LANSA announced today a major upgrade to LANSA Composer, an application integration solution for automating the exchange of data and documents between systems and trading partners. Version 3 of LANSA Composer adds support for robust transaction workflows that streamline the electronic interactions between internal departments and organizations, to save time, reduce processing costs and improve customer satisfaction. 

Every business is under pressure to automate their manual processes, better integrate their internal systems and share data with external parties. Today’s business processes are often chained together by a mishmash of computer interfaces and human effort–negatively affecting operating costs, employee productivity and business relationships. The length of the chains that connect trading partners increases with each new connection and every extension can introduce additional manual steps that compromise the process flow. Automating these data chains with LANSA Composer lowers data processing costs and improves data accuracy by reducing the amount of paper, email, fax and human effort required for everyday tasks. 

LANSA customer STRATTEC Security Corporation, an IBM i and Infor ERP System21 site, documented the immediate savings they made when they recently upgraded their classic EDI environment to LANSA Composer. With headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis., STRATTEC is a typical mid-size manufacturer that runs core business applications on an IBM i server, which is managed by a small yet agile IT team. Pete Chrostowski, senior business process analyst at STRATTEC and the person responsible for delivering the EDI solution, notes that the benefits of streamlining order procedures will be substantial. "We have been able to save staff over 25 hours per week, with just this first customer implementation. There are many more customers to follow and at some point LANSA Composer is going to be the heart of our order entry system." 

LANSA Composer is ideal for automating repetitive processes of any kind, allowing for multiple interfaces, document formats, transport protocols and data transformations. To learn more about the variety of implementations where LANSA Composer has been put to good use, please sign-up for a free Product Briefing Webinar. The Webinar is presented by a LANSA business process integration (BPI) expert and is suitable for organizations that are researching the business benefits of a BPI solution like LANSA Composer as well as for existing users of LANSA Composer who want to see what’s new with V3. 

LANSA Composer is compatible with ERP systems and common interfaces; like EDI, FTP, Web Services and email. New smart processes will handle unexpected events and restart interrupted sequences from the point of failure, which then run to completion without loss of data or transaction integrity. LANSA Composer’s robot-like automation can execute a multi-step process with a single instruction and will run natively on IBM i (AS/400, iSeries, System i) or Microsoft Windows servers. 

Highlights of LANSA Composer V3 include: 

1. Improved visibility and tracking of files and business documents, via an extensible dashboard equipped with drill-down charts and statistics depicting cost of doing business, ROI and KPIs 
2. Standard and sample business process orchestration templates that are modular, customizable and provide out-of-the-box compatibility with common EDI transactions 
3. Visual data mapper now supports XBRL, HL7 and EDI X12 and EDIFACT standards, with data transformations all designed and executed using drag-‘n-drop techniques 
4. Substantial increase in the out-of-the-box process orchestration functionality and supported activities, including seamless integration with Java applications and foreign LANSA systems

LANSA Composer V3 is now generally available for purchase and existing users will receive a free upgrade from V2 if they have a software maintenance agreement in effect. 

LANSA is a low-code, high-productivity software development platform for mobile, web, and desktop applications. Visual LANSA's unique low-code development platform, system integration, and digital transformation technologies reduce hand-coding, support multiple languages, and empower development teams to build applications up to 10 times faster. More than 8,000 organizations in 65 countries use LANSA's platform to develop, maintain, and integrate their business applications, ensuring a consistent look and feel with minimal coding. Customers include JPMorgan Chase, Kawasaki, TruGreen, Vistar, and Walt Disney, among others. LANSA is a division of Idera, Inc.