The future of COBOL is a moving spectrum; it is about managing your COBOL assets more effectively. Medium term, it is about how you take COBOL assets to the web and long term, it is about strategy and how COBOL assets fit within a web services framework.
Micro Focus offers a comprehensive scalable suite of innovative COBOL development environments, providing a bridge between COBOL and Java, offering fast migrations to new platforms as well as innovative ways to reuse existing assets and Web services.
Micro Focus is committed to a COBOL centric strategy. It is our heritage and the foundation of our future success. From COBOL, we are helping our customers embrace new technologies such as Java, .NET and Web services ensuring that COBOL enjoys the role of first-class citizen in the new world.
COBOL was launched in 1960 with three guiding principles behind the new language: that it should be most suitable for business data processing applications; it should be easy to understand and that it should be an 'open' standard.
Despite its critics, an estimated 2million people are currently working in COBOL in one form or another. Charles Schwab online service, for example, is a big COBOL application with a small web-front - It is estimated that half the business applications in use today are written in COBOL.
Legacy is the great strength of COBOL. Some people might have thought about replacing COBOL applications but current economic events have conspired against that happening. There is no time or budget to replace and the emphasis is now on extending legacy applications.
COBOL is changing with the times and Micro Focus is at the forefront of change. COBOL is being re-energized as an important component of moving businesses to the Web seamlessly and efficiently.
Micro Focus is the leader in providing COBOL solutions to businesses seeking to maintain or extend COBOL applications to other technologies. In particular, COBOL will be the key to the success of our long-standing customer base as they pursue these goals. Our customer's success is key to our success.
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Ramada needed to integrate its customer database, a GUI-based application, to its central reservation system, a COBOL based AS/400 application. Ramada selected Micro Focus EnterpriseLink to connect the two systems, thereby creating one complete online reservation system. more
Micro Focus Consulting understands the value of your legacy COBOL applications. We have spent over twenty years helping businesses create, manage and integrate these critical business assets. Micro Focus Consulting leads the industry with application development experience in both mainframe and distributed computing environments - more
Micro Focus Services include Consulting and Training QuickStart packages which are your first steps towards successful deployment of the latest Micro Focus technologies or your most complex legacy COBOL development challenge - more
Micro Focus provides the most comprehensive and scalable suite of COBOL application analysis, development, integration and testing, and deployment environments - more
Micro Focus Training is committed to helping you understand your COBOL systems better- more
