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
使用當代技術建立業務應用程式並實現業務應用程式的現代化
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
將 IBM 大型主機應用程式、交付過程、存取及基礎結構現代化
將主機應用程式存取現代化:更容易使用、整合、管理,而且也更安全
達到企業內系統互通
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
安全開發、安全性測試、持續監控與保護
Augment human intelligence
適用於資料去識別化和隱私的加密、憑證化和金鑰管理
身份識別與存取管理的整合方法
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
透過關聯、資料擷取與分析功能,偵測已知與未知的威脅
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
以機器學習為基礎,加強終端使用者體驗並提高服務台效率
混合式 IT 的第一個容器化自主監控解決方案
自動管理傳統網路、虛擬網路和軟體定義的網路
探索與管理混合 IT 環境中的組態項目 (CI)。
簡化履行自動化並執行管理
將端對端 IT 程序自動化
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
在整個資料中心自動化佈建、修補與合規作業
在企業內建立、保護和擴展自動化業務流程
Micro Focus 一站式訓練
培養邁向成功的技能
加快速度、消除瓶頸,不斷提升軟體交付能力
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
實現核心業務系統的現代化以推動業務轉型
使用當代技術建立業務應用程式並實現業務應用程式的現代化
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
將 IBM 大型主機應用程式、交付過程、存取及基礎結構現代化
將主機應用程式存取現代化:更容易使用、整合、管理,而且也更安全
達到企業內系統互通
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
為您所有工作的核心提供安全防護,包含營運、應用程式、身分識別與資料
安全開發、安全性測試、持續監控與保護
Augment human intelligence
適用於資料去識別化和隱私的加密、憑證化和金鑰管理
身份識別與存取管理的整合方法
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
透過關聯、資料擷取與分析功能,偵測已知與未知的威脅
Access all products in CyberRes
值得信賴、經過法律驗證、遵循法規和隱私的解決方案
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 IT Operations 與 DevOps 齊頭並進
以機器學習為基礎,加強終端使用者體驗並提高服務台效率
混合式 IT 的第一個容器化自主監控解決方案
自動管理傳統網路、虛擬網路和軟體定義的網路
探索與管理混合 IT 環境中的組態項目 (CI)。
簡化履行自動化並執行管理
將端對端 IT 程序自動化
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
在整個資料中心自動化佈建、修補與合規作業
在企業內建立、保護和擴展自動化業務流程
Access all products in IT Operations Management
制定策略並轉變您的混合 IT。
透過即時分析和搜尋非結構資料,從大數據獲得深刻見解。
賦予團隊強大力量,完整發揮事業潛力
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