Surround Technologies Releases Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator Version 5.5
Companies are saving BIG $$$ on systems Development and Maintenance!

BLOOMFIELD, NJ – May 1, 2004 – Surround Technologies, LLC, a leader in Windows development for the iSeries 400, today announced the scheduled release date of the latest version of their popular Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator system. Version 5.5 will be released for general availability on May 1, 2004.  Among the list of new enhancements are new preview pane functionality, upgraded security options, expanded code generation wizards, and the brand new History Explorer Bar and Remarks module. 

"We are excited to release version 5.5 because it makes our VL Accelerator system more powerful and even more productive," claims Lee Paul, CEO of Surround Technologies, LLC. "This latest release provides the most requested enhancements from our customers using version 5.4, as well as exposing all the features available in the latest release of Visual LANSA."

Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator is a development system that is currently being used by over 50 developers in Fortune 500 and private companies worldwide to quickly develop large-scale, powerful Windows applications. It is particularly appealing to the iSeries Market because of its multi-platform, multi-database connectivity and portability.  Not only does Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator speed up the development and maintenance cycles, but it also standardizes the development efforts of multi-developer teams.

Clients using Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator have quickly developed new and re-engineered existing enterprise-wide systems for warehouse management, sales force automation, accounting, HR management, and much more.  Clients often comment that the Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator pays for itself in the first week of use and saves them hundreds of thousands of dollars in development time and user acceptance.

"I've actually had clients tell me that one of the best features of our VL Accelerator system is that we supply full source code," says Lee Paul, CEO and Partner Surround Technologies. "Not only is VL Accelerator an amazing development tool, but it is a great learning tool as well. Whenever a user wants to see how we developed a particular function, they can just look at the code.  All this at such a low cost.How can anyone afford not to have VL Accelerator?"

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