LANSA Poised to Embrace Windows 7.0

The rumors and raw random data department confirmed today that LANSA is poised to support Windows 7.0!

Francis Marion University Modernizes with LANSA RAMP

Francis Marion University (FMU), one of South Carolina's 13 state-supported universities, provides strong liberal arts based programs for both undergraduate and graduate studies. FMU is fully accredited and has nearly 4,000 students enrolled at its Florence campus. FMU extended its student administration system with LANSA Web access by students and faculty members to registration, class scheduling, grades, degree audits, financial aid applications and more. FMU is now modernizing its core System i applications with RAMP and Visual LANSA.

Read more about the LANSA RAMP success at Francis Marion University

Learn how Rippe & Kingston, an IBM and LANSA Premier Partner can help with your LANSA RAMP Project.

LANSA Composer helps Terminix Face the Challenge of Rapid Growth

The Terminix International Company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee USA is part of the ServiceMaster family of brands and the largest termite and pest control company in the world, safeguarding over three million homes and businesses in the U.S. and 14 other countries. Terminix replaced a COBOL mainframe system and hundreds of standalone UNIX systems at its branches with a central LANSA-based application on a single 595 iSeries. 12,000 employees at over 400 locations and 5,500 service specialists with wireless hand-held devices use the system that also interacts with an increasing number of third-party systems using LANSA Integrator and Web Services. More recently, Terminix used LANSA Composer to automate the remittance processing with third parties.

Read more about LANSA Composer at Terminix

LANSA Conference 2008 Winner!

The LANSA Conference 2008 Winner of the iPod Touch from Rippe & Kingston is Brian Mauk.

We can only assume Brian is viewing the opening session from the conference on his new "Toy".

advance for Health Information Professionals features LANSA Based Solution

Rippe and Kingston Offers Contract Guardian. Rippe and Kingston Systems Inc., provider of contract management solutions for health care, now offers Contract Guardian as a managed service using its Portal Based Solution, which uses a 100 percent browser user interface. Contract Guardian dynamically designs screens based on the user's credentials and roles. Features such as document management, external (RSS) and internal news feeds, document loading and downloading to excel, full comment journaling, interface alerts via e-mail and calendar, as well as power searching features deliver a managed service solution with no capital investment.

Contract Guardian uses LANSA as the foundation technology. LANSA provides simple but powerful application development tools and solutions to thousands of customers worldwide.

LANSA User Conference 2008..Disney World

WOW...As usual, LANSA has delivered antoher great conference that is very informative as well as a good time. They shared with us some amazing new capabilities and a few that are just around the corner:

LANSA Composer..LANSA Composer is a Business Process Integration solution designed and packaged for any size of business. It is so easy to use and highly graphical....no code.

WEB 2.0...LANSA took the covers off of some of their new wizards that no only make software development easy and functionally rich with a very elegant presentation leveraging technologies like AJAX. Rippe & Kingston will be a beta site for this technology and hope to build on all of the richness that LANSA delivers to us every day.

IBM Aims to Simplify IT Delivery for SMB Customers

IBM Aims to Simplify IT Delivery for SMB Customers
New Initiative Offers Web 2.0 Platform -- and a New Choice -- for Software and Solution Firms



LOS ANGELES & IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference - 01 May 2008: -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and unveiled for the first time a broad initiative to combine hardware, software and services to tackle the cost and complexity of IT for small and medium businesses. The new, strategic initiative -- code-named the "Blue Business Platform" -- aims to provide a new and compelling choice to simplify IT delivery for companies that lack the time and resources to manage computer systems. The initiative, which is part of IBM's ongoing plans to aggressively target its largest opportunity for growth in the $500 billion SMB marketplace, is focused on enabling thousands of software and solution providers to dramatically accelerate the adoption and simplify the management of their business applications on IBM systems.
This new, open platform, which will be piloted and delivered in the coming months, will offer software and solution providers access to new customers on a global scale and reduce the high costs of new client acquisition, technology integration and support.

Rippe & Kingston, a Premier IBM Business Partner and LANSA are ready to support the announcements.