Business Process Integration and Data Synchronization

LANSA Composer is a design and execution platform for integrating business activities involving transport and transformation of data and custom business processing. It satisfies the four key requirements of a business process integration solution: Transport, Transformation, Process Orchestration and Administration. LANSA Composer is often used for EDI communication with third parties as well as for a coordinated exchange of information between internal systems.

American Health Care Software Enterprises Inc. (AHC), located in South Burlington, Vermont, USA, is a solution provider to the American healthcare industry. AHC's Harmony Health Care Management System offers fully integrated software suites that can be used standalone or with other solutions. AHC uses LANSA Composer for the exchange of Health Level Seven (HL7) secure medical information documents between their nursing home users and other parties, such as pharmacies, local hospitals, labs and the American EHR (Electronic Health Records) applications. Read more

Balitrand SA, based in Cannes, is one of France's leading hardline retailers, with over 20 stores spread over the south of France. The information for Balitrand's product catalogue comes from many suppliers who send their files in various formats, such as, CSV, XLS and XML, by email or FTP. Until recently, supplier product and pricing updates were applied manually to the catalogue. This was a time consuming task occupying a full time resource from Balitrand's sales team. Balitrand has started a project using LANSA Composer, to fully integrate and automate the process. Read more

Casa International NV, headquartered in Belgium, is a specialist retailer of interior decorations, gifts, tableware, garden furniture and small furniture. With over 500 Casa shops, Casa is Europe's largest retailer in cozy living items. Casa carries about 6,000 items in its catalogue, a large part of which is also presented online at www.casashops.com, a site maintained and hosted by an external marketing company. Casa and its marketing partner are implementing a new digital assets management system with product information management using the FLO-suite in an Adobe InDesign environment. The solution uses LANSA Composer to automate the process of transmitting real-time updated item information from Casa's core ERP system to the digital asset management database. The information is exchanged in XML format and includes item specifications, special promotions etc. Read more

Eagle Systems, Inc. is part of the Eagle Group based in Wenatchee, Washington, USA, a leader in intermodal transportation and container repair with locations throughout the USA and Canada. Using LANSA Composer Eagle is automating communication with a number of its partners. Projects include outbound communication of invoices in CSV format over secure FTP with a van leasing partner and the replacement of Gentran EDI for mappings and transmission of various transactions. In a successful pilot test using LANSA Composer, Eagle has also managed to considerably decrease the set up time for new container maintenance customers, streamlining the process of setting up individual file layouts, customized process flows and FTP processing. Read more

Groupama AC is a subsidiary of Groupama Assurance, the 5th largest insurance company in France. When rating their potential future clients, Groupama AC uses several risk assessment criteria. Agents, responsible for customer management, use the services of specialized companies to collect the required information. Access is through Web portals, by manually querying a database, or by using third party software to the back-end systems of the service provider. Groupama AC uses LANSA Composer to provide a fully automated data collection process using the Web services request/response capability of the underlying LANSA Integrator product, removing the need for agents to manual query and navigate to a Web portal. The application triggers a LANSA Composer process which sends the data to the rating server for direct integration into the back-end system. Read more

Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp, USA (KMM), is part of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Both the Lincoln Consumer Products plant (KMM CP) and the Maryville engine plant use LANSA-based solutions on IBM i power servers, but independent from each other and tailored to the individual needs of each plant. KMM CP's supplier portal, underlying ERP system (LANSA ERP Frameworks) and the entire process of generating purchase orders, packing slips, box labels, invoices and EDI transactions consists of LANSA-based applications. Behind the scene the portal generates EDI transactions using LANSA's original EDI Direct tool. LANSA Composer is used for EDI transacting with Kawasaki's Rail Car Division, who runs SAP. Read the Case Study

Macmillan Publishers Australia, part of the global Macmillan Group, one of the largest international publishing houses in the world, has a number of business processes that include multiple data formats and platforms. Previously it required the skill set of both an IBM i developer and a Windows developer to automate these processes, making the project more time consuming and expensive than needed. Macmillan is now using LANSA Composer to handle its business process integration projects, making it easy for a single developer to realize these integration projects. LANSA Composer helped to shorten the average integration project by a factor of six and made the delivered solutions simpler with less opportunity for failure. Read the Case Study

Port Autonome of Dunkerque is the leading French maritime port of the North Sea, the third most important port in France, and the seventh largest port in Northern Europe. The port uses LANSA Composer for a solution that serves as a hub to collect tax related data from the shipping companies that make use of the port's facilities. The data is converted to XML format and sent to the French customs authorities via secure SMTP. Customs sends back the statements of the taxes these shipping companies have to pay and the taxes are collected by the port authorities. LANSA Composer's auditing facilities log the email transmission and receipt acknowledgements of every email message, ensuring that all the checkpoints are met. Read more

Promese, short for Professionals in Media Services, delivers a variety of services, based on a one-stop strategy. With a daily capacity of 400,000 optical discs, Promese is the largest manufacturer of CDs and DVDs in the Benelux region.

• Promese offers each of its retailers their own individual Web site, built with Magento, where consumers can order products. Promese takes care of the administrative and logistic fulfillment of the consumer orders. The integration between the Magento Web shop application and Promese's back office IBM i-based core distribution system is handled with LANSA Composer using XML transactions, both for the outbound updates to the Web shop and the inbound orders.
• LANSA Composer also integrates Promese's tailor-made LISA system which handles the order intake, credit control and invoicing, and their SAP system using CSV transactions. Integration with the fulfillment and logistic area is based on the Web service capabilities of LANSA Composer.

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R&R Marketing LLC is one of New Jersey's largest distributors of wines and spirits. R&R Marketing uses LANSA Composer for several integration solutions. One of these is the routing of R&R's fleet of 50 trucks. Using Web services, LANSA Composer exchanges information with a third party solution from UPS Logistics Technologies, refreshing the information about the location and status of deliveries every 15 minutes to R&R's DB2/400 database. The solution, in its final stage of beta-testing, will allow customers to get a near real-time update on the status of their deliveries via R&R's new Microsoft Silverlight customer Web portal, which connects to the DB2/400 database via LANSA. LANSA Composer is also used to transmit daily sales and inventory information to suppliers as CSV files. Read more

Robinson Manufacturing Company, based in Dayton, Tennessee in the US, is a supplier of basic and fashion boxer underwear, loungewear and activewear to both the retail and wholesale markets. Robinson uses Visual LANSA to redevelop its core applications and also to offer a Web portal to its vendors. Recently Robinson has started a number of LANSA Composer projects that involve:

• UPS address validation, where LANSA Composer validates the address and classification with UPS via a SOAP HTTP/XML Request and Response
• Moving inbound EDI Purchase Orders from Gentran to the ERP system
• Processing web visit logs into a database for reporting
• Processing logs regarding PC backups and email alerting users with missed/failed backups
• Converting spool files to CSV and PDF formats
• Report Distribution that includes scheduling, creating, printing and emailing of reports
• Converting SQL files to CSV for one-time report requests by Excel users

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STRATTEC Security Corporation, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the world's largest producer of automotive locks, keys and related security access control products for global automotive manufacturers. STRATTEC uses System21 and wanted to streamline parts of this application to provide better customer service and improved productivity to users. STRATTEC uses LANSA Composer to automatically retrieve aftermarket customer orders from iConnect (its EDI VAN) in XML format, and transform them to a System21 interface file for processing. Strattec uses LANSA Composer for other EDI transactions as well and is planning to streamline procedures for production customers by replacing its Future3 EDI solution with LANSA Composer. Read the Case Study

The Terminix International Company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee USA is part of the ServiceMaster family of brands and the largest termite and pest control company in the world, safeguarding over three million homes and businesses in the U.S. and 14 other countries. Terminix LANSA based core system is used by 12,000 employees at over 400 locations and 5,500 service specialists with wireless hand-held devices. The system also interacts with an increasing number of third-party systems using LANSA Integrator and Web Services.

More recently, Terminix used LANSA Composer to automate the remittance processing with third parties, such as mortgage providers, who include with their monthly statements an insert advertising Terminix services. Homeowners who take up on the advertised offer will see the fee for Terminix services added to their next monthly statement. The process of accepting the customer's order, invoicing and processing of the payment is completely automated between Terminix and its partners, with LANSA Composer processing multiple EDI transmissions for each customer. Read the Case Study

Wells and Young's Brewing Company is the UK's largest privately owned brewery and a leader in cask beer and premium lager. The company's portfolio includes some of the UK's best loved beers and premium lagers, including Wells Bombardier, Young’s and Courage, Red Stripe and Corona Extra. Wells and Young's is standardizing on using LANSA Composer for its EDI communication with external parties, as well as for establishing a formal process for exchanging customer product information between its System21 ERP implementation and various other internal systems.

Wells and Young's first EDI project involved an AS2 solution for exchanging EDI transactions in TRADACOMS format with the main distributor. Several other EDI projects followed. LANSA Composer is also used to exchange customer data between internal systems, such as the System21 ERP system, Kelros CRM, Lotus Notes and an in-house developed Enterprise Information System. Read the Case Study

Material Sciences Corporation (MSC), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is a world-class supplier of engineered material solutions for acoustical and coated metal applications to automotive, appliance, electronic and telecom equipment manufacturers worldwide. Customers include most U.S. automobile, major appliance and disk drive manufacturers. MSC uses LANSA EDI Direct (a predecessor of LANSA Composer) to automate advance shipping notices and other transactions, and to provide an easy interface to manage document translation mapping, transaction process monitoring and error handling. MSC also used Visual LANSA Framework to extend MAPICS with Web self-service access for (smaller) customers and outside processors, a wireless shipping release system and other enhancements. Read the Case Study

LANSA Integrator provides a Java Services Framework for integration between heterogeneous systems, inside or outside your organization. It automates Application-to-Application (A2A) and Business-to-Business (B2B) integration and supports multiple transport layers. Read how companies reduce costs by integrating their existing systems with LANSA using Java, XML, Web Services and other technologies, without the need for rewriting their existing systems or the need for Java programming skills.

Apria Healthcare is America's leading provider of integrated home healthcare products and services. Apria used LANSA Integrator to build a fast two-way XML interface between its business systems and the heterogeneous systems of its business partners, as well as its externally hosted eCommerce Web site. One of Apria's systems that uses LANSA integrator is its insurance verification system. This system exchanges thousands of transactions each day, meaning less phone calls between Apria and the Insurers - both sides saving money. Read the Case Study

E. P. Barrus Ltd, located in the U.K., designs and manufactures engines and distributes a diverse range of products including MTD lawn and garden machinery, moto-roma scooters and motorcycles, Mercury, Mariner and Yanmar marine and industrial engines. Barrus uses LANSA Integrator to exchange EDI messages with its trading partners including B&Q, the largest do-it-yourself chain in Europe and the third largest in the world. Barrus also uses LANSA Integrator on its dealer Web site to utilize Web Services from Epitomy, a company specializing in exploding diagrams, so dealers can search for parts without knowing the part number. LANSA Integrator Web services link to Epitomy’s Web site, where dealers dissect engine diagrams to select the part they need. A SOAP message is then sent back to Barrus’ Web site and the dealer can complete the order. Read the Case Study

The Beacon Insurance Company Ltd, headquartered in Port of Spain, Trinidad and with branch offices throughout the southern Caribbean, offers a full range of insurance products and financial services, including general insurance, life & health Insurance, asset management and financing. Beacon has streamlined its procedures and modernized its Insure/90 core policy administration system. LANSA Integrator is a key component to Beacon’s overall solution, enabling the automated PDF generation of policy contracts, claim letters and other documents, and seamless integration with Beacon’s existing document management system via Web Services. Read the Case Study

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a global medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories and the public. BD manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. BD uses LANSA Integrator and WebMethods to exchange real-time transactions between its European sales and distribution system, third party exchange marketplaces and BD's own global eBusiness platform. Read the Case Study

The Office of the Board of Studies New South Wales (OBOS) is the certifying authority responsible for the content of syllabus materials, registration of non-government schools, and delivery of high school examinations for New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. LANSA’s development and integration tools have been at the heart of OBOS IT infrastructure since 1989. OBOS uses LANSA Integrator Web services to exchange data with external parties, such as with schools, colleges and banks.

OBOS also uses LANSA Integrator for creating and integrating PDF and MP3 files in its onscreen marking system. Students written exam responses are color scanned and using LANSA Integrator's PDF service uploaded in PDF format into the IBM i-based marking system. In that process a custom written LANSA Integrator PDF service takes care that the number of pages is validated, that student and exam centre identification details are masked and that the page images are reassembled as required for marking. The service also sets the PDF properties and saves the documents to their proper file name.

Similarly, for digital recorded oral language exams, LANSA Integrator takes care of the receiving, naming and storing of the file in MP3 format. The digital recorded exams then go through the same marking process as the written scripts.  Read the Case Study

Body Corporate Service (BCS), established over 30 years ago and with over 20 branches on the eastern seaboard of Australia, are pioneers in strata management. BCS portfolio of property under management includes residential, commercial, resort & mixed use developments, totaling over 6,000 buildings. BCS uses LANSA Integrator to integrate its IBM i and LANSA based core Property Management System with customer and staff WebSphere portals, several Windows systems, as well as for communication with third parties such as with insurance companies, banks and the tax office. Read the Case Study

Brewers' Distributor Ltd. ( BDL) is Western Canada's leading distribution and container return service for the brewing industry, moving nearly a billion dollars worth of beer per year. BDL used LANSA Integrator SOAP Web Services to have its JD Edwards system communicate with weigh scales in its warehouse, its Samuel Strapping line control software and other systems. BDL also uses LANSA Integrator for M2M transacting with its high volume customers, who can send their orders directly and in a variety of formats from their POS systems. Read the Case Study

The CBH Group is Australia's largest grain co-operative with operations extending along the value chain from grain receival, storage, handling and transport, to marketing, shipping and processing. CBH's core grain handling and storage system IBIS includes Web access by growers and other stakeholders and has been developed using LANSA. Integration with other systems, such as with SAP Financials and CBH's conveyor belt / control systems, are largely based on Web services, also developed with LANSA, and Websphere MQ. LANSA partner Lateral WA played a major role in delivering these LANSA based systems.
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COMMON, the world's largest group of IBM and IBM-compatible information technology users with over 6,500 members, uses LANSA Integrator for Web services to tie the conference registration fee with hotel registration. When the attendee selects a conference hotel, the Web Services API verifies the housing registration code and determines the corresponding conference registration fee before the payment process begins. This new registration structure eases registration procedures and gives a discount to attendees who stay at a designated hotel. Paying for the conference is easier as well, now that online credit card processing is dynamic using Authorize.Net and LANSA Integrator.

Cramo is a machine and modular space rental services company headquartered in Sweden, with branches in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estland, Holland, Polen and Hungary. Cramo services customers in a variety of industries. Cramo uses LANSA Integrator to provide fast data access and application integration between its Java based Web site and iSeries core system. LANSA made data access fast and easy and also allowed Cramo to call Java functionality from their core system applications.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is Canada’s export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. Nearly 7,000 Canadian companies and their global customers use EDC's knowledge and partnership each year. EDC uses ACBS, a largely LANSA-based commercial lending and trading system, and has recently successfully delivered two SOAP Web Services integration solutions, using LANSA Integrator. EDC also uses LANSA to customize and extend ACBS to meet specific requirements. Read the Case Study

General Electric Appliances Canada's division previously known as Camco, is the largest manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances in Canada. Camco uses LANSA Integrator for computer-to-computer Internet transactions to third party systems including kiosks at Home Depot stores, the world's largest home improvement retailer. Camco accepts requests for stock availability and orders generated by the Home Depot stores, and sends transactions back. This all happens in real-time while the customer is at a Home Depot kiosk. Read the Case Study
Camco is now fully owned by General Electric Appliances Canada, which in turn is part of the Mabe Inc. group.

The Greenery B.V. in the Netherlands is a distribution, sales and marketing company for fresh produce. With a turnover of 1.6 billion Euro, The Greenery is one of the leaders in the vegetable, fruit and mushroom sectors in Europe. The Greenery uses LANSA Integrator and Remote Function Invocation for exchanging real-time information between its LANSA-based core iSeries system, Windows-based auction and sales systems, and external parties.
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High Liner Foods Inc, headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, is one of North America's largest processors and marketers of prepared, value-added frozen seafood and pastas. High Liner markets its products under the High Liner, Fisher Boy and Gina Italian Village brands. A LANSA customer since 1989, High Liner uses LANSA for its iSeries, Web, Windows, 1SYNC and EDI-INT extensions to JD Edwards World. Using in-house skills High Liner was able to rapidly implement EDI AS2 and 1SYNC. Read the Case Study

The Hillman Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, keeps over 21,000 retailers across the USA, Canada and Mexico stocked with an assortment of over 55,000 small, inexpensive but essential hardware items, such as fasteners, keys, signage & engraving products. Hillman's corporate reporting is done with WebFOCUS through an IBM WebSphere portal. Hillman uses LANSA Integrator to deploy RPG and other non-Java applications in its WebSphere portal environment. It allows Hilman to use their own IT staff for Java integration, instead of having to hire Java experts. Read the Case Study

John Wiley & Sons Australia (JWA), a wholly owned subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons Inc of New York, is a leading publisher of educational and non-fiction titles in the Asia Pacific region. JWA iSeries based B2B and B2C Web sites use LANSA Integrator to allow for seamless integration with Linux servers and for download of book covers and other rich content. LANSA Integrator is also for real-time integration with a Java based credit card authentication solution. Read the Case Study

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., head quartered in New York, is a global publisher of print and electronic products with publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. Wiley uses LANSA Integrator to efficiently integrate new business opportunities in electronic publishing into its main Web ordering site. Electronic publications may have various formats and reside on various servers, but customers should only see Wiley's domain www.wiley.com. LANSA Integrator provides controlled access and authentication to reroute browser requests to the appropriate remote sever for electronic document download. Read the Case Study

Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp, USA (KMM),  is part of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Both the Lincoln Consumer Products plant (KMM CP) and the Maryville engine plant use LANSA-based solutions on IBM i power servers, but independent from each other and tailored to the individual needs of each plant. KMM CP's supplier portal, underlying ERP system (LANSA ERP Frameworks) and the entire process of generating purchase orders, packing slips, box labels, invoices and EDI transactions consists of LANSA-based applications. PDF generation, such as for the barcode box labels, is with LANSA Integrator. LANSA Integrator also has a role in KMM CPs electronic banking. Read the Case Study

Maronda Homes, based in Pittsburgh, USA, builds residential homes in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. Using LANSA Integrator, Maronda has automated the creation of form letters, contracts and other documents for their homebuyers. Sales reps, usually on location and connecting their laptops through the LANSA-based portal, can enter the client, product and financial information and create the contract. At execution, images, rich text, tables and barcodes are combined with data from multiple platforms - producing full-featured PDF documents. The PDFs, optionally password protected, are emailed directly to the customer or made available for browsing. Read the Case Study

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) situated right in the middle of Manhattan, New York, houses one of the greatest art collections in the world. MoMA's entrance staff use wireless Symbol pocket PCs to scan the barcodes on various entrance documents. The Visual LANSA-based software on the pocket PC checks the scanned code against an iSeries-based 'scan file', which is a database of valid tickets and membership codes, populated by LANSA Integrator in real-time from transactions in the ticket issuing system. The ticket verification program on the pocket PC then applies the proper business rules depending on the type of ticket. Read the Case Study

National Envelope Corporation, based in Frisco, Texas, has grown to become the largest envelope manufacturer in the world. The company operates facilities across the US and produces more than 180 million envelopes per day. National Envelope uses LANSA Integrator to populate spreadsheets and Web pages with data from multiple backend databases. And conversely, from a single source, push data to multiple backend systems. Users can generate and distribute spreadsheets with a wide variety of selection criteria, including date ranges, order types, customer and product attributes. Using LANSA Integrator’s Excel services, the columns contain true dates, numbers and so forth, and are professionally formatted with multiple fonts and colors. LANSA Integrator’s SMTP service then deliver the spreadsheets to one or more recipients via email. Read the Case Study

NIB Capital NV, headquartered in the Netherlands, is a major European capital-market specialist providing investment banking, private equity and asset management services. NIB Capitals business units - NIB Capital Bank, NIB Capital Asset Management and NIB Capital Private Equity - have their own solution platforms and wanted to be able to exchange information between the units in a platform independent way. NIB chose XML and MS-BizTalk as the middleware to do this. NIB Capital Bank uses LANSA Integrator to extract and update data from its iSeries based commercial lending system and provide this information in XML format in an IFS file to MS-BizTalk. Information flows both ways and LANSA Integrator is used to respond to and initiate data exchange requests.

Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), an initiative of the Ministry of Education in Canada, offers a multilingual Web site http://osap.gov.on.ca where a LANSA for the Web application allows students to apply online for loans and grants and check the status of their application. As some documents exchanged between OSAP and students are official documents that need signatures, the solution has been extended with LANSA Integrator services for secure PDF downloads and Web Signatures.

Port Logistics Group (PLG) is the USA's leading provider of gateway logistics services. PLG's just-in-time retail store replenishment division is using a LANSA-based solution for its warehouse management system. The company's Web and AS2 communication with customers is also largely based on LANSA technology. Exchanging information electronically has cut costs for PLG and its customers. It has also improved accuracy and taken hours from order fulfillment procedures. Read the Port Logistics Case Study

Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, based in St. Louis, Missouri in the USA manufactures and supplies distributors and retailers with equipment and protective gear for baseball, softball, football, basketball and volleyball. Rawlings, via its Hilton Apparel division, also manufactures and supplies distributors worldwide with corporate logo-bearing merchandise, such as custom made staff uniforms. For many years, Rawlings has offered its customers a LANSA-built self-service Web site that integrates with JD Edwards. Recently Rawlings used LANSA's Ariba eCommerce Integration CodeStart solution to extend its existing LANSA eCommerce site with "punch-out" integration to let Ariba Supplier Network buyers create and edit orders and let Rawlings upload its catalog to Ariba. All integration is handled by LANSA Integrator and complies with the Ariba protocols using cXML messaging and HTTPS. Read the IBM Systems Magazine Rawlings/Hilton Case Study (PDF 32KB)

Paradigm Housing Group is a leading provider of affordable housing in England. Paradigm owns and manages over 11,000 properties and provides a wide range of housing and support services throughout the South, East Midlands and London. Paradigm uses LANSA Integrator to exchange information on property repair and maintenance work that is outsourced to Connaught Plc. LANSA Integrator generates work request documents in XML and posts these to Connaught's FTP site. As repair works are scheduled or completed, Connaught's system sends back XML documents so Paradigm can include the details in their cost control and performance monitoring reports. Read the Case Study

REHAU AG+Co in Germany is one of the largest polymer processing companies in the world, manufacturing components for the construction, automotive and medical sectors and for virtually every other industry. REHAU's small development team used Visual LANSA to develop its ERP system, deployed on 21 iSeries machines in 23 languages and used by staff at 170 locations worldwide. LANSA Integrator supports Web Services and XML transactions with third-party systems, SAP Financials and between the local ERP systems. Read the Case Study

Save the Children USA is the leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in the USA and around the world. For 75 years, they have helped children survive and thrive by improving their health, education and economic opportunities and, in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance. Save the Children USA used LANSA to provide integration and extensions to its Synon-based core donor systems and to rebuild its Sponsorship Web site. The site lets sponsors view and print a PDF of their official charitable tax deduction receipt online using LANSA Integrator. LANSA Integrator is also used to manage and process various donor communications, including the template generated/customized PDF welcome kits for donors. Read the Case Study

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, based in Perth, is one of Australia's leading teaching tertiary hospitals. The bioengineers of the hospital's department of Medical Technology and Physics used LANSA WAMs to develop eMED, a Windows and SQL Server based system that manages the maintenance and quality assurance for over AU$80 million of medical equipment, as well as handling the purchasing and provision of radiation safety services. LANSA Integrator's email functionality is used to keep users up-to-date with relevant information. LANSA Integrator is also used to create PDF formatted certificates.
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The Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia, has a strong reputation as a provider of career-orientated education and as a university with a commitment to research. When the Australian Government implemented the Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN), the Swinburne University of Technology used LANSA-based Web services and the help of local LANSA business partner Watershed Systems, to comply with the legislated requirements within the given time frame. The CHESSN interface between the Government and higher education providers is based on Web services and allows for a two-way flow of data.

The Terminix International Company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee USA is part of the ServiceMaster family of brands and the largest termite and pest control company in the world, safeguarding over three million homes and businesses. Terminix replaced a COBOL mainframe system and hundreds of standalone UNIX systems at its branches with a central LANSA-based application running on a single 595 iSeries. The system, used by 12,000 employees at over 400 locations and 5,500 service specialists on the road with hand-held devices, also interacts with an increasing number of third-party systems using LANSA Integrator and Web Services. Read the Case Study

Truvo Belgium (formerly Promedia) is the market leader in local search and advertising and publishes the printed and online Golden and White Pages phone directories. Since 1994, Truvo has used LANSA for its core System i Golden Pages information system and recently integrated a .NET system for its 400 sales reps using LANSA Integrator Web services. Reps download customer portfolios and then upload contracts and advert specifications to the back office systems for processing. Printed guides are also prepared on the System i and sent to the printers as XML using LANSA Integrator. Read the Case Study

ViaTech Publishing Solutions, headquartered in New York, is the authority in on-demand destination printing. Through its facilities and partners in the US, Europe and Asia, customers can create content locally and print globally. The process of uploading print files, customizing them and ordering copies to be delivered anywhere in the world, is entirely automated using LANSA. LANSA Integrator is used when customers upload their pdf print files using ViaTech's Web site and when the site connects to UPS for an estimated shipping price. LANSA Integrator is also used to directly integrate with customers who have their own internal systems to manage print materials, such as for example the training management systems of a large global ERP vendor. Read the Case Study

Wilson Bowden plc, one of the U.K.'s leading house builders and property developers, has implemented an end-to-end integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM), sales and lead generation solution. LANSA Integrator provides content in XML format to an outsourced Web site and maps incoming sales leads from the site in XML format to a Visual LANSA–based CRM system. Customers who leave an inquiry on the Web site, can expect to be called by a sales advisor 15 minutes after pressing the submit button.
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LANSA Data Sync Direct is a scalable end-to-end business solution that makes it easy for manufacturers and distributors to comply with retailer requests for exchanging item information via the GDS Network. The real value of item data synchronization is in managing Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) activity behind the firewall ­ by means of workflow and an easy-to-use browser interface ­ to maintain on-going data alignment with trading partners. LANSA has over 300 installed and ASP customers using LANSA Data Sync Direct and is one of the leading solution providers certified by 1SYNC.

Arrow Group Industries, in Wayne, New Jersey, is the largest manufacturer of storage buildings worldwide. Arrow supplies product to retailers such as The Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace and Wal-Mart. Arrow selected LANSA Data Sync Direct to help them make the transition to GDSN-UCCnet compliancy. After a few months of data cleansing and implementation, Arrow registered 500 items to the UCC registry, and then immediately published their GTINs to their retailers. Now that Data Sync Direct is up and running on their Windows server, Arrow is waiting for retailers to catch up.

R.C. Bigelow, Inc. is a family-owned company based in Fairfield, Connecticut that has been producing quality teas for 60 years and has become one of America's leading specialty tea makers. Bigelow uses LANSA Data Sync Direct to synchronize BPCS Item Master information to Wal*Mart and other retailers and will soon give brokers, distributors and regional sales managers online access to orders with LANSA Commerce Edition.
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Campbell Hausfeld, headquartered in Harrison Ohio, USA, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of air compressors, air tools and accessories, paint sprayers, welders and pressure washers. As a 'Category Captain' in the automotive sector for Wal*Mart, Campbell Hausfeld was a frontrunner in meeting Global Data Synchronization requirements and will be so again for meeting RFID requirements. Campbell Hausfeld uses LANSA Data Sync Direct to synchronize JD Edwards World Item Master information to Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Lowes and other retailers. Read the Case Study

Crowley Foods, a leading dairy manufacturer and distributor in the USA, operates 20 sales divisions, 13 manufacturing facilities and distributes products under regional brand names in more than 24 states east of the Mississippi River. Crowley has implemented the GS1 central item registry for supply-side transactions using LANSA Data Sync Direct connected to the 1SYNC Data Pool. Because Crowley and its retail partners use identical, updated standards-compliant data, Crowley can go quicker to market with new products. Read the Case Study

High Liner Foods Inc, headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, is one of North America's largest processors and marketers of prepared, value-added frozen seafood and pastas. High Liner markets its products under the High Liner, Fisher Boy and Gina Italian Village brands. A LANSA customer since 1989, High Liner uses LANSA for its iSeries, Web, Windows, 1SYNC and EDI-INT extensions to JD Edwards World. Using in-house skills High Liner was able to rapidly implement EDI AS2 and GDS. Read the Case Study

The Hillman Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, keeps over 21,000 retailers across the USA, Canada and Mexico stocked with an assortment of over 55,000 small, inexpensive but essential hardware items, such as fasteners, keys, signage & engraving products. Hillman installed a heavily customized version of LANSA's Data Sync Direct (DSD) solution and made it its main Product information System. Instead of LANSA DSD being fed by Hillman's three ERP systems, the DSD system was customized to become Hillman's main repository of item information – including images and packaging levels – to feed a bespoke RPG system, JD Edwards World and a Linux/Oracle based JD Edwards Enterprise One system, as well as the product catalog and GDSN. Read the Case Study

Hunter Fan Company, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is America's fastest-growing home comfort company. Hunter offer a complete line of products, including ceiling fans, portable fans, air purifiers, humidifiers, thermostats and vaporizers. With the purchase of LANSA Data Sync Direct, Hunter joins more than 750 companies participating in the 1SYNC Global Registry, which is an important enhancement toward Hunters goal of consistently improving service to their customers. Hunter will now be able to communicate more efficiently with vendors and resellers and utilize existing eCommerce solutions more effectively.

Klein Tools is a manufacturer of hand tools and occupational protective equipment for a wide range of industries. Klein is based in Skokie, Illinois, and has an international network of agents and distributors. With the help of Silveredge Consulting, a LANSA business partner in Chicago, Klein has implemented a LANSA Data Sync Direct solution to communicate product catalog transactions with the Industry Data Exchange Association (IDEA), an organization to which Klein's electrical industry customers are members. The solution uses EDI-INT and AS2 technology to communicate transactions over IDEA's IDX2 value added network.

Oil Dri Corp., a manufacturer of floor absorbents and other clay based products headquartered in Chicago, has 25 percent market share in the U.S. cat litter market through its brand names Jonny Cat®, Cat's Pride® and Lasting Pride®. Using LANSA's Data Secure Direct, Oil-Dri met their largest customer's requirement for sending EDI documents over the Internet using the AS2 specification one month ahead of schedule with minimal changes to its existing EDI processing. Read the Case Study

Pernod Ricard USA is the premium spirits and wine supplier in the U.S. and the largest subsidiary of the France-based Pernod Ricard SA, a top player in the global spirits and wine industry. The company is focused on the high-margin segment and has a leading premium brand in virtually all key spirits and wine categories. Pernod Ricard USA is using LANSA Data Sync Direct to synchronize supply chain information with its customers using GS1 standards. Communication of GTIN and GLN data is via the 1SYNC data pool to the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). Read the Case Study

Riviana Foods Inc, based in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest processors, marketers and distributors of branded and private-label rice products in the United States. Principal brands include Mahatma®, Carolina® and Success®. Riviana needed less than two months to implement LANSA Data Sync Direct, train its staff and publish its Global Trading Item Numbers (GTINs) to the first two retailers. Riviana's LANSA Data Sync Direct implementation is iSeries based and GTIN information is directly extracted from the company's PRISM ERP system.

Tekni-Plex Inc, head quartered in Somerville, New Jersey, USA, is a group of companies that produce a diverse range of products, including garden hoses, egg cartons, food and pharmaceutical packaging and a range of PVC, rubber and silicone based products. Tekni-Plex has implemented LANSA Data Sync Direct in its Colorite and Swan garden hose divisions to synchronize product information with retail customers such as Wal*Mart, Home Depot, Target, Sears and ACE hardware. The solution integrates with Tekni-Plex's Friedman ERP system. Read the Case Study