Developing eBusiness Solutions

Electronic business (eBusiness) lets organizations connect their internal and external data processing systems together a) to better satisfy the needs and expectations of consumers and b) to trade more efficiently and flexibly with suppliers and partners. eBusiness goes way beyond simple Web enablement and is the conduit for conducting online transactions (eCommerce).

eBusiness involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service and cooperating with business partners.

A number of standards have been developed for eBusiness to facilitate the exchange of product item data between companies, many of which are governed by GS1, a leading organization dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains. LANSA is an active member of GS1 member organizations throughout the world.

In addition to developing LANSA based eCommerce applications from the ground up, LANSA's customers have access to a broad range of eCommerce solutions that are designed to help grow business relationships with customers and trading partners online. Built using the LANSA application development platform, and adhering to industry standards, these solutions span Application-to-Application (A2A), Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C). Packaged as ready-to-run templates, they address eCommerce and B2B needs including supply-side and demand-side automation, GDSN, AS2 and EDI compliance.

Customers who have implemented LANSA eBusiness solutions

Yamaha Motor Australia, with its head office in Sydney, is part of the giant Japanese Yamaha Motor Corporation that has subsidiaries all over the world. Yamaha products include a wide range of recreational and industrial products, including motorcycles, golf cars, wave runners, outboard motors, power generators and industrial engines. Yamaha Motor Australia extended its IDS ERP solution with a LANSA-based dealer Web site for spare parts and warranties. The site replaced an emulated Windows interface and makes it easier for dealers to do business with Yamaha, while reducing support costs at the same time.
Read the Yamaha Case Study

BAS Insurance Services Limited (BIS) based in Essex in the U.K., offers specialist insurance, marketing and administrative services. BIS is a market-leader with their AllClear Travel insurance, which provides cover irrespective of age, medical condition or disability. BIS used LANSA to take their AllClear Travel insurance product to the Web and to develop and run nearly 20 branded travel insurance sites for other insurance companies. BIS also used LANSA Commerce Edition to develop and run about 10 member benefit sites. BIS can setup a new site from scratch in three days.
Read the BAS Insurance Services Case Study

Art Frame Direct, Inc, based in Orlando, Florida in the USA, wholesales antique style decorative accessories, framed art and mirrors, sculpture, lighting and a variety of furniture. The company ships from its distribution centers as well as offering custom manufacturing. Customers include major retailers, art dealers, interior design firms and private-label manufacturers in the US and all over the world. Art Frame Direct has extended their Windows-based JD Edwards OneWorld ERP system with LANSA Commerce Edition to offer its customers online ordering and inquiry. In addition, Art Frame is hosting Web sites for some of their retail customers.
Read the Art Frame Direct Case Study

LANSA solutions for eBusiness and eCommerce

LANSA Commerce Edition is an eCommerce framework that is designed to help you grow your business relationships with customers and trading partners online. Comprised of a suite of (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) components that are built on LANSA's powerful application development platform and tools. These components allow you to rapidly generate eBusiness applications that integrate existing Windows or System i (iSeries and AS/400) RPG and COBOL applications with the Web and Wireless world. There is simply no faster way to effectively extend your applications to the Web.
Also available LANSA Commerce Edition – for BPCS and LANSA Commerce Edition – for JD Edwards

Visual LANSA is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you will ever need. You can easily add eBusiness functionality to your existing core Windows or System i applications or build new innovative eCommerce applications. Visual LANSA is a development tool tightly focused on just one thing – rapidly creating high quality commercial applications. But it is not simply a more productive IDE, Visual LANSA’s platform independent meta data repository and high-level business-focused 4GL let you develop 5250, Web and Windows rich-client programs – from a single code base.

LANSA Integrator takes the complexity out of implementing Web services for a LANSA or traditional 3GL developer. It provides a range of services that handle common eBusiness integration tasks such as processing XML and transporting data over common protocols such as FTP, HTTP or by email. It also used for creating and reading common file types such as PDF, ZIP, CSV and Excel workbooks.

LANSA Data Sync Direct is a scalable, easy-to-implement product item data synchronization solution that provides all the required GDSN compliant messaging for supply- and demand-side transactions and functionality. Manage your GTIN activity behind your firewall with workflow and a browser interface to update product data within your organization as well as with trading partners.

LANSA Data Secure Direct takes the uncertainty out of complying with retailers requests for EDI over the Internet (EDI-INT) Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) compliance with easy, browser-based administration.

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We have a host of new sites that we do want to bring up. This includes sites for GE Appliances, but also for our Hotpoint, Moffat and Monogram lines. We now have a tool that allows rapid development of modules with a high degree of quality, in a timely and cost effective manner without the need for an "army" of staff.

John Hills, Manager of Camco's eBusiness Technology Group

Meeting the requirements of our dealers with the LANSA Web solution is much easier. We are now in control and can maintain the dealer system ourselves. As a result we have delivered a lot of new functionality.

Stephen Suen, IT manager at Yamaha Motors Australia

We host nearly twenty branded travel insurance sites and another ten branded member benefit schemes. Without LANSA’s Web ability, we could not have grown to where we are today. We were the first to offer branded insurance and member benefit sites. While others have followed, no one has had the same success.

Nikki Hunt, Head of IT at BAS Insurance Services Limited

The customer support portal has raised customer service and the outside processor portal has streamlined production reporting and delivery. Partners now report production on the day goods are produced and enter shipment details when material ships. Billing is triggered automatically and finalized within 15 minutes of the shipment. The whole delivery and payment cycle went from 7 days, to one day, to 15 minutes.

Bob Needles, acting IT project leader Material Sciences Corporation

Over 30 percent of the customers who signed up to place Web orders are brand new. We now take a large amount of orders that are clean and ready to ship. The number of Web orders is steadily increasing and I estimate we had a 500 percent increase in sales volume month to month in these first 6 months.

Kieth Vey, Web Strategist Art Frame Direct

We continue to grow our Internet business volume at 75 to 100 percent year-over-year. Our overall business has grown from $35 million in the late '80s to over $100 million today, and we have also acquired several companies. LANSA has grown with us to meet the ever more demanding needs of our business. After launching the latest DEMCO site, we enjoyed a 200 percent increase in Web business volume.

Mark Anderson, Vice President of Information Services at DEMCO Inc.