of syllabus materials, registration of non-government schools, and delivery of high school examinations for New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. Using LANSA since 1989, the OBOS development team has delivered many systems, such as online services to schools, teachers, students and parents. These include the delivery of HSC results over the Web and the collection of over 1.2 million grades and assessments and over 45 million responses and marks per year. Recently OBOS chose LANSA to develop and deliver an onscreen marking application, that allows markers to view and mark onscreen a scanned image of students’ written exam responses, or the student’s responses entered or spoken online. Read the Case Study

**Boddie-Noell Enterprises Inc. (BNE) headquartered in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is a diversified, family owned company with interests in a variety of restaurants including over 340 Hardee's franchise restaurants, 30 Texas Steakhouse & Saloon restaurants, nine Moe's Southwest Grill franchise restaurants, six Café Carolina and Bakery restaurants and one Highway Diner. BNE uses Visual LANSA Framework (VLF) for virtually all development in its restaurant business. BNE's LANSA-trained developers all come from a COBOL, RPG and green-screen environment and have deep knowledge of BNE's restaurant business and previous versions of the restaurant systems. BNE chose a Windows rich client interface for its internal corporate users and is now using the same VLF tool to create a Web browser based interface for its eServices. Read the Case Study

Body Corporate Service (BCS), established over 30 years ago and with over 20 branches on the eastern seaboard of Australia, are pioneers in strata management. BCS portfolio of property under management includes residential, commercial, resort & mixed use developments, totaling over 6,000 buildings. BCS uses LANSA to develop and maintain its core Property Management System (PMS), for integration with customer and staff WebSphere portals and several Windows systems, as well as for communication with third parties such as with insurance companies, banks and the tax office. Read the Case Study

**Brewers' Distributor Ltd. ( BDL) is Western Canada's leading distribution and container return service for the brewing industry, moving nearly a billion dollars worth of beer per year. BDL built a Warehouse Automation System that includes Visual LANSA Framework developed modules for Dispatching (replacing BDL’s JD Edwards Dispatch module), a Load Plan system and a solution that gives the process controller a visual depiction of pallets moving through the line and lets them deal with any exceptions. JD Edwards and the LANSA extension communicate with automated line software (from Samuel Strapping Systems) using LANSA Integrator SOAP requests. Read the Case Study

Carlisle FoodService Products, in Oklahoma, USA, is a leading manufacturer of professional grade tools and tableware for the foodservice industry. Carlisle sells over 50,000 products via a network of over 10,000 distributors to restaurants, hotels and hospitals worldwide. Since 1995, Carlisle has used LANSA to streamline procedures and increase ROI in virtually every area of its business. Manufacturing plants and distribution centers use LANSA ERP Framework and Carlisle's distributors have Web access using a LANSA site. Read the Case Study

The CBH Group, is Australia's largest grain co-operative with operations extending along the value chain from grain receival, storage, handling and transport, to marketing, shipping and processing. CBH's core grain handling and storage system IBIS includes Web access for growers and other stakeholders and has been developed using LANSA. Integration with other systems, such as SAP Financials and CBH's port control systems, are largely based on Web services, also developed with LANSA, and Websphere MQ. The system is comprehensive and includes 1,284 physical files, 2,375 logical files, 512 trigger functions, 2,293 server type functions, 2,015 Windows forms and 2,429 reusable parts in the Repository. Read the Case Study

The Children's Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) is the largest child welfare organization in North America. CAST serves over 9000 families and 24,000 children annually. CAST historically used Visual Basic (VB) but redeveloped the its Case Management system in Visual LANSA (VL). Redevelopment in VL took less than half the time that was estimated for the project with VB. The VL solution proved more stable and consistent in implementation. Read the Case Study

CHP Consulting, established in 1990, is the leading provider of software and consulting services to the global asset finance industry with headquarters in the U.K. and offices in USA and Australia. CHP's ALFA Systems solution, with its business logic built using LANSA, has grown to become an industry standard in supporting asset finance, vehicle finance and consumer finance operations at top banks, equipment manufacturers and finance companies, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, GE Capital, HSBC, ING Lease, Lloyds TSB, RBS Lombard, National Australia Group, Nissan Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland and Société Générale. Read the Case Study

^^CHRISTUS Health, ranked among the top ten Catholic health systems in the U.S., is comprised of almost 350 services and facilities. CHRISTUS Health uses e.ssential Contract Guardian, a contract management solution from LANSA business partner Rippe & Kingston. Built with LANSA Web Application Modules (WAMs), the browser-based solution can be deployed across multiple platforms in-house or on a SaaS basis. CHRISTUS Health has implemented the solution in a Windows environment in its Houston data center. The solution helps to achieve substantial savings and makes the entire contract management process more transparent. Read the Case Study

The College of New Rochelle (CNR) in New York USA was founded in 1904 and has seven campuses and over 6,000 students. CNR runs its administration with College Administrative Processing System (CAPS) from LANSA business partner DB Systems Corporation. CAPS is a browser-based ASP solution and gives staff and students easy browser access inside the college and at home. Read the Case Study

Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque (CUD) is an urban community association in France. CUD's scope includes housing development, design and building of industrial zones, economic development, construction and maintenance of local schools, water purification. CUD has developed all its systems, iSeries, Windows and Web with LANSA. CUD's financial management system is built with Visual LANSA to provide easy navigation over a wealth of information and better integration with MS Word and Windows print management tools.

The Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago is America's largest consolidated court system. The Office of the Chief Judge employs more than 2,300 people, serves over 400 judges and handles 2.4 million cases a year. The court's Juvenile Enterprise Management System (JEMS) is developed with LANSA. JEMS is an integrated justice information system which ties law enforcement to six county agencies with responsibility for juvenile justice and child protection in one application.

Corsair International, a leading charter airline in France, uses KEOPS, an operational planning solution for the aviation industry from IFR France. KEOPS is developed with Visual LANSA, multilingual and offers flight scheduling, crew management and operations control to airlines worldwide. Corsair runs the solution day and night, has over 350 desktops connected and only one person who spends less than 30 percent of his time looking after the system. Read the Case Study

**Deli XL, a leading wholesale supplier to the Dutch foodservice market, offers and reliably delivers an assortment of over 60,000 food and food-related products and services to its 30,000 customers in the hospitality, catering and institutional markets. Deli XL uses Visual LANSA Framework for extensions to its core ERP system, such as a Windows rich client Complaint Management System and a solution to locate (mis-)matches between supplier invoices and deliveries.  Deli XL receives over two million order lines per month, of which 60 percent arrive via Bestel XL, an interactive Web site also based on LANSA technology.
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