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Millennium Software has partnered with ASNA International to help you modernise your RPG applications.

ASNA technology transforms RPG programs or applications originally written in ILE RPG or RPG/400 into native Microsoft .NET applications. 

Whether you simply want to re-host your applications on .NET and continue using your AS/400 database, or if your goal is full-scale migration off the AS/400 platform, ASNA and Millennium Software can do the work for you.  (Whether you have an IBM System i, AS/400, iSeries, or i5, it’s all the same to us.)

You can now easily convert existing green screens into exciting, new web applications using Microsoft .NET ASP.  Screens can be enhanced to improve appearance, layout and even content.  You can leverage the many man-years of effort embedded in your code.  No screen-scraping is involved - your applications become real .NET programs.

Your applications have served you well for years.  If you decide they still have real business value, we can help extend their life, move them to a new platform, and realise their value in this fast-changing world. Then add even more value for your business as required.

Your application becomes a true .NET application.  You can convert your code to either Visual RPG for .NET or C#.NET, so you can:

• Protect your investment in people – your existing staff can very quickly and easily become familiar with RPG.NET, and maintain your applications into the future.

• Increase user and management acceptance of your applications.

• Expand the possibilities for your application to serve your business with new technology.

• Continue to use RPG, or, in your own time, begin to use C#, which is fast becoming an industry standard language, to future-proof your applications.

Your new application is flexible, highly maintainable and uses standard technologies and development techniques that can be maintained by any developer.  Visual RPG for .NET supports industry standards such as XML, XSL, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.  Selecting tools that embrace these standards is important because you know you are not building proprietary, one-off solutions.  And, note that:

• The logic for these programs is also migrated, with minimal changes to your RPG.  If you migrate to Visual RPG for .NET, your RPG stays RPG! Your existing staff can continue to enhance and maintain your newly polished interactive programs.
• Once migrated, your screens can be extended and enhanced to dramatically improve the user experience they offer.
• Beyond making cosmetic changes, your migrated interactive applications can have substantial functionality added - including such features as connecting them to business partners via Web services and adding powerful integration with Office applications such as Excel.
• Your database and your existing batch programs can stay on your AS/400 if required.  This lets you leverage the System i for its known strengths, but lets you exploit the power of the Web browser to improve the look and feel, and functionality, of your existing applications.  At any time, with minimal effort, you can migrate the database to Microsoft SQL Server™.

The modernisation work is typically done as a fixed price, turn-key service.  You provide us with your RPG applications, we return an updated Web application, ready to deploy on .NET and running against your existing database. 

Or you can opt to perform the migration yourself by purchasing the Monarch™ migration suite.  Typically customers will find the service option offers lower cost, is faster and is more predictable.

And with over 6500 installations worldwide, ASNA solutions have a track record that gives you the assurance of a well-tried solution. 

Next Steps:

• Contact us today on 021-497 9620 to discuss your modernisation project.
• Contact us by email at info@millsoft.ie

See our partner’s website at http://www.asnainternational.com for more