Webinar Recordings

Modernization: Let Your Applications Live Long and Prosper

Today, a lot of companies have islands of information scattered throughout their organization and growing numbers of applications that run in stand-alone environments or execute in silos. Working in these scenarios makes it difficult to deliver the right combination of information and capabilities to your staff, customers and trading partners. Presented by David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, this Webinar discusses why RAMP from LANSA provides the best modernization options and development strategies for tomorrow’s applications while retaining as much of today’s programs as possible.
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Extending JDE to the Web for Better Customer Service

Whether your back-end ERP is JD Edwards World or EnterpriseOne, view this Webinar to find out how you can cost-effectively extend those applications to the Web for improved customer service and increased customer satisfaction. David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, presents LANSA’s solution for extending your JD Edwards applications to the Web, including customer testimonials.
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Got RPG and.Net? Stop Mixing and Start Fusing with iFusion.net

David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, demonstrates how you can stop duplicating the same business rules in multiple applications by enabling developers to define and maintain business logic and validation rules in a single location, enforced by .NET and RPG applications alike. You will learn how to increase developer productivity, improve the accuracy of production data, and provide .NET developers with access to native i5/OS real-time features like data areas, spool files, OS commands, RPG/COBOL/CL APIs, the IFS and more.
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RPG and .NET – Oil and Water? Or Recipe for Success! – System iNetwork Webcast

Many challenges plague today's mixed-mode .NET and RPG organizations because RPG and .NET developers do not collaborate or work well together – often leading to inconsistent, inefficient and hard to manage development procedures. Well known writer and speaker of System i technologies, Craig Pelke, discusses how to avoid duplicating source code by enabling RPG and .NET developers to define and maintain business logic and validation rules in a single location. Also learn how to increase developer productivity, improve the accuracy of production data, and provide .NET developers with access to native i5/OS real-time features like data areas, spool files, OS commands, RPG/COBOL/CL APIs, the IFS and more.
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Synchronizing the Supply Chain – System iNetwork Webcast

Presented by LANSA Product Manager David Brault and System iNEWS technical editor and award-winning writer and speaker Nahid Jilovec this System iNetwork Webcast recording discusses how companies are synchronizing their supply chain and staying competitive. Learn how organizations are taking advantage of cost-effective methods with proven ROI to implement real-time processes across organizational boundaries, automate internal applications and improve the quality and accuracy of product information. And discover how LANSA's lightweight and nimble solutions can supercharge your supply chain by streamlining and integrating the systems you already have in place. Don’t miss this informative event.
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Overview of Nahid Jilovec’s Supply Chain White Paper

Presented by David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, this Webinar provides a summary of the white paper “Supply Chain Synchronization: Recession-proof Strategies for Improving Efficiencies” written by award-winning writer and speaker, Nahid Jilovec. David will review the main points of the paper, including what is meant by supply chain synchronization, why it’s important to your organization, and how you can achieve it, given the current economic climate. David also explains how LANSA solutions can help you cost-effectively implement Nahid’s recommendations in your organization, taking advantage of the systems you already have in place.
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Supply Chain Integration with Full GDSN-based Item & Price Synchronization

Presented by Randy Mercer, LANSA Product Specialist, this Webinar shows how you can improve your operations with LANSA Data Sync Direct – LANSA's award winning, item- and price-sync solution, including PIM and MDM features/functionality and full GDSN connectivity. LANSA Data Sync Direct is the first 1SYNC-GDSN Price Sync certified solution.
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Bringing Mashups to Your Enterprise Business Applications – a summary of Paul Conte's White Paper

Presented by David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, this Webinar summarizes the key points of Paul Conte's latest white paper "Bringing Mashups to Your Enterprise Business Applications." David gives an overview of the four types of Business Mashups, and explains how LANSA technology can help you use Business Mashups within your organization to reduce costs, improve user productivity and streamline business processes. Specific examples of successful implementations are also shared.
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BAM! Blow open the doors to your information assets with Business Application Mashups – a System iNetwork Webcast featuring Paul Conte

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Paul Conte, leading application development strategist and David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA explain the benefits and structure of Business Application Mashups (BAMs) and describe what you need to exploit the agility and flexibility BAMs provide.
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Find out how Paul Conte's guide to the "pillars" of an enterprise application architecture addresses the requirements of your organization

Presented by David Brault, LANSA Product Manager, this Webinar summarizes the key points of Paul Conte’s white paper “THE EIGHT PILLARS OF AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE: Building a Stable and Agile Software Foundation in a Dynamic IBM i and Microsoft World.” David also explains how LANSA satisfies Paul Conte’s recommendations for establishing a sound Enterprise Application Architecture.
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Discovering the Hidden Value in Your Legacy System i Applications

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA demonstrates how System i (AS/400, iSeries) 5250 applications can be transformed into a completely new application without changing a line of code. You'll also hear from two CIOs describing their modernization journeys using RAMP from LANSA – a modernization option that’s cost effective and low risk.
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Innovate your System i Applications today

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, reviews recommendations for innovating your applications from the modernization white paper written by System i technical expert, Paul Conte. Dave then goes on to explore how you can use RAMP from LANSA to isolate and encapsulate the valuable portions of your legacy applications and repurpose them inside a modern application framework that can be deployed as a rich-client and/or Web-browser application. In addition, witness how other companies were able to re-use, improve and extend their legacy systems – and see if these examples can be applied to your modernization needs.
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Unlock your Assets: Breathing New Life into Legacy Apps

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Paul Conte, software developer, consultant, senior technical editor for the System iNetwork and president of PCES, and David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA explore how you can incorporate existing functionality into new business processes in a deeper, broader way that provides a better fit for changing business strategies - exploiting Web Services, application integration, and more.
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Profiles of Modernization: Your System i Peers Share their Secrets

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, shows the steps that five different System i organizations took during their modernization process and how these examples can be applied to the needs of your organization. Discover how to identify and isolate the most valuable parts of your legacy System i applications and then repurpose them inside of a modern application framework.
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Extending EDI with Business Process Integration

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, is joined by Larry Ronhovde, President of Eagle Information Systems to demonstrate how you can extend the reach of EDI and build on its valuable infrastructure with business process integration (BPI). You’ll also learn how BPI automates business processes and breaks down silos of information. Additional customer case studies are included.
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Beyond EDI: Succeeding in Today’s Internet-Driven Business Environment

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Nahid Jilovec, a System iNEWS technical editor and columnist on ebusiness topics, a prolific author of articles and an award winning speaker and David Brault, Product Manager at LANSA show how to extend the reach of EDI and build on its valuable infrastructure. Also, learn how business process integration technology can automate your business processes and break down silos of information.
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The Benefits of Moving to Visual LANSA

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, talks about the benefits of moving your development team from LANSA for iSeries to Visual LANSA. The benefits include a 25% increase in developer productivity, one screen to view field and file definitions, validations, relationships, programs and source editor, the ability to take on Web, wireless and modernization projects and leverage the LANSA Repository, graphical Data modeling for existing databases and new development as well as an IDE that allows an easy transition for new, non-iSeries developers.
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Take Control of Your Business with LANSA ERP Frameworks

Bob Gleisner, Director of Professional Services, LANSA, gives an overview and demonstration of LANSA ERP Frameworks - a fully integrated suite that offers one comprehensive, enterprise-wide solution for manufacturers and distributors alike. Bob draws on over 20 years experience working with a variety of IBM midrange ERP systems to address the issues of ERP implementation.
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RAMP Webinar Series

This series of presentations includes an Analyst Review of iSeries Application Modernization Issues, a RAMP Overview and Demonstration, Cost Justification of Reengineering vs. Replacing, plus two IBM i industry executives talking about their experiences with RAMP from the in-house IT department and ISV perspectives. Click for more details

Note: These presentations are best viewed in the following order:

Analyst Review of Legacy Application Modernization

Peter Kastner, Vice President and Research Director, Aberdeen Group, examines the following: the most important business drivers for modernization, the challenges that modernization teams can expect, technology approaches that are most frequently used and the ROI benefits that can be expected from modernization. (Duration 22 minutes)
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RAMP Overview

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, introduces RAMP from LANSA - a completely new approach to modernization that moves the user interface into a graphical application framework that serves as the basis for surrounding and extending the functionality using SOA and related technologies. (Duration 18 minutes)
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RAMP Demonstration

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, demonstrates RAMP from LANSA - and shows how RAMP is used to modernize applications, emphasizing how RAMP is different from any other application modernization approach. (Duration 17 minutes)
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RAMP Customer Experience

Mark Anderson, Vice President of Information Systems, DEMCO, shares his experience of using RAMP to modernize a segment of their business. (Duration 22 minutes)
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Cost Justification of Reengineering vs. Replacing

LANSA Product Marketing Manager David Brault draws on over 10 years experience with System i application development to discuss the difference in cost, time and resources between replacing your legacy systems and reengineering with RAMP. In addition, he'll explain how you can improve business processes and consolidate applications with RAMP. (Duration 35 minutes)
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RAMP ISV Experience

Thom Davidson, Principal, Rippe & Kingston Systems, will share his experience using RAMP to modernize one of the packages they sell into the System i marketplace. (Duration 8 minutes)
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EDI in the 21st Century

Demot O'Doherty, Regional Services Manager, LANSA, shows how LANSA can help simplify the implementation of EDI on your System i, while fully complying with all standards and protocols. If you need to exchange documents electronically with your trading partners, this presentation will give you a better understanding of EDI, and how it can help you achieve your business goals.
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Modernizing Legacy Systems with Workflow

Jim Schmiedendorf, Manager, LANSA Professional Services, shows you how to modify enterprise systems, designed to manage processes contained within your enterprise’s physical facilities, to adapt to new processes and more complex communication needs that can also include trading partners outside your enterprise's "four walls".
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Connect Customers with the Heart of your Enterprise

Eamon Musallam, Senior Product Specialist, LANSA, shows how companies have streamlined their operations and improved business by using with LANSA Commerce Edition to connect their eCommerce Web sites directly to their ERP systems. There are three presentations in this series, for MAPICS (Duration 48 minutes), for BPCS (Duration 22 minutes) and for JD Edwards (Duration 22 minutes)
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Expand Your Business with a Real-Time eCommerce Web Site

Featuring Scott Whipps, Vice President Sports Retail, Clif Bar & Co., who explains what drove them to select an integrated ecommerce solution for their dealer extranet, and the process that led them to LANSA Commerce Edition. He'll also discuss the implementation experience and share the impact the new Web site has had on their business.
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GDSN Participation With High Return On Investment

Randy Mercer, Manager, Solution Products, LANSA, presents information on the Global Data Synchronization initiative and LANSA's solution – LANSA Data Sync Direct.
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Overcoming Complexity in Delivering Tomorrow's Applications

Eamon Musallam, Senior Product Specialist, LANSA, discusses the complexities of delivering applications and shows 5 practical strategies to address these. Mark Anderson, VP Information Services at DEMCO, also shares his experiences of using LANSA to address DEMCO's application development strategies.
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