Customer Profile
InfoUSA
InfoUSA is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions.
Industry – Services (Advertising/Marketing)
Geography – Omaha, Nebraska
Product Category:
- Application Development
- Database Access and Integration
- Windows COM Development
Challenges:
- InfoUSA decided to begin conversion of their sales order-entry application from green-screen to Windows; they looked for a tool that allowed them to use as much of their existing skills and resources as possible.
Results:
- ASNA Visual RPG allowed their programmers to apply their existing skills and provides the direct and seamless access to the iSeries that InfoUSA required. Not only did the programmers find that they were able to save time by using sections of legacy code, but the final Windows application cut training time for the sales people from 40 hours to 2!
Quote:
“We created a sales order-entry application and the bulk of the application for the initial installation was ready to go in just two weeks. In my estimation, we are about 60% more productive with AVR than programming with regular RPG, especially when subfiles are involved. The most telling savings that we have seen with this new application is the training time. Our sales people used to spend a full week in training learning to use the order-entry system. That time has now been cut down to only 2 hours!”
--John Brandt