LANSA is excited to announce Portalize, a revolutionary product combining the world’s most powerful low-code platform, Visual LANSA, with the growing demand for customized application portals. Portalize is a fully functional, full-feature portal that can be customized and tweaked to your exact business specifications. With Portalize, you will get essential features out of the box, … …
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 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 reading5 Requirements for a Successful Enterprise Mobile App
There are a number of elements that are critical to the successful creation and adoption of mobile apps. Here are my Top 5: 1. Addressing the user’s “What’s in it for me?” question Often, the business motivation for implementing a new mobile app is to streamline operations, increase efficiencies or reduce costs. Examples include improved … …
Continue readingTake Back Control of Your Application Backlog
Is it fair for the IT department to be characterized as the department known for always saying “No”? Not really, because it’s simply not true. However, let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good story. IT gets a bad rap because they want to do the right thing. Doing the right … …
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 … …
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