Visual LANSA Pros and Cons

With Visual Lansa, platform interconnection is easy and developing web-based applications is a no-brainer. The best thing is having all this with just one development language and loads of out-of- the-box templates to help one get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is quite good but could be better...There's still a tiny developer community. Although there's a visual lansa forum, there should also be some (example) stack overflow usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visual LANSA is a low code platform that helps developers to develop applications rapidly because it gives us better experience and reusability as we can use different platforms only by one tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The major issue that I face is the less community movements, so if you find any issue then can not find much content about it and its debugger and troubleshooting is worse than other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A very easy and rapid platform to develop business applications. Very little development efforts are required to build the solution. You can flexibily manage the deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The User Interface can be improved, as multiple clicks are required on many occasions to complete a single configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good support and user-friendly Integrated Development Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the documentation could be more comprehensive. The debugger could be more intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the flexible integrated developer environment, which was very easy to learn and use, along with the simple language to get things done. I can do everything I need to within the single IDE. Because of the ease of use I was able to start programming and contributing to our team's first project fairly quickly. With our second project we took advantage of the built-in Google Material Design controls in creating a mobile application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installation and the configuration of the developer client seem to be overly complicated. But, once set up, it's smooth sailing until the next upgrade requires license keys to for installation. I think the installation process can be improved. Fortunately, the installation hasn't been required that often so it's not that big of a deal. Also, some better calendaring options would be nice. We, with the help of LANSA support, had to do some really complicated programming to pull off a scheduling application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VL is easy to develop and user-friendly software, also easy to make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have no dislike to mention, but I am waiting to see more examples of VL functions. I mean a variety of samples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have seen the benefits of how we interact with our IBMi backend. We have been able to fulfill our business' requirements a lot faster as well.

Our business users were used to working with the IBM green screen which was cumbersome and antiquated. Since taking on the task of re-writing our system using Visual Lansa we've been able to provide a Windows style application that is a lot more user friendly and intuitive.

We also like that we can interact with various Microsoft products such as Word and Outlook which has made our customer acquisition and servicing process a lot smoother and seamless.

We also take advantage of the .NET component integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been struggling to integrate proper error handling. At this point we have had to integrate our own code to write to logging tables so we can pinpoint where an issue may be.

We have also been struggling with merge issues when multiple developers are working in the same framework. We've had issues in the past where code gets overwritten. When this happened, a lot of time was required to figure out how to restore the code and merge it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it allowed us to create or modify solutions in a fraction of the time that it would take with other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing actually i think its a great tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All complicated and technology based programming work can be done with a few commands. LANSA prevents from getting lost in unforeseeable skill requirements and makes it possible to program most modern applications without having to be a specialist in all those underlying technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have to write 40 characters although there is nothing I could complain about at the moment :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.