Designing and Integrating Wireless/PDA/Mobile Solutions

Wireless and mobile applications are often labeled as the future of computing, yet they are still somewhat immature and there are barriers to wider adoption. Wireless and Mobile solutions are all about getting easy access to the right data at the right time and, most importantly, in the right place.

Proper mobile application development is therefore paramount to deliver maximum performance to process and to transport data efficiently. Using the LANSA platform, developers can easily achieve these results because of LANSA's powerful ‘n-tier’ architecture – splitting out the database, business rules, application and client interface layers.

LANSA makes mobile application development no different to developing any other type of application. Built-in templates and tools allow data to be transformed directly to ‘Style Sheets’ ready for mobile devices like Smart phones, PDA’s and Blackberry.

Customers who have implemented Mobile solutions using LANSA

SAKRET-GmbH, one of the worlds largest producers of ready-mix concrete and mortar products with over 60 licensed production plants worldwide, has its European headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany. SAKRET-GmbH, a long-time LANSA user, built its core manufacturing system with LANSA, as well as a variety of extensions including Computer Telephony Integration for customer service and a Wireless scanning solution in factories and warehouses.
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Material Sciences Corporation (MSC), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is a world-class supplier of engineered material solutions for acoustical and coated metal applications to automotive, appliance, electronic and telecom equipment manufacturers worldwide. Customers include most U.S. automobile, major appliance and disk drive manufacturers. MSC used Visual LANSA Framework to extend MAPICS with Web access for customers and outside processors, a wireless shipping release system and other enhancements.
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Opryland Hotel Nashville, with 2,883 guestrooms and 600,000 square feet of convention space, has implemented a Web room registration system with a wireless check-in solution. The wireless solution allows hotel agents to check-in guests, process credit cards, print receipts and program room keys anywhere in or nearby the hotel, avoiding lines at the reception desk. A similar remote check-out facility is being developed.
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LANSA solution for Wireless/Mobile application development

Visual LANSA is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you will ever need. You can easily add functionality to your existing core applications or build new innovative applications. Visual LANSA is a development tool tightly focused on just one thing – rapidly creating high quality commercial applications. But it is not simply a more productive IDE, Visual LANSA’s platform independent Object Repository and high-level business-focused language lets you develop 5250, Web and Windows rich client programs – from a single code base.

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"Using LANSA has allowed us to integrate our systems in to a single extensive and scalable DB2 database. Our systems are no longer locked in a back-office environment. The facility to use mobile PDAs with our iSeries will enable faster and smoother communication between our mobile workforce and regional offices. More importantly it makes us a safer employer and company to work with."

Gareth Braithwaite, IT director Barratt Developments PLC