Rippe & Kingston Sponsors LANSA 2008 User Conference

Disaster Recovery Pod Cast from VAULT400

I think you will find this of value as you make your plans related to disaster recovery/online backup.

See LANSA at 2008 Common in Nashville

Rippe & Kingston and of course LANSA look forward to seeing everyone at the COMMON Conference in Nashville.

Take advantage of belonging to the largest community of IBM midrange users and attend COMMON’s 2008 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville, March 30 – April 3.
This is COMMON’s largest educational event of the year. Five full days of in-depth i5/OS education that includes all-day pre-conference workshops, all-day Integrated Seminars, open labs and a wide variety of regular-length sessions.

You can anticipate LANSA will be showing off products like LANSA Composer, LANSA RAMP and of course Visual LANSA.

Are you ready for IBM System i V6R1

i5/OS V6R1 delivers IT freedom for business flexibility

With business moving faster than ever, you need an operating environment that can protect business continuity while enabling new levels of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency. Combining a tradition of excellence with industry-leading innovation, IBM i5/OS® is the answer.

i5/OS V6R1 takes a great step forward to set new standards for efficiency and resiliency in business processing. To help businesses thrive in competitive marketplaces, this release includes expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java performance, new support for POWER6™ processors and BladeCenter®, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive SOA transformation.

You can expect LANSA to be available for development and execution as soon as you upgrade to V6R1!

LANSA Wins Contract for Application Modernization Software

LANSA Wins Contract for Application Modernization Software
Published: January 22, 2008

by Alex Woodie

A trip to the spring COMMON show last year eventually paid off for Control Systems Software (CSS), a developer of agribusiness software that runs on i5/OS. CSS traveled to Anaheim, California, to help it chart an application modernization strategy, which eventually led to LANSA and its Rapid Application Modernization Process (RAMP) solution. Complete story...

Share your LANSA Composer Experience

We are looking for someone to share their real life experiences with LANSA Composer. It sounds great and makes a lot of sense, just would like to hear from somone that has taken it for a good test drive.

For those of you unfamiliar with LANSA Composer, it is a design and execution platform for integrating business activities involving transport and transformation of data and custom business processing. It satisfies the four key requirements of a Business Process Integration solution:

• Transport – moving data between source and target.


• Transformation – mapping data between many different formats.


• Process Orchestration – sequential and conditional execution of process flow.


• Administration – auditing, error-handling, logging, security and system operation

LANSA Data Sync Direct Chosen by Food Logistics Magazine for 2007

MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product and information through all channels of the food supply chain, this week announced its fourth annual list -- the Food Logistics 100 -- which features top technology solution providers that serve the needs of a unique segment of the food service industry. The list is compiled through end-user nominations. Each company listed is top in their field for assisting food, beverage and consumer packaged goods' companies to transform their supply chains.

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