It’s been a busy year at LANSA! Since the acquisition, we’ve been laser-focused on learning each other’s businesses, diligently working through integrating our teams and processes to become more efficient and best of all, having fun getting to know one another. What excites me the most is the number of new opportunities we’ve uncovered to … …
Continue readingWhat 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 desktop, web and mobile devices to provide a modern, intuitive experience for its users. The company set out to proactively address the lack of a single design pattern for all devices and did a total development reset, inventing a system … …
Continue readingDavid Brault Named a 2019 IBM Champion
We like to celebrate accomplishments here at LANSA, especially when it involves one of our own receiving a highly regarded award. David Brault, LANSA Product Marketing Manager, has been named a 2019 IBM Champion for his contributions to the IBM community. The IBM Champions program recognizes influencers in the IBM community that shares their knowledge … …
Continue readingCertify Your Developers Become Full-Stack Developers
With nearly half of all mid and large-sized companies with open technology job postings, most are languishing on job boards for months and a significant worldwide shortage of talent supply, you have little to lose in plotting a concurrent strategy to cross-train your existing team to become full-stack developers (FSDs). But once again, it will … …
Continue readingWhat to Expect When Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Tech recruiters everywhere are posting hordes of jobs for full-stack developers (FSDs). A quick scan for FSD (spelled out, of course) on a dozen popular global job boards finds over 180,000 active jobs posted. Unfortunately, there is no good way to cross-check the postings between the varied job boards to eliminate duplicates. So, the actual … …
Continue readingThe Rise of Full-Stack Developers
How many full-stack developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one, if you can find one. Perhaps you should look for a unicorn instead. There is a remarkable trend in software development that has been growing along-side the divergence of specialized software development skills: the rise of the full-stack developer. To be … …
Continue readingOn the Road in Europe
I’m just back from a week traveling across Europe with my colleagues, delivering an update to our customers on the latest release of Visual LANSA (version 14 SP2). As a new member of the team, it was a valuable opportunity for me to meet so many customers in London, Paris, Breda and Amsterdam. I’m impressed … …
Continue readingFrank Sarnelli named IBM Systems Magazine “Fresh Face”
It’s not surprising Frank Sarnelli joins the list of young professionals who have been named by IBM Power Systems Magazine as a “Fresh Face” to the IBM computing community. Frank has a burning desire to push the boundaries of technology to solve enterprise business problems and meet customer needs. Frank joined the LANSA Technical Support … …
Continue readingGDPR – The journey has only just begun
As a marketing professional, this week has been quite unlike any other. The implementation date for GDPR has really focussed minds and although some say, “it’s not a deadline”, the reality is that it has been treated that way by many. As has been the case for many of you, here at LANSA, there’s been … …
Continue readingEvaluating 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 customer support rep who knew less about the product you were using than you did? In other cases, your only option for customer support might have been to post a message on an online forum or ticket system and then … …
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