Web Enabling Existing Applications

Web enbable existing applications Web enablement is a technique for making existing computer systems available via the Internet. This technique is a popular form of application modernization as it can reduce costs by promoting self-service, allowing both internal users and outside customers to access information more conveniently than ever before.

Web-enablement can be very cost efficient because it is simple to both implement and deploy. For those organizations whose objectives are to merely extend the reach of their applications, this approach can provide the desired results. However, such a solution can have its limitations in that the application itself is not modernized and would still function in the same way with the rudimentary navigation and workflow.

LANSA provides a number of Web development tools and solutions for Web-enabling which range from screen refacing (screen scraping of System i, iSeries and AS/400 applications) through to the development of highly graphical browser interfaces with improved navigation, functionality and desktop integration which goes way beyond that of refacing. As with all solutions built with the LANSA application development platform, a solution that begins with basic Web enabling can be extended and built upon to deliver the benefits of a fully modernized application.

Customers who have successfully Web-enabled their applications using LANSA's Web development tools

Allianz Ireland, one of Ireland's largest multi-line general insurance companies, is part of the Allianz Group, Europe's leading global insurer and financial services provider with a turnover of Euro 82.6 billion and 180,000 people in over 70 countries. Allianz chose LANSA as their strategic Web development tool for B2C and B2B projects. B2B projects include a household insurance site to the largest mortgage provider in Ireland, a site to 400 brokers who handle Mid Market Commercial insurance, and a site to 200 brokers for personal lines general insurance.
Read the Allianz Ireland Case Study

Honda Australia Motorcycle and Power Equipment (Honda Australia MPE) distributes motorcycles, marine, power equipment and personal watercraft in Australia and is part of the global Honda company. It provides dealers with Web and direct B2B access using LANSA, including a LANSA-based Web solution for sales registration and warranty claims. The LANSA Web sales registration solution handled over 30,000 registrations within its first four months, over double the volume of the hosted solution previously used. Dealers can also upload orders directly from their system to Honda’s using LANSA Integrator technology.
Read the Honda Australia MPE Case Study

The Weidmüller Group is a leading provider of solutions for the transmission of power, signals and data in industrial environments with production facilities, sales companies and agencies in over 70 countries. Weidmüller in North America, based in Richmond, Virginia, USA, has over 750 distributors and direct customers. It replaced an inflexible eBusiness solution for its JD Edwards World ERP with LANSA Commerce Edition and increased online orders from under thirty to over fifty percent. Even with rapidly expanding business volumes, the sites have freed up at least eight hours of labor each day.
Read the Weidmüller Group Case Study

LANSA solutions for Web enablement

RAMP from LANSA – the Rapid Application Modernization Process – is the fastest and most certain way to modernize and web-enable your existing System i applications. Into your tailor-made web-browser based Business Framework, you snap in existing System i applications – automatically web enabled with no code changes. What's unique about RAMP is that it's a product that lets you to rapidly reface, repurpose and restructure your applications into your highly graphical, web-browser based and more easily navigable framework and then, optionally, to incrementally replace any/all parts of them with new reengineered components – in a timeframe that makes sense to your organization.

LANSA Commerce Edition is an eCommerce framework that is designed to help you grow your business relationships with customers and trading partners online. Comprised of a suite of (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) components that are built on LANSA's powerful application development platform and tools. These components allow you to rapidly generate eBusiness applications that integrate existing Windows or System i (iSeries and AS/400) RPG and COBOL applications with the Web and Wireless world. There is simply no faster way to effectively extend your applications to the Web.

Visual LANSA is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you will ever need. You can easily add Web self-service extensions to your existing core applications or build new client/server or Web applications. LANSA manages all the complexity of Web applications: state management, business rule validation, data conversion and integration with different Web servers and existing applications. Developers can focus on meeting business requirements as LANSA handles the technical complexities. There is simply no faster way to effectively extend your applications to the Web.

aXes is the next generation host access solution for the IBM i platform allowing people to work with 5250 applications securely and efficiently from browser-based devices across the Internet, your corporate intranet or mobile network at high speed without having to write code. Terminal Server Web enables the applications automatically, extending the reach of the applications beyond 5250 emulation to homes, hotels and airport lounges. Terminal Server is a zero deployment solution for the browser – there is no installation, no configuration and no need to download ActiveX components or applets to the browser. No source code or DDS changes are necessary as Terminal Server uses the screens generated by the applications and supports advanced 5250 display features.

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It almost looked too good to be true. We had our first functioning dealer Web site in about two weeks. With LANSA we can bring an idea quickly to the Web, and we can do so with our own development staff. The fact that we were able to stay well within the limits of an already tight timetable was very convincing to our marketing people.

Bob Arnold, MIS director at H-P Products

We developed the site with our own staff, some who had iSeries RPG skills and some with a Windows and Visual Basic background. Visual LANSA was easy to learn for everyone. It is a highly productive tool and we feel it is much more efficient than Java or .NET.

Gonzalo Zeballos Ferrel, IT Manager at BBVA Previsión AFP

It was hard to break the paradigm of traditional RPG programming, but when we did, LANSA was easy to learn. After a short training course we could build the Web extensions. And we did so in record time. Even though this was our first Web project and our first LANSA project, we only needed four months with two developers to deliver the first version. Because LANSA is easy to learn, we did not have to recruit Java skilled people who may not understand our business.

Ismael Frias, Director of IT Projects at Alpura

The LANSA-based web extensions to our JD Edwards ERP system haven't caused any disruption in our business process. In just four months and on a modest budget we have implemented a successful eCommerce architecture that we can expand to other business areas with our own IT staff.

John Daniel, IT Manager at Master-Halco