IBM i Modernization
Maximize your productivity, innovation,
and investment in IBM i

IBM i Modernization
As the one responsible for satisfying IT demands from users and executives alike, LANSA’s low-code development platform will equip your team with more speed, choices, and control over your application development projects while minimizing risk, delays, and overspending. With LANSA, you get a single platform to tackle all your tactical and strategic goals:
- Modernize existing IBM i applications with aXes to transform 5250 screens into web and mobile interfaces without changing code.
- Build upon your refaced 5250 screen using RAMP to snap them inside a modern application framework that provides “new application” functionality while refactoring as much of your existing code as possible.
- Build new web and mobile applications easily with the Visual LANSA low-code development platform.
- Complete more projects in less time and quickly respond to demands from users and executives.
- Leverage a single development platform and skill set for better resource management.
- Reduce complexity by having everyone code in the same high-level language for client-side and server-side.

IBM i Modernization
You’ve made the wise decision to run your business on the IBM i platform, and now it’s time to maximize your return on investment. LANSA’s suite of IBM i modernization tools will enable you to digitally transform your business, increase IT effectiveness, and decrease your total cost of ownership.
LANSA provides you with the ability to:
- Extend the life of your existing IBM i applications with modern web and mobile interfaces.
- Augment existing systems with new web and mobile applications with additional capabilities.
- Accelerate the pace of application development to deliver more projects, on time and on budget.
- Reduce your technical debt by standardizing on a single platform for all application development.
- Minimize the risk of large-scale modernization projects by refactoring existing programs that work well.
- Minimize the risk of large-scale modernization projects by refactoring existing programs that work well.

IBM i Modernization
If you have a lot of 5250 green-screen applications at your company and both users and management are asking you to modernize, LANSA will make your life easier. LANSA’s suite of IBM i modernization tools provides options for everything from simple refacing to brand new development.
With LANSA, you can become an IBM i modernization expert by:
- Transforming existing 5250 screens into web and mobile with aXes without changing any source code or knowing any HTML, CSS, etc.
- Modernizing systems with RAMP into a composite application, allowing you to reuse the best parts of your programs and rework the rest.
- Creating new web and mobile applications using Visual LANSA without having to learn several new languages.
- Extending your skills and continuing to be a valuable asset to the business.
- Deploying modernized apps on a variety of different interfaces, form factors, and other server platforms when necessary.

IBM i Modernization
As an ISV, you need to constantly modernize and enhance your solution to keep customers on maintenance and attract new ones. If your existing apps are still displaying 5250 green screens, LANSA provides a wide range of a low-risk, high-reward modernization options to satisfy both short-term tactical needs and long-term goals.
- Extend the life of your current 5250-based solution with aXes by instantly transforming screens into modern web and mobile interfaces.
- Completely modernize your entire RPG and COBOL solution with RAMP by snapping in the tried-and-true parts of your system into a modern applications framework with new navigation, search, and other capabilities.
- Build new extensions with Visual LANSA significantly faster than standard development practices to manage customer demand and leapfrog the competition.
- Sell into new server markets like Windows, Linux, and cloud (AWS/Azure).
- SAAS-enable your solution.

A Long History with the IBM i Platform
LANSA is proud of its long history of support for the IBM i platform. Since 1987, our development, modernization, and data integration products and solutions have evolved alongside IBM as it transitioned from System38, to AS/400, to iSeries, to System i, to IBM i.
Through the decades, we have continued to help IT departments maximize their productivity, innovation, and investment in IBM i by providing developers with powerful tools for building web, mobile, and desktop apps that quickly and easily solve critical business problems.

Continued Innovation Provides Our Customers with More Options
LANSA’s continued innovation provides customers with even more options. Perhaps most notable is LANSA’s low-code application development platform, which allows apps to reach multiple servers, interfaces, form factors, and databases that not only run on IBM i, but also Windows, Linux, and Cloud platforms.
LANSA’s product portfolio includes numerous offerings that are exclusively dedicated to the IBM i developer community or included as part of our cross-platform offerings. Whatever you need to deliver, LANSA products have you covered.
Cross-Platform Products That Support IBM i
Visual LANSA
Visual LANSA is a low-code development platform enabling blazing fast creation of web, mobile, desktop, and server applications for on premise and cloud deployment.
LANSA Composer
LANSA Composer is a solution for automating and integrating business processes. Its features include transport, data transformation and mapping, process orchestration and administration.
LANSA Commerce Edition
LANSA Commerce Edition is a suite of components to generate customer self-service applications that extend existing ERP and business systems to the web without replication of business rules, pricing, or data.
LANSA Integrator
LANSA Integrator moves data between diverse platforms and applications. It manages data transformation, email, communication, messaging, and SOAP and REST web services.
LANSA Client
LANSA Client is a query and reporting tool for creating reports from enterprise data on Windows and IBM i servers. Save report data as MS Access, MS Excel, HTML, XML or ASCII text files.
LANSA Open for .NET
LANSA Open for .NET is a class library for Microsoft Visual Studio. Use the library APIs to integrate IBM i databases, message queues, spooled files, applications and jobs into .NET applications.
Products With Exclusive Support For IBM i
LANSA ERP Frameworks
Open source enterprise resource planning software for IBM i