Presenting Visual COBOL

Michael Bleistein

Micro Focus

Embracing Innovation with Visual COBOL

Cloud

Mobile

New Architecture

Skills and

Organization

Development

Efficiency

Development Efficiency

- Development organizations under pressure to provide software solutions to the

pressing issues of the day.

- Investment and process decisions may have led to a confused and inefficient

situation today.

- Need to build a more efficient software delivery process

- Organizations are looking to unify development tooling and streamline the

deployment approach

Efficiency Highly effective development results with Visual COBOL

• Faster code compile, edit and debug process

• 30% improvement in developer productivity

• Greater development team collaboration

• Advanced COBOL development tooling – background

parsing, autocomplete, smart editing, etc.

• Unified development environment supporting efficient

cross-team development

• Developer collaboration across all languages

Benefits Capability

Demonstration

Modern IDE choices for COBOL

• Structural barriers are major obstacles to organizational efficiency

• Technology lines between development groups limit the ability for teams to collaborate

• Resource skill pool has much less agility.

• IT needs ways to break down barriers and to unify the skills pool.

• Eliminating the obstructions

• Implementing skill-sharing programs

• Group wide process and technology standards.

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Skills & Organization

Skills & the Organization Bridge the Skills Gap with Visual COBOL

• Address the skills challenge issue

• Attract a new talent pool

• Protect the value & importance of your core

apps

• Works with industry standard IDEs - Visual

Studio and Eclipse

• Consistent development experience for C/C++,

.NET, Java and COBOL developers

• Smart editing tools make cutting “new” COBOL

code easier to learn than ever

Benefits

Capability

Demonstration

Visual COBOL bridges the Skills gap

• IT organizations look to provide core business as a service

• Reduce operating cost and complexity by outsourcing core IT (platforms, services, applications) to a provider

• ISVs consolidate platforms for smaller customers with strained IT budgets

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Scalable, cost-effective application deployment to the Cloud

• Up to 70% reduction in IT costs

• Increased application reliability,

availability and serviceability

• Rapid service delivery

Benefits

Capability

• Deploy existing on-premise COBOL

applications into the Cloud

• Access data from SQL Azure, Amazon

S3 and other Cloud data storage

• Supports Amazon and Azure Cloud

models

Demonstration

Visual COBOL in the Cloud

• Mobile world now very much part of the business world

• Organizations striving to make sense of the BYOD Consumerization of IT

• Additionally, as mobile services start to prevail, the impact on the back office starts to take its toll

• Customers expecting mobile apps to provide access to existing services

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Mobile Computing

Mobile Computing Enhance the User Experience with Visual COBOL

• Build vibrant user interfaces. Deliver a

better user experience

• Respond to consumer service demands

• Get ahead of the competition.

• Access COBOL applications and data from

IPhone, Android, Windows 8, and

Blackberry devices

• Create Web 2.0 & HTML 5 applications

• Build SOA-enabled systems

Benefits

Capability

Demonstration

BYOD to Visual COBOL

• New and different deployment platforms present both challenges and opportunities for IT and development organizations

• JVM, .NET, or both?

• New platforms such as zEnterprise, Windows 8 and tablet devices must be embraced

• Integration with 3rd party services

• Access to various database systems

• Keeping a competitive edge requires keeping up

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Architecture

Architecture Portable, agile, application deployment with Visual COBOL

• Reduce your Time to Delivery by up to

50%

• Flexible application deployment & greater

choice

• Build once. Deploy anywhere!

• Enterprise-wide portability of COBOL

business apps

• Application deployment across 50+

platforms including Windows, Unix, Linux,

z/Linux, .NET, and JVM.

• Integration with modern technologies such

as XML, SOA, Web Services, and

Relational Databases

Benefits

Capability

Demonstration

Visual COBOL providing the flexibility you need in your architecture

• Micro Focus has continuously modernized COBOL so customers can modernize their COBOL applications

• Close the gap between existing resources and skills

• Embracing new platforms and development frameworks

• Take on disruptive technology challenges with

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Summary Points

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