We frequently talk about digital transformation. We discuss how it affects business environments, as well as how it can be a challenge to stay relevant in a changing market. Businesses across industries are facing the same problems. They are looking for reliable solutions to address them. As a provider of such solutions, LANSA has been … …
Continue readingHow Red Frog Events Increased On-Site Event Revenue by 200%
One of the favorite aspects of my job is talking to customers about how and why they chose LANSA. Even more thrilling is when I’m a user of the customer’s technology and get to experience the evolution of their product. Before I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Kita, lead software engineer at … …
Continue readingThe Code Generation Dilemma
“That’s great, but what do you generate?” We hear this a lot at LANSA from prospects. Companies are scared to death to move to something which doesn’t generate C#, or PHP, or even RPG. Here’s the problem: they’re looking in the wrong direction. I’ve seen advertisements for ‘low-code’ development environments. One vendor even espoused that … …
Continue readingRaising the profile and importance of GS1 Standards for eCommerce
LANSA supports GS1 UK and fellow solution partners at eCommerce Expo 2015 From June 2015 eBay sellers have been required to add product identifiers to their listings for a number of selling categories where the items listed are new or manufacturer refurbished. Product identifiers, like the brand name, Manufacturer Part Number (MPN), or Global Trade … …
Continue readingModernizing Your eCommerce – You Can’t Set It and Forget It
eCommerce has been around a long time and it is unquestionably pervasive. While tech trends have come and gone, and fads that were just recently ‘in’ and a ‘must have’ have now become redundant, there is no indication that the trend to sell goods online is slowing down. However, just because a business may have … …
Continue readingMobile eCommerce – Join the Revolution!
Is “going mobile” on your company’s radar? If not, it should be because the mobile revolution is growing at an extraordinary pace. The number of smartphone users is rapidly rising – 42% a year, globally, according to research from Morgan Stanley. At this rate more and more consumers will rely on their smartphones and tablets … …
Continue readingThe Rise of the Tech Savvy User (and the case for Business Process Integration – Part Two)
Oscar Wilde once said, “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” The year was 1894. If only he was alive today to witness a civilization now firmly addicted to data. Studies from UCSD (University of California San Diego) state that, in 2008, American households were bombarded with 3.6 … …
Continue readingSuccessful Application Rollout Strategies – If you build it, will they come?
In prior posts, we’ve reviewed some ideas on ROI-based justification for project initiatives, how to scope a project, and some modern tools for managing a project. But, my thoughts now turn to the 1989 movie Field of Dreams – if you build it, will they come? You’re probably familiar with the term on-boarding. It originates … …
Continue readingSupplying the Flip side – The Case for a Supplier Portal
eCommerce… the opportunity to promote and sell your products online to customers; enabling them to check their order and shipping status, review their account details, and more. The potential benefits are easy to identify: better customer service, reduced administrative tasks (when properly integrated), quicker to market with new/updated products and, most of all, increased market … …
Continue readingHow Does Your Organization Manage Content?
Information Overload We are facing a crisis in information Management called “the data deluge” by the Economist in a February 2010 study. A sample metric cited in the report is that WalMart handles 1 million customer transactions per hour and has 2.5 petabytes of archived data (equivalent to 167 times the number of books in the Library of … …
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