Transoft Announces Partnership with LANSA to Enhance LANSA Commerce Edition

LANSA Chooses Transoft Screen Component Adapter as Preferred Application Integration Solution

October 22, 2001 - Transoft, a leading international provider of application transformation, integration and assembly products and services, has announced a partnership agreement with LANSA Inc., a leading provider of e-business, Wireless and advanced graphical application development tools and solutions for IBM eServer iSeries, UNIX and Windows platforms. Through the arrangement, the Transoft Screen Component Adapter solution can be incorporated with LANSA Commerce Edition product to create fully integrated e-business applications in a shorter time.

The Transoft Screen Component Adapters are part of the Transoft Intelligent Adapter product set and provide a fast-to-implement, non-intrusive way to connect to the "screen-flows" of terminal-based applications to provide component-based services. These adapters have all the advantages of component architectures, including performance and scalability ¾ without the disadvantages of traditional screen-scraping methods.

LANSA Commerce Edition is a suite of Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) components that allows companies to rapidly generate e-business applications that integrate existing iSeries RPG and COBOL applications with the Web and Wireless world. LANSA Commerce Edition elements are built upon LANSA's powerful and award-winning LANSA for the Web tools.

By adopting the Transoft Screen Component Adapters as an application integration solution, LANSA Commerce Edition customers can ensure seamless and scalable integration between the new e-business applications and their existing core-business systems. Transoft has developed a specialized package of 'Fast Start' installation, training and deployment professional services, which aims to complete the first phase of integration with LANSA Commerce Edition in less than one week for any customer.

"LANSA is a leading provider of e-business solutions to the iSeries market and we're delighted that it's chosen Transoft as its integration partner for LANSA Commerce Edition," said Paul Holland, Transoft's chief executive officer. "Seamless and scalable integration with existing core business applications is critical to any successful e-business application implementation. The combination of LANSA Commerce Edition and Transoft's adapters delivers a complete e-business solution."

"We found that some of our customers do not have pre-built integration points to their legacy systems," commented Bill Benjamin, vice president of business development at LANSA. "The Transoft solution will allow those customers to more easily implement LANSA Commerce Edition by providing an easy way for them to access their legacy ERP applications using Transoft Screen Component Adapters. This is an important partnership that will help some of our customers implement their B2B and B2C solutions more rapidly."

About LANSA:
LANSA is a leading provider of e-business and Wireless application development tools and solutions for IBM eServer iSeries, UNIX and Windows platforms. Founded in 1987, LANSA has over 6,500 installations in 65 countries around the world, including some of the world's leading iSeries Web sites: www.songfile.com, www.theriviera.com and www.trekbikes.com.

LANSA is a licensed iSeries Application Development Partner, an IBM PartnerWorld for Developers All-Star, a charter member of the iSeries Tools Network, a member of the iSeries eXtreme team for e-business and is the winner of IBM's Powered by AS/400e award for excellence in iSeries e-business.

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