Visual LANSA Reviews

Developer friendly, easy to learn and use, easily to merge to existing ERP applications, not require high programming skills, easy to maintain programs, repository organized everything and easy to access, VL makes complex ERP application user frienly, it has more fantastic features over IBM business i series, I love this great siftware!

Has used Lansa for many years, really has nothing to complain.

Web application development needs at least java script and HTML skills, Visual Lansa provides the tools easily to design web application and access backend IBM i platform database, it gives programmer more options and take all the advantage of Visual Lansa on web development.

With Visual Lansa, platform interconnection is easy and developing web-based applications is a no-brainer. The best thing is having all this with just one development language and loads of out-of- the-box templates to help one get started.

The documentation is quite good but could be better...There's still a tiny developer community. Although there's a visual lansa forum, there should also be some (example) stack overflow usage.

Visual Lansa helps a lot when using IBM i, especially when we need integration with other platforms, consuming webservices or even building web/mobile applications.

I really like the flexible integrated developer environment, which was very easy to learn and use, along with the simple language to get things done. I can do everything I need to within the single IDE. Because of the ease of use I was able to start programming and contributing to our team's first project fairly quickly. With our second project we took advantage of the built-in Google Material Design controls in creating a mobile application.

The installation and the configuration of the developer client seem to be overly complicated. But, once set up, it's smooth sailing until the next upgrade requires license keys to for installation. I think the installation process can be improved. Fortunately, the installation hasn't been required that often so it's not that big of a deal. Also, some better calendaring options would be nice. We, with the help of LANSA support, had to do some really complicated programming to pull off a scheduling application.

LANSA is an easy to learn solution for building Windows, Web, and Mobile applications that helped us centralize data and web-enabled business pocesses on the Series i to achieve our goals. The LANSA support team has continued to offer help and guidance in achieving those goals.

We are using Visual Lansa to centralize not just data but also some processes to the Series i. So far we've replaced two end-of-support legacy applications that required special clients and are in the processes of designing a third. Each of those systems required a significant amount of resources to run, including their own servers. By using LANSA we will not only centralize the data, but also reduce the number of servers required to run our business processes.

VL is easy to develop and user-friendly software, also easy to make changes.

I have no dislike to mention, but I am waiting to see more examples of VL functions. I mean a variety of samples.

Visual LANSA is easy to code and user-friendly. You can create more in less time. Most of the coding errors are upfront (not at compile time), making the programmer's life easier.

Mostly we have VL for receiving our customer orders and send them invoices. By moving to VL on the WEB, we significantly resolved many customer issues.