COBOL
RSS COBOLLower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
White Paper It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++, and COBOL. Oracle Tuxedo is the industry's #1 distributed transaction processing... [15 Oct 2009]
Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
White Paper With origins in COBOL-based, green-line reports in the 70s and 80s, BI has evolved into a complex market comprised of tools and platforms. Business Intelligence (BI) software emerged in response to the need for accurate... [31 Aug 2009]
Transformation Rule Discovery Through Data Mining
White Paper COBOL). Data-intensive software programs typically transform a set of source data values into target data values. While the group of developers who write, compile and test the software or the query have a clear... [29 Aug 2009]
SAS EBI: What Is It, What Will It Do for Me and Does It Really Work?
White Paper Although the latter are still better off than COBOL programmers, an exclusive dependence on SAS DATA step programming techniques is rapidly becoming inadequate for today's Web-enabled world. Increasingly, there are two... [30 May 2009]
IT Manager Webcast: County Government Cuts Costs 91 Percent With Mainframe-to-.NET Migration (Level 100)
White Paper So, the county migrated its existing COBOL code to an environment running Windows Server and the Microsoft .NET Framework. The mainframe for the property tax system in Marin County, California, was outdated, expensive to... [30 May 2009]
Insurance Company Accelerates Time-to-Market 25 - 37 Percent With Policy Rating Engine
White Paper EIC's pricing analysts were modeling price changes in spreadsheets, and its IT department then redundantly coded the new rates in COBOL. Electric Insurance Company (EIC) wanted to shorten its release cycle for new... [29 Apr 2009]
Universite Laval Ensures High Availability of Mission-Critical Applications and Enhances Reporting
White Paper Universite Laval implemented Oracle Tuxedo as the transaction processing foundation for the university's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management System Suite applications and managed multiple technologies - pure Structured Query... [03 Apr 2009]
FNS Benchmarks Core Banking Solution in Windows Environment Using Micro Focus Products
White Paper Traditionally, COBOL based critical banking software such as BANCS, runs on a mainframe or in a UNIX environment, rather than a Windows environment, and a benchmark study of this type had not been attempted previously. [16 Mar 2009]
OOMAPASC Keeps Water Flowing With Progress OpenEdge
White Paper The original system, written in COBOL, was a homegrown application developed by one individual within the organization who held all the proprietary knowledge about the system. OOMAPASC is responsible for sustaining and... [09 Jan 2009]
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Comment That said, the answer is not for insurers to rip out every line of Cobol code in the organisation. Legacy IT is holding back the European insurance agency. Catherine Stagg-Macey of insurer Celent explains what CIOs can... [16 Dec 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Host Integration Server 2006 Data Providers for Host Files (Level 200)
White Paper To reliably read and write to these data stores, enterprise developers - working with IBM host systems - must write custom COBOL or RPG programs. Much mission-critical data resides in file systems, such as IBM mainframe... [11 Dec 2008]
MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Adapter for Host Applications (Level 200)
White Paper Based on technology from the Microsoft Transaction Integrator (TI), this adapter offers an intuitive Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 designer, including host COBOL and RPG source code import wizards for generating XML... [11 Dec 2008]
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Reducing Cost and Improving Productivity by Migrating Mainframe Applications to Windows
White Paper Increasingly, organizations are replatforming Line of Business applications such as SAP, rehosting custom COBOL applications and rewriting mainframe applications to run on Windows. Migrating mission critical applications... [04 Dec 2008]
Scottish and Southern Energy Converts Its MIS System to Microsoft With Significant Gains in Performance
White Paper The migration of data processing COBOL code from the mainframe onto the Microsoft .NET Framework used Fujitsu's NetCOBOL for .NET. Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), one of the United Kingdom's largest utility... [04 Dec 2008]
Pioneering Billing System Improves Customer Service and Reduces Development Costs
White Paper This was an Intel-based dual-node Trimetra Nova built using a 28-year-old COBOL code system. A large part of Yorkshire Water's revenue is processed by the billing system. It produced annual bills for 1.5 million... [03 Dec 2008]
