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Visual COBOL is a critical development skill - and it's highly sought after!

A mixed language skillset will
keep you on top of your game

Visual COBOL lifts COBOL
development productivity up by 30%

Visual COBOL raises skills and productivity

Bring COBOL apps to the web, mobile and cloud

Makes COBOL easier to learn than ever before

Use Visual Studio or
Eclipse to develop COBOL apps alongside C/C++,
.NET or Java

Developers work in the same ways

TECHNOLOGY IS LEVELLING OUT

To satisfy demand for COBOL skills, we need to attract new talent

46% believe COBOL is easier to learn that Java and C++

21% say learning COBOL is a future-proofed career option

IT'S BEGINNING TO HAPPEN BUT DEMAND IS RISING FAST

SKILLS NEED TO RISE

90% of Fortune 500 businesses use COBOL

$2 trillion worth of COBOL applications in global organizations

So organizations need to protect and build on their existing COBOL apps

2 million developers – and rising - work in COBOL

70% of all business transaction systems are powered by COBOL

65% of all active code in the world is COBOL in ATMs, air travel, courier services, banking and more

There’s far more business value in cobol than you think

200 times more COBOL transactions per day than Google + YouTube searches

There are new ways to raise COBOL developer
productivity and improve skills. Scroll upwards to explore the facts – and take our COBOL developer to new heights.

Sources include:

Aberdeen Group

Giga Information Group

Database & Network Journal

The COBOL Report

SearchEngineWatch.com

Tactical Strategy Group

The Future of COBOL Report