The third instalment of the life of this RPG Dude - A fun brief highlight of integration between processes and workflow of RPGOA and looksoftware's IDE for applications on your IBM i.

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The RPG Dude
Take a seat whilst the meeting gets started…

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The RPG Dude
His Integration
perspective

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One day, our RPG dude had an
illumination…
Technology
is nothing
without
integration
What?

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Integration?
Between devices?
UI device

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Integration?
Between workflow?

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Integration?
Between processes?

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Integration?
Between all
devices,
workflow and
processes?

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Technology is nothing without
integration
Integrity means
responsiveness
from each environment
… in your ecosystem
… and in any of it’s forms
Tell everyone!

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Now, let’s talk about
The RPG Dude
-
and particularly about
His Integration perspective

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The RPG Dude
He is under pressure…
So many app to maintain
and to develop…
Terminals, mobile
devices… Printing…
5250… GUI…
Different environments…

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The RPG Dude
Remember his boss?

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The RPG Dude
His customer?…

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The RPG Dude
Here is one of his
end-users…

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The RPG Dude
For our dude,
Integration is all about
putting together
different development
environments…
What are the
fundamental points ?

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The RPG Dude – the fundamentals for integration
• Deploy a multi-tier
architecture
• Use open standard and
protocol between
environments
• Avoid using the “lowest”
common denominator

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The RPG Dude
But this is not an easy
task…
Our dude tries hard
many ways…

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The RPG Dude
Results are not what he
was expecting…
The pressure
increases…

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The RPG Dude
Must our dude end up
like a bunny ?

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The RPG Dude
An abandoned bunny ?…

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The RPG Dude
Exiled to Trojan ?

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The RPG Dude
That cannot be it…
A solution
HAS TO EXIST !

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The RPG Dude
A new solution ?
A new paradigm ?
In the industry they
call it looksoftware

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
The higher the integration the less you see it.
 In looksoftware all our developers are transparent.
• All environments are integrated.
• Not with the lowest common
denominator but the highest denominator
of each environment.
• Open standards are used to insure
integrity today and in the future.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
Re-use legacy app or Re-write new or Mix
5250, Open Access.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
From zero effort with Out-of-the-box features to Rich customizations or Rich
development.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
The Open Display File (ODF) – Design without limit!
Start with the Design, DDS and RPG are created.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
Mobile, browser.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
Desktop, Office integration.

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
Enterprise integration
Web-services automated integration

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
Multilingual/DBCS/Unicode automated integration

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The RPG Dude
looksoftware IDE
IDE ?
Integrated
Dude
Environment

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The RPG Dude
And all of a sudden,
our dude’s life changes.

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The RPG Dude
His boss starts to have
other new ideas for the
business!

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The RPG Dude
His end user is now
happy!

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The RPG Dude
Our dude starts to
have a lot of fans!

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The RPG Dude
His father comes to
see him and his
brother, which hadn’t
happened in a very long
time!

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The RPG Dude
Integrated people want
to meet him!

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The RPG Dude
He can finally express
many of his other
potentials!

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The RPG Dude
He can finally express
many of his other
potentials!
ooops!
This is what we meant

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The RPG Dude
In some countries they
start to worship him!

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The RPG Dude
And now, our RPG dude has a happy life.

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The RPG Dude
“Thank you looksoftware!”
He just sent us a
postcard.

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The RPG Dude
The part I prefer is when his
father came to see him, but his
brother? Is he still with him? …