Strategic Partners

LANSA and IBM Partnership

Since its inception LANSA has had a close partnership with IBM and is currently an IBM Premier Business Partner – making a significant investment in IBM products and technologies through a combination of platform integration, product support, certifications, solutions, revenue achievement, high customer satisfaction and joint marketing plans.

LANSA has always had very tight integration with the System i platform and its predecessors, iSeries and AS/400. Over the last decade LANSA has worked closely with IBM to bring the same value to the System x, p and Linux platforms. At the software layer LANSA continues to be complementary to WebSphere, including support for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal.

Consequently, IBM and others have recognized LANSA as a leader in the development and solutions software market. Most recently IBM recognized LANSA as a winner in the 2006 IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition. In addition, LANSA has been the recipient of various other awards for innovation over the years.

IBM Business Partner SOA Specialty

LANSA Integrator is certified as an SOA Asset for the IBM Business Partner SOA Specialty program. This program brings together IBM Business Partners whose applications and solutions demonstrate compatibility with or complement the IBM SOA Foundation products. The IBM SOA Foundation, an integrated, open standards-based set of software, best practices and patterns for Service Oriented Architecture, helps extend the value of applications and business processes that currently run your business.

LANSA is IBM PartnerWorld Industry-Optimized

Participating in the IBM Industry-Optimized program allows LANSA to build a closer relationship with IBM Industry teams. To qualify for industry-optimized benefits, a business partner must meet industry-specific criteria. LANSA is IBM Industry-Optimized in the following categories:

• Fabrication and Assembly
• Retail
• Insurance
• Wholesale

LANSA Wins IBM Beacon Award for Software Excellence

LANSA was named the winner of the "Best Industry Optimized Solution" award in the 2006 IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition. To help enterprises meet global product-data-synchronization requirements, LANSA Data Sync Direct solution allows manufacturers, distributors and retailers to link product data between their systems and a certified data pool within the Global Data Synchronization Network.

Other IBM Awards

LANSA and Microsoft Partnership

LANSA has developed a strong relationship with the Microsoft Corporation. Our customers, partners and the market in general, are recognizing Microsoft has a leader in IT. Microsoft technology has become ubiquitous in the market. The strong relationship with Microsoft allows both companies to deliver the best applications for their customers. The investments that Microsoft and LANSA are making together will lay a foundation for businesses to move to the next level of computing. Whether it be integrating with your current systems or redeploying them, the benefits of combining Microsoft software with LANSA’s, are endless.

At the foundation of LANSA’s strength is its meta data repository. Microsoft and LANSA are working together to integrate Microsoft’s .NET platform to that repository. As a result leading edge technologies like LANSA Open for .NET are on the market. LANSA will continue to work with Microsoft in developing timely and reliably solutions for those in the market that want to create business applications for the Microsoft platform or interoperate with it.

LANSA participates in a number of strategic alliances with Microsoft. There are relatively very few companies that are invited to participate in Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Reviews - and LANSA is one. In addition to the reviews, LANSA is a founding member of Microsoft’s Midrange Alliance Program (MAP), and other strategic Microsoft programs.

Midrange Alliance Program

MAP provides a roadmap for midrange computing environments, such as IBM's AS/400, iSeries, and Power System servers. The Midrange Alliance Program brings together experienced technology, service, and application partners like LANSA to help you extend, integrate, or move application workloads.

Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP)

Being a member of VSIP allows LANSA to get early previews of new products and insights on Microsoft developer and industry research. The Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program provides focused benefits for companies extending Visual Studio while the Microsoft Partner Program provides a wide range of benefits across the Microsoft technology stack.

NXT Program

Microsoft's NXT program offers support for independent software vendors (ISVs) that want to extend or transform non-Microsoft-based solutions to run on Microsoft technology. To help you make the move so that your business can be in a better position to reach more customers and increase revenues, LANSA's membership of the NXT program allows us to pass along some of the benefits we receive to our own partners. This will allow LANSA partners to extend and transform their non-Microsoft base solutions to run on or integrate with the Microsoft Platform.