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The Steady Growth Of The Low Code Movement

December 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

With IT talent in short supply and expensive as too much demand chases too little supply – a hard concept to get your brains around with over 42 million software developers working around the world creating and maintaining software that has an economic value in excess of $1 trillion a year – it is no surprise that some are looking to low code tools to help automate some aspects of their business.

Low code is not just happening in the datacenters of small and medium businesses writing new applications to take on new problems and add new functionality to systems. …
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mrc Fills Reporting Gap in Product Lineup

April 27, 2022 Alex Woodie

Finding the right reporting tool can make you feel like Goldilocks searching for the right bed or bowl of porridge. Some of the reporting tools are too technical and hard to use, while others are too simplistic and don’t offer enough functionality. Chicago-based software developer mrc thinks it has found just the right combination of functionality and ease of use with its new Report Designer.

m-Power is a low-code development platform that supports IBM i and other Java platforms. While the software is not a full-blown integrated development environment (IDE), it can provide the capability to quickly generate Web interfaces, …
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To My Dearest IBM i . . .

February 9, 2022 Visual LANSA

Very rarely do hardware and software stay together for so long…

Hardware finds newer, younger, more trendy software….

The trendiest software jumps to the best hardware….

But every so often…

The best hardware and software stay together for a lifetime!

To My Dearest IBM i:

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I wanted to profess my love and gratitude to you. Although we have spent over 30 Valentine’s Days together, I didn’t want this one to pass us by without acknowledging the special place you hold in my heart.

I have watched you blossom from a young aspiring server to the …
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Profound Goes Low Code with Node.js Framework

June 30, 2021 Alex Woodie

Profound Logic is now shipping a new release of Profound.js, its Node.js-based application framework for IBM i and other platforms. The big new feature with version 5.3 is the adoption of a low-code paradigm that eliminates the need for developers to get their hands dirty writing and maintaining code. However, developers can still go behind the scenes and write code if they need to.

While there may be other low-code tools advertised in the IBM i community, Profound.js is the IBM i community’s first true low-code development environment, according to Alex Roytman, the founder and CEO of Profound Logic. …
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Visual LANSA Customers Can Now ‘Portalize’ Their Apps

September 2, 2020 Alex Woodie

LANSA is well known to IBM i shops for its low-code developer tools. But the company also has its share of shrink-wrapped applications. With the recent launch of pre-build Web portal called Portalize, it’s added another to its collection.

Portalize is a portal framework that Visual LANSA customers can use to get a secure Web portal up and running with a minimal amount of effort. The product, which LANSA introduced in June, supplies the core components that an organization would need to get a portal off the ground, such as security, account creation, authentication, and logging capabilities.

The software, which …
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Idera Bolsters Visual LANSA 15

May 13, 2020 Alex Woodie

Idera last month issued the first major announcement for its LANSA product lineup since it bought the application development toolmaker last year. With Visual LANSA 15, the company has delivered more than 500 enhancements, including a new API creation experience, native chart controls for Web apps, and a host of sample apps, among many other new features.

Before LANSA sold itself to Idera in January 2019, Visual LANSA was the company’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for creating modern graphical applications that run on IBM i, Windows, and cloud platforms.

While Visual LANSA users can get down and dirty …
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The Steady Growth Of The Low Code Movement

mrc Fills Reporting Gap in Product Lineup

To My Dearest IBM i . . .

Profound Goes Low Code with Node.js Framework

Visual LANSA Customers Can Now ‘Portalize’ Their Apps

Idera Bolsters Visual LANSA 15

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