Webinar Recordings

Discovering the Hidden Value in Your Legacy System i Applications

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA demonstrates how System i (AS/400, iSeries) 5250 applications can be transformed into a completely new application without changing a line of code. You'll also hear from two CIOs describing their modernization journeys using RAMP from LANSA – a modernization option that’s cost effective and low risk.
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Innovate your System i Applications today

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, reviews recommendations for innovating your applications from the modernization white paper written by System i technical expert, Paul Conte. Dave then goes on to explore how you can use RAMP from LANSA to isolate and encapsulate the valuable portions of your legacy applications and repurpose them inside a modern application framework that can be deployed as a rich-client and/or Web-browser application. In addition, witness how other companies were able to re-use, improve and extend their legacy systems – and see if these examples can be applied to your modernization needs.
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Unlock your Assets: Breathing New Life into Legacy Apps

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Paul Conte, software developer, consultant, senior technical editor for the System iNetwork and president of PCES, and David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA explore how you can incorporate existing functionality into new business processes in a deeper, broader way that provides a better fit for changing business strategies - exploiting Web Services, application integration, and more.
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Profiles of Modernization: Your System i Peers Share their Secrets

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, shows the steps that five different System i organizations took during their modernization process and how these examples can be applied to the needs of your organization. Discover how to identify and isolate the most valuable parts of your legacy System i applications and then repurpose them inside of a modern application framework.
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Extending EDI with Business Process Integration

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, is joined by Larry Ronhovde, President of Eagle Information Systems to demonstrate how you can extend the reach of EDI and build on its valuable infrastructure with business process integration (BPI). You’ll also learn how BPI automates business processes and breaks down silos of information. Additional customer case studies are included.
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A Bright Future for Application Integration

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Trevor Perry will review the challenges presented in designing and implementing your application integration projects, and answer integration questions. During the second portion of this Webcast, you’ll hear LANSA discuss moving beyond EDI, focusing on data exchange in today's Internet-driven world.
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Beyond EDI: Succeeding in Today’s Internet-Driven Business Environment

In this System i Network Webcast recording, Nahid Jilovec, a System iNEWS technical editor and columnist on ebusiness topics, a prolific author of articles and an award winning speaker and David Brault, Product Manager at LANSA show how to extend the reach of EDI and build on its valuable infrastructure. Also, learn how business process integration technology can automate your business processes and break down silos of information.
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The Benefits of Moving to Visual LANSA

Dave Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, talks about the benefits of moving your development team from LANSA for iSeries to Visual LANSA. The benefits include a 25% increase in developer productivity, one screen to view field and file definitions, validations, relationships, programs and source editor, the ability to take on Web, wireless and modernization projects and leverage the LANSA Repository, graphical Data modeling for existing databases and new development as well as an IDE that allows an easy transition for new, non-iSeries developers.
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Take Control of Your Business with LANSA ERP Frameworks

Bob Gleisner, Director of Professional Services, LANSA, gives an overview and demonstration of LANSA ERP Frameworks - a fully integrated suite that offers one comprehensive, enterprise-wide solution for manufacturers and distributors alike. Bob draws on over 20 years experience working with a variety of IBM midrange ERP systems to address the issues of ERP implementation.
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RAMP Webinar Series

This series of presentations includes an Analyst Review of iSeries Application Modernization Issues, a RAMP Overview and Demonstration, Cost Justification of Reengineering vs. Replacing, plus two IBM i industry executives talking about their experiences with RAMP from the in-house IT department and ISV perspectives. Click for more details

Note: These presentations are best viewed in the following order:

Analyst Review of Legacy Application Modernization

Peter Kastner, Vice President and Research Director, Aberdeen Group, examines the following: the most important business drivers for modernization, the challenges that modernization teams can expect, technology approaches that are most frequently used and the ROI benefits that can be expected from modernization. (Duration 22 minutes)
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RAMP Overview

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, introduces RAMP from LANSA - a completely new approach to modernization that moves the user interface into a graphical application framework that serves as the basis for surrounding and extending the functionality using SOA and related technologies. (Duration 18 minutes)
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RAMP Demonstration

David Brault, Product Marketing Manager, LANSA, demonstrates RAMP from LANSA - and shows how RAMP is used to modernize applications, emphasizing how RAMP is different from any other application modernization approach. (Duration 17 minutes)
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RAMP Customer Experience

Mark Anderson, Vice President of Information Systems, DEMCO, shares his experience of using RAMP to modernize a segment of their business. (Duration 22 minutes)
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Cost Justification of Reengineering vs. Replacing

LANSA Product Marketing Manager David Brault draws on over 10 years experience with System i application development to discuss the difference in cost, time and resources between replacing your legacy systems and reengineering with RAMP. In addition, he'll explain how you can improve business processes and consolidate applications with RAMP. (Duration 35 minutes)
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RAMP ISV Experience

Thom Davidson, Principal, Rippe & Kingston Systems, will share his experience using RAMP to modernize one of the packages they sell into the System i marketplace. (Duration 8 minutes)
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EDI in the 21st Century

Demot O'Doherty, Regional Services Manager, LANSA, shows how LANSA can help simplify the implementation of EDI on your System i, while fully complying with all standards and protocols. If you need to exchange documents electronically with your trading partners, this presentation will give you a better understanding of EDI, and how it can help you achieve your business goals.
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Modernizing Legacy Systems with Workflow

Jim Schmiedendorf, Manager, LANSA Professional Services, shows you how to modify enterprise systems, designed to manage processes contained within your enterprise’s physical facilities, to adapt to new processes and more complex communication needs that can also include trading partners outside your enterprise's "four walls".
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Connect Customers with the Heart of your Enterprise

Eamon Musallam, Senior Product Specialist, LANSA, shows how companies have streamlined their operations and improved business by using with LANSA Commerce Edition to connect their eCommerce Web sites directly to their ERP systems. There are three presentations in this series, for MAPICS (Duration 48 minutes), for BPCS (Duration 22 minutes) and for JD Edwards (Duration 22 minutes)
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Expand Your Business with a Real-Time eCommerce Web Site

Featuring Scott Whipps, Vice President Sports Retail, Clif Bar & Co., who explains what drove them to select an integrated ecommerce solution for their dealer extranet, and the process that led them to LANSA Commerce Edition. He'll also discuss the implementation experience and share the impact the new Web site has had on their business.
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GDSN Participation With High Return On Investment

Randy Mercer, Manager, Solution Products, LANSA, presents information on the Global Data Synchronization initiative and LANSA's solution – LANSA Data Sync Direct.
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Overcoming Complexity in Delivering Tomorrow's Applications

Eamon Musallam, Senior Product Specialist, LANSA, discusses the complexities of delivering applications and shows 5 practical strategies to address these. Mark Anderson, VP Information Services at DEMCO, also shares his experiences of using LANSA to address DEMCO's application development strategies.
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