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Build on Strength

COBOL. The foundation of application modernization.

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Thousands of customers now fuel their innovation by leveraging new agile and DevOps practices and tools, having retained the COBOL applications that underpinned previous successes. The world’s most adaptable and resilient programming language is digital-ready, easy to learn, and evolving to support low-risk transformation, enabling the deployment of higher value applications across host, server, cloud, and mobile.

Onward and Upward: How COBOL enables mainframe transformation

Change is constant, we adapt, and core systems continue to support us. DX is the change program to ensure your enterprise – complete with future-enabled COBOL applications – can compete and succeed. View relevant data from the Big COBOL Survey 2019-20 to support smart DX as a strategic requirement for future success.

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Onward and Upward: How COBOL enables mainframe transformation

With over 200 Billion lines of code in use by large enterprise organizations, COBOL plays an important role in the digitization of core business systems. For IT leaders, focused on key transformation initiatives, re-use of COBOL application logic, from mainframe to cloud, delivers new business flexibility and value. Now 60 years on, modern COBOL delivers even greater possibilities for the developer supporting the digital age.

Bob Ellsworth – DIRECTOR STRATEGIC WORKLOADS
Microsoft
COBOL has evolved and adapted to continue as the application backbone in the world’s most successful global companies. Today’s digital economy is changing rapidly and while core business processing remains critically at the heart of that change, COBOL is fully equipped to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business needs. Modernizing trusted COBOL systems is a proven path to success, which is why COBOL is and will remain to be the bedrock of digital transformation.

Chris Livesey – SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER
Application Modernization and Connectivity
COBOL has had a remarkable impact over the past six decades, but I believe we are only now realizing its full potential and that it its future impact will be even greater.  Thanks to Micro Focus, COBOL is now a modern language, portable and fully object-oriented with an ability to integrate with both Java and .NET frameworks. This revolutionary language, now reborn through Visual COBOL, enables a new era of innovation for developers supporting existing business applications, process and data. In my view, nothing else compares to this remarkable language designed for today’s business needs and built to last.

Bob England
England Technical Services
COBOL (the first programming language designed for business) is turning 60, and developers are excited! COBOL not only offers the most flexible, multi-platform, auditable language on the market but also now delivers new integration with modern technologies including Visual Studio, Eclipse, agile tools and DevOps practices; ensuring a promising career path for new programmers and a bright future for the mission-critical business applications it supports globally.

Hal Peters
Pinebrook Consulting
Most people don’t realize their daily routines depend on 60-year-old technology. Whether it’s using an ATM, booking travel or filing an insurance claim, we all interact with COBOL-based systems in some way each day, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. This is an undeniable testament to the longevity and continued relevance of COBOL, and I believe it will continue to run mission-critical applications in the cloud for another 60 years.

Craig Marble
Astadia
Over the last 25 years, SYNTAX has helped many organizations modernize their COBOL applications, providing new capabilities and extending them to cutting edge technologies. We’re amazed at the continuous value that this 60-year-old language has provided to many global organizations.  This value is now easily expanded to new platforms, including the cloud, and supports through modern development tools, the next generation of COBOL developers.

Panos Zotos
SYNTAX Information Technology Inc.
After 60 years, COBOL is still the language of business. Designed for maximum efficiency and ease of use, this proven programming technology delivers unrivaled data processing speed and precision at enterprise scale. With millions of global transactions processed every second, COBOL delivers adaptability and performance, outpacing many of its modern rivals. While some would question the use of continued use COBOL, I see a language that’s quietly powered six decades of economic growth and a technology with a very bright future ahead.

Tom Ross
IBM

Learn More about COBOL

eBook l COBOL Systems for the Digital Age

Does COBOL remain relevant in the digital change? Is modernization really the best transformation strategy? This eBook showcases the findings of the Micro Focus commissioned Big COBOL Survey.

Brief | Three Hot Takes

Micro Focus asked global research analysts Vanson Bourne to poll a representative sample of the Micro Focus COBOL community. Here’s what they found out.

Press Release | COBOL Survey Results

Micro Focus announces the results of its recent COBOL survey and upcoming plans for 2020.

Webinar | COBOL 60 Shaping the Future

Join Micro Focus along with industry research experts, Vanson Bourne, for a closer look at the data, insights and commentary surrounding its 2020 COBOL market survey.

White Paper | COBOL at 60 – A Living Legend

In an age of unprecedented pressure to innovate, where new trends seem to last only for the briefest of moments, COBOL continues to shine.

Video | COBOL at #DevDay

Hear from COBOL enthusiasts at the Micro Focus #DevDay event as they observe and celebrate 60 years of COBOL.

Webinar | COBOL is 60

Watch and listen to our COBOL 60 webcast, celebrating and exploring why COBOL is ready for another 60 years of use.

eBook l COBOL at 60: The Legend Continues

View and download our eBook that takes a look at the past 60 years of COBOL and looks forward to the future of the development language. Hosted by IBM Systems Magazine with content by Micro Focus.

VIVIT Webinar | COBOL’s Secret

Our first COBOL SIG session will kick things off describing the computing language’s contemporary relevance, use cases and prevalence.

Micro Focus Blogs

Micro Focus: a solution to the skills issue

Quietly confident, enduringly competent - COBOL.

COBOL at 60 – an interview with Wim Ebbinkhuijsen

Many Happy RETURNS: COBOL is 60

COBOL at 60: What’s next?

Who cares about COBOL?

Application Modernization & Connectivity Blogs

Webinar Q&A Part 1

Webinar Q&A Part 2

Webinar Q&A Part 3

Amazing Grace Hopper

Process Modernization: Bringing Agility to the Enterprise

COBOL Survey Results

Refreshing Insights for Modern COBOL

Press and Third-party Contributions

2020 Report Card: COBOL (still) Rocks

Navigating DX During a Pandemic

COBOL: Modernise don't replace

So, should I learn COBOL?

Where's My Check? COBOL's Role in Delay of Stimulus and Unemployment Payments

Why New Jersey’s Unemployment Insurance System Uses a 60-Year-Old Programming Language

Micro Focus Celebrates COBOL

Micro Focus COBOL Survey Results

Mainframe Modernization

Survey Says COBOL is Still Going Strong

New Survey Finds COBOL’s Modernisation is key to Strategic Business Change

COBOL Modernization at Center of Strategic Business Change

Modernisation Favoured for Strategic Business Change Survey Reveals

Report: COBOL at the Center of Modernization Strategies

Six Reasons COBOL Has Survived to Age 60

COBOL at 60: The Legacy and Future of the Original Business Language

Smart Innovation Evolves. Happy 60th Birthday COBOL

The Bedrock of Digital Transformation

Dear COBOL, Happy Birthday! You Are Immortal

The Lanuage of Digital Transformation

Old But Gold – How COBOL Stands the Test of Time

COBOL is Here to Stay

COBOL Forms the Basis for Digital Transformation

The programming language that doesn't want to die

COBOL Language: Call It A Comeback?

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