Analyst Research
THE
EIGHT PILLARS OF AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE: Building a Stable and
Agile Software Foundation in a Dynamic IBM i and Microsoft World
Written by Paul Conte – October 2008
Whether dealing with new or legacy applications, just running faster to keep
pace with business demands and changing technology isn’t enough. You need to
have a better plan and work smarter to stay ahead. A better plan requires an
enterprise application architecture that improves the functionality and quality
of delivered software, while providing the foundation for increased productivity
and flexibility in application delivery.
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SYSTEM i MODERNIZATION SURVIVAL GUIDE: Future-proofing
your Applications and Development Strategies
Written by Paul Conte – April 2008
This white paper provides a guide to help you cope with the dramatically
increased pace and scope of business application development brought on by the
Internet revolution, sweeping regulatory changes, stakeholder pressure for more
transparency, corporate acquisitions and mergers and a host of other pressures
in the modern, global business environment.
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Legacy Application Modernization Benchmark Report
Written by Rick Saia and Peter Kastner of the Aberdeen Group – September 2006
Business has discovered the service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the future
technological underpinning of enterprise information technology. While SOA is
revolutionizing how distributed computing is organized and delivered, it opens
up both opportunities and challenges in extending the life of legacy application
investments. The global economy runs on legacy systems – both the software and
hardware – and they represent hundreds of billions of dollars in investments
that enterprises have made over decades. So, technology executives want to
squeeze all the value they can out of this technology while integrating it to
improve business process visibility. This report looks at the preferred
migration strategies across three hardware platforms – the mainframe, AS/400,
and Unix – and shows how Best in Class companies are leading the way into SOA.
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Programming for Business Analysts?
Written by P.J. Jakovljevic – September 2005
"While not a household name like Microsoft or IBM, LANSA has been quietly delivering software solutions to mid-market companies for two decades. It is a global provider of enterprise application development and integration software and its target market consists of an estimated 250,000 mid-sized organizations. Many are IBM iSeries shops within manufacturing and distribution segments, and while some frequently buy new solutions, many try to leverage and modernize existing legacy systems to participate in global, Internet-based supply chains," says P.J. Jakovljevic from Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC), www.technologyevaluation.com, in a two-part report that discusses how LANSA addresses simplified Web Services implementation, examines LANSA’s target market and make user recommendations. TEC , a privately-owned Web-based company, based in Montreal, Canada offers evaluators and decision makers on-line technology evaluation centers on topics ranging from ERP, CRM, to Security.
Part One discusses the situation and how LANSA is addressing it
The Promise of Simplified Web Services
Implementation and Access
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Part Two addresses LANSA’s target market and make user recommendations
Product Architecture for Product Endurance
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LANSA: Fast Track to eBusiness Development Success
"LANSA for the Web, Visual LANSA, and LANSA for iSeries are significant and important development tools that every iSeries (AS/400) development organization should seriously consider," says the Andrews Consulting Group (www.andrewscg.com), one of the most respected industry analysts in the iSeries (AS/400) world in an independent review of LANSA.
"IT departments are being challenged as never before to bring their organizations into the eBusiness model of computing. But Internet and eBusiness computing is unlike any previous computing model. In response to these challenges, LANSA has developed a suite of application development tools that address many of the most urgent needs of professional software developers."
The paper examines LANSA's suite of eBusiness tools and
explores how this suite can successfully streamline iSeries (AS/400) eBusiness
development.
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Japanese