The Challenge: David Parrilla, Ficos Open Development manager, explains “Our old financial package was RPG based and had evolved from the System/38 to the AS/400. Although it was functionally complete after 10 years, maintenance was cumbersome and the user interface was unattractive.” “Customers and prospects wanted a more open solution. Even loyal AS/400 shops do not want to be locked into an AS/400 only solution nowadays.”…
The Solution: Multi-layer solution brings productive environment: “The Server logic layer in Ficos Open is developed in LANSA’s productive 4GL, while the Client presentation layer is developed with LANSA Open and Visual Basic. All customer interaction with the application is graphical.”"We make extensive use of LANSA’s Repository features such as validations, virtual fields, triggers and multi lingual definitions. To have most logic centrally defined in the LANSA Repository has an enormous productivity benefit in both development and maintenance.”…
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