"The biggest challenge ANS faces in the coming two to three years is its rapid growth. That growth requires that we adopt the latest technology so that we can support multiple users simultaneously. Our programmers evaluated a variety of COBOL development products and determined that Fujitsu offered the best products for us to get to the market quickly and efficiently."
Case Studies
For Kenneth Smith, with over 25 years mainframe applications and systems programming experience using COBOL and Assembler, Fujitsu COBOL enhances his productivity by allowing him to create Windows test harnesses in his most fluent language. Kenneth, a Senior Consultant, works for the IT department of a major oil company that operates in Alaska.
Lockheed Martin's Enterprise Information Systems company (EIS) made their Total Online Pricing System (TOPS) application fly when they moved it to Fujitsu COBOL.
Faced with the challenge of keeping the core administration system for their civil insurance business up-to-date and within budgetary constraints, Interpolis determined that moving to Microsoft’s .NET Framework was the most efficient, secure and cost effective option. They selected NetCOBOL for .NET and Microsoft’s SQL Server as the best software to enable the move.
Orbis Systems quickly became Web application development experts by using Fujitsu COBOL’s Web support. This has enabled them to show their clients how to take advantage of the Web to enhance their operations. The lack of Fujitsu COBOL run-time charges helped Orbis provide competitively priced solutions and made Fujitsu COBOL stand out from the competition.
"The beautiful part of the solution was the ability to take our current COBOL code, some of which is over 20 years old and remove the screen interfaces, and the data interfaces and port that without changing the business logic to Windows using NetCOBOL for .NET. By moving to this new platform, utilizing XML and Web Services we can interface with other platforms much much easier."
Withdrawal of support for the HP3000 put the West Covina Service Group (WCSG) in an awkward position as the platform relied upon by most of its agencies was clearly not going anywhere. With the help of Fujitsu’s NetCOBOL for .NET, WCSG has successfully moved the first of many applications to Microsoft’s .NET platform putting them in a leading edge environment that promises to speed current and future developments. A combination of preserving existing COBOL codes and writing their own utilities for taking ViewPlus screen definitions into GUI screens helped WCSG make a fast, smooth transition using a tight-knit team.
