The enterprise environment is shifting in enormous ways, and with the recent onset of COVID-19—turning seemingly stable organizations upside down—resilience, brevity, and modularity will be the keys to a successful shift. A large part of this shift rests on a change in perspective from traditional software development to the adoption of low-code development platforms. Generally … …
Continue readingaXes, Visual LANSA, RAMP: Dealing with the Now, Planning for the Future
With the current pandemic drastically changing the way many companies conduct business both internally and externally, software modernization and application development are as important as ever. Many businesses were not prepared to enable their workforce to work remotely. And in their defense, a lot of these businesses are running applications that were never intended to … …
Continue readingWhy Low-Code with Visual LANSA 15 Is Simply Better
It is official—with the drop of version 15 on April 15, Visual LANSA becomes the most versatile and most powerful low-code platform on the market. With the ability to deploy to the IBM i, Windows, or Cloud servers, no other low-code platform has the flexibility of Visual LANSA. Expanding the Developer’s Toolbox The new version … …
Continue readingVisual LANSA v15: More Powerful Features for the Most Flexible Low-Code Platform
Last week I offered a sneak preview of some of the hot new features in Visual LANSA version 15. However, with all the new and upgraded features LANSA packed into the lastest version of the most powerful low-code platform, I didn’t have time to cover them all. While I still won’t be able to touch … …
Continue readingVisual 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. LANSA has packed the latest version of the most powerful low-code platform with new features that will improve application development and integration far beyond the capacities of other low-code platforms. Keeping the developer at the heart of the upgrade, Visual LANSA v15 expands … …
Continue readingLow-Code & Modernization for the IBM i – My journey to dev & process efficiency
About nine years ago I accepted my first software developer job after decades in the electrical engineering field. I was ready to start developing the coolest apps using the latest and greatest programming languages—you know, all those cool kid languages you learn in college. It was a move in the organization I was already employed … …
Continue readingAccelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
In part 1 of this blog series, I discussed the benefits of the Business Rules Engine and how using this central repository is key to accelerating application development. While the Business Rules Engine is geared for multiple application creations and enterprise solutions, Visual LANSA wizards will allow developers to create working applications in a matter … …
Continue readingBrunswick Chooses Low-Code Over Open Source to Modernize Core App
We recently held a webinar that addressed a rising trend in the use of declarative development styles, and one of the main themes cited by guest speaker, John Rymer, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester, was the increasing popularity of using low-code solutions to build enterprise applications. Declarative development is a spectrum of techniques and tools … …
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 readingSix Ways Low-Code Tackles the Never-Ending Skills Shortage
I attended a one-day DevOps conference in London last week. It was an enjoyable day – some good speakers on the podium and an intelligent and enlightened audience (from the questions they were asking at least). From the very first session, one of the most important challenges raised by the speakers and the audience was … …
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