IT organizations must deliver innovative technology solutions in order to respond to accelerating business demands for new services. They must adapt to a rapidly evolving business landscape whilst delivering improvements in applications and services quickly enough to meet the expectations of their users and customers. But how rapidly can they adapt and modernize their COBOL based applications? Presenters: Scot Nielsen, Snr Product Manager, COBOL and Renato Quedas, VP Solutions Marketing & Enablement

1. Accelerating COBOL
applications delivery
Renato Quédas | Vice President Solutions Marketing
Scot Nilsen | Director Product Marketing

2. Four Decades of innovation has delivered incredible
returns but at the cost of huge levels
of complexity
Today, change takes place against a backdrop of complexity, cost and confusion

3. Your business logic & data remain
your competitive advantage, the
key is unlocking this value to
exploit the latest technology
innovation

4. Application Development Trends
API EconomyDevOps User Experience

5. Capability
 Advanced app dev tooling for COBOL
 Unified environment offers efficient collaboration
 Development integration across all languages
 Continuous Integration made easy for Mainframe
Benefits
 Accelerate application delivery
 Reduce IT costs, maximize budget and protect
assets
 Meet variable application demand
 Access core applications from any device
 Low cost delivery to new platforms
Development Efficiency
Core applications delivered 30% faster

6. Opening the door to the next generation of COBOL developers

7. User Experience
Ensuring a consistent User Experience anytime, anywhere with any device
Capability
 Verify web apps across multiple browsers
with a single script.
 Simulate and compare mobile apps
performance across different geographies
 Manages all your testing from manual to
commercial and open source tools
Benefits
 Understand quickly when your
applications meet customer expectations.
 Increase the confidence on your
applications under anytime, anywhere.
 Leverage your existing testing tools and
skills to deliver a consistent user
experience.

8. Mobile Access
Enhancing the End User Experience with Visual COBOL
Capability
 iPhone, Android, Windows 8 device access
to COBOL apps
 Supports Web 2.0 & HTML 5 applications
 Build SOA-enabled systems
Benefits
 Build vibrant user interfaces. Deliver a
better user experience
 Respond to consumer service demands
 Get ahead of the competition

9. Capability
 On-premise COBOL app deployment
 Supports Windows Azure SQL Database
 Supports IaaS providers including Amazon
and Azure
Benefits
 Increased application reliability, availability
and serviceability
 Achieve your Cloud strategy ROI
 Rapid service delivery – 25% faster
Cloud Deployment
Scalable, cost-effective application deployment to the Cloud

10. Managing Architectural Complexity
Portable, agile, core application deployment
Capability
 Enterprise portability of COBOL business apps
 Supports 50+ platforms - Windows, Unix,
Linux, z/Linux, .NET, and JVM.
 Integration with XML, SOA, Web Services,
and Relational Databases
Benefits
 Reduce Time to Delivery by up to 50%
 Flexible application deployment choice
 Build once: Deploy anywhere!

11. Thank You