ASNA products solve a variety of modern application development challenges.  Whether it's a new user interface on an iSeries 400 application, a browser-based application that uses iSeries 400 data, the need to move specific programs or entire applications from the AS/400, iSeries, or System i5 to Microsoft Windows, or a desire to integrate RPG and Visual Studio development teams, ASNA solutions do all this and more.

Perhaps your challenge is unique

Merger

According to IBM, there are nearly 250,000 businesses using the AS/400, iSeries, or System i5 to run enterprise applications.  Many of these companies are long-time iSeries 400 installations with substantial investments in iSeries 400 green-screen applications.  The programming teams understand the iSeries 400 RPG programming model very well.  Following on from many corporate mergers, enterprises are mandating standardization, often to the Windows architecture, forcing the migration of applications from RPG to Windows.  ASNA development solutions enable the complete transformation of our RPG programs and applications to Microsoft .NET, while retaining the business logic and enabling RPG developers to continue to maintain and extend those applications.

Modernization for the ISV

There are thousands of ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) selling and supporting software applications developed with RPG and running on the AS/400 or iSeries.  Unfortunately, sales growth may stagnate because these applications use an outdated, character-based user interface or do not easily integrate with Web services, making the applications seem less competitive.  Modernizing those applications by improving the user interface or fully migrating the application to Microsoft .NET, allows the ISV to retain the value the software application and expand their addressable market to the widely used Windows .NET platform.

Multiple Platforms

Most companies work with several computing platforms and architectures in a heterogeneous environment.  Windows servers are often ubiquitous and the AS/400, iSeries, or System i5 may be included in the mix or supported in remote locations.  Integrating the line-of-business data residing on the AS/400 with Windows SQL-based back office applications often becomes a pressing objective.  ASNA development solutions can help.

Program Team Compatibility

Some organizations employ significant numbers of RPG programmers and an equally large number of Visual Basic/C# programmers.  Both teams are very skilled at what they do, but their respective domains have little in common and the two teams view each other as necessary evils.  Integrating the development efforts of these two groups using common tools that promote cooperative teamwork and the sharing of knowledge, can lead to reduced development times, higher quality projects, and the obvious benefits of collaboration.

Link Legacy to Windows Apps

Many organizations using the AS/400, iSeries, or System i5 maintain significant investment in their RPG applications.  Often times, these core green-screen applications reflect business processes providing significant competitive advantage.  These same organizations develop the need to create several tangential Windows and browser-based applications, some with hooks into Microsoft desktop applications (such as Word and Excel), as satellite applications to the RPG iSeries-based application.

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