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What Are Software Metrics? How Can I Measure These Metrics?
Software metrics provide the ability to measure progress, quality, and efficiency of software development projects. It helps project managers to make better decisions, manage risk and improve the software quality continuously. Understanding and effectively measuring...
How to Measure and Improve Developer Productivity: Tips & Metrics
Businesses establish specific development standards for application modernization to evaluate the software developer’s performance in a given timeframe. Organizations use these standards to evaluate developer productivity. These metrics assist businesses in...
Software Development Estimation: A Quick Guide
Apple is spending $30 billion a year on research and development. Anthropic, a much smaller company, estimates its dev costs for 2024 to be $1 billion — and $10 billion for its next generation of AI solutions. While these are relatively large organizations, the...
Achieving Fast and Modular IBM i Modernization with RAMP
With technology advancing at an unprecedented rate, organizations find it increasingly difficult to keep their systems up-to-date and efficient. Legacy applications often lack the flexibility to integrate, offer limited scalability, and struggle to maintain...
What is IBM i? Everything You Need to Know
What is IBM i? IBM i, previously known as AS400 and later iSeries, is an integrated operating system that powers a wide range of business applications. Renowned for its unmatched reliability and security, IBM i enables organizations to streamline operations and...
Low Code Automation: Everything you Need to know
Development teams frequently have to struggle with an interesting irony: They need automation to make processes faster, but building an automation process isn’t fast. In fact, it can easily take several months. Time-consuming programming is one of the biggest...
Integrating IBM i Data with Multi-Platform Insights on One Dashboard
Every business generates 402.74 million terabytes of data every day, making it one of the most crucial components for success (Exploding Topics, 2024). They often rely on multiple data sources and platforms, which makes it challenging to gain a unified view of...
Creating APIs with Visual LANSA
Importance of APIs in Today’s Digital World Application programming interfaces (APIs) are becoming ubiquitous in a data-centric world. API development is now considered a core skill for developers and a required investment for businesses [1]. APIs are crucial to the...
Top 10 Low Code Development Platforms for 2025
A lot has changed in the software development world. Years ago, an organization’s only option was to hire expensive programmers who would hunch in front of their screens for months, hammering out code and hoping it worked. We’ve evolved. With low code, both...
The Power of Data Storytelling With LANSA BI
Data storytelling imbues business communication with relevance and impact. But how you say things is just as important as what you say. Storytelling styles and narrative content both matter — and LANSA BI makes both more compelling in helping data drive organizational...
Product Update: Visual LANSA EPC150070
Visual LANSA EPC150070 is here! In this update, we’re excited to bring you a host of new features, enhancements, and critical fixes to optimize your development experience. Major features of this release include replicating the functionalities of the IIS Plugin for...
AIX vs IBM i: What Is IBM AIX Used For?
IBM i application development is very popular now since such applications are indispensable for some areas of business. A lot of modern companies widely use IBM i applications as well as AIX and IBM i operating systems. These systems are secure, reliable, and...