newlook

Extending interface dynamics

Your users won't need to see another green screen. Emulation, mobile, thin and smart client User Interfaces, each have a role to play and are generated dynamically by newlook. You can rapidly Web-enable, extend and integrate your System i (AS/400, iSeries and i5) host applications.

Productive user interface management

newlook's rules-based repository allows the generation of a customized User Interface (UI) to suit your existing applications. Focus on the key parts of your application and redesign just those UIs. Leave the rest to newlook's instant UI generation. The dynamic rules-based approach is the fastest and easiest way to provide modern browser-based and Windows-based UI for your legacy applications.

newlook can integrate ActiveX with
Visual LANSA or Visual Basic

Easy deployment

Diverse audiences demand flexible user interface support. Knowledge workers and users of heavy transaction-based applications need the responsive, productive experiences offered by smart or rich clients. Global partners and customers may be better suited to zero-deployment, pure Web-based thin client interfaces, while a sales force may need to access business applications via phones, PDAs and other mobile devices.

For those that demand it, emulation access is also available. newlook reuses your existing applications and dynamically generates multi-channel UIs for both new and existing applications. And it does it easily!

Eliminate 5250 OLTP and save!

All looksoftware UIs support lookdirect, instantly enabling your modernized 5250 workloads to utilize the batch CPW capabilities of the POWER5™ System i5, significantly reducing hardware costs.

Beyond refacing

Want to take your applications forward? Rules-based, on-the-fly UI generation for existing applications allows you to rapidly define new UIs without 5250 or 3270 data streams or interactive sessions.

Smart clients combine the reach of the Web with the rich experience of desktop applications for information workers who need built-in integration, rich UI controls and the best performance. You can also provide transaction-based users with the extended keyboard and 'type ahead' support that is not offered by thin client UIs.

Support for most popular browsers running on Linux, Mac or Windows makes zero deployment thin client UIs an ideal option for instant global access for external users including your partners and customers. Plus mobile and wireless UIs for phones and PDAs that are increasingly popular choices.

Composed primarily of pre-existing functionality, composite applications deliver streamlined business processes, rapid ROI and a rich user experience. Use newlook's comprehensive set of UI controls including DataGrid, TreeView and many more.

Integrate with centric to consume Web services or connect directly to server-based application logic including RPG, COBOL or Java. Connect directly to DB2 and other databases like SQL Server, Oracle and Access. Connect to 5250 sessions with zero 5250 OLTP requirement.

newlook benefits

• Reduce costs by instantly modernizing 5250 workloads to consume batch CPW, eliminating 5250 OLTP requirements.
• Single design provides flexibility and supports both server and client deployment options.
• Objects, events, methods, Java and VB scripting enables easy-to-use, modern development support.
• Eliminate repeated collections, conversions and compilations and solve the double maintenance problem.
• Easy-to-learn and rapid implementation time.
• Low risk, low complexity application-modernization solution.
• Web deployment reduces administration costs.
• Reduce errors, reduce learning time and improve productivity for business users.
• Simplify deployment to the desktop.
• Single solution for UI and print emulation.

newlook provides advanced graphical controls

Flexible options

newlook includes full support for integrated 5250 emulation, providing business and IT users with the choice of interface style, allowing your organization to evolve to the graphical world completely at your own pace. Just as COBOL remains alive and healthy, green screen RPG applications will also survive well into the future.

The options are flexible and the choice is yours:

• Continue using your existing iSeries and AS/400 application enabling tool sets and leave the dynamic graphical generation and Web deployment to newlook.
• Use newlook to extend and integrate the interface and behavior by designing new UIs with supporting events and actions.
• Use newlook for dynamic graphical UI generation over your existing iSeries and AS/400 applications and develop new applications with LANSA.

Free 30 day evaluation

The real proof is seeing newlook work with your applications. newlook can be downloaded from the Web, installed, started, connected to your iSeries or AS/400 and dynamically generate customized GUIs – which behave according to your rules – within two hours.

newlook is a trade mark of Look Software Pty Ltd (ACN 071 351 776) and is used under licence. newlook is developed by Look Software, Melbourne Australia. Look Software is an All Star member of the IBM Partners In Development program and newlook is a member of IBM Tools Network Program.

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