The leading COBOL application development, deployment, and modernization solution for distributed systems.
Visual COBOL provides COBOL development and integration tools – in your choice of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Eclipse – that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience. Use Visual COBOL to help your software delivery teams transform core business systems written in COBOL using the latest technologies including .NET, JVM, Containers and Cloud.
Introducing the next chapter of COBOL Innovation – Visual COBOL 6.0. This latest release delivers NEW automated code refactoring tools designed for Micro Focus COBOL applications. Now, quickly reduce application complexity within monolithic systems and expose key business rules as REST APIs using the Micro Focus web services framework and deploy to the Cloud. Visual COBOL 6.0 also provides even greater platform choice for COBOL application deployment using Ubuntu and CentOS Linux distributions.
Upgrading from COBOL Workbench to Visual COBOL for Eclipse was much easier than I had anticipated. I had expected the need to rework code and was reluctant to make the move. However, the risk of continuing to use older technology, as well as the promise of a modern development toolset with mixed language support, convinced us to pursue the upgrade.
It is always our priority to bring together the best in class experience for our application development and management teams. With support for Visual COBOL we have taken our user experience to the next level by providing a well-integrated, seamless development and deployment of COBOL apps to our enterprise-grade platform.
Thanks to Visual COBOL, we can now use COBOL code more flexibly as microservices, integrated in a service-oriented architecture, to accelerate business processes.
Visual COBOL for Eclipse has helped us reduce technical debt and increase flexibility, preparing us for future business challenges. Today, we use, maintain and update fewer tools, helping developers to increase productivity and deliver state-of-the-art services to staff.
The move to Visual COBOL has given us significantly improved graphics and video capabilities; enhanced visualization tools; an online version of the solution, and a much more modern look and feel.
The pragmatic approach embodied in the Micro Focus Modernization Maturity Model, the Micro Focus blueprint for modernization, matches our own philosophy perfectly, allowing our clients a low-risk path to digital transformation.
We had not appreciated the difference in user interface, but our developers love the new environment. Code debugging and editing is so much easier for them.
We feel there are still many opportunities to be exploited with Visual COBOL, and that is exactly the position we wanted to reach; flexibility and agility to meet any future challenges head-on.
We successfully migrated a couple of our applications from aging development and database platforms to a more modern and cost-effective environment using Visual COBOL. The migration effort enabled us to continue to leverage these applications while mitigating risk, managing the TCO of these applications, and modernizing the user interface.
Most organizations today rely on COBOL systems for critical business service delivery but need to innovate faster to address competitive and legislative pressures, meet new customer demands, and enter new markets. By taking the application modernization route, reusing core business systems over other alternatives, companies can take advantage of the latest technology, dramatically reduce development costs, and improve application and organizational performance.
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