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At LANSA, we pride ourselves in making every conference better than the previous and the 2012 International LANSA User Conference is no different.
We are working hard to create sessions and labs that will allow developers and managers to walk away with valuable information to take back and make a positive impact on their business. Here are a list of sessions that will be covered at this year's user conference.

See the complete list of Hands-on Labs (Subject to change) - click here



Version 13
 

Version 13 Countdown - What's in it for me ?

In this kick-off session for LANSA Version 13, we will discuss the major enhancements coming in Version 13 including everything from Business Objects, Microsoft DirectX enabling Windows Presentation Foundation, Asynchronous Programming Model, RDMLX language enhancements, Deployment, Windows Version Control Interface, Integrated Development Environment improvements and some interesting fun facts and figures you will all want to hear about - lookout there may even be a surprise waiting for you at this session.

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Business Objects - Reuse on Steroids!!

Attend this session to learn What they are, Why do I want to use them and How to use them with new and existing applications? Business Objects are the latest major addition to the LANSA Repository being delivered in Version 13 of LANSA - it adds even more power to LANSA's Repository by encapsulating both business processes and business rules.

If you have attempted to design business objects yourself or have no idea what any of this means - you will leave this session with an understanding of the value of Business Objects to your business and applications.

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A Lap around LANSA Version 13 IDE: Features & Repository

LANSA Version 13 Integrated Development Environment provides several key features that allow developers to build a variety applications more quickly. During this session you will learn about some core enhancements to Visual LANSA IDE that all developers can take advantage of such as Long Names, Task Tracking, Deployment Tool, Version Control Interface, Unicode, Impact Analysis and more.

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Building Next-generation Rich-client Applications with LANSA and Direct X

Visual LANSA Version 13 contains many new features that allow you to create modern rich-client applications and provide your users with a engaging user experience. This session will cover how you can take advantage of these new DirectX features using RDMLX to build the next generation of rich client applications - very few slides - lots of Demos - dont miss it!!

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Business Objects - Deep Dive

This technical session will cover all aspects of Business Objects - how to Create, Build, Debug, Compile, Publish & Consume Business objects as well as best practices on how to get started with Business Objects in Version 13. You will leave this session knowing to use them with your existing business rules, functions and reusable parts as well as creating brand new rich-client, web or service-based applications.

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Version 13: Deploying LANSA Applications Using MSI Packages

LANSA Version 13 has updated the Deployment Tool to incorporate the Windows Installer into LANSA deployment packages, producing a single deployable package (.MSI). Attend this session if you are responsible for deploying your company’s Visual LANSA applications. Introduce yourself to the new features and options incorporated into the Deployment Tool that simplify the deployment of your Visual LANSA Rich-client and WEB applications to your Windows environments. Also gain insight into the benefits of using MSI technology, the differences between a Deployment Package and a Patch, Just-In-Time (JIT) Considerations, and more.

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Best Practices for Disciplined Team Development

This session will provide guidelines for choosing the most appropriate environment for your development team. Version 13 opens up additional possibilities for Windows development teams using Version Control systems. You will learn about the recommended scenarios for the complete SDLC for IBM i, Window and/or Linux team development and deployment with example case studies. You will also learn best practices on setting up partitions for development, testing, staging, and Production environments for Windows/Web/Integration/Mobile/5250 development, and promotion of objects between these environments.

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Modernization
 

Legacy Transformation

If you still have legacy, 5250 style applications in RPG, SYNON, or even LANSA for iSeries (or Webevent), which are inhibiting your ability to keep up with your organization’s demands for leading edge technologies such as mobile and web interfaces, then this is the session for you. This will be an interactive discussion with a particular focus on the considerations for managing and transforming legacy systems, the use of analysis/documentation and conversion tools and utilities to assist in the process of modernizing or replacing legacy systems, review approach and recommendations for both transformation and coexistence, and the use of Managed Services and Offshore where it makes economic sense.

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Application Modernization: What are my options and choices?

You’ve been asked to modernize your legacy 5250 application, but what does modernize really mean? This session provides a high–level overview of modernization and what it means in terms of business value and return on investment. Attendees will learn about the various different modernization options, business goals, and the strategies behind picking one or more modernization options for your company.

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Transforming LANSA for iSeries (Text-based) to VLF (Windows or Web)

With the Visual LANSA Framework (VLF), LANSA brought structure and consistency to building critical business Windows and Web systems. Over the past 5-10 years, great strides in VLF technology allow many types of programs to run inside the framework. This session will address the considerations for transforming text-based applications into the VLF, highlight some of the benefits of moving into a framework and into object-oriented development, discuss the use of analysis/documentation tools to assist in the planning process, and address the coexistence of both during the transformation process.

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Creating Modern Composite Applications

Composite applications consolidate the information spread across your enterprise into a single interface, providing a better and more productive end-user experience. This session will demonstrate how the Visual LANSA Framework (VLF) allows you to quickly prototype a composite application and then bring it to life by snapping in programs and documents, from many different formats and locations, into the framework. Learn how the VLF can blend information from 5250 apps, web apps, rich-client apps, business documents, images, and more, into a single, modern interface.

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Best Practices: Scoping an Application Modernization Project

When modernization is simply treated as a software development and implementation project, it tends to fail because it lacks defined business benefits, goals for success, and business unit sponsorship. Attend this session to learn how to identify the nature of modernization projects, define broad goals and measurable success criteria, and create a project outline that can be tailored to meet the needs of your company and its users. Walk away understanding all the modernization options and how they can be used together, as well as practical advice to planning and managing a modernization project and the pitfalls to avoid.

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Mobile
 

Building Mobile Applications using LANSA Platform

A native mobile device ‘App’ will generally produce a superior commercial solution to a HTML5/CCS3 based web browser solution. However the TTM (Time to Market) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) factors involved in skilling up for, prototyping, designing, implementing, testing, deploying and then forever maintaining a mobile App have proven to be prohibitive for many organizations. This session introduces a new LANSA product that virtually eliminates these TTM and TCO barriers. Commercial mobile Apps are now something that anyone with LANSA and RDMLX skills available can now afford to create and maintain

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Mobile Web applications using LANSA and jQuery

jQuery initially turned the world on its ear by sheilding web developers from the complexities and differences between web browsers. Now jQuery Mobile is enabling web developers to build mobile web applications to target devices with multiple form factors, screen resolutions and capabilities without having to deal with the underlying device complexities. LANSA takes this a step further and integrates jQuery Mobile into the LANSA for the Web stack allowing LANSA Web developers to build complelling mobile web applications quickly and easily using your existing skills. Attend this session to learn and see LANSA for the Web (Web Application Modules) and jQuery mobile in action!!

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Modernization: New ways to harness your 5250 data stream

Coming Soon

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Commerce Edition 3.5 - Sneak Peek at CE Mobile

Coming Soon

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WEB
 

Web: Today and Tomorrow - AJAX, jQuery UI, HTML5, CSS3

Web Today - this session will showcase current capabilities and features of LANSA for the Web - Web Application Modules including AJAX (JSON / XML), jQuery UI, Layouts & Themes, Wizards and more.

Web Tomorrow - this session introduces the new HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript features that you can start to use in your LANSA for the Web (Web Application Modules) applications including Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts, 2D & 3D transforms, transitions, animations, gradients, box and text shadow, border-radius, multi-column layout, inline SVG, and canvas.

HTML5 is all the rage and it sometimes feels like everyone is talking about it.Yet what if you're just starting down that road? What if you'd just like to learn a little about HTML5? Or maybe you'd like to teach others a bit about HTML5? HTML5 is ushering in a new era of graphically rich, visually compelling and highly interactive Web sites and apps. HTML5 knocks down the walls that previously held back sites and apps built with web technologies.you'd like to teach others a bit about HTML5? HTML5 is ushering in a new era of graphically rich, visually compelling and highly interactive Web sites and apps. HTML5 knocks down the walls that previously held back sites and apps built with web technologies.

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Transforming WEBEVENT Apps to WAMs

Even though LANSA’s WEBEVENT technology continues to work well, Web development is simpler and options are more plentiful when using LANSA’s Web Application Module (WAM) technology. If you still support WEBEVENT but want to move to WAMS, how do you retain that existing functionality but take advantage of all the new features in Version 13? Attend this session to learn about the benefits of transforming, considerations when transforming WEBEVENT applications into WAMs, and review the approach and recommendations for both transformation and coexistence.

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Web Application Development Choices with LANSA Platform

Building web applications on the LANSA Web stack continues to evolve. There’s lots of great LANSA tools to leverage, but it can be difficult to keep up with all the options. You will leave this session with a clear understanding of the technology options available on the LANSA Web Stack. How does the LANSA Product Suite fit into the LANSA Web stack.

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Integration
 

Automate Data Processing Between Applications, Systems, and Trading Partners

LANSA Composer can eliminate the re-keying of data and reduce the amount of paper, email, fax and human effort required for repetitive tasks. Attend this session to discover how developers can automate internal/external processes that deal with various communication methods, data formats/sources, and 5250 programs/processes – all without writing code. Also learn how LANSA Composer can monitor and interrogate inbound and outbound transactions, restart failed processes from the point of failure, and notify employees when specific events occur.

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LANSA Composer Solutions and Real-World Examples

Business Process Integration is an essential component of delivering IT solutions that reduce the dependence on manual electronic processing and human effort. Attend this session to gain insight into the key benefits of business process integration and how LANSA Composer is a natural fit. Also learn how other companies have implemented LANSA Composer solutions that reduce operating costs and add significant business benefits with excellent ROI.

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Application Integration Options between LANSA Platform and Microsoft

When Microsoft and IBM i applications run in silos, users have troubles finding information, business managers make business decisions using old data, IT spends a lot of time keeping data and processes in sync, and organizations waste too much time, money, and resources. Attend this session to learn how LANSA help IBM i and Windows systems collaborate with each other in real-time. Gain a high-level overview of all the Microsoft integration options LANSA provides, from the LANSA Repository plug-in for Visual Studio, to Business Objects, to native Web services support in Visual LANSA, to publishing ActiveX and .NET interfaces, and more.

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Sharepoint and LANSA: Get Important Data to Those Who Need It

SharePoint can inject workflow and collaboration into internal manual processes that lack structure, visibility, and accountability. SharePoint can also manage the creation and circulation of business documents, both internally within your organization and externally with your trading partners. Attend this session to learn the basics of SharePoint 2010 and how LANSA technology can bring your IBM i resources into the fold.

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Bring the Power of the Repository to .NET

Stop duplicating business logic or creating work arounds to integrate your IBM i and Microsoft applications. Attend this session to discover how LANSA enables .NET developers to access the LANSA Repository and native IBM i objects (APIs, OS commands, data areas, data queues, etc.) directly from Visual Studio. Also hear how LANSA customers successfully integrated their IBM i and Microsoft applications.

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Cloud
 

Understanding Cloud - what does it mean to you?

Confused about the cloud? Attend this session to learn the difference between public, private, and hybrid cloud strategies and what this means to your company. Discover how new features in Version 13, like creating Business Objects and publishing .NET components or Web services, prepares Visual LANSA for cloud computing.

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Miscellaneous
 

The Pros and Cons of Desktop vs. Browser vs. Mobile

User Interfaces (UI) can deliver rich, immersive end-user experiences that are intuitive and highly functional. Attend this session to learn about the different UI options and understand the pros and cons of using Web, Windows and Mobile interfaces. Discover why to choose one over the other and how easy they are to develop, maintain and deploy using LANSA technologies.

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Best Practices: Project Management

From vision to implementation, Project Management is far more than Gantt charts and Scrums. This session will distil the pragmatic virtues of various PM theories, and give you the confidence to use your own soft-skills to promote alignment and communication. Along with some new ideas, you’ll also leave with samples and templates that you can customize for projects at your organization.

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Best Practices: Designing and Performance Tuning LANSA Applications

Whether you’re a new or long time LANSA developer, attend this session to gain valuable insight on designing and coding high performance Windows Rich-client and Web applications. Learn how to improve resource utilization and memory management for your applications, and acquire tips on performance debugging and tracing your source code. Take a look under the LANSA runtime environment and walk away with a set of Do’s and Don’ts for developing LANSA applications.

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Partner Presentation
 

REMAIN Software (Partner Session)

TD/OMS LANSA Change Management: From Idea to Production
In TD/OMS, the Software Development Lifecycle begins with an idea, a change reqeuest or a bug report. The train starts running with the creation of tasks and the creation or change of components. Workflow wizards make sure that all components are deployed to all defined development stages. The product demo takes you through all the aspects of software change management aspects in a LANSA environment which includes Planning, a Graphical Impact Analysis and deployment to IBM-i and Windows.

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Industrial Strength Software (Partner Session)

"Change Management? We don't need no stinking change management!" Productivity tools for LANSA shops.
Over the years, ISS has developed several tools for use with LANSA to increase the productivity of your developers, and to help improve the stability of your LANSA applications. ISS is not only a change management vendor. Come to this session to learn about our various offerings, including a partition compare utility that identifies all differences between partitions, a consistency checker that identifies any objects that are no longer consistent with their definitions, a dependency analysis tool that identifies (and optionally automatically recompiles) any objects needing recompilation due to repository changes. DBAnalyzer identifies redundant access paths, and DBOptimizer ensures optimal access path sharing (important if your applications use many logical files). RSF-HA provides highly affordable high availability and disaster recovery. And, ChangeMaster is our best simple change management and version control utility for LANSA and IBM i applications.

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Chrono-Logic (Partner Session)

Chrono-Logic’s iAM software suite – Multi platforms deployment using LANSA-based Change Management
One single request and the iAM software promotes and deploys concurrently to IBM i, Windows/Citrix servers, End-User’s PCs and mobile devices!! Deployment is an important part of Application Lifecycle Management and iAM does it all automatically with an easy follow up including complete action details. Stability, Security, Automation: All iAM products are entirely written in LANSA and fully integrated to all LANSA products and versions on both the IBM i and Windows platforms. No interface, no additional code to support, ready for the future: The iAM software easily supports new technology!!

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Hands-on Labs (Subject to change)
 
  • Introduction to Version 13 IDE Features
  • Introduction to Version 13 Data Types
  • Introduction to Next-generation Rich-client Applications using DirectX
  • Introduction to Business Objects (Smart Bar Technical Session)
  • Introduction to aXes
  • Introduction to LANSA Client
  • Understanding Async with LANSA Version 13 (Smart Bar Technical Session)
  • Consuming Web Services (Smart Bar Technical Session)
  • Publishing Web services with Business Objects (Smart Bar Technical Session)
  • Publishing .NET Interfaces with Business Objects (Smart Bar Technical Session)
  • Building Native Mobile Application with LANSA
  • Leveraging jQuery Mobile with LANSA for the Web
  • Leveraging jQuery with LANSA for the Web applications
  • Building Rich-client Applications with Visual LANSA Framework
  • Building Web Applications with Visual LANSA Framework
  • Building .NET Applications with Visual LANSA Framework
  • Introduction to LANSA Open for .NET
  • Using LANSA Composer to Automate Business Processes
  • Using LANSA Integrator PDF Service to Generate Reports
  • Using LANSA Integrator SQL Service to Access Remote Data
  • Using LANSA Integrator Spool File Services
  • Using LANSA Integrator XML Binding Services
  • Using LANSA Integrator JSON Services
  • Using LANSA Integrator SOAP Agent/SOAP Server
  • Modernizing your Applications using RAMP from LANSA

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