LANSA formally announced today that it was recognized as a 2009 IBM Beacon award finalist, making it one of three top IBM Business Partners in the Outstanding Enterprise Application Solution by an ISV category. The IBM Beacon Awards, announced June 9, recognize the best solutions Business Partners deliver across the industry and around the world. Winners of these distinguished awards--extending across all hardware and operating platforms--set the standard for business excellence, unique and innovative solutions, ingenuity and customer satisfaction. LANSA shared the finalist designation with VAI in a category won by SAP's NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator.

LANSA's application modernization solution, RAMP from LANSA, was named a Beacon Award finalist for its functionality and capabilities to extend and expand existing applications on IBM i now and into the future.  RAMP is a single, integrated modernization solution that addresses a company's immediate- and long-term application requirements. Unlike other application modernization solutions, RAMP is a "reengineering" product that lets companies rapidly consolidate current applications into a new Web or Windows application framework and then incrementally replace legacy programs with new reengineered components--in a timeframe that LANSA says makes sense to an organization. New applications can also be added seamlessly into the same application framework to work alongside current applications.

"It's a great honor to be named a finalist of this prestigious award," said Steve Gapp, president of LANSA Americas. "Not only does this emphasize that LANSA is a valued partner, but it also affirms the strengths and capabilities of RAMP as a leading application modernization solution."

About LANSA

LANSA is a leading provider of application development, modernization and integration software. LANSA's powerful suite of cross-platform development tools lets organizations overcome the complexity inherent in creating and maintaining business applications. LANSA's integrated tool set is also the technology foundation for a wide range of business solutions from LANSA and over 300 Business Partners. Established in 1987, LANSA supports thousands of companies around the world with its products and services. For more information, visit: www.lansa.com.

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.