ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
Create e modernizzate le applicazioni aziendali utilizzando una tecnologia moderna
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernizzazione delle applicazioni, dei processi di consegna, dell'accesso e dell'infrastruttura mainframe IBM
Modernizzate l’accesso alle applicazioni host: più semplice da usare, integrare e gestire, e più sicuro
Conseguite l’interoperabilità dei sistemi in tutta l’azienda
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Sviluppo sicuro, test della sicurezza e monitoraggio e protezione continui
Augment human intelligence
Crittografia, tokenizzazione e gestione delle chiavi per la deidentificazione e la privacy
Un approccio integrato a Identity & Access Management
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
Rilevate le minacce note e sconosciute attraverso correlazione, acquisizione di dati e analisi
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
Dedicarsi alla fornitura di esperienza dell’utente finale e service desk efficienti grazie al machine learning
La prima soluzione di monitoraggio autonoma e containerizzata per gli ambienti IT ibridi
Automatizzate e gestite reti tradizionali, virtuali e definite dal software
Scoperta e gestione degli elementi di configurazione (CI) in ambienti IT ibridi.
Semplificare l'evasione automatica e rafforzare la governance
Automatizzazione dei processi IT end-to-end
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automatizzate il provisioning, l’installazione di patch e la conformità in tutto il data center
Costruzione, protezione e ridimensionamento dei processi aziendali automatizzati in tutta l'azienda
Ottenete informazioni utili dai big data con analisi in tempo reale e cercate i dati non strutturati.
Tutta la formazione Micro Focus in un unico punto
Acquisire le competenze necessarie per avere successo
Aumentate la velocità, eliminate i colli di bottiglia e migliorate continuamente la consegna dei software
ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
Access all products in application delivery management
Modernizzate i principali sistemi aziendali per promuovere la trasformazione aziendale
Create e modernizzate le applicazioni aziendali utilizzando una tecnologia moderna
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernizzazione delle applicazioni, dei processi di consegna, dell'accesso e dell'infrastruttura mainframe IBM
Modernizzate l’accesso alle applicazioni host: più semplice da usare, integrare e gestire, e più sicuro
Conseguite l’interoperabilità dei sistemi in tutta l’azienda
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Access all products in Application Modernization & Connectivity
La sicurezza al centro di tutto quello che fate: operazioni, applicazioni, identità e dati
Sviluppo sicuro, test della sicurezza e monitoraggio e protezione continui
Augment human intelligence
Crittografia, tokenizzazione e gestione delle chiavi per la deidentificazione e la privacy
Un approccio integrato a Identity & Access Management
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
Rilevate le minacce note e sconosciute attraverso correlazione, acquisizione di dati e analisi
Access all products in CyberRes
Soluzioni legali, di conformità e privacy affidabili e comprovate
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
Access all products in Information Management and Governance
Accelerate le operazioni del vostro reparto IT alla velocità di DevOps
Dedicarsi alla fornitura di esperienza dell’utente finale e service desk efficienti grazie al machine learning
La prima soluzione di monitoraggio autonoma e containerizzata per gli ambienti IT ibridi
Automatizzate e gestite reti tradizionali, virtuali e definite dal software
Scoperta e gestione degli elementi di configurazione (CI) in ambienti IT ibridi.
Semplificare l'evasione automatica e rafforzare la governance
Automatizzazione dei processi IT end-to-end
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automatizzate il provisioning, l’installazione di patch e la conformità in tutto il data center
Costruzione, protezione e ridimensionamento dei processi aziendali automatizzati in tutta l'azienda
Access all products in IT Operations Management
Date forma alla vostra strategia e trasformate il vostro IT ibrido.
Ottenete informazioni utili dai big data con analisi in tempo reale e cercate i dati non strutturati.
Fornite al vostro team tutto il necessario per garantire le massime prestazioni alla vostra azienda
Improvement in development productivity
Improvement in application performance
SYSPRO needed to ensure they could attract new developer talent to support the future of their market leading ERP solution. They were looking to use industry standard tooling to complement agile software development practices and help on-board new developers unfamiliar with COBOL more easily.
Since the mid-1980s, SYSPRO has relied on COBOL and Micro Focus for the development and deployment of its ERP solution. The product and its user interface underwent continual improvement and from the late 1990s, SYSPRO used Micro Focus Net Express to deploy its product to the global customer base.
Russell Hollick, Chief Software Architect for SYSPRO, explains the need for a more modern development environment: “Net Express served us extremely well, but we are conscious that a new generation of developers does not perceive COBOL as modern and cutting-edge. At SYSPRO we have a development internship and so every year young people join our team of 110 developers and software testers. It’s important for us to remain relevant and a modern development environment is a crucial part of that. So, when we heard about Micro Focus Visual COBOL, we were very interested to understand what it might offer us.”
This coincided with SYSPRO wanting to offer 64-bit support within its ERP solution. Installation of licenses and application setup was regularly a challenge across their customer base and SYSPRO were looking to simplify the overall installation process for their customers.
SYSPRO ERP software is designed to address industry-specific challenges for manufacturers and distributors. With a history of nearly 40 years, SYSPRO has a 98 percent customer-retention rate, one of the highest in the industry, with its 15,000 global customers.
An in-depth look at Visual COBOL through a Micro Focus-hosted workshop gave SYSPRO the confidence it needed, as Hollick comments: “The Visual COBOL IDE was so good that we decided to change our development processes and start using Visual COBOL as a code editor while still using Net Express to deploy our product to customers. It was a real game changer when we took all 10.5 million lines of code and compiled it with Visual COBOL. Having run it through our automated testing system, used to test our core business logic, we needed to change about 50 lines of code.”
SYSPRO also stress tested the Visual COBOL compiled application under high load, using a benchmarking application in a multi-threaded environment. The tests went very well and showed a 30 percent throughput and performance improvement overall which will be welcomed by SYSPRO customers when the new version goes into general release.
Introducing Visual COBOL into an established development team was a pleasant surprise for Hollick:
Russell Hollick – CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
SYSPRO
It gave SYSPRO the opportunity to implement a hybrid development and project management model, leveraging lots of agile elements. This enables the team to be more responsive to changing business requirements and deliver new features up to 30 percent faster. SYSPRO also likes that Visual COBOL offers additional integration opportunities, such as with Microsoft TFS, used as source code control solution. Finally, deployment is made easier as Visual COBOL is embedded into the SYSPRO product, simplifying the install process and saving on support and services.
A full Visual COBOL version (development and deployment) of the SYSPRO solution is in community preview and receiving very favorable feedback from customers and partners. The improved development productivity has given SYSPRO the bandwidth to deliver a dual-interface product with full 64-bit platform support. The company can provide the classic Windows interface, and a web interface which can be accessed from any browser, phone, tablet, or PC. This is all designed to give the customer choice and to future-proof the solution.
Hollick is clear on the benefits: “Our product is mission-critical for our customers and our priority is always to ensure it works. The development environment is key to this and the choice for Visual COBOL was not taken lightly at all. Having seen the development productivity and performance improvements we now know it was the right decision for us.”
He concludes:
Russell Hollick – CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
SYSPRO
