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We are passionate about our software, and so are our clients. Here is what our customers say about RPGsp, the industry's best way to build iSeries Web Applications:


"RPGsp is a straightforward, yet very powerful product. In less than 5 minutes, we had it installed, and up and running. It was configured right the first time through. I can definitely say it’s the easiest and most affordable Web tool that you can dream up for the iSeries. The RPGsp tech-support is “Better than the Best” – even a five-star rating is not enough. Thank you!"

Ramasub Srinivasan
Programmer/Analyst
Honda - Midwest Express


"We had a unique requirement that no other vendor or product could solve for us. We heard lots of promises, but RPGsp is the only one that delivered. Seeing is believing -- Profound Logic Software actually took our data and showed us how to build the unique type of application we needed. Other vendors told us that it was impossible or that we needed expensive add-on products. I was amazed at how flexible and powerful RPGsp really is. Not only that – the software is easy to use and understand, since it is the only one that’s truly made for the iSeries and for RPG programmers.

After evaluating all options, including offerings from IBM, we went with RPGsp! It was an easy decision, since they were the only ones that took the time to understand our requirements, and prove to us how that their software truly addresses our needs."

Joseph Frasier
I.T. Director
City of Jacksonville, Florida


"Everybody in my department thinks RPGsp is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I can create working applications in 2 minutes. We are all very pleased with RPGsp!"

Bryan Yates
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Collin County of Texas


"I am impressed! RPGsp takes some of the more mundane, yet complex tasks associated with web development and reduces them to some interesting RPG scripting capabilities in a simple and easy to understand interface!"

Gerald B. Hammack
Director of Technical Services
Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office


"I am amazed with the capabilities of RPGsp. We researched several other products, RPGsp is the only one that made sense."

Mike Kelly
IT Director
Liquifile Services


"We are very pleased with the RPGsp product. It enabled us to take advantage of our company's extensive RPG knowledge and limited HTML knowledge. Being able to do the complete project only using the RPGsp IDE definitely simplified the learning curve. In fact, we were productive the first week. The technical support from Profound Logic is outstanding, and the wizards and examples alone are worth the price of the software."

Dave Grant
Executive Vice President
mini-MAX Information Systems


"In my 25+ years of experience, there is not a product for the iSeries that I have seen that does nearly as much as RPGsp. Within a few months, I created an order entry system for our sales reps, and hundreds of other useful RPGsp programs. We run 3 companies on our iSeries, and we are utilizing RPGsp for all 3 of them. The product and support has been great!"

Gerald Dalton
IT Manager
Spa Destinations


"We were productive with RPGsp after only a few hours. We think it's a fantastic tool!"

Kai Schmolders
2B Consulting GmbH
Germany


"RPGsp is such an awesome product and programming tool!! I work with four other RPG programmer/analysts at LMI Aerospace and we were all creating Web Applications in a very short period of time.

RPGsp teaches an experienced RPG programmer who has little or no web programming experience how to create web pages with a very small learning curve.

Any questions we have asked of the RPGsp technical support were answered promptly and accurately.

RPGsp Tech support also gave us many different solutions to solve our programming questions and issues instead of just one solution. RPGsp technical support advised us which solutions would work best for what we were trying to do in our RPGsp applications.

We were able to upgrade to newer releases of RPGsp very quickly and without any problems.

The bottom line is RPGsp will save us a lot of money integrating data from different platforms on our iSeries to be viewed on the Internet."

Bill Sladek
Senior Programmer & System Analyst
LMI Aerospace


"We were using another package for Web development, but decided to switch to RPGsp since it offered so many advantages. It gave us a visual development environment for HTML Web pages, similar to Screen Design Aid (SDA) for green screens. Other packages just came with text editors. I found that the RPGsp designer is better than something like FrontPage, plus the editor has RPG prompting, RPG syntax checking, RPG help text, and HTML help text all built-in. The compiled programs run very fast, and we didn’t have to buy any PC servers or PC software licenses.

Using RPG code running on our iSeries, we are able to use the secured socket layer to access our level 3 credit card processing package. Our Web programs and green screen programs maintain the same data files, so we don’t have to synchronize data in multiple systems. We can move code from RPG to RPGsp with just a cut and paste function. In addition, the end-result is a real Web application, whereas with webfacing or other screen-scraping programs, you just end up with green screens presented to the web.

It's nice that RPGsp wizards can build the initial program. Wizards can also be used to add advanced fields to an existing program. This saves a lot of time.

I also like that RPGsp uses externally described DB and HTML files. I used to have to code SQL to update database files. This took a lot more code and a lot more time. RPGsp also lets me put RPG fields directly onto a screen. With other systems, I couldn’t have screen fields that were the same as database fields. I needed to code a lot of statements to move information from the database to the screen. With RPGsp, none of that is necessary."

Steve Easton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
MTM Recognition


"RPGsp has made our life easier and has helped us to have a better view of our plant's status at a glance."

Luis Herrera
Information System Constultant
Cifunsa

Mexico


"Thank you for your help. I can see my HTML and RPG knowledge come together. I took an HTML course, and before I found RPGsp I did not know what I was going to do with my HTML knowledge. Now, it is all coming together with the prior RPG knowledge I have and the new RPGsp Development Environment. I see RPGsp as being the future of Web Applications on the iSeries. It definitely makes more sense and is more cost-effective than using multiple languages like Java to call RPG. I am in the process of writing a Customer Maintenance Application with Add, Change and Delete Customer Record processes, and I am amazed how easy it was for me to learn!"

Frank Patrisso
RPG Programmer


"Our staff has extensive iSeries and RPG experience. RPGsp was a perfect fit, since it is made for the iSeries and based on RPG. We were creating applications immediately using RPGsp’s wizards and examples. Your excellent support and patience during the evaluation period helped make the decision easier. After receiving 2 days of training, we were able grasp the more advanced Web development concepts. We looked at other tools, and RPGsp is definitely a notch above the rest."

Michael Calderon (V.P. Information Technology)
Ray Basset
(Business Analyst)
The Hain Celestial Group


"RPGsp makes Web development very easy. I worked with CGI before, and it was ten times the work. I definitely recommend RPGsp."

Jon Allen
i5/iSeries Programmer/Analyst
Group Benefit Services, Inc.


"Not only did RPGsp allow us to reuse our existing RPG skills, it offered a visual development environment that walked us through the development process. Even our Java developers were able to use RPGsp to create browser applications quickly. The same type of applications used to take months to create with Java and WebSphere, and they would actually run slower."

Paul Brandsema
IT Project Manager
Universal Solutions International, Inc.


"We tried WebSphere, but it was too complicated. RPGsp allowed us to get going right away. I was creating Web applications in minutes."

Mike Hoben
AS/400 Administrator
Precision Tool & Die


"The biggest limitation of the iSeries is the lack of a base graphical terminal. Showing pictures of items in an inventory system is important. Showing color-coded maps of sales territories is required in today’s world. The iSeries has a graphical terminal with the Web interface, and RPGsp makes it easy to mix database applications and graphics together. I used many other tools in the past from various vendors, and prefer RPGsp over all of them. Other tools required you to use strange Macro languages (not RPG) or required PC servers. RPGsp allowed me to reuse RPG logic and RPG skills to create Web applications very quickly.

I also used the IBM WebSphere catalog manager (storefront) and net dot data. We purchased a software package and hardware, which cost $500K in 1998. It was a dog. It seemed as though it had been written for another operating system and adapted to the iSeries. I think that it’s still IBM’s philosophy for the Web. That includes Web-facing. Have you ever had an IBM sales rep call you up and install Web-facing in 10 minutes, then spend another 50 minutes training you on the product? That is what Profound Logic did with RPGsp. That is right; I wrote my first RPGsp program after a 1 hour phone training class. If you know RPG and HTML, you are 90 percent ready to go! "

Steven Easton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
5-10.com


"We used ColdFusion to present AS/400 data on our web site. It was slow and difficult to maintain. With RPGsp, we regained control over the development process, and are enjoying fast real-time access to AS/400 files. Thanks!"

Brian Vaillancourt
Information Services Manager
Truth Hardware


"Thank you for all your help. We converted our Style Information Display Application to the Web very quickly. It was a fairly large program. I wasn’t even sure if it could be converted, since it used System/36 flat files and had a display with 2 subfiles on one screen. Now, it runs in a browser and looks very professional, with our logo and graphics. Your support has been wonderful."

Patricia Holloway
Programmer/Analyst
Carole Hochman Designs, Inc.


"Within minutes of an easy installation process, we developed a browser-based inquiry program. The only way this product would not increase productivity is if it is not used. Every RPG shop should review this product."

Paul Henley
Programmer/Analyst
Baxter Regional Medical Center


"I have been using your RPGsp Integrated Development Environment package and am very impressed with the functionality and the many benefits it offers in the design and development of programs on our system. The outlining, delineation and prompting that is available for our RPG, CL and DDS objects allows us to view even complex structured program logic more efficiently. Additionally, the integrated compiler, the Data Repository and the iSeries Command prompt have allowed us to work on our programs more efficiently within a single development environment.

I have been very pleased with the responsiveness that your staff has shown in regards to questions and suggestions that we have had pertaining to your product. When a question was presented or a suggestion offered, your staff was quick to respond with an answer and, in most cases, implemented our suggestions into the product."

Harvey Davis
MIS Director
Outerstuff LTD


"Thank you for your fast and perfect service. This helps a lot!"

Karsten Bockbreder
e-Business Manager
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
Germany


"We have successfully tested the RPGsp IDE and found it to be a great product to get any data from our AS/400 to Web Applications! Thank you."

Holger Wagenlehner
Programmer/Analyst
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics

Germany


"We were considering other products but then stumbled upon RPGsp and loved it from the beginning. We didn’t need to be convinced - the product proved itself! We were productive immediately. As I work with the RPGsp environment and explore the different features, I am falling in love with it over and over again."

Robert St. Germaine
IT Manager
Pay Systems


"IBM should have enhanced RPG to interact with HTML just like it does with DDS. Java in its most simplistic form is just another language. Why should the RPG community have to learn another language? Thank goodness for companies like Profound Logic, which developed RPGsp and it is what IBM should of done with its native RPG. All I had to teach my RPG programmers was Internet stuff like HTML, XML, etc. and we are coding all of our applications using RPGsp now."

Joe Fierro
Systems and Programming Supervisor
Collin County Government

From "iSeries execs sound off to IBM" after COMMON, Spring 2005


"RPGsp is working out great for us. It’s really powerful. I start with wizards, which build working applications for me immediately. Then, I am able to put RPG code anywhere on an HTML page.

Profound Logic put together a free proof of concept for us, which served as a great learning experience. We were then able to create our own Web applications to present iSeries information and reports to our customers. We did all of this during the RPGsp trial period, and without any formal training."

Mike Wilson
Systems Manager
ITS Compliance


"RPGsp is wonderful! We fell in love with it. Profound Logic staff has been great in answering our questions and providing technical support. We are now launching 3 major projects using RPGsp."

Nancy Jackson
Information Systems Manager
Four Seasons Sales and Service, Inc.


 

 

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