Premier Conference Sponsor

Since 1975, Microsoft has continuously worked to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we provide products that help enable you to build a secure and trusted platform for creating and running your most demanding applications. Advanced security technology, developer support for the latest platforms, management and Web tools, flexible virtualization solutions and access to relevant information throughout your organization to enable you to drive your business forward.

Microsoft is proud to be the premier sponsor of the 2008 International LANSA User Conference. Microsoft and LANSA are working together to deliver a compelling development and modernization experience for the System i developer wanting to exploit the capabilities of Windows and SQL Server. It’s Time.

Corporate Sponsors

Rippe & Kingston is a Cincinnati, Ohio based Information Technology firm that provides software solutions and services to their clients in 43 States and 9 Countries. R&K Profile: Over 100 Certified Professionals, LANSA Platinum Partner since 1989, Microsoft Business Partner, IBM Premier Business Partner and Avnet Business Partner.

R & K incorporates LANSA technology into their Suite of Solutions that include e.ssential Enterprise Portal, LANSA Portlet Generator, Contract Guardian, METHOS Plant Maintenance and LMS legal management.

Their Professional Services bring enterprise experience coupled with established leadership in technology to deliver world-class application solutions for their clients. Services include: Development, Project Management, Infrastructure, Mentoring, Risk Mitigation and Managed Services.

Chrono-Logic is a software solution provider that offers change management solutions and tools for development teams using LANSA products. Chrono-Logic’s iAM™ software suite is entirely written in LANSA and fully integrated to all LANSA products and versions on both the iSeries and Windows platforms. Chrono-Logic products also manage iSeries development tools such as Java, RPG, and Cobol. The iAM™ software suite manages, automates and secures change management tasks usually performed manually by developers, analysts, systems managers and operators, while securing all environments from development through to production. Newly released iAM for End-Users™ completely automates deployment of client/server applications to end-users’ PCs.

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from printing and imaging products to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.

PowerTech is your security expert in managing evolving compliance and data privacy threats with automated security solutions for IBM AS/400 and System i Servers. Our ServerProven security solutions are straightforward and save your valuable IT resources, giving you ongoing protection and peace of mind.

Because iSeries and AS/400 servers are used to host particularly sensitive corporate data, it is imperative that you proactive proactive compliance security. As an IBM Advanced Business Partner with over 800 customers worldwide, PowerTech understands corporate vulnerability and the risks associated with data privacy and access control.

Seattle, WA-based PowerTech was founded by security experts in 1996.

Help/Systems is the world's leader in operations automation business intelligence software for the IBM System i. With over 60,000 product sales to 21,000 customers worldwide, Help/Systems provides complete managment solution for your operations and data access and analysis requirements. The product line consists of three areas: automated operations (management tools for job scheduling; backup and recovery; report output; messages, resources, and system logs; system notification; performance monitoring and tuning; disk storage; networking; partitioned systems; and more); business intelligence (executive dashboards, drill-down data analysis, graphical query, and reporting); and productivity solutions (development and programming tools, and database display).

MindTree is a global IT Services Company co-headquartered in the U.S. and India. With a passion for customer satisfaction, MindTree partners with its clients to create a transparent, value-based relationship. MindTree has helped global organizations gain competitive edge by leveraging the right mix of technology, people, and processes to achieve Company’s strategic objectives.

• The only global LANSA business partner
• The largest LANSA development team globally
• Over 6,000 person-months of LANSA Project experience
• A 20+ year association with the IBM Midrange provides unparalleled experience
• Excellent project management and execution track record

Surround Technologies is a software development and consulting firm that accelerates LANSA development to provide advanced agile software specific to our client's business needs.

It is our mission to help companies worldwide to discover all that software can offer their business by realizing the full value, return and potential from their software investments.

Our vision is to allow LANSA developers to focus on business functionality by allowing us to handle the underlying technology necessary for advanced agile software. We do this by focusing on the 3 critical technology areas of software development:

• Frameworks
• Users
• Developers

It's time for software at the speed of business. It's time for software that drives your business forward.

Industrial Strength Software Company develops and markets software tools for OS/400 and
i5/OS customers. Since 1989, ISS has focused on applications development life-cycle
management tools:

• ChangeMaster is our change management and version control solution for System i and LANSA applications
• Client Support Workbench is our complete applications life-cycle management solution for ISVs and large development teams

ISS has recently expanded our offerings with additional systems administration tools:

 

• DBAnalyzer identifies DB2 database files that are needlessly consuming extra disk space, CPU and I/O resources
• DBOptimizer eliminates redundancies, saving disk space and reducing overall CPU and I/O for database operations
• RSF-HA provides highly affordable high availability for OS/400 and i5/OS systems

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