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Does Your Application Modernization Pass The Productivity Test?
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The Best Kept Secrets About IBM i Modernization Tools
As the digital transformation train gains momentum, organizations in every industry feel pressured to make...
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5 Answers to Crucial Questions About Synon Legacy Application Modernization
For more than three decades now, thousands of organizations around the globe have been relying...
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Turbocharge Developer Productivity With Powerful Progressive Web Apps
Progressive web applications (PWA) have the potential to revolutionize the way businesses approach app development....
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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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Low-Code & Modernization for the IBM i – My journey to dev & process efficiency
About nine years ago I accepted my first software developer job after decades in the...
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
In part 1 of this blog series, I discussed the benefits of the Business Rules...
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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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Migration or Modernization: Costs
Migration or Modernization: Costs How do you choose a new platform? What's the best plan...
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What Makes a Software Application Suitable for Enterprise Use?
Enterprise application development has never been more difficult and pressing. In the race to deliver,...
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Brunswick Drops Open Source, Picks Up Development Speed
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How to Use a Business Rules Engine to Your Advantage
In this "key considerations" installment, I'll cover why a Business Rules Engine should be a...
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The Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development
Gartner predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least five times faster...
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RAD, 4GL, MADP, RMAD, MXDP, LCDP, hpaPAAS . . . . What the?
Without turning this into a lecture, below is a short overview of low-code, hpaPaas and...
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Low-code – not your uncle’s RAD
Low-code development platforms can make application development simpler and deliver better quality applications faster. But,...
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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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Shadow IT: Friend or Foe?
IT departments like to think of themselves as gatekeepers to their organization’s infrastructure and systems—but...
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Taking Shadow IT Out and Into The Light
“We’ve all got a job to do”. While that may be true, it’s precisely the...
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User Experience – Can you afford not to?
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Worst Software Dev April Fool’s Day Jokes
Nope, others may have already Rickrolled you with a disguised link to Rick Astley’s “Never...
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Agile Sprinting in the Age of Low-code
Agile development provides many benefits to software development, if executed well. I’m not going into...
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So Many Programming Languages to Pick From
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The Low-code Conundrum – Balancing Low-code Productivity with Engineering Best Practice
Companies undertaking digital transformation projects with new, low-code development tools face significant challenges. Especially true...
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5 Reasons You’ll Fall in Love with Application Development (Again)
With a seemingly endless list of programming tools, languages and platforms, some tech types consider today...
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How to Build a Web and Mobile App with a Low-code Development Tool (Video)
Any IT manager tasked with building a new (or extending an existing) web or mobile...
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Imagine the Power of One Language
I’ll ask the reader to at least temporarily suspend feelings and thoughts of politics, culture...
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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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IT Strikes Back
Our saga begins in a company, not so far away, where a federation of end-users...
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Faster and Cheaper by going IT alone
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Why Don’t Users Ever Know What They Want?
We've all been there. In the heat of an IT project - be it greenfield,...
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The Code Generation Dilemma
“That’s great, but what do you generate?” We hear this a lot at LANSA from...
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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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Low-code Development: How Low Should We Go?
(The original article was posted on LinkedIn Pulse.) We are taught in life to set...
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Low-code development: the fallacy of the Sprint
(The original article was posted on LinkedIn Pulse.) A marathon is not just a series...
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Are software developers themselves resisting automation?
Last week I accompanied one of my sales colleagues on a meeting with a prospect. ...
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Tell-tale signs your IT environment is in need of change
You may have one of the smartest and most hardworking IT teams on the planet, yet...
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The Rule of Three It occurred to me some time ago that the creation of...
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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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Workflow Solutions: Key Considerations for Transforming Inefficient Business Processes
Workflow applications enable users to actively participate and manage business processes across any or all...
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User Interface Design – Less is so much more
“How old were you when you got your first phone, daddy?”, asked my 8 year...
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Mind the Gap: Addressing Ambiguity in Requirements
The lesson of the Tower of Babel, possibly the first post-project review in historical records,...
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Version Control – How did we ever survive without it?
That sinking feeling It seems that nearly everyone in the IT industry has a story...
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The Thing About Testing – Part II
In my previous blog post entitled The Thing About Testing, I detailed my experiences as...
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The Thing about Testing
My experiences in Professional Services Consulting have exposed me to many different scenarios and perspectives...
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Are you SaaS ready?
SaaS (Software as a Service) is flourishing. More and more companies are turning to SaaS...
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Introduction to Test Driven Development
Software Lifecycle and Quality Traditionally, when developers work on a software project, they write the...
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Performance is a Requirement
Top of the Requirements List What's the one factor that affects user satisfaction in every...
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Selecting a Workflow Management System for Your Company
When most people think about workflow they may think about a manufacturing process on a...
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Using JSON to Build Efficient Applications
As modern web applications have become increasingly interactive and data centric, techniques have been sought...
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Using JavaScript Frameworks for Building Business Applications
Over the past decade, we’ve seen the explosion of information, mobile devices, tablets and the...
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Protect Your Customers’ PII (Personally Identifiable Information)
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is the sensitive information that can be used to uniquely identify...
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Performance is a lifetime experience!
Performance is not only a highly complex topic but also a moving target as business...
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Can SharePoint and IBM i coexist? The Magic 8-Ball says, “YES!”
Microsoft SharePoint has grown exponentially since its release in 2003. Did you know it took...
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Implementing New Systems – Get Involved and Stay Involved
In most decisions involving your business you carefully scrutinize all of the important aspects. You review...
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LANSA Managed Application Services
The cost effective way to reengineer, modernize & transform your IBM i applications allowing IT...
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Scrum Project Management Approach
So you convinced your management to give you money for your modernization project? Now you...
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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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Why Using an Application Framework like the VLF should be a No Brainer
Frameworks are everywhere. They are available for almost every part of software development and frameworks...
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Successful Application Rollout Strategies – If you build it, will they come?
In prior posts, we’ve reviewed some ideas on ROI-based justification for project initiatives, how to...
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The Case for a Workflow Solution
If you talk to any C-Level executive they are concerned with how to effectively and...