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Announcing new Visual LANSA EPC for v15+: Win11 support, new UI updates, and more
We’re very pleased to release EPC150050 for Visual LANSA v15. This EPC release builds on...
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LongRange App – now featuring NFC tag reading and enhanced data entry options
We are excited to announce the release of the LongRange app update today. This update...
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Software Quality Metrics: Selecting The Right Metrics For Your Project
Monitoring software quality metrics is essential in the development process of any project. Using them,...
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What Are Software Metrics? How Can I Measure These Metrics?
Monitoring software development team productivity can provide crucial insights into productivity. Software efficiency metrics are...
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How Can A Software Engineering Team Measure Productivity?
When seeking to determine the success of any business activity, measurement of productivity is one...
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What Makes Developer Productivity Plunge?
Every day, developers are faced with a large number of tasks that they need to...
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What Generally Destroys The Productivity Of Programmers?
Have you ever thought about what determines the speed and cost of developing new projects?...
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Letter from Stephen Strake, LANSA’s new General Manager
As the new General Manager, I would like to introduce myself and share how excited...
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October 2021 GM Update: Visual LANSA And Low Code
With the economy slowly rebounding from COVID, I am reminded of how fast time flies...
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Tutorial: Easily Automate Business Processes With Progressive Web Apps
No matter what your industry, any repetitive process that you can streamline or automate is...
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Tutorial: Easily Build A Currency Exchange Rate Progressive Web App Via REST API
With the rise in demand for cryptocurrency in today's market, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC),...
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Is Your Low-Code Platform Reducing Backlogs Or Just Shifting Them?
IT backlogs have been growing for years, and the stress of recent global events has...
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2021 – The Year to Harness the Power of Low-Code
If you’re like me, you’re happy to put 2020 in your rearview mirror. Nevertheless, 2020...
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Visual LANSA V15+: Progressive Web Apps Go Low-Code
The latest edition of Visual LANSA, V15+ (plus), introduces the ability to easily create progressive...
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Ready to Start Developing the Hottest Apps of 2021 Right Now?
LANSA’s elves have been busy in their developer workshop, and they are close to finishing...
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Progressive Web Apps: One App for All Devices
Progressive web applications (PWA) have the potential to revolutionize the way businesses approach app development....
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LANSA: We’re Just Getting Started
Business is anything but usual, and many of us have had to make adjustments as...
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Let’s Get Virtual: LANSA Low-Code Days Coming in October!
We are less than a month away from LANSA’s first big virtual event, Low-Code Days—a...
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Portalize: The Low-Code Portal Builder with Multilingual Functionality
The Visual LANSA low-code platform has always been capable of multilingual development. Developers around the...
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We Made Evaluating Visual LANSA Easier Than Ever
We understand the time and resources needed to thoroughly evaluate new development tools. Often, the...
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IBM i: The Lean, Mean Business Machine
I recently read an article on LinkedIn, “6 Elegant IBM i Features That Keep It...
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Future Proofing Application Modernization with Low-Code
Oftentimes when we are tasked with choosing the right platform to transition our software and...
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Portalize™: Build Secure Portals Fast – The first low-code portal solution built for hundreds of use cases
LANSA is excited to announce Portalize, a revolutionary product combining the world’s most powerful low-code...
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Turning to Low-Code in Pandemic Times – Low-Code’s Flexible and Scalable Approach Proves Powerful in Crisis
The enterprise environment is shifting in enormous ways, and with the recent onset of COVID-19—turning...
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Learn LANSA: The Official Free Training Platform for Visual LANSA
It is with great excitement that I get to announce the launch of Learn LANSA!...
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aXes, Visual LANSA, RAMP: Dealing with the Now, Planning for the Future
With the current pandemic drastically changing the way many companies conduct business both internally and...
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Why Low-Code with Visual LANSA 15 Is Simply Better
It is official—with the drop of version 15 on April 15, Visual LANSA becomes the...
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Visual LANSA v15: More Powerful Features for the Most Flexible Low-Code Platform
Last week I offered a sneak preview of some of the hot new features in...
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Visual LANSA v15: The Most Powerful Low-Code Platform Just Got Even Better
The launch of Visual LANSA’s Version 15 is just around the corner. LANSA has packed...
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
Over the past few months I have been writing about the benefits of low-code and...
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Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World
Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World When it comes to...
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Low-code 2020: On the Verge of Domination
As we say goodbye to 2019, we look ahead to 2020 and the excitement it...
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Who’s Coding Your Business Applications?
No-code/Low-code platforms have rekindled the idea that “amateur” programmers, also known as citizen developers, can...
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Five Things You Need to Know About Simplifying Complex Automation Processes
In today’s business world, the term process automation gets used quite a bit. But what...
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Automate Data Transformation Processes
Simplify Your Business & Gain Real ROI In order to address all their data and...
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Migration or Modernization: Costs
Migration or Modernization: Costs How do you choose a new platform? What's the best plan...
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Migrate or Modernize? That is the Question
Migrate or Modernize - That is the Question What factors motivate an organization to migrate...
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Are You Facing the Modernization Dilemma?
The Modernization Dilemma Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory pressures require faster...
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Energy & Momentum High at LANSA
It’s been a busy year at LANSA! Since the acquisition, we’ve been laser-focused on learning...
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What is Google Material Design & How Does It Affect Modern Application Development?
Google recognized the need to unify, simplify and standardize the design of its UI across...
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David Brault Named a 2019 IBM Champion
We like to celebrate accomplishments here at LANSA, especially when it involves one of our...
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Certify Your Developers Become Full-Stack Developers
With nearly half of all mid and large-sized companies with open technology job postings, most...
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What to Expect When Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Tech recruiters everywhere are posting hordes of jobs for full-stack developers (FSDs). A quick scan...
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The Rise of Full-Stack Developers
How many full-stack developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one, if...
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On the Road in Europe
I’m just back from a week traveling across Europe with my colleagues, delivering an update...
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Frank Sarnelli named IBM Systems Magazine “Fresh Face”
It’s not surprising Frank Sarnelli joins the list of young professionals who have been named...
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GDPR – The journey has only just begun
As a marketing professional, this week has been quite unlike any other. The implementation date...
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Evaluating Customer Service Before You’re a Customer
Who hasn't been stuck in auto-phone-system purgatory for hours or been routed to a first-line...
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Quick! It’s High Time to Get GDPR Compliant
So, you’ve been swamped with massive application backlogs and haven’t been able to dig into...
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Faster and Cheaper by going IT alone
Paradigm Housing Group is one of the leading housing providers in the South East of...
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8 Principles of the Innovator’s Way
Evolving From the IT Cost Center to the IT Innovator (The original article appears in...
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Shadow IT & citizen development – Love IT or Loathe IT
No wonder the IT backlog is mushrooming. Many IT departments are struggling to deliver mobile...
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Technology has a place, and it’s not at your dinner table
My sisters and I grew up around the dinner table. We were fortunate enough to...
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International i-Power Conference 2015
IBM i revival – A well attended event and an upbeat atmosphere The International i-Power...
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Biz Data wins European Union tender to train users on LANSA software
For nearly 20 years LANSA has been operating a comprehensive partner program. Our Solution Partners...
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The next generation of IBM i professionals
Guest Blogger: Benjamin Newman Supporting the next generation of IBM i professionals is important to...
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Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence and Trends in Data Analytics
Data, information, and evidence Data is the foundation of information, information builds evidence and evidence...
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How to justify IT projects to your CFO
This article is based on a series of three blog posts I wrote entitled "How...
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iPulse 2012 Results
The 3rd annual iPulse Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during November and December 2012 and...
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Designing in Supportability
This post is a bit of a rant. I'm not continually amazed by what I'm...
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Empowering your Enterprise Systems Management Team to be Innovative and Best-in-Class
Your organization has systems helping manage enterprise-critical activities and information – and your team is...
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Legacy Asset Management and Transformation
Legacy Asset Management and Transformation is the practice of maintaining older application assets so that...
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How to Justify Application Modernization to your CFO – Episode 3
This blog series unveils the steps needed to make an ROI-powered business case for Application...
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iPulse 2011 Survey Results
The second annual iPulse Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during October 2011 and was promoted...
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Sweeten your Customer Relationships with SugarCRM on IBM i
While technology improvements have lowered the cost of building and deploying business solutions, until recently,...
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Top Ten Reasons Application Modernization Projects Fail
Guest Blogger: Paul Conte, President PCES, is a leading Application Development Strategist Are we done...
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Risk, Innovation and Cost Considerations
In the current economic climate we’re all being asked to go back to our parents...
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iPulse 2010 Survey Results
The iPulse 2010 Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during September 2010 and was promoted to...
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Project Health Check Review
If you've been working on a project with my Services team this year, you may have already experienced...
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How Does Your Organization Manage Content?
Information Overload We are facing a crisis in information Management called “the data deluge” by the...