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Veryant Introduces vCOBOL Enterprise for Low-Cost Mainframe Modernization

Strategic Insights

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Veryant, a leading innovator in COBOL and Java technology, has launched vCOBOL Enterprise, a pioneering platform designed to migrate legacy COBOL applications from IBM mainframes. This strategic move aims to support organizations in their cost-cutting, consolidation, and operational effectiveness initiatives. vCOBOL Enterprise leverages an optimized compiler and COBOL-to-Java runtime technology, enabling seamless transitions to affordable UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows systems while preserving the valuable business logic developed in long-standing COBOL programs.

Key Takeaways:

  • vCOBOL Enterprise is a powerful platform for migrating legacy COBOL applications from IBM mainframes, supporting seamless transitions to affordable platforms such as UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
  • The platform utilizes an optimized compiler and COBOL-to-Java runtime technology, preserving valuable business logic developed in long-standing COBOL programs.
  • vCOBOL complements Veryant's existing isCOBOL technology, which provides a highly portable and easily extensible alternative for distributed COBOL applications.
  • vCOBOL technology makes optimal use of memory access and is tightly integrated with UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software from Clerity Solutions, delivering a proven and scalable platform to rehost mission-critical mainframe assets.
  • Close integration with UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (TPE) and Batch Processing Environment (BPE) software provides a choice of COBOL solutions to enterprise-class customers, lowering annual operating costs up to 70 percent.
  • The innovative Java-based runtime environment of vCOBOL enables programmers to natively call legacy COBOL programs from Java Servlets, Web Services, Enterprise JavaBeans, or any other Java program.
  • vCOBOL Enterprise includes a range of data access and migration utilities to simplify transitions to the vCOBOL platform.

Statistics:

  • Cost savings: Up to 70 percent reduction in annual operating costs.
  • Performance improvement: vCOBOL technology improves critical runtime performance commonly associated with mainframe IBM CICS transactions, IBM IMST applications, CA IDMS workloads, and batch environments.
  • Time frame: Reduced IT spending typically occurs within one to three years of migration.
  • Platform support: vCOBOL Enterprise supports seamless transitions to UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows systems.

Sources:

  • Veryant press release, undated.
  • Gartner, Inc., Quote by Dale Vecchio, research vice president in the Application Strategy and Governance group (no specific date or publication).
  • Veryant's product portfolio information (http://www.veryant.com/products).
  • Clerity Solutions' UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software information (no specific date or publication).

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