Latest Press Releases and Customer Case Studies from LANSA. http://www.lansa.com/aboutrss.htm http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:03:07 +1000 Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:01:52 +1000 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Integration is a complex task spanning networks, hardware platforms, operating systems, programming languages, databases, applications and business entities. Integration is a necessary component for managing information when you operate more than one application. However, integration will become just another large and complex application, unless implemented as a component in an overall information management solution. http://www.lansa.com/resources/techarticle_integration.htm 4E1A0D1C-3855-40AB-9B38-5C6221E9E6CF Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:01:52 +1000 This article showcases companies that have automated manual business processes with LANSA Composer achieving lower data processing costs and improved data accuracy by reducing the amount of paper, email, fax and human effort required for everyday repetitive tasks. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/showcase.htm A5AD0DF2-93F9-48BD-A2C6-F836394060AE Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:00:58 +1000 aXes Version 1.35 with eXtensions allows developers to write new 5250 applications (RPG and COBOL) to run on multiple devices including the iPhone and Android phones. http://www.lansa.com/press/21009.htm 65178C91-E7DF-48AB-A03C-770D591CFE5D Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:16:36 +1000 Piraeus MultiFin SA, based in Athens, Greece, is one of the country's leading finance companies for the automotive, motorcycle and marine sectors. Piraeus MultiFin used Visual LANSA Framework to redevelop its core line of business system, transforming it from a green-screen legacy interface and to a modern Web application. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/multifin.htm 17BA3715-61E5-4FAD-B3A0-FD94459C24DE Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:20:42 +1000 Version 3 of LANSA Composer adds support for robust transaction workflows that streamline the electronic interactions between internal departments and organizations, to save time, reduce processing costs and improve customer satisfaction. http://www.lansa.com/press/21008.htm 79BFE2FE-5A95-46AA-95ED-4360D9570341 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:33:19 +1000 The new release includes significant increases in functionality and a totally redesigned user interface, providing maximum productivity for companies exchanging information via the GDSN. http://www.lansa.com/press/21007.htm BC034625-C402-4C56-89A3-64815AABDDF1 Mon, 7 Jun 2010 10:10:57 +1000 LANSA Open for .NET Version 3 gives Microsoft .NET developers easy, secure access to data on remote servers via the LANSA Repository, bringing the power, security and performance of the Repository right into Microsoft Visual Studio. http://www.lansa.com/press/21006.htm 24172AAD-EA1F-493B-A988-C8FD1443F59E Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:10:07 +1000 TCM, one of the largest privately owned IT Company in South Africa used Visual LANSA and RAMP to modernize and progressively redevelop its homegrown systems for sales and services and to deliver them inside an integrated visual framework that also includes System21 financials and a document management solution. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/tcm.htm 0E60496F-35E0-41C4-A479-0C322506C032 Mon, 24 May 2010 11:09:11 +1000 Advance Computing has expanded its market share from large IBM midrange customers for its financial solutions, to also include numerous Windows implementations. All platform implementations are supported from a single set of LANSA source code. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/advancecomp.htm 357617E8-E73C-4F97-98A7-D8FB23405BBF Fri, 14 May 2010 13:52:33 +1000 LANSA announced a business partnership with Lawson Software to assist Lawson S3 customers to extend their supply chain integration capabilities to include GS1 standards-based item alignment via the GDSN, using LANSA Data Sync Direct. http://www.lansa.com/press/21005.htm E6EE10BB-20C6-441E-994A-EBD3071282A5 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:00:44 +1000 STRATTEC, the world's largest producer of automotive locks, keys and related security access control products, used a combination of LANSA's application development, modernization and BPI tools to dramatically improve the screen navigation of its System21 ordering, inventory and shipping applications and to replace repetitive tasks with automated EDI processes. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/index.htm F9E9A03D-B60C-4128-8636-9B7B80A97D27 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:47:51 +1100 The "LANSA 2010 Solution Summit - Blueprints for Success" event is to be held April 19-20, 2010 in Lombard, IL. This completely new customer event is designed as a more compact version of the traditional 4-day LANSA user conference. http://www.lansa.com/press/21004.htm 9E06A1EA-D481-45D1-9DA2-F11C6F44ECE4 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:26:18 +1100 John Wiley & Sons is a leading publisher of print and electronic products, used RAMP to rapidly reengineer its applications for the Web as part of a project take its systems global. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/wiley2.htm 1A735FF4-A668-4087-9770-3FEB84692D35 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:04:41 +1100 LANSA today announced that it has opened its own office in Tokyo Japan, after its recent acquisition of all the shares in LANSA Japan that it did not previously own. http://www.lansa.com/press/21003.htm F18746F4-45D1-432F-8310-6F4F54A4A378 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:35 +1100 LANSA announces the general availability of Version 12 of its Visual LANSA software development platform. This new release delivers increased developer productivity and more shared access. http://www.lansa.com/press/21002.htm 77EFE9FA-3688-4822-B508-E66ECA8FF2D3 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:05:14 +1100 This article showcases companies who use LANSA technology to build on the business application foundation they already have in place, by extending the valuable core functionality into open, modern and integrated computing environments. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/extendingcoreapps.htm E8A1A2EF-3465-4FC0-8315-F38749124594 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:47:20 +1100 Food Logistics announced the sixth-annual listing of the Food Logistics 100 (FL100) for 2009. For the sixth year, LANSA has been included in this list of the top 100 technology and service providers. http://www.lansa.com/press/21001.htm 1C414F0A-C22D-47DD-A310-A4F5EE113FFD Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:33:48 +1100 ViaTech Publishing Solutions is the authority in on-demand destination printing. Through its facilities, customers can uploading print files, customizing them and ordering copies to be delivered anywhere in the world, is entirely automated. ViaTech's core IT system, Web portal and systems integration are all based on LANSA technology. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/viatech.htm 86DBD021-A25E-475B-8CCD-A2C744D39996 Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:32:35 +1100 The Board of Studies NSW, Australia chose LANSA to develop and deliver an onscreen marking application as part of its eAssessment program. Onscreen marking allows markers to view and mark onscreen a scanned image of students’ written exam responses, or the student’s responses entered or spoken online. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/bos2.htm 79CB7B83-0881-46C2-B848-84BE5AAD637D Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:40:37 +1100 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital is one of Australia's leading teaching tertiary hospitals. The bioengineers of the hospital's department of Medical Technology and Physics used LANSA to develop eMED, a Windows and SQL Server based system that manages the maintenance and quality assurance for over AU$80 million of medical equipment. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/charlesgairdner.htm 155691A2-3DDA-402B-A9BE-21B9F471B584 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:45:41 +1100 Wells and Young's is standardizing on using LANSA Composer for its EDI communication with external parties, as well as for establishing a formal process for exchanging customer product information between its System21 ERP implementation and various other internal systems. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/wellsyoung.htm 9094336E-90AD-4F94-8993-AAFA69F6209E Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:47:54 +1100 LANSA has integrated LANSA Data Sync Direct, a fully certified GDSN-based Item Data Synchronization solution, with Oracle Product Information Management for the supply-side Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) solution. http://www.lansa.com/press/20909.htm E2D07283-D5DC-4F2D-931E-3AD7BFDF8EAD Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:20:18 +1000 Deli XL, a leading wholesale supplier to the Dutch foodservice market, offers over 60,000 food and food related products and services to its 30,000 customers. Deli XL receives over two million order lines per month, of which 60 percent arrive via Bestel XL, an interactive Web site based on LANSA technology. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/delixl.htm F74D8786-FE28-4DBB-857B-4EB91C94D7A9 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:13:13 +1000 New Version of aXes with "eXtensions" introduces a design workbench from which IBM i 5250 screens can be rendered with Rich Internet Application functionality and look-and-feel. http://www.lansa.com/press/20908.htm 2A164AFE-FECA-4E17-8CC2-0EAFAB895693 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:30:30 +1000 Body Corporate Service provides services to facilitate the smooth running of strata plans, neighbourhood and community title schemes, as well as company titles. BCS uses LANSA to develop and maintain its core Property Management System, for integration with WebSphere portals and for communication with third parties. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/bcs.htm 49C4769C-29F9-43E7-8B6C-342F96FF36CF Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:31:10 +1000 Nahid Jilovec Explains How to Streamline the Supply Chain and Make the Most of Existing Systems to Improve Productivity, Increase Revenues and Reduce Costs. http://www.lansa.com/press/20907.htm A0C67CC1-E6D7-4472-A7FB-B783BD12FA24 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:00:59 +1000 Agilysys is one of the leading technology providers in the worldwide hospitality and food service markets. Agilysys sought to grow its market share and used Visual LANSA to develop Guest 360, its new generation of property management system. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/agilysys.htm FF5EAC0D-4486-49A9-8638-714CA2E4EDE5 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:13:04 +1000 Robinson Manufacturing Company 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. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/robinson.htm FEB7FD12-89BE-4EA1-A747-AF02C7C86DBE Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:25:34 +1000 Using LANSA, Hillman has developed several solutions that help the company to synchronize item information, provide detailed statistics to customers as well as to reduce the cost of implementing a price change by over US$850,000. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/hillman.htm 63E8057E-DEFD-4975-AEE6-AA88F4898C02 Thu, 28 May 2009 13:11:50 +1000 Cinram uses LANSA's RAMP to gradually redevelop and modernize its Global Distribution System. The new composite application offers the strength of the existing core system, in combination with intuitive graphical front-end applications. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/cinram.htm 756AF311-3985-49A0-B246-C025122E0589 Thu, 7 May 2009 12:29:02 +1000 LANSA announces iFusion.net, a new solution that combines IBM and Microsoft technologies to form a unified architecture that enables organizations to fuse their tailor-made legacy systems with Microsoft solutions. http://www.lansa.com/press/20905.htm A80263E8-F746-4840-A51C-C393157DFCAB Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:24:04 +1000 LANSA today announced that it has acquired the aXes product suite, a set of native IBM i software solutions that allow 5250 business applications to be run over the web without changes or disruption to the host system. http://www.lansa.com/press/20904.htm 024E6FB9-41A7-4FAA-BCFA-9483EDA885B5 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:57:09 +1000 LANSA announces a major upgrade of its LANSA Composer ‘code-free’ Business Process Integration solution. Version 2 adds more than 100 new and enhanced features that improve the ease-of-use, breadth of integration and performance. http://www.lansa.com/press/20903.htm EC0B5384-D38B-4803-84D5-112872FBF876 Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:47:27 +1000 CHRISTUS Health uses e.ssential Contract Guardian, a contract management solution from LANSA business partner Rippe & Kingston. The browser-based solution helps to achieve substantial savings and makes the entire contract management process more transparent. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/index.htm B123C57E-07E3-4121-9257-EEA8C0BE1886 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:31:06 +1100 LANSA announces eLearning, an online environment that provides customers and business partners with 24/7 on-demand training for all LANSA products across its full line of application development, modernization and integration tools. http://www.lansa.com/press/index.htm BF1944AB-818E-4EBF-BD54-CAFDF8DF91D6 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:27:09 +1100 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. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/edc.htm 9F065C45-5FFC-47E5-A201-C2FA93E55A0E Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:33:59 +1100 Boddie-Noell's Visual LANSA Framework developed system helps them to manage the administration of over 380 restaurants across five brands with a small team of 10 account specialists. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/boddienoell.htm D7B8D003-77BD-4CEE-A165-94CD1B2AE081 Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:30:00 +1100 For the fifth year, LANSA has been recognized as one of the top 100 technology and service providers that help grocery and foodservice distributors and manufacturers reach their business objectives. http://www.lansa.com/press/20901.htm A3794187-C509-45F9-BFAA-1B6C86ADD0BB Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:30:00 +1100 Scalandes, the purchasing and logistics arm of E. Leclerc, one of France's major retail co-ops, have modernized their LANSA-based back office systems on the System i system using RAMP and Visual LANSA. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/scalandes.htm 0AB68C7B-DC81-4BF7-8006-F8E7FA3BE9C8 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:16:01 +1100 National Envelope uses Visual LANSA and WAMs to provide browser-based access to its ERP systems, LANSA Integrator for a variety of data assimilation tasks and LANSA Commerce Edition for eCommerce. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/nationalenvelope.htm 3617CC20-E093-496E-98E8-7CD1D61E4687 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:19:22 +1100 LANSA is hosting a new white paper, "The Eight Pillars of an Enterprise Application Architecture: Building a Stable and Agile Software Foundation in a Dynamic IBM i and Microsoft World," by well-known author, speaker and consultant Paul Conte. http://www.lansa.com/press/20812.htm A8A1B66E-0E50-481C-B3B3-98A021FFBC07 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:03:58 +1100 The Government of Bermuda implemented a new interactive Web solution, www.careers.gov.bm, to link Bermudian students and local employers to help employ recent graduates and keep them moving up the corporate ladder. http://www.lansa.com/press/20811.htm 0A656E3F-1CD8-4544-993F-54CD4410BE5A Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:24:19 +1100 The Government of Bermuda offers www.careers.gov.bm, an interactive Web solution for linking Bermudian students and graduates to local employers. The site, which has been built with LANSA Web Application Modules (WAMs), uses Web services to exchange data with the Dep. of Immigration. http://www.lansa.com/casestudies/index.htm 14181538-4F0A-40C0-85ED-03AABC87400B Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:22:13 +1100 Since its inception, LANSA’s data services layer has protected the integrity of data for thousands of IBM i users worldwide. LANSA Open for .NET now brings the security and performance of its data services layer to the Microsoft .NET world. http://www.lansa.com/press/20810.htm 844E1F8F-0AFA-42CB-87AB-53FBBF5B13CD Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:22:53 +1000