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The Next Generation of COBOL Development

In today’s economy, COBOL is more relevant than ever. Micro Focus Visual COBOL offers the latest technologies and tools to innovate your business by reusing proven business services.
 
Visual COBOL gives you the freedom, choice, and flexibility to choose the industry standard development environment and the deployment platform that makes most sense for your business. Visual COBOL delivers fast, agile innovation to your proven business services – reducing cost, improving productivity, and expanding choice for your customers.


Increased reliance on technology changes the expectations of application users across business. Visual COBOL helps you modernize your business services so your IT organization can quickly respond to business change. It gives you the choice, freedom, and flexibility to select the right technology for your business, both today and tomorrow, including Windows, .NET, UNIX, Linux, JVM and the cloud.

 

 

 

 

Visual COBOL enables you to extend COBOL by using the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) best suited to your application deployment environment – whether that’s using Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 for Windows and .NET applications or Eclipse for Windows, UNIX or Linux or the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platform.

 

 

 

 

Visual COBOL gives you the choice of development environment, and gives developers access to more productivity driven tools than ever before. So you improve the development experience, process, and outcome at every stage of an applications’ lifecycle.

Whether you choose modern technology frameworks such as WPF on .NET, or JavaFX, JVM or Fast CGI for Cloud computing with HTML 5, the choice is yours.  Visual COBOL enables you to take your existing investment into the future at your own pace. You can connect existing business services with today’s application environments. Visual COBOL is the best in class development and deployment environment for today’s business critical applications.

 

Visual COBOL delivers the flexibility to alter your technology decisions to meet the demands of changing business strategies.  By aligning with industry standard development and deployment technologies, maintaining, enhancing, and extending your COBOL based applications has never been easier.  You can achieve a higher standard of business agility with Visual COBOL.

 

 

 

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 “Taking COBOL forward to new platforms like .NET, JVM or the cloud supports a growing trend toward developers choosing the best language for the job, independent of the choice of best deployment platform to use.”

Mark Driver, Research VP, Gartner