About a year ago, SunGard PS finally got serious about improving NaviLine’s image. It evaluated several products, including the Visual LANSA development environment from LANSA. Incidentally, SunGard PS had just completed a project with LANSA for adding smartphone and tablet functionality with its LongRange solution, which provides a framework for building native iOS apps that are served from IBM i servers. That engagement went well and gave LANSA the edge for SunGard PS’s new modernization project.