Case Studies

Kawasaki's supplier portal provides quick ROI

Kawasaki's consumer products plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, operates on a 'just-in-time' basis to eliminate expensive warehousing and over-ordering of parts. For this, the company needs to work closely together with its suppliers. Using the skills and knowledge of its in-house IT team, Kawasaki's Lincoln plant developed an online supplier portal that paid for itself in just a few months. The supplier portal, underlying ERP system and the entire process of generating purchase orders, packing slips, box labels, invoices and EDI transactions consists of LANSA-based applications.
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No looking back for Groupama AC

Groupama Assurance Crédit (Groupama AC) is a division of the Groupama Group, a mutual insurance, banking and financial services group headquartered in France. Groupama has over 39,000 employees serving 16 million members and customers. Groupama AC chose RAMP from LANSA to modernize its COBOL and IBM i-based business application, BIS-Inforis, with new functionality and modern technologies, while preserving its existing investment. The solution includes Web services, Windows integration and workflow automation.
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ITWAL takes control of its on-line order platform

Ordering goods over the Web may sound like the most common of all eCommerce requirements, but when your business model doesn't quite fit the standard B2B or B2C mold, the efficiencies and benefits that on-line orders may offer can be greatly diminished by the lack of control and flexibility that come with a hosted out-of-the box Web solution. ITWAL, Canada's national network of independent distributors, replaced a hosted shared code eCommerce system with a custom-developed on-line order solution. Being in control of its online order platform has allowed ITWAL to deliver focused functionality to its members, better alignment with its internal procedures and additional services to its suppliers.
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HFA doubles development resources by up-skilling its RPG team

Harry Fox Agency (HFA) is the USA's leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry. HFA used LANSA WAMs to re-develop its Publisher Online Licensing Interface (POLI+). HFA's online solution for music distributors was already based on LANSA Web technology. Due to the success of the two high traffic Web sites, HFA is now also using LANSA for internal corporate solutions, this time using LANSA's rich client interface. By up-skilling its RPG developers with LANSA, HFA has doubled its resources for Web and Windows projects, putting the RPG team on equal footing with the Java team.
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CBH manages its grain supply chain with LANSA

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 SAP Financials and CBH's port 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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Application innovation in the insurance industry

High on the insurance industry's list of IT concerns seems to be legacy application modernization. This showcase provides examples of both end user companies and solution vendors in the insurance industry who used LANSA to extend and modernize existing systems, or to develop entirely new systems.
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