03/15/2005

LANSA, a provider of enterprise application development and integration software, today announced the availability of LANSA 2005™, an upgrade to its cross-platform application development and integration suite. LANSA 2005 reportedly delivers breakthrough application modernization, integration and extension capabilities for IT development teams and software vendors of multiple platforms, including the IBM eServer iSeries.

“By combining LANSA’s highly successful approach to simplifying enterprise software development and integration with support for modern application architectures, LANSA 2005 delivers faster results and earlier payback than other development alternatives,” said LANSA’s president, John Siniscal. “LANSA understands the unique environment in which mid-sized organizations operate and has helped thousands to maximize existing IT resources when creating or extending business processes.”

According to AMR Research's Eric Austvold, in his 2005 outlook for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), “Since no CIO can start with a clean slate and replace the existing infrastructure, architectures, or applications, this new era of architecture calls for an evolutionary approach to leverage existing assets through the building of composite applications on top of a service oriented architecture.”

A release said IT staff can utilize LANSA 2005 to assemble composite applications from existing systems and databases, deploy to a browser or client/server n-tier solution and run on their platform of choice.

The LANSA 2005 suite reportedly offers enhanced rapid application development capability; out-of-the-box support for Web services; universal end-user device support and any-to-any integration. LANSA 2005 is reportedly built on core benefits of previous LANSA releases such as native and seamless iSeries integration, repository-based development, and a modern integrated development environment (IDE). With this new technology foundation, LANSA seeks to offer a compelling pathway for companies looking to implement portals and other e-business applications, but concerned about the cost, complexity and limitations of .NET and J2EE development.

Derek Maciak, vice president of product development at Surround Technologies, a LANSA Business Partner, said, “LANSA 2005 takes a big step forward in the arenas of development and integration. It is much easier for developers to learn than Java, yet delivers more benefits. The new LANSA 2005 technology shields us from the underlying XSL and XML, and we anticipate productivity gains that indicate a 50% improvement in time to deliver next-generation web applications for our clients.”

For more information, please visit www.lansa.com.