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LANSA Goes GA with Ecommerce App for Mobile Devices

Published: August 13, 2013 IT Jungle
by Alex Woodie

Organizations that want to use their IBM i server to deliver e-commerce capabilities to mobile devices may want to check out Commerce Edition Mobile (CE Mobile), a new application that is available now from LANSA. The solution, which LANSA originally announced at the COMMON conference earlier this year, promises to make quick work of the process of exposing product data housed in ERP systems to employees, partners, and customers via iOS and Android devices.  See complete article.

Common 2012 Fall Conference & Expo

This three-day Power Systems educational and networking event will be packed with over 100 educational sessions on a large variety of topics, including vendor-led sessions, and pre-conference workshops. As expected from all COMMON conferences, attendees will have the opportunity to further enhance their education through numerous networking events and meeting with leading solution providers in the tabletop-style expo.
Visit the COMMON Web site for more information.

Best of all: Two of my favorite vendors will be exhibiting at the Conference.  LANSA & VAULT400

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Scott Guthrie's Blog on Microsoft ASP.NET technologies including the new MVC4 update is excellent.  You may want to take a look at this blog because it offers so much information on Microsoft Development technologies.  Scott lives in Seattle and builds products for Microsoft.  See Scott take you through the ASP.NET MVC4 Beta.  Just click here to view the video. It contains a lot of excellent information.

In summary the presentation covers the new features in MVC4 that provide a rich set of enhancements to this tool set that is accessible from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.  MVC4 comes built-into VS2011 as well.  It does install side by side with MVC2 and MVC3 in the same Visual Studio installation on your development workstation.

• Bundling/Minification Support - Improves performance on your website. 100% Automatic
• Database Migrations - Allows production database schema to be automatically updated.
• Web APIs - Great support in VS for creating Web APIs. Easily create HTTP Services.
• Mobile Web -  Improved developer support for developing Mobile applications for the phone and tablet.
• Real Time Communications - Allows for Client to Server Persistent connections over HTTP using SignalR.
• Asynchronous Support - Reduces the number of threads and server resources; Increases scaleability.
  

If you need a web application developed for your business, just contact us by calling 513-977-4544 or click here to learn more.

LANSA 2012 User Conference

As many look forward to the release of LANSA 13.0 it is sometimes rewarding to reflect on the history of LANSA.  The early years were filled with concepts like:

• Data Repository
• 4th Generation Language
• Multilingual
• Templates
• Database Triggers

You could recap all of the commands/parameters on a simple quick reference card.

Marketing was generally limited to print media.  (Remember printed trade rags?)

Presentations were given with slide projectors.

You actually had to fly somewhere to present.

Yes LANSA and the industry have come a long way.

Fast forward and we look forward to the conference that will feature:

• Cloud Based Labs (Bring your laptop)
• Web & Mobile App development
• Business Objects
• Some of the famous and familiar speakers in the LANSA community:
• Diane Joester
• Mark Duignan
• Don Nelson
• Madan Divaker
• David Brault
• and many others
• Opportunity to network

If you have not registered or are just interested.  Click Here.

LANSA Powers up Windows Interoperability

I read in System i NETWORK that LANSA has signed up 50 British i users to a free one-day conference on Windows interoperability in December.  Those of us that have used LANSA for many years readily appreciate the ability to work with and among multiple platforms via a single tool set.  Read Article.

Mobile Applications....Go Android!

In the past six months, as Android has gained momentum and market share. Last week, comScore reportedthat in the three months ending in May, Android was the top smartphone platform in the U.S. with 38 percent of existing devices. It grew faster than iOS, which reached 26.6 percent, while Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform fell to 24.7 percent, comScore said.   Good News: aXes and LANSA Wams can deliver to both!


Footnote: Is it a just a coincidence that the Android is colored Green like LANSA?

Cross Browser Compatibility and LANSA aXes

With the new release of aXes version 2.1 (Beta version) all the major browser types are supported.  In prior versions, the aXes product suite only supported the Microsoft (MS) IE browser.  Now aXes supports the following browsers: MS-IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.  All of these browsers combined represent a huge user base.  Opening up aXes to all of these types of browsers vastly broadens the user community for who can use aXes and thus, iSeries applications via the web.  The only browser not sanctioned currently is Opera.  It’s officially unsupported but it executes with this new version.  Opera is a Java based browser so it’s very popular on mobile devices.

For more information or to download a free 30 day evaluation copy of aXes, please visit our website.  For further questions on aXes or other LANSA products, contact us at 1-800-887-1834 or request information by clicking here.