What does the road ahead look like for the Micro Focus COBOL products? Let’s take a closer look at the product strategy and vision over the twelve to eighteen months. Let’s examine the key audience messages and benefits for these products, including their planned roadmap themes and deliverables for the coming year. Whether you’re using RM, ACU, Net Express, Server Express, or moving to the Visual COBOL product, you won’t want to miss this session. Understand the current and future product plans and product roadmaps for these COBOL technologies.
1. COBOL Product Strategy and
Roadmap
Ed Airey, Product Marketing Director
Scot Nielsen, Product Manager
2. Agenda
• The COBOL story
• COBOL today
• A Global User community
• The Future of COBOL
• Why Micro Focus
• The COBOL Product Roadmap
3. The COBOL Story
Future Portability Fit for Ease of Use Heritage
Proof Purpose
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4. COBOL today
$2 trillion
investment in
enterprise
applications
Running the world’s Lines of Code, and
240 Billion
economy… counting...
30 billion transactions every day
Now and intoBillion
Enabling $45
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the Future.
of business
5. A global user community
Distributed Platform Users Mainframe Users
Started in 1976 and Micro Focus’ unique
developed the first approach for modernizing
portable COBOL mainframe applications
for micro- using contemporary
processors; Micro platforms and technology
Focus COBOL
became the de- Typically Fortune 1,000
facto standard on IBM Mainframe corporate
leading industry customers
platforms
Distributed
computing
corporate clients
and Independent
Software Vendors
6. Market Pressures
Responsiveness
to Rapid Standardization of
Technological Development Tools and
Change Practices The
Leveraging Consumerization
Benefits of New The of IT
Technologies for Business
Faster Delivery of Present IT Profitability
New Business the Business Skills crisis & Cost
Services Controls
7. The Future of COBOL
Effective, efficient and high quality development results with Visual COBOL
8. The Future of COBOL
Flexible, scalable, portable deployment choice with Visual COBOL
UNIX / JEE/
Windows .NET Cloud Mobile
Linux JVM
9. Why Micro Focus and Visual COBOL?
Future-Proof your Business against change
Re-use & extend your competitive advantage
Rely on Technology Built for Performance, Designed for Business
Reduce Your Development Time to Market and Deliver New Services to
your customers today
Maximize your development potential, address your skills challenge
Take your applications into tomorrow with Visual COBOL
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16. Visual COBOL 2.0
Strategic Direction User Experience
Pure JVM runtime Visual Studio 11 beta
Azure EAP Eclipse 3.7
Language evolution Debugger enhancements
Market Requirements Customer Journey
64-bit ESQL ACU/RM compatibility
Large codebases Project import tooling
150+ fixes Upgrade Guides
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17. Visual COBOL 2.1 and beyond
Strategic Direction User Experience
JVM App Server deployment
Visual Studio 11
Native Web Services
Code navigation tooling
Language evolution
Market Requirements Customer Journey
IDE support for INT/GNT ACU/RM managed code
Windows 8, z/Linux, IDE Support for INT/GNT
Oracle Linux, Solaris 11 Upgrade Guides
Personal Edition Community platform
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18. Release Schedule – Visual COBOL
2012
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Azure EAP
Visual Studio 11 Beta Visual Studio 11 Beta2
Personal Edition
2.0 2.0 Update 1 2.1
2013
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2.2 2.3
Personal Edition
Refresh
19. Release Schedule – Micro Focus, ACU, RM
2012
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Net Express, Server Express, Server for COBOL 5.1
WS 7 WS 8
ACUCOBOL Extend 9.0
9.1.1 9.1.2
RM/COBOL 12
WS3
2013
Net Express, Server Express, Server for COBOL 5.1
WS 9 WS 10
ACUCOBOL Extend 9.0
9.x 9.x
RM/COBOL 12
WS4
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20. Call to action #1
#3
#2
Visual COBOL Webinars
1. Understanding Visual COBOL
2. Getting started with Visual Studio 2010
3. Getting started with Eclipse
Join us on stage for the next user conference
4. Visual COBOL: A developer's perspective - Windows & .Net
5. Visual COBOL: A developer's perspective - Unix (Eclipse)
6. The Visual COBOL licensing system
7. Re-using COBOL business logic with .NET and Java
8. UI Modernization for Net Express & Server Express
9. Best Practices for Native & Managed Code Development
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Future proof – how much R&D do we invest in each year... 12% of revenue ploughed back into R&DPortability - # of platforms we’ve ever ported to.... Must be hundreds... “we’ve lost count!” But it’s over 250 platformsFitness – how much more reliable than Java. X 4 according to CAST reportEase of use- how long Nationwide said a Java guy could pick up COBOLHeritage - # lines of code in the world
# of COBOL Developers?# of Mainframes?
Focus on 5 key themes for Visual COBOL:SkillsAddressing the skills crisis – the technical answer. Providing better quality tooling and collate ration to the Enterprise App Dev CommunityProductivityAllowing all within that organization to communicate using the same language and toolset Improving the efforts in mixed language development projects.CostsReducing the cost of ongoing development and maintenance of enterprise application through re-use. COBOL maintenance of application per line was quoted at $1.26/line as compared to Java at $5.46 per line per Computer world study. Allowing organization to continue selective re-use of key competitive assets ensure lower cost development projects and maximization of internal resources.QualityThrough joint development, organizations can reduce their time to market, but in parallel, improve the quality of solutions they bring to market. When all teams use the same toolset- efficiencies are gained, errors are reduced, and collaboration increases.Innovation- Providing your organization with choice for the future. Allowing your iT organization to respond to future needs and initiatives by the business to support continued growth. Visual COBOL provides the toolset to deliver those services to your business and your customers.
Themes:ChoiceFreedomPortabilityReach
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Supported platforms of the past. Anything missing?
Remember that small list of platformsActually, I think things are as complicated as ever for all of usLet me congratulate you on choosing such a homogeneous language for such a heterogeneous IT landscape. A great choice.Ed, we should start thinking about sponsorship…
The contextStrategic DirectionNew IDEsCloudPortabiliityApplication reuseManaged codeNew platformsReusing existing assetsCustomer Driven Enhancements155 customer fixes delivered in 2.0Some bugs, many enhancements Developer Experience#1 development experience for COBOL programmersOnly competition, us, existing toolset.Also about the wider developer community – non-COBOL developers today… bridge the gapCustomer JourneyCompatibilityAutomated toolingTraining and DocumentationAdvice on moving to standard executable formatsAdvice on moving to .NETJourney of business alignment with IT
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Overlay 4 themes – bullet top 3 things Java – pure JVM allowing deployment on any platform with a standard JRENet Express import wizards for Eclipse and Visual Studio – getting you started more easilyCOBOL Language – take advantage of new environments. It has taken 50 years but COBOL now has Local variables!Eclipse – 3.7 Indigo. Latest version.45 million lines of code, 62 projects. Just about any aspect of ALM is available to you.CloudConference will help demystify CloudIf planning new applications think about:UI – web and HTML5Multi-tenancy Good stead for mobile as wellHow many making money from Cloud today?Expecting many more 5 years from nowHow many using virtualization 5 years ago?
The contextStrategic DirectionNew IDEsCloudPortabiliityApplication reuseManaged codeNew platformsReusing existing assetsCustomer Driven Enhancements155 customer fixes delivered in 2.0Some bugs, many enhancements Developer Experience#1 development experience for COBOL programmersOnly competition, us, existing toolset.Also about the wider developer community – non-COBOL developers today… bridge the gapCustomer JourneyCompatibilityAutomated toolingTraining and DocumentationAdvice on moving to standard executable formatsAdvice on moving to .NETJourney of business alignment with IT
The contextStrategic DirectionNew IDEsCloudPortabiliityApplication reuseManaged codeNew platformsReusing existing assetsCustomer Driven Enhancements155 customer fixes delivered in 2.0Some bugs, many enhancements Developer Experience#1 development experience for COBOL programmersOnly competition, us, existing toolset.Also about the wider developer community – non-COBOL developers today… bridge the gapCustomer JourneyCompatibilityAutomated toolingTraining and DocumentationAdvice on moving to standard executable formatsAdvice on moving to .NETJourney of business alignment with IT
If you haven’t already, join the 8000 people who downloaded Visual COBOL.Get up on stage next year