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.

LANSA Based Solution Presented at National Health Care Compliance Conference

"Having our product based in LANSA and offering our LANSA Services has given us the flexibility and speed to out develop the competion." Thom Davidson

Rippe & Kingston Sponsors LANSA 2008 User Conference

Disaster Recovery Pod Cast from VAULT400

I think you will find this of value as you make your plans related to disaster recovery/online backup.

See LANSA at 2008 Common in Nashville

Rippe & Kingston and of course LANSA look forward to seeing everyone at the COMMON Conference in Nashville.

Take advantage of belonging to the largest community of IBM midrange users and attend COMMON’s 2008 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, March 30 – April 3.
This is COMMON’s largest educational event of the year. Five full days of in-depth i5/OS education that includes all-day pre-conference workshops, all-day Integrated Seminars, open labs and a wide variety of regular-length sessions.

You can anticipate LANSA will be showing off products like LANSA Composer, LANSA RAMP and of course Visual LANSA.

Are you ready for IBM System i V6R1

i5/OS V6R1 delivers IT freedom for business flexibility

With business moving faster than ever, you need an operating environment that can protect business continuity while enabling new levels of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency. Combining a tradition of excellence with industry-leading innovation, IBM i5/OS® is the answer.

i5/OS V6R1 takes a great step forward to set new standards for efficiency and resiliency in business processing. To help businesses thrive in competitive marketplaces, this release includes expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java performance, new support for POWER6™ processors and BladeCenter®, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive SOA transformation.

You can expect LANSA to be available for development and execution as soon as you upgrade to V6R1!

LANSA Wins Contract for Application Modernization Software

LANSA Wins Contract for Application Modernization Software
Published: January 22, 2008

by Alex Woodie

A trip to the spring COMMON show last year eventually paid off for Control Systems Software (CSS), a developer of agribusiness software that runs on i5/OS. CSS traveled to Anaheim, California, to help it chart an application modernization strategy, which eventually led to LANSA and its Rapid Application Modernization Process (RAMP) solution. Complete story...

Share your LANSA Composer Experience

We are looking for someone to share their real life experiences with LANSA Composer. It sounds great and makes a lot of sense, just would like to hear from somone that has taken it for a good test drive.

For those of you unfamiliar with LANSA Composer, it is a design and execution platform for integrating business activities involving transport and transformation of data and custom business processing. It satisfies the four key requirements of a Business Process Integration solution:

• Transport – moving data between source and target.


• Transformation – mapping data between many different formats.


• Process Orchestration – sequential and conditional execution of process flow.


• Administration – auditing, error-handling, logging, security and system operation

LANSA Data Sync Direct Chosen by Food Logistics Magazine for 2007

MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product and information through all channels of the food supply chain, this week announced its fourth annual list -- the Food Logistics 100 -- which features top technology solution providers that serve the needs of a unique segment of the food service industry. The list is compiled through end-user nominations. Each company listed is top in their field for assisting food, beverage and consumer packaged goods' companies to transform their supply chains.

About LANSA Data Sync Direct

6 Good Reasons for Online Backup Services

6 Good Reasons for Online Backup Services


Please excuse the self promotion. I have written an article about why all of the LANSA shops should consider using online backup services that R&K uses and provides via VAULT400. They support all platform and are particularly strong with the iSeries online backup services (AS/400, System i).

Here is the teaser: Online backup is a method of offsite data storage in which files, folders, or the entire contents of a system are regularly backed up on a remote server or computer with a network connection. A number of companies provide online backup services for subscribers whose computers are connected to the Internet, automatically copying selected files to backup storage at the service provider's data vault. To read the article click here.

LANSA Partners Join Forces

LANSA Partner Futura Data of Denmark has become a partner of Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc. They will be using the e.ssential Portal and the LANSA Portlet Generator to expand their LANSA business practice.

About Futura Data: Futura Data A/S has extensive experience with the IBM System i (iSeries AS/400). They have customers within several lines of business, with the main empahasis on wholesale dealers within the autombile spare parts. Futura Data has developed a Web trade system for spare parts, which is built on the international catalogue from TECDOC. They are both a IBM & LANSA business partner. http://www.futura-data.dk/

Rippe & Kingston's global footprint now includes:

Bermuda
Canada
Cayman Islands
Denmark
Germany
Great Britain
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Romania
Thailand

DB2 Web Query for System i

I just returned from a training class on the new DB2 Web Query offering from IBM, and am excited about using it with our Plant and Facility Maintenance application (METHOS). It shows great promise in both retrieval and analyzing vital data. You are able to add a more modern look to any existing Query/400 report as well as produce new, more graphical reports. Queried output can go directly to spreadsheets or PDF documents, and color coding or graphs can be added. These new options will greatly enhance the ability to highlight Preventative Maintenance Tasks and Work Orders that are in need of attention as well as assist in easier distribution throughout the organization.

Features like the Developer Workbench allow for the complexity of the database to be hidden from the end user (non-IT staff). The Power Painter (WYSIWYG) provides users the ability to easily design reports with the end goal directly visible. The On-Line Analytical Processing allows users to drill into data so they do not have to guess as to what makes up the numbers on the report. And using Active Reports allows you to take the queried data on the road for analysis; no server connection required.

If you have not seen this new tool in action, I highly recommend it.

New Weblets for LANSA WAMS?

We are looking for new weblets to incorporate into our packages...does anybody have any weblets for sale? We have created a few and would like to know what others have created. If you have any for sale, let me know. Thanks!

"Business Process Integration For The Rest Of Us"

October 16, 2007

LANSA announces the general availability of LANSA Composer, the first Business Process Integration (BPI) solution designed specifically for small and medium businesses. The first release of LANSA Composer is targeted to System i users, while a second release will expand to Windows and Linux users. BPI solutions are common in large companies, which can afford the cost and complexity involved. But today every business – large or small – is under pressure to automate their manual processes, better integrate their internal systems and securely share data with external parties. LANSA Composer is the first native System i solution to address all of these requirements and be packaged and priced for the mass market.

I personally believe this will be a rapidly embraced tool. My guess is that we will see plenty of demonstrations at the 2008 conference.