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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Visual LANSA ## What is Visual LANSA? Visual LANSA is a low-code development platform used by IT pros to build enterprise web and mobile apps faster, easier and at a lower cost than traditional coding. Trusted by thousands of customers across the globe, Visual LANSA accelerates application development by eliminating the need to master multiple technical skills normally required to produce software applications. Once an app is developed, it can be deployed to an IBM i, Windows, or Linux server. One IDE, one language, no limitations. ## What is Visual LANSA used for? [Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/)[Integrated Development Environment (IDE)](https://www.capterra.com/ide-software/)[App Building](https://www.capterra.com/app-building-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 19 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $8.34 Per Month Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Visual LANSA?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.lansa.com/&name=Visual LANSA) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Visual LANSA 4.6 (19) VS. [4.6 (249)](https://www.capterra.com/p/137206/Caspio/reviews/) Starting Price $8.34 Per Month Starting Price $600 Flat Rate, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.2 (19) Ease Of Use 4.4 (246) Value For Money 4.2 (17) Value For Money 4.3 (221) Customer Service 4.5 (19) Customer Service 4.5 (235) ## Visual LANSA alternatives [4.6 (329)](https://www.capterra.com/p/131789/ProntoForms-Mobile-Forms/reviews/) Starting price $4800.00 Per User, Per Month [4.4 (15,325)](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/reviews/) Starting price $7.91 Per User, Per Month Highest Rated [4.7 (153)](https://www.capterra.com/p/143607/kintone/reviews/) Starting price $24.00 Per User, Per Month [Claris FileMaker](https://www.capterra.com/p/162784/FileMaker/) [4.3 (206)](https://www.capterra.com/p/162784/FileMaker/reviews/) Starting price $16.50 Per User, Per Month [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/162784/FileMaker/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Access Controls/Permissions 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems API 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Collaboration Tools 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Debugging 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Detect and remove errors Deployment Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Manage the processes involved when making the application ready for use Graphical User Interface 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important A visual way of interacting with an application or operating system using items such as windows, icons, and menus Visual LANSA 38 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Receive suggestions from an automated tool on the next steps to take in the development process based on your prior activity Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Helps automate and manage information, tasks, and procedures by establishing routines and patterns associated with processes Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions Create code from scratch Edit code that has been previously created for product development. Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Work with others within one platform/system on the application development process Assemble data from multiple sources Import and export data to and from software applications Conceptual model of how data items relate to each other Supports common databases such as MySQL and Oracle Detect and remove errors Manage the processes involved when making the application ready for use Create designs using pre-built templates or customize them with flowcharts, mindmaps, wireframes, network diagrams and org charts Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components For the intention to be used by developers Create and design new forms from scratch using templates and design tools, or scan and convert existing forms into the system A visual way of interacting with an application or operating system using items such as windows, icons, and menus An application for source code editing, compiling, and debugging Identify which applications need to exchange data and enable these data connections Planning out the structure and duration of repetitive intervals of time dedicated to specific tasks during the development cycle Development of applications for mobile devices Pre-defined templates within a library for common cases such as contracts, websites, emails, and more Create, manage and access prototypes to capture design concepts and test on users View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data Development of software programs Tracks every modification made to source code Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc. Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is Test specific APIs to determine if systems are properly functioning Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions Use visual elements such as pre-built blocks and/or shapes to assemble a model or design Development of applications that are delivered over the internet through a browser Create/edit commerce applications for mobile devices and/or web Create/edit websites for operating systems What You See Is What You Get is a no-code tool that allows users to create and edit content using a visual interface Features 4.3 (19) 4.3 Based on 19 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.2 (17) Free Trial Basic $8.34 Per Month Value for money 4.2 (17) 4.2 Based on 17 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.5 (19) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.5 (19) 4.5 Based on 19 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.6 Based on 19 reviews Filter by rating 5(11) 4(8) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent HH Hugo H. Subdirector de TI Human Resources ### "Desarrollos seguros y de calidad" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 January 31, 2023 Pros Que se generan software seguros y con alto rendimiento. Cons Me ha sido difícil conseguir quién conozca el lenguaje para desarrollo. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MF Muhammad F. Chief Internal Auditor Financial Services ### "Easy to Use Development and Maintenance Tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 August 23, 2022 Visual Lansa is unmatched hybrid low code development platform that amazingly helps for creating responsive web or desktop applications either for cloud or on-premise. It has ability to access data on various platforms then make it available on a web or mobile interface. Pros Visual Lansa is easy for development and modifications, it is user friendly and intuitive software. It also allows interaction with various Microsoft products. It enables user to perform complicated programing tasks with few commands. It performs well in a batch environment and interacts well with other programs. Cons It is not easy to automate the process of deployment. The initial install of IDE may be seems more intuitive but sometimes IDE got crashed. Online documentation and debugging tool need to be improved enough. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. EP Emiliano P. Ceo Computer Software ### "Noi usiamo dal 2004 Visual Lansa e IBMi (in passato) e vorremmo continuare ad usarlo in futuro" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 2.0 2.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 March 25, 2020 Lansa in 16 anni di utilizzo è sempre cresciuto e si è adeguato al mercato anche se non in tempi brevissimi, speriamo che ora oltre a continuare a migliorare il prodotto e darci aggiornamenti in tempi brevi. Pros Visual Lansa si è sempre adeguato in autonomia alle nuove necessità del mercato e permettendoci di dedicarci solo alla parte di sviluppo applicativo e non all'adeguamento della tecnologia. Semplicità di apprendimento per ogni tipo di persona con poca o tanta cultura informatica, serve un ulteriore svecchiamento e uno sforzo maggiore verso le nuove tecnologia. Cons Manca l'integrazione con altri applicativi e dispositivi incluso IOT ed altro in modalità nativa e non come ora attraverso applicazioni .net sviluppate a questo scopo. Velocizzare la connessione hai dati anche senza server function la diversità di tempo di accesso è notevole. Continuare da parte Vostra a sviluppare il prodotto dal punto di vista tecnologico per sempificare a noi lo sviluppo sempre più veloce degli applicativi. Ritornare ad una gestione di licenze multiple su singola licenza come erano su IBMi fino all'avvento dell'RMLX questo ci permetterebbe di essere più competitivi e vicino ad altri prodotti sul mercato Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 26, 2020 Emiliano, Thank you for the review and providing your valuable feedback. In the past, we haven't done the best job at promoting new features available in our EPC releases. I think you will find our version 15, set to release soon, will provide you with greater integration and much faster app creation. We are working hard to improve communications with our customers so they know about new features as soon as they are available. KA Kyle A. AMS Solutions Architect Publishing ### "Solid product that makes development easier" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 March 3, 2020 Visual LANSA has allowed our strictly iSeries environment to expand to allow web based objects into our integrations, as well as max field sizes beyond normal green screen. Pros Web based interface make development much easier than on the green screen, plus RDMLX allows for greater field sizes and development tools. Cons We have Visual LANSA running on a Citrix setup, which made installation a bit more challenging. Sometimes task management can get confusing with objects checked in/checked out. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 11, 2020 Kyle, Thank you for the great review. We get so excited to hear how Visual LANSA is making a positive impact on our customers. Thank you for your feedback on the cons as well. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our product and reviews like this help drive those improvements. MR Manjunath R. Module Lead Information Technology and Services ### "My Review of Visual Lansa" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 February 28, 2020 Pros Easy to maintain, cross-platform tool, productive visual IDE, less complex. Cons Poor Debugger, One must know the concept and language to use it, limited prebuilt wizards Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RD Robert D. Senior QA Engineer Media Production ### "Order Entry Platform for 18 Years" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 February 27, 2020 Ultimately satisfied our business and user needs. Pros Satisfied our order entry GUI needs for our entire enterprise for over 18 years, and still going. Cons Ultimately we needed stronger integration and easier deployment options, and are slowly phasing out our LANSA GUI. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 11, 2020 Robert, How great to hear Visual LANSA has been solid for you for 18 years! Are you on our latest version? 14 SP2 is geared toward easy integration and deployment. Even be on the lookout for some updated features to your concerns really soon. BY Baojun Y. Sr. PA Retail ### "easy to use." 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 February 27, 2020 good. Pros as a programmer, I like VL because it is easy to use. Cons there are not many open source to use. also there are less users compare to other product. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor March 11, 2020 Baojun, Thank you so much for taking time to write a review. We are so happy you find working with Visual LANSA easy! As for not many users, we are working hard on building a beneficial community of Visual LANSA users. Michael F. Lansa Programmer Information Technology and Services ### "Visual Lansa Review" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 24, 2020 Pros The IDE's inherent usability and straight-forward integration features. Cons Not very much documentation or presence online when a problem occurs. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor February 25, 2020 Michael, Thank you for your review of Visual LANSA! We understand our lack of documentation and online presence has been an issue and we are really working hard to improve our customer experience in those areas. Be on the lookout for some exciting improvements in the areas of documentation and online training. SP steve p. IBMi Developer Libraries ### "20+ years and it's never let me down" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 21, 2020 exceptional. i've said many times "if you can't do it in Lansa, you probably don't need to do it." (at least in a business application - you won't write an image processor or a protein sequence analysis program but you can probably integrate with the back end data.) the recent acquisition by Idera has given some pause to the community (there were a flurry of exits from long-timers as well) but so far it seems to be working out. Pros it's not just the software - it's the entire Lansa ecosystem. been using it for over 20 years and it is hands down, the best business software development platform (especially for the IBMi) i've ever dealt with. it's flexible, intuitive, and can do make integration easy and FAST. (side by side, doing something in Lansa vs develop something in RPG or COBOL is 2-3x as fast and 10x more intuitive). in the 20 years, it has always been able to keep up with what needs to be done in the business (and i've seen the product evolved from a green screen, SEU/PDM like interface to one that you can develop robust windows, web, and mobile apps with). Cons IDE can be a bit slow (especially when you've just started it) and is a few steps behind a visual studio type interface. Reasons for choosing Visual LANSA every shop i've worked in was Lansa (and green screen) before i got there. options considered included Synon, RPG, and COBOL. and in each case, Lansa was selected because of the ability to ramp up, be productive, and "get stuff done" very quickly. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor February 26, 2020 Steve, Wow! It is really great to hear how Visual LANSA has been a reliable solution for you for over 20 years. Thank you for sharing your feedback on the IDE. We are always looking for ways to improve our product. BW Benzy W. DBM Legal Services ### "Best Low Code Development Software in the Market" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 19, 2020 Used Lansa tools to solve new and or existing business flows and logic. Used Lansa to switch over from various legacy systems (G/L, order entry, sales etc...). Back a few years we also used Lansa Integrator to interface with Lotus Notes database to create a uniform experience - which including using the data between the two platforms for web applications. Pros Reusable code. Really, reusable code. Write once and rules follow the data around without the need to re-code depending on the interface. Transparent enforcement of the business rules and logic. Can write as granular as needed for your specific requirements. Once that has been accomplished you can concentrate on UI design and coding. Cons To many ways to skin a cat with the options to tackle problems. It's great working with various interfaces but sometimes there is limited (or no) documentation to those interfaces (such as when MS released Office 16, little information avaliable to access Excel .net newer features). Reasons for choosing Visual LANSA Easier to understand how to code with the Lansa tools than other products. Could use existing talent to create richer applications without having to learn new skills. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor February 25, 2020 Benzy, We are thrilled Visual LANSA is making a positive impact on your application development process! We are working hard to address our issues with limited documentation. We have some exciting improvements coming in the near future! 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