LANSA Delivers Business Process Integration For The Rest Of Us
New LANSA Composer Product Is Another First' on System i
Downers Grove, Illinois USA September 25, 2007 LANSA announces the
imminent availability of LANSA Composer, the first Business Process Integration
solution designed specifically for the heartland of the System i community the
small and medium business. Previously, the use of such advanced technology had
been the preserve of large and well-resourced organizations that could afford
the cost and complexity involved. But today every business large or small is
under pressure to automate their manual processes, better integrate their
internal systems and securely share data with external parties. LANSA Composer
is the first native System i solution to address all of these requirements and
be packaged and priced for the mass market.
LANSA Composer is built on the company's Integrator technology, a Java-based engine that over the past decade has been used by hundreds of System i developers to address a wide-range of connectivity, application integration and document delivery requirements. LANSA Composer adds new graphical mapping and process orchestration tools to create a code-free environment. A business analyst, or a similarly skilled person, can now design a solution in conjunction with end-user domain experts without requiring programming expertise. With LANSA Composer, if you can click, you can connect!
A Business Process Integration solution like LANSA Composer is different from other middleware in that it takes a top-down, process-centric approach. The goal is to automate manual processes and eliminate re-keying of data by reducing the amount of paper, email, fax and human interaction required to complete a given business process. LANSA Composer can also replace any batch processing or semi-automated file transfers with real-time interfaces between applications and databases. The result is a robust and efficient environment in which computer automation is, once again, making people and businesses more productive.
Martin Fincham, LANSA's general manager for the EMEA region said, "Prior to joining LANSA, I participated in the evolution of middleware from being a low-level plumbing issue to the full-on concept of enterprise application integration. The products now available to Global 2000 companies are very sophisticated but carry an inherent cost and complexity that puts them beyond the reach of most small and medium sized businesses. We saw an opportunity to isolate just the functionality that our customers really need and then deliver an out-of-the-box integration solution with which even non-programmers will succeed."
John Siniscal, president of LANSA Americas, said, "It's my observation that inside many System i shops you will find point-to-point connections crafted using technology that, today, is considered no more advanced than two tin cans and a piece of string! People have been making do with these relatively crude solutions because more advanced technology has been beyond their reach. LANSA has a twenty-year history of making advanced software more simple and LANSA Composer is yet another example of our commitment to the System i community."
LANSA Composer is being tested by a limited set of customers and LANSA Business Partners. The product will be generally available to purchase in all English-language regions from October 15, 2007. A product update will soon follow with additional language support (e.g. French) and the option to deploy on a Microsoft Windows server. Online demonstrations of LANSA Composer will be available during a series of Webinars starting in November. Visit www.lansa.com/events for Webinar dates and registration.