Did you know that outdated user interfaces are a top concern with IBM i green screen applications? Unsurprisingly, in the 2019 State of IBM i Modernization White Paper, three-quarters of respondents identified this as their top concern. They also made clear their intention to accelerate their IBM i digital transformation with modern UIs. That said, … …
Continue reading10 APIs That Can Supercharge Your Digital Transformation
Today, digital transformation is no longer a luxury wishlist item or a nice-to-have option for those companies that can afford to take the plunge. Instead, digital transformation is a very real and pressing necessity for all businesses that plan to avoid being wiped out by their completion and stay in the game for years to … …
Continue readingDigital Transformation of Supply Chain and Logistics
Almost every day in the news we hear of challenges in the Supply Chain. In addition to the Suez Canal blockage, covid has closed major ports in China. Reading the news, quotes like the following have become all too common: “in a string of disasters we’ve seen plague the global supply chain.” Lately, we are … …
Continue readingOmnichannel Modernization of ERPs and Legacies for Supply Chain
This is the second post of our series of Supply Chain digital transformation posts. The first focused on the use of Low Code/No Code for Supply Chains and Logistics. In this second post, we focus on an extremely important topic that is particularly relevant to the Supply Chain. That is the modernization of Supply Chains … …
Continue readingJumpstart Your Digital Transformation With This Manufacturing Tools Tracking Solution
Are you looking to simplify the way your manufacturing apps are developed? You can make your business engine run smoother and faster with the Visual LANSA hybrid low-code platform. When you develop web apps in Visual LANSA, you create the entire application in our IDE, using the same development approach as any Visual LANSA application. … …
Continue readingTurbocharge Your Logistics Business With Powerful Geocoding APIs And Progressive Web Apps
In a nutshell, the logistics business, and logistics management in general, focuses on ensuring a specific product or material arrives in the right amount in the correct location at the scheduled time. It is a highly complex industry, which requires operators to plan meticulously, provide transparent customer information, follow strict regulatory guidelines, and operate within … …
Continue readingAutomate Data Transformation Processes
Simplify Your Business & Gain Real ROI In order to address all their data and information requirements, enterprises use a variety of different systems that they need to integrate data between. In addition, suppliers, customers and partners will use additional systems that require data to be exchanged with. For instance: They may have remote point-of-sale … …
Continue readingThe Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development
Gartner predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least five times faster than the available skills and resources to enable IT to deliver it through 2021. Why? Because the complexity of application development is at an all-time high. The sheer number of languages, skillsets and frameworks-of-the month that programmers are expected to … …
Continue readingShadow IT & citizen development – Love IT or Loathe IT
No wonder the IT backlog is mushrooming. Many IT departments are struggling to deliver mobile applications, getting cloud-ready and other digital innovation initiatives, while also taking care of an unrelenting volume of maintenance. There is wide agreement that the ‘need’ for shadow IT and its more legitimized progeny, citizen development, is caused by IT not … …
Continue readingLow-code Development: How Low Should We Go?
(The original article was posted on LinkedIn Pulse.) We are taught in life to set the bar high. But in the rush to accelerate digital transformation, is there a risk that we are aiming too low with our aspirations for next-generation software development? For all the talk of Shadow IT and Citizen Developers, IT pros … …
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