BLOOMFIELD, NJ – July 21, 2009 – Surround Technologies this week delivered two more Applications for Accelerator for Visual LANSA, their popular software development tool for the LANSA development community.
The new Accelerator Task-Reminder App allows users to manage tasks and create reminders within their own systems. Any system items, such as products, orders, invoices, etc., in your system can be associated with tasks. Multiple users can be assigned to tasks and reminders can be set to alert them as needed.
The New Categories App allows users to easily identify and group associated items in your system. Users can choose from a set of existing categories or create their own, and then assign the categories to system items. You can assign multiple categories to items. Categories can be identified with a name, description and icon.
“All Accelerator Apps plug-in and integrate seamlessly with any Accelerator developed systems,” explains Lee Paul, Surround CEO. “Also, because of the loose coupled, modular nature of the Accelerator architecture, these solutions can also be used in other LANSA-based software, such as those built with VLF, RAMP, or your own custom application.”
Surround provides a growing list of these Apps covering common business software needs. “We have Apps that help you control and administer your system like Security and Options,” says Paul. “Others become an extension of your own data like Remarks and Properties/codes. And some just abstract the developer from underlying non-business specific coding like Images and Skins.”
Modular Software is a hot trend in software development and becoming more prevalent due to popular technologies like the Apple iPhone. Businesses are discovering modular software in cloud computing offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Salesforce. “We’ve been developing modular software many years now,” states Derek Maciak, CIO at Surround. “We see these Apps becoming of growing value to our Accelerator Development Solutions. They provide reliable tested software functionality for common business needs and shrink development timelines.”
According to Paul, these apps will also be made available for Accelerator for .NET by this November.
About Surround Technologies
Surround Technologies develops highly usable software tools that accelerate custom application development for Power IBM i, Windows, .NET, Unix and Linux Platforms. With offices in New Jersey and Florida, Surround provides software products and professional services that help enterprises produce advanced agile software. Surround Technologies’ Accelerator products appeal to companies large and small, and are in use modernizing applications at companies like Gannett, Verizon, & GE. More information at www.SurroundTech.com.