Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Visual COBOL 6.0 and Enterprise Suite 6.0 to provide versatile application, process, and infrastructure modernization solutions for enterprise developers. As companies undertake digital transformation projects and deliver on cloud strategies, Micro Focus targeting Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite 6.0 at helping IT teams to take proven business systems, and evolve and innovate to accelerate their business outcomes with new tools for the digital age.
The Micro Focus Enterprise Suite of products improve application modernization for IBM mainframe PL/I and COBOL systems, extending Micro Focus’ contemporary analysis, development and testing tools, and robust deployment capabilities using scale-out technology to support deployments on premise and in the cloud.
Micro Focus says its goal is to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation journeys by reusing and enhancing their unique and business-critical core applications and data for a more pragmatic, low-risk and low-cost approach. As modernization continues to drive strategic business change, Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite are just two of the ways Micro Focus helps customers bridge existing and emerging technologies in the race for digital transformation.
“With Micro Focus Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite 6.0, we are giving our customers the modernization solutions to innovate faster with less risk by building on the core strengths of their COBOL and mainframe applications,” said Neil Fowler, general manager of application modernization and connectivity at Micro Focus. “Through new insight-driven tools, API development capabilities and robust deployment options, these Micro Focus solutions give developers new ways to work with complex COBOL and mainframe systems while delivering on a cloud strategy.”
Key enhancements to Visual COBOL 6.0 are in the following areas:
- Innovation: By leveraging the power of modern IDEs, Visual COBOL delivers greater support for new API development.
- Insight: New refactoring tools enable developers to quickly isolate and extract core business logic and data from exiting COBOL programs.
- Integration: Build, deploy and manage COBOL applications using expanded support for Docker Containers, Kubernetes and the Cloud.
Key enhancements to Enterprise Suite 6.0 include the following areas:
- Integration from Application Modernization: Organizations can execute important application changes to support SOA/API initiatives by identifying, exposing, and integrating trusted functionality as new services.
- Insight through Process Modernization: Rapidly understand, identify, execute and test critical business system changes as part of a modern delivery process using a modern delivery toolchain.
- Innovation through Infrastructure Modernization: Seize upon the advantages offered by cloud computing and containerization to deploy new business services flexibly at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, Azure and AWS.
Micro Focus says its goal is to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation journeys by reusing and enhancing their unique and business-critical core applications and data for a more pragmatic, low-risk and low-cost approach. As modernization continues to drive strategic business change, Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite are just two of the ways Micro Focus helps customers bridge existing and emerging technologies in the race for digital transformation.
More information is available about Micro Focus Visual COBOL 6.0 and Enterprise Suite 6.0, as well as the Micro Focus Modernization Maturity Model.