Fujitsu COBOL and NetCOBOL for .NET
Fujitsu COBOL is the industry's leading COBOL compiler and development suite, generating robust, high-performance COBOL applications on a variety of platforms.
Leverage existing assets
The challenge for many organisations is to reduce the cost of IT without jeopardising company operations. Equally important is the need to manage large amounts of legacy code, updating and integrating it as technology moves forward.
Fujitsu can help organisations to leverage their valuable legacy assets, and at the same time help them to reduce costs and enhance staff skills. Fujitsu can also help to minimise the risks associated with the redevelopment of existing COBOL systems.
Reduce costs
Fujitsu COBOL and NetCOBOL for .NET can be used to move existing COBOL assets from mainframes or other COBOL-variant products. This can reduce costs in numerous ways, including:
- Less mainframe MIPS required
- Mainframes may no longer be required
- No run-time licence costs mean that Fujitsu COBOL is cheaper than other non-mainframe COBOL products
- Minimal re-training costs
- No need to recruit and train new staff
- Reasonable enterprise licence cost
- No need to re-develop existing systems
Work in a rich development environment
Fujitsu COBOL has a highly efficient and function-rich IDE with state-of-the-art debugging facilities. NetCOBOL for .NET uses the .NET Visual Studio for development in the same way as C++ and Visual Basic.
Upgrade fast
Fujitsu has assisted many corporations in upgrading to Fujitsu COBOL. Conversion projects are rapid and include the following advantages:
- Our conversion process is known and has been performed many times
- Our conversions include COBOL85, AcuCOBOL and Microfocus
- Dialect converters are available to assist with conversion projects
- Fujitsu staff are available to help with conversion projects
Work fast
Fujitsu COBOL and NetCOBOL for .NET work by using ASCII code instead of EBCDIC code. Data and applications can use all the other tools available on the platforms on which they are running.
This means that PCs and other platforms do not have to emulate the workings of a mainframe. The result? Processing speeds are noticeably faster.
