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looksoftware Strategic Partners

Most looksoftware customers and partners have at least two things in common – significant investments in IBM and Microsoft platforms, applications and technologies. We need close partnerships with IBM and Microsoft to ensure our tools continue to be recognized as the easiest to use, most productive software solutions for enhancing the value of existing IT investments.

IBM

All looksoftware customers have an investment in IBM eServer platforms. Our solutions improve customers' ROI from IBM products and platforms like WebSphere, DB2 and Linux. We have been an IBM partner since 1995, we are an active member of IBM's Partnerworld program and have participated in initiatives including:

Tools Innovation Program
IBM Developer Roadmap
Tools Network
Server Proven
Partnerworld for Developers
All Star program

	View video - (17MB 5 mins Streaming) IBM’s Alison Butterill, ISV Enablement Team, discusses looksoftware and IBM.
	"For some time now, looksoftware has been in the forefront of user and program interface design. Building on their knowledge of these areas, their resulting new product, lookdirect, should continue to show their strong position in this space.” Alison Butterill, IBM

	View video - (22MB 5 mins Streaming) IBM’s John Quarantello, World wide iSeries Tools Executive, discusses looksoftware and IBM.
	"looksoftware has excellent products for both small and large customers, that can easily modernize and extend their iSeries applications. More and more ISV’s are looking to looksoftware to modernize their applications and distribute them to their customers." John Quarantello, IBM

Microsoft

looksoftware is now a member of the Midrange Alliance Program (MAP).

MAP is a community-driven initiative that provides a roadmap for midrange computing environments, such as IBM's AS/400, iSeries and i5 servers. The Alliance includes software companies, service providers and hardware manufacturers who assist customers to integrate and enhance their midrange investment, as well as transform it to deliver more business value at lower cost.

looksoftware products support Microsoft's .NET and COM standards. Most of our customers and partners use and are committed to Microsoft platforms and products. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, looksoftware receives early access to new Microsoft initiatives. There are many Microsoft products and technologies that impact looksoftware's development plans, including Windows NT/2000/XP/CE, ASP.net, ADO.net SharePoint Portal Server, IIS, Visual Studio.net, Smart Clients, BizTalk and Host Integration Server.

"I've used newlook and found it easy to use compared to other tools. looksoftware also has other tools that work with it so you can get more than just web facing."

"What we like about soarchitect is you can actually implement SOA without having to modify those existing applications."
David deLisi, Microsoft

Surround Technologies

looksoftware has partnered with Surround Technologies to provide key components of the re:new rapid application development toolset. Surround’s Accelerator for .Net development engine has been combined with looksoftware’s market leading modernization toolset in re:new to enable IBM i customers to extend existing applications and rapidly deliver new functionality which leverages the .Net framework.