Visual LANSA Reviews & Product Details

Visual LANSA is a low-code, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows you to build mobile, responsive web or desktop applications (Windows, browser, mobile devices) for cloud (AWS, Azure) or on-premises (Windows, IBM i, Linux). LANSA’s unique single language concept insulates developers from worrying about browser, mobile and server compatibility, allowing them to focus on building applications with the advantage of low-code simplicity when you can and full-code business logic when you need it. LANSA incorporates an integrated meta-data repository and business rules engine to protect data integrity and reduce application development and support effort. LANSA has an application framework which provides the architecture, infrastructure and plumbing code of a pre-built commercial business application. Its zero-code prototyping tool, which includes built-in security, navigation and flexible searching, is a ‘living’ prototype because it evolves into a finished application as real components are snapped into it. The framework provides a desktop-style user experience in the browser that enables users to work on multiple tasks concurrently and switch between them easily and seamlessly.

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LANSA

Discussions

Visual LANSA Community

Languages Supported

English, French, Japanese

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Nichole Ballesteros

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

21 months

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User Insights

Average based on 82 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

4 months

Perceived Cost

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Visual LANSA Reviews FAQs

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What is Visual LANSA, and what problem is it built to solve?

Visual LANSA is a low-code development platform for building and deploying enterprise applications. It combines visual development with traditional coding to help businesses modernize and integrate IT systems, then maintain and evolve those applications.

What languages does Visual LANSA support?

Visual LANSA supports 3 languages: English, French, and Japanese.

What company sizes and industries is Visual LANSA the best fit for?

Visual LANSA is most represented among mid-market and enterprise teams, with reviewer-reported use concentrated in several industries.

Company size: Mid-market organizations (51–1,000 employees)
Company size: Enterprise organizations (more than 1,000 employees)
Industry: Information technology and computer software
Industry: Logistics, supply chain, and warehousing

How long does it take to implement Visual LANSA across a team?

Implementation timelines vary, but 1–3 months is the most commonly reported range. Other teams describe shorter or longer rollouts, including cases that had not yet gone live.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
1–3 months	Most common
3–6 months	Also reported
Under 1 month	Also reported
6–12 months	Less common
Never / not yet live	Less common

What customer support options does Visual LANSA provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support is available through 24/7 live-rep assistance, with self-service and contact options such as FAQs/forum, email/help desk, and chat. The support experience is often described as responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful, though users also point to cases where troubleshooting information or documentation did not fully resolve an issue.

What is the experience like for teams switching to Visual LANSA from another tool?

Moving to Visual LANSA is often tied to modernizing older IBM i and legacy applications, including environments built with RPG or tools such as Synon, HCL Notes/Domino, and PowerHouse. Users describe replacing screen-based or older applications with more modern interfaces while reusing existing data and business logic, and using a shared development environment to build across platforms. The transition can involve learning new development approaches and planning a gradual rewrite, but the appeal is faster development without maintaining separate codebases for each platform.

What features or capabilities could make Visual LANSA even more useful?

Visual LANSA could be more useful with clearer guidance and smoother tools for diagnosing and improving applications. The most recurring improvement areas include:

Expand documentation, examples, and troubleshooting guidance so developers can resolve issues and learn features more easily.
Improve the debugger, error messages, and overall development-environment performance.
Simplify installation, setup, upgrades, and deployment workflows.
Strengthen version-control and testing support, including integration with common developer tools.

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César R.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/1/2023

"Visual Lansa allows us to develop integrated solutions with just one skill set."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

With Visual Lansa, platform interconnection is easy and developing web-based applications is a no-brainer. The best thing is having all this with just one development language and loads of out-of-the-box templates to help one get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

The documentation is quite good but could be better...There's still a tiny developer community. Although there's a visual lansa forum, there should also be some (example) stack overflow usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neha S.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2023

"Reviewing Visual LANSA"

3/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

Visual LANSA is a low code platform that helps developers to develop applications rapidly because it gives us better experience and reusability as we can use different platforms only by one tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

The major issue that I face is the less community movements, so if you find any issue then can not find much content about it and its debugger and troubleshooting is worse than other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S M Irfan Hussain, P.

Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/3/2022

"Visual LANSA, an easy solution for your business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

A very easy and rapid platform to develop business applications. Very little development efforts are required to build the solution. You can flexibily manage the deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

The User Interface can be improved, as multiple clicks are required on many occasions to complete a single configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anil K.

Head of Digital Transformation

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/18/2022

"Lansa Review"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

Good support and user-friendly Integrated Development Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

I think the documentation could be more comprehensive. The debugger could be more intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cheyney R.

Systems Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/30/2021

"Centralize Data/Web Enable System i"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

I really like the flexible integrated developer environment, which was very easy to learn and use, along with the simple language to get things done. I can do everything I need to within the single IDE. Because of the ease of use I was able to start programming and contributing to our team's first project fairly quickly. With our second project we took advantage of the built-in Google Material Design controls in creating a mobile application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

The installation and the configuration of the developer client seem to be overly complicated. But, once set up, it's smooth sailing until the next upgrade requires license keys to for installation. I think the installation process can be improved. Fortunately, the installation hasn't been required that often so it's not that big of a deal. Also, some better calendaring options would be nice. We, with the help of LANSA support, had to do some really complicated programming to pull off a scheduling application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual LANSA:

LANSA is an easy to learn solution for building Windows, Web, and Mobile applications that helped us centralize data and web-enabled business processes on the Series i to achieve our goals. The LANSA support team has continued to offer help and guidance in achieving those goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual LANSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Visual Lansa to centralize not just data but also some processes to the Series i. So far we've replaced two end-of-support legacy applications that required special clients and are in the processes of designing a third. Each of those systems required a significant amount of resources to run, including their own servers. By using LANSA we will not only centralize the data, but also reduce the number of servers required to run our business processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hashim R.

Programmer Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/27/2021

"We are using Visual LANSA for a while at our company managing customer orders."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

VL is easy to develop and user-friendly software, also easy to make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

I have no dislike to mention, but I am waiting to see more examples of VL functions. I mean a variety of samples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual LANSA:

Visual LANSA is easy to code and user-friendly. You can create more in less time. Most of the coding errors are upfront (not at compile time), making the programmer's life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual LANSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly we have VL for receiving our customer orders and send them invoices. By moving to VL on the WEB, we significantly resolved many customer issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 11/13/2020

"Interactivity with our IBMi has been a game changer"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

We have seen the benefits of how we interact with our IBMi backend. We have been able to fulfill our business' requirements a lot faster as well. Our business users were used to working with the IBM green screen which was cumbersome and antiquated. Since taking on the task of re-writing our system using Visual Lansa we've been able to provide a Windows style application that is a lot more user friendly and intuitive. We also like that we can interact with various Microsoft products such as Word and Outlook which has made our customer acquisition and servicing process a lot smoother and seamless. We also take advantage of the .NET component integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

We have been struggling to integrate proper error handling. At this point we have had to integrate our own code to write to logging tables so we can pinpoint where an issue may be. We have also been struggling with merge issues when multiple developers are working in the same framework. We've had issues in the past where code gets overwritten. When this happened, a lot of time was required to figure out how to restore the code and merge it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual LANSA:

If you need a way to have tight integration with an AS/400 backend along with implementing business rules, Visual Lansa is the way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual LANSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

A specific problem that we are solving is document generation using existing templates that our business has. Our business has 100's of existing templates in Excel, Word, and updatable PDFs. We had .NET code that would generate personalized documents for customers using these templates. Using Visual Lansa's .NET component integration, we were able to use the existing .NET code and interact with it in our Lansa programs so we didn't have to reinvent the wheel. This saved us a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pete N.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 12/18/2020

"Good for Most of us"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

Very easy to us, nice features, very helpful in our environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

can't go through some of the workflows - probably just need more training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JESUS F.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Easy to work with and very powerful tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

The fact that it allowed us to create or modify solutions in a fraction of the time that it would take with other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

Nothing actually i think its a great tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/16/2019

"Best development tool I know"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual LANSA?

All complicated and technology based programming work can be done with a few commands. LANSA prevents from getting lost in unforeseeable skill requirements and makes it possible to program most modern applications without having to be a specialist in all those underlying technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual LANSA?

I have to write 40 characters although there is nothing I could complain about at the moment :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual LANSA solving and how is that benefiting you?

LANSA is used for all projects that are not or only with great effort realizable in RPG - that means projects that make it necessary to combine different IT worlds, e.g.: sending emails directly from IBMi to customers, web service interfaces to connect ERP with PC based stock management software or with external webshops; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.