What people are saying about RAMP
 

"If we were to redevelop Harmony in .NET or Java, I would have to recruit different staff and we would probably be looking at a five year project before we have something marketable. With LANSA, we can get there much quicker with our current staff who can continue to support our existing product line during the transition." Marcia DeRosia, President, American Health Care Software Enterprises, Inc.
"RAMP from LANSA helps facilitate a smooth modernization of Scoopsoft ERP. First we deployed an Outlook-like interface and much improved user navigation, now we are rewriting those functions that offer the most benefit to our customers with LANSA. Our customers and prospects don’t have to wait for a total ERP rewrite and can expect to see benefits soon. They also applaud the reduced risk for their organization, because they can implement smaller portions of the ERP at any one time impacting fewer people." Pierre Lefrançois, Senior Systems Analyst, Scoopsoft, Bell Business Solutions
“We chose RAMP from LANSA over other modernization tools because, clearly, the LANSA user interface is superior in its presentation layer and includes a feature-rich development environment. Now with the new, more intuitive RAMPed application we've seen the following significant productivity improvements: User training reduced from 5 days down to two hours 5 minutes of typing now takes 2 button clicks User learning curve shortened from 1 month to two days RAMP from LANSA is simply the right choice in leveraging our extensive legacy applications.” André Dubé, IT Manager, CHS Grain & Oilseed
"While the text-based interface works well and many long time users like it, new hires expect a GUI interface. RAMP's efficient navigation structure will be more productive for our members, but we will give individual users a choice of green screen or GUI. The Visual LANSA Framework will also give us faster development down the line." Carol Stewart, CEO, Control Systems Software
"For us, RAMP was - and still is - the best way to take a big application, get it modernized and set the stage for transition into the years to come, preserving what we've got and setting the stage for where we want to go with our business systems. Building new applications, with the existing base already modernized, is very beneficial. Mark Anderson, VP Business Development and I.S., DEMCO
"Now that our users have seen the first RAMPed module, expectations have been set very high. Eventually we want to have an environment where there is no reliance on RPG and deployment is graphical and cross-platform. Our student administration system includes about 8,000 programs and 4,000 files. Using RAMP we can cost effectively modernize and redevelop those modules that have a high priority and gradually get there." Robin Moore, Director Campus Applications and Data Services, Francis Marion University
"We picked RAMP from LANSA because of our urgent time-to-market requirements. No other solution could have done the job. The benefit of RAMP is clear when you consider what users would have to do if they had 16 green-screen sessions. Just logging in and navigating through the menus would be impossibly time-consuming. The drop-down selections, improved screen layouts and automated screen navigation have been crucial in reducing call time, which is a major part of this project's ROI." Peter Olsen, Manager, Genesys Development, Gannett Co., Inc.
"PRISM serves its users extremely well delivering the functionality they need to run their businesses. Our primary mission is to extend the life of PRISM. Past efforts to modernize PRISM failed for two reasons: too much emphasis was put on simply developing a GUI version of what users already had and the customizations at each customer site were not accounted for. RAMP provides the framework in which we can continue to enhance and support PRISM for years to come." Larry Dube, President and Co-founder, Precision Solutions Group Inc.
"Our METHOS application is a leading product for plant and facility maintenance but it has a 5250 interface. The market demands more than just screen scraping and a rewrite was not a good answer because of time, money and risk of losing capabilities in the process. With RAMP from LANSA we can now deliver Web or client/server capabilities for METHOS without risk. In addition to the very rapid delivery model, we have a dramatic improvement in application navigation, simplification and expansion of our business into the ASP model." Thom Davidson, President at Rippe & Kingston Systems
"In the old system a shipment took on average 162 minutes to process. In the RAMPed version a shipment takes on average 24 minutes to process. We are very pleased with the solution because we didn't have to change the way the process works, we just streamlined it an made it six times faster." Nick D'Alessandro, Technical Lead, Strattec Security
"The tutorial movies included with the RAMP documentation are impressive. Following the tutorial, it was rather easy to take a few green-screens, get them into the RAMP product and have them functional." Mike Pascarell, Manager Solution Delivery at Weidenhammer Systems