LANSA Scalable License Win2012
LANSA Inc | V14 SP2 EPC142060-5Windows, Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Lansa from a system administrator perspective
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of use and it is robust and easy to maintain. Also a quick implementation from an idea to working and useable software.
What do you dislike about the product?
The installation process needs to be simplified
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business integration between several ERP applications through Lansa Composer.
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Solid product, allows for fast professional level product development
What do you like best about the product?
One environment for development of Windows based programs, mobile apps and Web based programs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Deployment of Windows based solutions to end users can be tricky to set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In house managed ecommerce website, sales force mobile app for CRM. Visual Lansa has enabled us to develop those applications with a small staff of developers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take advantage of the training offered. Start with a small project in order to understand the correct design point.
One tool and skill set for multi-platform development.
What do you like best about the product?
Visual LANSA allows for learning 1 tool for developing applications to be deployed on many platforms. You can build web, windows or IBM i applications within the IDE.
If you have done any programming in other languages, learning Visual LANSA is fairly quick and easy. It hides the complexity of needing to know so many languages within this one envelope.
If you have done any programming in other languages, learning Visual LANSA is fairly quick and easy. It hides the complexity of needing to know so many languages within this one envelope.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup and maintenance of the LANSA Environment requires specific knowledge of the LANSA tool and its requirements. You (or your IT team) will need to spend a little time in understaning the inner workings at intial setup and for upgrades.
I am not sure if this much different than most development tools, but LANSA Support has been great in assisting with this items.
I am not sure if this much different than most development tools, but LANSA Support has been great in assisting with this items.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have worked on numerous web, windows and IBM i native applications with this tool. From Work Order and Inventory systems to complex Tax systems.
The IDE allows for using 1 interface to develop each of these vastly different applications.
The IDE allows for using 1 interface to develop each of these vastly different applications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have the LANSA team give you a demo or do a proof of concept. I think you will be extremely happy.
An excellent Client/Server App development solution for our business needs
What do you like best about the product?
Visual Lansa completely changed our business users point of view about IBM i. It has proven to be a valuable software for our enterprise application development. We have used this tool for more than 10 years, from version 9 until the latest version 14. The first thing comes to mind is SIMPLE. I used to be a developer to use language RPG, CLP, Java, C#, JavaScript, Ajax, JQuery, CSS, etc., but you don't need to know those things to finish a project with VL RDML.
What do you dislike about the product?
The process of VL IDE installation (Version 11.3 and before, I don't have experience for 13 & 14) could be improved as one click install.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are replacing green screen app to more fashion UI like web, mobile app. I believe our organization will be benefited from this product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to learn & useful tool for Web and Windows rich client application development
Premier software development and maintenance tool
What do you like best about the product?
Visual Lansa has a number of bests: extremely easy to develop and maintain applications, robust source editor provides quick access to all types of objects and cross-reference their usage, data repository to encapsulate and enforce business rules ensuring data integrity, same source code runs on different platforms and operating systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently have some minor issues with third party change management system. This may be due to our being at Lansa version 12 and not at the current version or third party vendor or both.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lansa is used to extend a very large ERP system, new applications are exclusively done in Lansa - e.g. iPad order entry, invoicing, customer retention. Major benefit is the ability to port applications from mid-range to Windows with no code changes (remember how badly Cobol failed when changing vendor or operating system?)!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Although Visual Lansa should meet 85% of your business requirements, consider using their companion products: Integrator for data translation and transmission, as well as Composer. Lansa self-help tutorials are excellent but their training (on-site or in-house) will pay off if your company is new to Lansa.
Lansa - Designed for Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Lansa gives us the ability to write code that can operate on both an IBMi operating system as well as the Windows environment, which allows us to use one code base in order to write commands for either system; the exact same program will function the same way regardless of the operating system (with the exception of a few system-specific commands).
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very easy to fall into performance "traps". Our application has a great deal of client/server interaction, and it will often bottleneck while waiting for communication. The built-in file reader is also not the most efficient (it will process every record that matches the keys, regardless of further limiters such as the where statement). They do, however, provide solutions to address these issues; since the same code functions on either the client system or the server, we can write it to execute on the server, and build customized SQL database queries which allow for much more complex searches that complete far more rapidly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an ISV generating and deploying clinical & billing software to a larger number of customers. We have a large "legacy" application written in Synon/RPG, designed for operation on an IBMi OS. We needed to modernize the application to run in a Windows environment, but also wanted to keep the database in this system (instead of attempting to convert & rewrite), as well as being able to leverage existing code instead of having to rewrite the entire application from the ground up.
Lansa allowed us to pursue this goal. With a single coding language that generates output that runs on both Windows & the IBM system, there is no need to maintain two different sets of programs. We can call and execute existing RPG programs (reports, calculations) without having to rewrite them off-the-bat. This allowed us to create the screens, designing them how we wanted, rewriting where necessary, and snapping everything into Lansa's provided framework.
We also have a need for communication with outside entities, and have used Lansa Composer for conversion of data from our database to the expected format from other organizations, or vice versa (including being able to use standards such as HL7 or NCPDP). Lansa Composer / Lansa Integrator have allowed us to consume Web Services as well, directly from the application, instead of having to build & design from a third-party service.
Lansa allowed us to pursue this goal. With a single coding language that generates output that runs on both Windows & the IBM system, there is no need to maintain two different sets of programs. We can call and execute existing RPG programs (reports, calculations) without having to rewrite them off-the-bat. This allowed us to create the screens, designing them how we wanted, rewriting where necessary, and snapping everything into Lansa's provided framework.
We also have a need for communication with outside entities, and have used Lansa Composer for conversion of data from our database to the expected format from other organizations, or vice versa (including being able to use standards such as HL7 or NCPDP). Lansa Composer / Lansa Integrator have allowed us to consume Web Services as well, directly from the application, instead of having to build & design from a third-party service.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're a multi-platform client needing one code base to run on multiple systems, Lansa is a good fit for you. Even if you're not, however, they have multiple other products that can integrate with Visual Lansa (such as Composer, LongRange, etc) that can provide a great deal of benefit to your organization when combined with Visual Lansa. It's definitely worth looking into.
15 years of development and maintenance in 3 organizations.
What do you like best about the product?
even there are many IT staff in my company, but only 4 people in my team which is supporting several other departments. We like VL because it provide quick solution to our business user needs, and also the development cycle is clear and fast, another good thing is VL application can be built on multiple databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
for the past 13 years, U have no dislikes so far. neither my coworkers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
one of our biggest problem is urgent request from our business group, and the requirement changes during application development.
Visual LANSA, our technology partner to solve our business problems
What do you like best about the product?
Repository based development and the Framework technology. The combination of these two things makes creating and maintaining applications a breeze.
The RDMLX language will be familiar to IBM i professionals and very easy to learn for anyone with a bit of OO experience. The repository acts a central place for all things created by your team. This makes teamwork simple and efficient. The Framework technology leads you into new Windows or Web applications really fast.
I also like the fact that Visual LANSA can help you with your legacy applications as well as new applications. Because in the real world, you simply cannot re-write everything, salvaging and re-using existing stuff that already works and modernizing it is a safe way forward.
The IDE is very smart and intuitive. It's totally integrated with the repository and it truly facilitates the developer's job.
The RDMLX language will be familiar to IBM i professionals and very easy to learn for anyone with a bit of OO experience. The repository acts a central place for all things created by your team. This makes teamwork simple and efficient. The Framework technology leads you into new Windows or Web applications really fast.
I also like the fact that Visual LANSA can help you with your legacy applications as well as new applications. Because in the real world, you simply cannot re-write everything, salvaging and re-using existing stuff that already works and modernizing it is a safe way forward.
The IDE is very smart and intuitive. It's totally integrated with the repository and it truly facilitates the developer's job.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Framework “merge” process. If multiple designers are in the same Framework then the process of merging their respective designs is a bit of a pain. I realize that multiple designers in the Framework only happens on very big projects but we went through that and it could have gone better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have modernized a huge existing (legacy) ERP application with Visual LANSA and RAMP (VL's sister product). This allowed us to breathe new life into our feature rich application and allowed us to signed new customers.
We also used the product to build new Web modules that is now part of our offering.
We also used the product to build new Web modules that is now part of our offering.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are an IBM i shop with developers using procedural programming, VL will get you into the OO world very smoothly. We went thru this at our shop and it was a success. If you already have an OO background, VL should be easy for you.
As with anything new, make sure to set aside some time for training and experimenting.
As with anything new, make sure to set aside some time for training and experimenting.
The web solution we've been waiting for.
What do you like best about the product?
The new Visual LANSA for Web product allows us to build modern, single page, responsive browser based applications and mobile apps using a single tool and skill set. Mobile apps can be built to target iOS, Android and Windows 10 from the same codebase. It does all this while allowing us to continue to benefit from LANSA 's built-in data repository - we can drag a field from the repository onto a screen and panel and it will be rendered complete with label and appropriate visualization - eg a date will display as a datepicker. We have complete reuse of all our backend code and a straightforward and robust method of communicating with it. We can forget about the myriad libraries and frameworks that had to be mastered to achieve the latest look and behavior and which went out of fashion as soon as you did. We are a LANSA shop and have used the companies previous web offerings for many years but this is really a quantum leap.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing about the product that I actively dislike but as it is very new there are still some rough edges. I think the handling of multiple panels in the designer could be improved. Also the product needs better tools to manage the multiple objects (or reusable parts in LANSA speak) that comprise an application. Those without an OO background will to put in a bit of study as this approach is required once you get past simple example. An understanding of MVC will also be fairly useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are still in the phase of learning how to use the tool and developing some patterns but I fully expect to be able to deliver a mobile app targeting iOS, Android and Windows 1 this year. We will also be creating browser based applications and merging them (hopefully, seamlessly) with our current application portfolio. When the team is fully up-to-speed with Visual LANSA for we hope to be delivering modern, robust web applications faster than ever.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
All LANSA customers using Webevents, WAMs or Longrange should look at this product as a matter of priority. All iSeries shops who want to get quality web apps out as a matter of priority but haven't got a large team or a web design department should have a look.
Satisfactorily used VL to develop Windows and Web based applications for different clients.
What do you like best about the product?
Visual LANSA allows programmers with Object Oriented background to easily develop business applications and modules. One can easily learn Visual LANSA and become productive in a short period of time using LANSA's training material. Applications can be developed and modified without one being an expert programmer. Applications developed in Visual LANSA give users a Windows and Web based experience most persons have become accustomed to.
What do you dislike about the product?
Visual LANSA often have to be peered with other programming languages to accomplish some user requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrated ACBS with another interface which would now be the central repository for all the bank's customers. I was able satisfy the client's needs within the given timeline using LANSA's tool set.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend Visual LANSA since the tool can be used to develop business application quickly.
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