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Reface, extend, and develop new IBM i

Reface, extend, and develop new IBM i

Modernize, enhance, and innovate your IBM i systems.

How Can A Software Engineering Team Measure Productivity?
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How Can A Software Engineering Team Measure Productivity?

When seeking to determine the success of any business activity, measurement of...

Everything You Need To Solve Your RPG Recruitment Problems
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Everything You Need To Solve Your RPG Recruitment Problems

From their inceptions, IBM i and RPG (also known as IBM RPG)...

Leverage RPG Experience To Boost IBM i ROI And Productivity
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Leverage RPG Experience To Boost IBM i ROI And Productivity

IBM i is a powerful, secure, and reliable operating environment, even for...

LANSA Launches Rapid Portal Development With Visual Low-Code Platform
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LANSA Launches Rapid Portal Development With Visual Low-Code Platform

It’s another day at the office. You’ve got customers breathing down your...

9 Low-Code Resources To Supercharge Your Digital Transformation
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9 Low-Code Resources To Supercharge Your Digital Transformation

This article will walk you through 9 low-code resources that will bring...

Is Your Low-Code Platform Reducing Backlogs Or Just Shifting Them?
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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...

Hybrid Low-Code: Efficiently Implementing Industry 4.0 on the IBM i
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Hybrid Low-Code: Efficiently Implementing Industry 4.0 on the IBM i

The need for optimization and to implement industry 4.0 concepts has never...

Visual LANSA 15+ Routing Made Easy
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Visual LANSA 15+ Routing Made Easy

What Is Routing? You may be wondering what exactly routing is when...

Hybrid Low-Code: Overcoming the Limitations of Traditional Low-Code
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Hybrid Low-Code: Overcoming the Limitations of Traditional Low-Code

LANSA has long known that developing enterprise apps can be complicated and...

Progressive Web Apps: One App for All Devices
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Progressive Web Apps: One App for All Devices

Progressive web applications (PWA) have the potential to revolutionize the way businesses...

Let’s Get Virtual: LANSA Low-Code Days Coming in October!
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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...

IBM i: The Lean, Mean Business Machine 
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IBM i: The Lean, Mean Business Machine 

I recently read an article on LinkedIn, “6 Elegant IBM i Features...

Future Proofing Application Modernization with Low-Code
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Future Proofing Application Modernization with Low-Code

Oftentimes when we are tasked with choosing the right platform to transition...

aXes, Visual LANSA, RAMP: Dealing with the Now, Planning for the Future
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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...

Why Low-Code with Visual LANSA 15 Is Simply Better
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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...

Visual LANSA v15: More Powerful Features for the Most Flexible Low-Code Platform
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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...

Visual LANSA v15: The Most Powerful Low-Code Platform Just Got Even Better
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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....

Low-Code & Modernization for the IBM i – My journey to dev & process efficiency
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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...

Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA

In part 1 of this blog series, I discussed the benefits of...

Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
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Accelerate App Development with Visual LANSA

Over the past few months I have been writing about the benefits...

Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World
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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...

Brunswick Chooses Low-Code Over Open Source to Modernize Core App
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Brunswick Chooses Low-Code Over Open Source to Modernize Core App

We recently held a webinar that addressed a rising trend in the...

Low-Code >> High Control
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Low-Code >> High Control

Low-Code >> High Control -- A LANSA webinar with Forrester Research and...

Migration or Modernization: Costs
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Migration or Modernization: Costs

Migration or Modernization: Costs How do you choose a new platform? What's...

Migrate or Modernize? That is the Question
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Migrate or Modernize? That is the Question

Migrate or Modernize - That is the Question What factors motivate an...

Are You Facing the Modernization Dilemma?
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Are You Facing the Modernization Dilemma?

The Modernization Dilemma Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory...

The New Spectrum of Application Development
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The New Spectrum of Application Development

What we know as ‘low-code’ is changing. The problem is application development...

What Makes a Software Application Suitable for Enterprise Use?
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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...

Visual LANSA for Mobile Apps
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Visual LANSA for Mobile Apps

In my last blog post, I explained what it takes to make...

Why is Software Application Development So Much Fun?
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Why is Software Application Development So Much Fun?

It has become a rather interesting question to ponder over the years:...

Brunswick Drops Open Source, Picks Up Development Speed
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Brunswick Drops Open Source, Picks Up Development Speed

Recreational bowling centers have morphed from smoky old hangouts to state-of-the-art family...

What to Expect When Hiring Full-Stack Developers
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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)....

The Rise of Full-Stack Developers
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The Rise of Full-Stack Developers

How many full-stack developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?...

Haunted by Ghosts of Technologies Past?
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Haunted by Ghosts of Technologies Past?

Halloween is getting close. How do I know? Not because its highlighted...

What’s the Hype About Low-code?
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What’s the Hype About Low-code?

In part one of this blog series, we looked at low-code hype vs....

Hype vs. Reality: The Lowdown on Low-code Platforms
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Hype vs. Reality: The Lowdown on Low-code Platforms

Low-Code development is a hot technology area right now. Forecasts and predictions...

Cross-Platform Deployment Made Easy with Low-code
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Cross-Platform Deployment Made Easy with Low-code

Today's post marks the end of my blog series on "The five...

How to Use a Business Rules Engine to Your Advantage
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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...

Why the Application Framework in Low-code Platforms Matter
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Why the Application Framework in Low-code Platforms Matter

Investing in low-code development platforms is like playing the stock market. If...

The Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development
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The Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development

Gartner predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least...

Getting Started With a Low-code Solution
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Getting Started With a Low-code Solution

The right low-code software development platform will significantly reduce costs over the...

How Low-code Can Slash the Cost of Software Maintenance
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How Low-code Can Slash the Cost of Software Maintenance

A commonly known rule of thumb in software engineering, which seems to...

Back-end, Front-end, Middleware, Sideways Developers … But Why?
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Back-end, Front-end, Middleware, Sideways Developers … But Why?

US News & World report named “software developer” the number 1 job...

Taking Shadow IT Out and Into The Light
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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,...

Agile Sprinting in the Age of Low-code
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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...

So Many Programming Languages to Pick From
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So Many Programming Languages to Pick From

My father recently underwent a full knee replacement. Before the procedure, my...

The Low-code Conundrum – Balancing Low-code Productivity with Engineering Best Practice
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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...

5 Reasons You’ll Fall in Love with Application Development (Again)
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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...

Imagine the Power of One Language
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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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