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。
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