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Surround Newsletter - Summer 2005 A newsletter from Surround Technologies, LLC |
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Can you Envision the Possibilities with that kind of savings and productivity? Press Release: For the full press release on the Scolari's project, please read Scolari’s Food and Drug Saves Over $1 Million Using Visual LANSA Accelerator. Testimonials: "It doesn’t look like it was developed in-house. It looks like it was developed by a major software company."— Rob Dornberger, Vice President of IT, Scolari’s Food and Drug. For more testimonials from this project, go to http://www.surroundtech.com/testimonials. Case Study: When a Nevada-based grocery store chain needed to replace its legacy computer systems, its management team faced the common dilemma of whether to purchase an off-the-shelf product or custom-build an application. Management’s decision to build a new system from scratch points to the latest trend in application development. Please have a look at the Case Study, Software Development Trends Back to its Roots of Custom Applications. iSeriesNetwork.com Article Features Surround Technologies Product: Although the IT analysts all seem to say that in-house software development is going the way of the coelacanth, iSeries shops can tell you that is just a big fish story. Please have a look at the iSeriesNetwork.com article, Home-Grown Coding Alive and Well in iSeries Shop |
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Looking for a better way for your end users to be able to view and print forms and reports from within your Visual LANSA Application? Surround Technologies has the solution, Envision Visual LANSA Reporter. Visual LANSA Reporter is a Visual LANSA reusable part that can be placed into any Visual LANSA application and used to print Windows-like reports with ease by controlling font type, style and size, as well as page and paragraph formatting. Additionally, VL Reporter enables developers to insert images, such as logos and product pictures, into reports, and provides print preview, printer selection, and email capabilities. Surround Technologies acquired the original Visual LANSA report development tool, VLReporter, from Wayside Marketing, Inc. and added it to our repertoire of products that enhance the LANSA development experience. VLReporter is a perfect complement to our existing suite of LANSA development tools, especially our Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator. We will be significantly enhancing the Visual LANSA Reporter product during the coming months as well as incorporating it into all of our product offerings. Press Release: For the full press release on the VL Reporter acquisition, please read Surround Technologies Acquires VLReporter. Product Page: For more information on the Envision Visual LANSA Reporter product, visit http://www.surroundtech.com/evlr |
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Surround Technologies has been working with LANSA 2005, including its controlled beta and early releases, since November 2004. Before the LANSA User Conference and the general availability release of the tool, we went live with a full LANSA 2005 WAM (Web Application Module) based Web site; a Pocket PC, Web, and Windows Conference Prize Registration system; and a prototype of our WAM-based Contact Management system. Surround Technologies has established and is already rolling on a number of strategic initiatives for the LANSA 2005 product.
Press Release: For the full press release on these initiatives, please read Surround Technologies Announces LANSA 2005 Initiatives. Additional Information: For more about Surround Technologies and LANSA 2005, please go to Surround Technologies' LANSA 2005 page. |
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The Surround Technologies development team once again has found new ways to add hours to your day. The new Wizard for the Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator (EVLA) tool increases developer productivity by a phenomenal 96%! What previously took 6 hours now takes just 15 minutes! 
The new EVLA Wizard steps the developer through a series of screens into which information is entered about the system being created. Once the questions are answered completely, the Wizard will automatically enter in all the Framework file entries and create and compile all of the programs needed. The only thing left to do by the programmer is to add business-specific functionality and preferences to the system. Surround Technologies offers a proof of concept project to clients interested in taking a look at what EVLA can do for their system. In our standard proof of concept project for EVLA, we allocate 4 hours of development time where 3 hours is used to create a shell system for 5 of the client’s files. For aour lates proof of concept, we usd the new Wizards. We ended up using 10 files from the client’s system and created a shell system in just 15 minutes. The last hour of the prototype project was spent on Detailer enhancements, such as rearranging and adding field visualizations to the detail screens to meet business requirements. Based on this new technology, our proof of concept projects for the new EVLA Wizards will utilize up to 10 of the client’s files and will be limited to just 2 hours of development time. There is no other way to develop a Windows-based system faster! Take a look at our LANSA Personnel System as another example of productivity savings. It originally was developed by our programmer in less than 8 hours, but using the new EVLA Wizards, the same functionality could be developed in just 2 hours. See the Personnel System Tour. Besides the new Wizard, another enhancement to the EVLA product is the improved Code Generator. This component has been enhanced to create and compile the programs it generates, resulting in the automation of a very time-consuming and mundane task of copying and pasting code into the LANSA IDE. Finally, EVLA developers now can access all the functionality of EVLA directly from within the Visual LANSA IDE. Now with just one menu click, you can open the New Wizard, the EVLA Framework Maintenance and the Code Generator. Have a peek at the new wizards in the EVLA tour at http://www.surroundtech.com/evlatour. Product Page: For more information on the Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator, visit http://www.surroundtech.com/evla. |
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Established in 1997, Surround Technologies, LLC is an information technology firm dedicated to providing efficient and cost-effective solutions to the corporate community by delivering high-quality software applications and consulting services. For further information on anything that you have read in this issue of the Surround Newsletter, contact Surround Technologies at (908) 490-1235, or research their products and services on the World Wide Web at www.surroundtech.com.
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Scolari's Food and Drug Company, a Nevada-based grocery store chain, recently went live with a new ERP system built using Surround Technologies' Envision Visual LANSA Accelerator. The results are extraordinary.