COBOL

'Your COBOL is our business'

For COBOL development, re-use or modernization, Micro Focus offers the most cost effective, robust and functionally rich environment on the market.

As owners of COBOL-based systems, you are aware that this robust and reliable code lies at the heart of your business and the demands for new functionality and capabilities are relentless.

COBOL Demands

• a need for modern, customer-centric user interfaces 
• delivering business process refinements or enhancements faster
• access to COBOL based business processes from the internet or an intranet
• improved data, process and system integration 
• enabling applications to operate within a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)
• adherence to compliance requirements                

Yet despite the significant investments already made in these core applications, there may be internal and external pressures to look at re-writing or replacing your COBOL systems to meet these demands. This is often due to a lack of awareness or understanding of the strengths of COBOL and the options available to modernize and extend COBOL, or frequent misconceptions about COBOL.

Micro Focus Cobol

With the Micro Focus COBOL environment you can extend, modernize and integrate existing applications to meet new and emerging business needs in the most cost effective way with reduced time to market. 

By offering an alternative to unnecessary re-writes or replacement approaches, Micro Focus helps you achieve the effective re-use of tried and tested business processes written in COBOL.

Making this investment enables you to exploit your existing COBOL applications and the skills of your existing staff. Combining this with the most productive development environment, you can deliver the required functionality in the shortest possible time scales. 

Leading Independent COBOL provider

Micro Focus is the worlds leading independent COBOL provider and our focus, expertise and passion enables you to select the lowest risk and optimal investment strategy for delivering enduring business value. 

Find out how Micro Focus can help you solve your specific COBOL related challenges by exploring Common Challenges and How Micro Focus can help.