IBM i App Modernization: Expectation vs. Reality
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The Best Kept Secrets About IBM i Modernization Tools
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3 Steps To Developing A Successful Low-Code Platform
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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...
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Turbocharge Developer Productivity With Powerful Progressive Web Apps
Progressive web applications (PWA) have the potential to revolutionize the way businesses...
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aXes, Visual LANSA, RAMP: Dealing with the Now, Planning for...
With the current pandemic drastically changing the way many companies conduct business...
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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...
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Visual LANSA v15: More Powerful Features for the Most Flexible...
Last week I offered a sneak preview of some of the hot...
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Visual LANSA v15: The Most Powerful Low-Code Platform Just Got...
The launch of Visual LANSA’s Version 15 is just around the corner....
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Low-Code & Modernization for the IBM i – My journey...
About nine years ago I accepted my first software developer job after...
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
In part 1 of this blog series, I discussed the benefits of...
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
Over the past few months I have been writing about the benefits...
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Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control...
Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World When...
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Low-code 2020: On the Verge of Domination
As we say goodbye to 2019, we look ahead to 2020 and...
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Migration or Modernization: Costs
Migration or Modernization: Costs How do you choose a new platform? What's...
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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...
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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...
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The Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development
Gartner predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least...
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RAD, 4GL, MADP, RMAD, MXDP, LCDP, hpaPAAS . . ....
Without turning this into a lecture, below is a short overview of...
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Low-code – not your uncle’s RAD
Low-code development platforms can make application development simpler and deliver better quality...
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GDPR – The journey has only just begun
As a marketing professional, this week has been quite unlike any other....
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Shadow IT: Friend or Foe?
IT departments like to think of themselves as gatekeepers to their organization’s...
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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,...
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User Experience – Can you afford not to?
Shall I let you into a little secret? I’m not a good...
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Worst Software Dev April Fool’s Day Jokes
Nope, others may have already Rickrolled you with a disguised link to...
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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...
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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...
Companies undertaking digital transformation projects with new, low-code development tools face significant...
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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...
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How to Build a Web and Mobile App with a...
Any IT manager tasked with building a new (or extending an existing)...
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Imagine the Power of One Language
I’ll ask the reader to at least temporarily suspend feelings and thoughts...
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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...
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IT Strikes Back
Our saga begins in a company, not so far away, where a...
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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 -...
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The Code Generation Dilemma
“That’s great, but what do you generate?” We hear this a lot...
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8 Principles of the Innovator’s Way
Evolving From the IT Cost Center to the IT Innovator (The original...
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Shadow IT & citizen development – Love IT or Loathe...
No wonder the IT backlog is mushrooming. Many IT departments are struggling...
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Low-code Development: How Low Should We Go?
(The original article was posted on LinkedIn Pulse.) We are taught in...
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Low-code development: the fallacy of the Sprint
(The original article was posted on LinkedIn Pulse.) A marathon is not...
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Are software developers themselves resisting automation?
Last week I accompanied one of my sales colleagues on a meeting...
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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...
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The Rule of Three It occurred to me some time ago that...
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International i-Power Conference 2015
IBM i revival – A well attended event and an upbeat atmosphere...
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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...
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User Interface Design – Less is so much more
“How old were you when you got your first phone, daddy?”, asked...
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Mind the Gap: Addressing Ambiguity in Requirements
The lesson of the Tower of Babel, possibly the first post-project review...
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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...
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The Thing About Testing – Part II
In my previous blog post entitled The Thing About Testing, I detailed...
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The Thing about Testing
My experiences in Professional Services Consulting have exposed me to many different...
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Are you SaaS ready?
SaaS (Software as a Service) is flourishing. More and more companies are...
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Introduction to Test Driven Development
Software Lifecycle and Quality Traditionally, when developers work on a software project,...
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Performance is a Requirement
Top of the Requirements List What's the one factor that affects user...
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Selecting a Workflow Management System for Your Company
When most people think about workflow they may think about a manufacturing...
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Using JSON to Build Efficient Applications
As modern web applications have become increasingly interactive and data centric, techniques...
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Using JavaScript Frameworks for Building Business Applications
Over the past decade, we’ve seen the explosion of information, mobile devices,...
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Protect Your Customers’ PII (Personally Identifiable Information)
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is the sensitive information that can be used...
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Performance is a lifetime experience!
Performance is not only a highly complex topic but also a moving...
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Can SharePoint and IBM i coexist? The Magic 8-Ball says,...
Microsoft SharePoint has grown exponentially since its release in 2003. Did you...
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Implementing New Systems – Get Involved and Stay Involved
In most decisions involving your business you carefully scrutinize all of the...
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LANSA Managed Application Services
The cost effective way to reengineer, modernize & transform your IBM i...
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Scrum Project Management Approach
So you convinced your management to give you money for your modernization...
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Top Ten Reasons Application Modernization Projects Fail
Guest Blogger: Paul Conte, President PCES, is a leading Application Development Strategist...
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Why Using an Application Framework like the VLF should be...
Frameworks are everywhere. They are available for almost every part of software...
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Successful Application Rollout Strategies – If you build it, will...
In prior posts, we’ve reviewed some ideas on ROI-based justification for project...
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The Case for a Workflow Solution
If you talk to any C-Level executive they are concerned with how...