There are many shops firmly committed to the System i for the long haul. For those shops ASNA Monarch and Visual RPG can be used for substantially extending and enhancing the platform.
However, there are also some System i shops firmly committed to migrating off the System i. ASNA DataGate is very helpful for those shops needing to migrate off the System i platform. ASNA’s products and/or professional services division can help you migrate your System i data to Microsoft SQL Server.
With ASNA Monarch, your existing green screen RPG programs can be migrated to .NET where, through ASNA DataGate, your migrated RPG applications connect to SQL with nearly all record-level access idioms left intact (this means reduced testing because little or no program logic needs to be changed)