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
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化：更易于使用，更易于集成，更易于管理，更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
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
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
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
通过关联、数据引入和分析，检测已知和未知威胁
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
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化，执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
Micro Focus 一站式培训
培养技能，获得成功
加快速度、消除瓶颈，不断提升软件交付能力
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
实现核心业务系统现代化，以推动业务转型
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化：更易于使用，更易于集成，更易于管理，更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
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
让您的任何工作都以安全为中心；操作、应用程序、身份和数据
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
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
通过关联、数据引入和分析，检测已知和未知威胁
Access all products in CyberRes
值得信赖和久经考验的合法、合规和隐私解决方案
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
使您的 IT Operations 与 DevOps 齐头并进
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化，执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
Access all products in IT Operations Management
制定战略，变革混合 IT。
凭借实时分析和搜索非结构化数据，获得大数据洞察分析。
Provide a modern user experience with enhanced analytics and video graphics integration; build web-based solution so that teams can use local and mobile versions. Sydex wanted to reuse its existing code base of over one million LOC and employ creative staff for screen design.
When Mike Phillips, President of Sydex Sports, read the book “Men at work” by George F. Will, back in the 1980s, he realized how uncomputerized baseball was as a professional sport. As a big baseball fan, Phillips had some great ideas that would help the players and coaches be more effective in their game. He was so passionate about this that he founded Sydex Sports and dedicated himself to making his vision a reality. He used Micro Focus COBOL to develop his solution and in 1990 sold the first version of BATS! to the MLB (Major League Baseball). A DOS-based and mouse-driven data analysis application, it was regarded as quite revolutionary at the time. As Micro Focus COBOL matured, so did the Sydex solution with the launch of a graphical Windows application, based on Micro Focus Dialog System, in 1997. When, in 2001, video capture was incorporated into the data analysis, the Sydex solution really took off.
Phillips explains the challenges involved in maintaining a solution for close to 30 years: “By now we have well over a million lines of code in the base system, and it is crucial for us to reuse existing code to move the solution forward. We wanted to modernize the user interface; enhance functionality and the video graphics capabilities; and build new web access so that teams can use local and online versions which will give players and coaches access to information wherever they are, on or off the field. Crucially, we have a small development team and wanted to use our creative staff effectively to help design the user interface.”
Sydex is a family-run software company providing scouting and analytical software solutions to the professional and collegiate sports industry. Sydex has been a long established leader in the field of baseball with 27 major league teams and over 100 minor league affiliates using its software including the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and 2016 World Series Champions, the Chicago Cubs.
With video becoming increasingly important, Sydex saw the .NET platform as a way to deliver its next generation solution. Sydex moved from delivering just one video angle per game, to now offering 26 live simultaneous angles for any given game. Massive 20 TB storage systems are housed in stadiums across North and Latin America to accommodate an archive of video files that can be quickly retrieved for pre-, post- or in-game analysis.
This wealth of information is now invaluable to the 27 out of 30 MLB teams using Sydex to store and catalogue vast quantities of data and video for analysis by the team. The application can give the next batter a complete history of his experience against the pitcher. Spot a player using an iPad during the game, and they’re likely to be accessing the same software using a web-based version. The solution is used for scouting purposes as well, giving coaches a very clear history of a particular player.
Baseball was the driver for this solution, but now Sydex also provides similar solutions for ice hockey (PUCKS is used by 14 NHL – National Hockey League – teams), basketball, American football, volleyball and more.
Phillips comments on the move to Visual COBOL:
Mike Phillips – PRESIDENT
Sydex Sports Software
For nearly 30 years this crucial solution has moved all the way from DOS to .NET, the web and mobile device access, providing code reuse throughout its journey. Phillips: “We have been able to use COBOL to adjust to every new hardware and software change that has come along, and as you can imagine professional sports is very leading edge. We keep the same base software, develop what is new and exciting, and it always works.
Mike Phillips – PRESIDENT
Sydex Sports Software
He concludes: “Every other development language we used over the years for specialized functions had to be replaced or discarded. COBOL has always endured and this is unbelievably valuable for a business.”
