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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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