Case Studies

Agilysys Boosts Popularity with Move to Microsoft .NET

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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Robinson Manufacturing's new ERP system offers a one-stop shop

Robinson Manufacturing Company, based in Dayton, Tennessee in the US, is a supplier of basic and fashion boxer underwear, loungewear and activewear to both the retail and wholesale markets. Robinson uses Visual LANSA to redevelop its core applications and also to offer a Web portal to its vendors where they can securely manipulate data, create shipments and print case labels.
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Hillman Reduces the Cost of Implementing a Price Change

The Hillman Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, keeps over 21,000 retailers across the USA, Canada and Mexico stocked with an assortment of over 55,000 small, inexpensive but essential hardware items, such as fasteners, keys, signage & engraving products. Hillman uses LANSA for several solutions, including a Mass Price Change application, a Product Information Management (PIM) system and a Customer Information Repository (CIR) that stores attributes such as display planograms, geographic location, rep schedule and routing and an assortment wizard. Sales reps have browser Web access, also using LANSA, to both the PIM and CIR.
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Cinram fuses IBM i and Windows with LANSA

Cinram Logistics UK, a division of the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of pre-recorded entertainment media, holds exclusive agreements with major movie studios, software and music publishers, including Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox, MGM and EMI. Cinram uses LANSA's RAMP to gradually redevelop and modernize its Global Distribution System. The new composite application offers the underlying strength of the existing core system, in combination with intuitive graphical front-end applications and tight MS Office integration.
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CHRISTUS Health Brings Transparency to Contract Management

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.
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Export Development Canada on the Road to SOA

Export Development Canada (EDC) is Canada’s export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. Nearly 7,000 Canadian companies and their global customers use EDC's knowledge and partnership each year. EDC uses ACBS, a largely LANSA-based commercial lending and trading system, and has recently successfully delivered two SOAP Web Services integration solutions, using LANSA Integrator. EDC also uses LANSA to customize and extend ACBS to meet specific requirements.
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Fusing the Windows and IBM i worlds

This article showcases examples of LANSA customers who have combined and integrated the IBM i and Windows platforms, deployed to both or transferred between the two, using a variety of methods.
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