iSeries Web-Based Application Leaps to Mobile Devices
UCFS provides support for PDA’s and Cell Phones in 5 days.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – August 14, 2006 – Surround Technologies today announced that, through its services, United Consumer Financial Services (UCFS) has extended their Distributor Web Portal application to mobile devices such as PDA’s (Personal Digital Assistants) and Cell Phones. UCFS has long provided customized consumer financing for a range of customers, including Distributors like the Kirby vacuum organization. And improving customer service is central to building deeper relationships to fuel their continued growth.
That fact drove UCFS to employ Surround Technologies last year to web-enable their financial reporting application for their customers. The Web Portal upgraded the previous system by providing real-time access to finance contract details, approvals, and messaging through their IBM iSeries. UCFS and Surround made news at the time, being the first production application to be built in the LANSA 2005 application development environment, where Surround is regarded as an authority.
Surround Technologies CEO Lee Paul saw then the opportunity to broaden the reach. “LANSA uses a separate interface layer that makes delivering the application to a new interface simple,” he shares, “in fact, we did this development in a week.” Mr. Paul predicts extreme growth in mobilizing applications, “There’s too much to be gained with users so mobile.”
UCFS easily saw the appeal of mobilizing the application following its modernization. “Many of our customers are constantly on the go, so delivering real-time information to their handheld device provides a new level of support,” according to Sigrid Bundy, UCFS MIS Director. “We’re excited at the opportunity to better serve our clients.”
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| Surround Technologies, LLC is an information technology consulting firm dedicated to providing efficient and cost-effective solutions to the corporate community by delivering high-quality software applications and consulting services. Surround Technologies' client list includes industry leaders such as Gannett Publishing, Verizon and General Electric Canada. For more information, visit http://www.surroundtech.com.
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Lee Paul
650 Bloomfield Ave
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Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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http://www.surroundtech.com
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| United Consumer Financial Services, UCFS, has been providing consumer financing to businesses throughout North America for 25 years. With more than 220 employees, UCFS offers consumer financing for a variety of products and services such as home cleaning systems, personal computers, home security systems, medical services and fire alarm systems. For more information, visit http://www.ucfs.net.
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| LANSA is the leading provider of application development software for mid-market companies looking to extend the value of their IT infrastructure and create new pathways to grow their business. The company's core offering, LANSA 2005T, is a powerful suite of cross-platform development and integration products that enables software delivery organizations to overcome the complexity inherent in creating tomorrow's applications and the costs associated with maintaining them. LANSA 2005 also serves as the technology foundation for a wide range of applications from LANSA and its 300 Solution Partners. For nearly two decades, more than 7,000 customers around the world have relied on LANSA products and services to help them move to the next level of business performance. For more information, visit http://www.lansa.com.
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Visual LANSA (VL) provides a comprehensive Windows-based development environment. You can deploy applications to many platforms including Windows, iSeries, AS/400, UNIX, Linux and Wireless devices. Visual LANSA uses LANSA's Object Repository and 4GL to develop both client and server programs. You only need one set of easy-to-learn skills to rapidly develop graphical Internet and client/server applications.
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LANSA for the Web You can easily build Internet, Intranet and Wireless applications that securely access and update iSeries (AS/400) and Windows data. LANSA allows you to rapidly generate industry standard graphical HTML, Java, XML, or WML. LANSA's e-business Frameworks allow you to adopt Web design standards used in many of the world's highest profile Web sites.
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For further information on how Surround Technologies can help with LANSA 2005 development, please go to http://www.surroundtech.com/lansa2005/.
To read more about Surround Technologies and its partnership with LANSA, please go to http://www.surroundtech.com/LANSA/.
For more information about UCFS and their services, please go to http://www.ucfs.net.