Your First Steps with Visual COBOL

Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect

The Forces of Change

REDUCTION OF BACKLOG / IT DEBT

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Embracing Innovation with Visual COBOL

REDUCTION OF BACKLOG / IT DEBT

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INNOVATION

New Architecture

Mobile

Cloud

Development Efficiency

Skills and Organization

Embracing Innovation with Visual COBOL

Cloud

Mobile

New Architecture

Skills and Organization

Development Efficiency

INNOVATION

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

Development EfficiencyHighly 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

DemonstrationModern IDE choices for COBOL

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• 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.

Skills & Organization

Skills & the OrganizationBridge 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

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Capability

DemonstrationVisual COBOL bridges the Skills gap

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• 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

Cloud Computing

Cloud ComputingScalable, 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

DemonstrationVisual COBOL in the Cloud

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• 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

Mobile Computing

Mobile ComputingEnhance 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

DemonstrationBYOD to Visual COBOL

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• 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

Architecture

ArchitecturePortable, 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

DemonstrationVisual COBOL providing the flexibility you need in your architecture

Michael Bleistein Michael.Bleistein@microfocus.com

@MicroFocus #VisualCOBOL

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Your First Steps with Visual COBOL