LANSA History
The LANSA suite of Application Development and Integration tools first saw the light of day way back in 1987 as a Repository-based 4th Generation Language (4GL). LANSA's genesis sprang from our practical association with the Colgate-Palmolive company in Australia and two brilliant lateral thinkers, one from Colgate and one from LANSA. In the course of developing line-of-business applications with RPG, both pragmatists decided that there must be a better, simpler and faster way to develop and test applications, while being mindful of the disproportionate amount of the system development budget spent on their subsequent maintenance and modification. LANSA was born. Since then, we’ve never looked back.
The LANSA organization is privately held by its executives and is managed from three major sales, support and services centers : Chicago for the Americas, St Albans for EMEA and Sydney for Asia Pacific. Most of the software R&D is still performed in Sydney.
For over two decades, LANSA has ridden at the forefront of each new wave of hardware and software technology – from green screens, personal computing, client/server, the Internet, application integration, Object Oriented and SOA – and has delivered a capability to software developers unmatched by most of LANSA’s competitors who have come and gone over the years.
The LANSA customer family spans the globe, in fact there are line-of-business applications developed in LANSA, spanning the gamut of commerce, government and industry, in more than 90 countries. Many, many organizations, both large and small, have "bet their business" on LANSA technology.
With its 20+ year history, LANSA has a proven track record of providing technology insurance for businesses worldwide