This document provides an update on Micro Focus and its Acucobol product strategy, highlighting the company's history and market position in enterprise software. It discusses the ongoing support for various COBOL products, trends in application deployment and user demographics, as well as recent enhancements in the latest Acucobol versions, including support for modern technologies like HTML5 and improved print-to-PDF functionalities. The document emphasizes Micro Focus's commitment to helping customers innovate while leveraging existing technologies.

1. Dominique SACRÉ
Product Director
ACUCOBOL
Product Strategy and Roadmap
Copenhagen April 2017

2. Company
Update

3. Company Update

4. Micro Focus is a global
software company with
40 years of experience in
delivering and supporting
enterprise software solutions

5. What year was Acucorp Inc founded and
what was the current version of the product?
1988
Version 1.2
1988
Version 1.3
1988
Version 1.0
1988
Version 1.1
1988
Version 1.3

6. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
CompuWare
Application Testing
AccuRev
Agile Software
Delivery
NetManage
Connectivity
Liant
COBOL and
PL/I development
Orbix
CORBA
Novell, NetIQ,
Attachmate
Identity, Access, Security
Connectivity
Collaboration
Performance Monitoring
Disaster Recovery
Borland
Application Lifecycle
Management & Testing
Acquisitions in Brief
Authasas
Advanced Authentication
Serena
ALM & DevOps
AcuCorp
ACUCOBOL

7. About Micro Focus
CUSTOMERS
20,000+ EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE
4,500
PARTNERS
5,000+
ANNUAL
REVENUE
$1.4BILLION 15* IDC WORLDWIDE SOFTWARE 2012-2016 FORECAST;
PROFORMA THE ATTACHMATE GROUP
TOP*
WORLDWIDE SYSTEM
INFRASTRUCTURE
SOFTWARE VENDOR
30+COUNTRIES
↑$4.5
↑18,000

8. Our product portfolio is focused
on three primary capabilities:
to build, operate and secure
critical business applications and
infrastructure
Business
Innovation

9. COBOL Application Development Trends
and
the IT Landscape

10. Build the Right Business Applications

11. Mainframe
COBOL and Mainframe Solutions
Distributed COBOL
Enterprise Developer
COBOL, PL/I, CICS, JCL, IMS
Visual COBOL
ACUCOBOL
RM/COBOL
Windows, Unix, Linux, .NET, JVM, Cloud

12. The COBOL Market
Estimated annual spend on COBOL tooling
IBM MAINFRAME
PROPRIETARY
SYSTEMS
DISTRIBUTED
COBOL
IBM Mainframe: $1.5B
Proprietary (non-IBM) systems: $150M
Distributed systems: $250M

13. • All product lines remain supported
• Visual COBOL flagship COBOL
application development toolset for
new customers
• Transition MF COBOL and RM/COBOL
to Visual COBOL
• Delivering new roadmap for
ACUCOBOL customers
Micro Focus Distributed COBOL Market
ACUCOBOL
RM/COBOL
Visual COBOL
Net Express /
Server Express

14. The Scale of COBOL Applications
Micro Focus Cobol Survey 2015 Report
Only 18.4% of respondents expect the size of their
COBOL estate to reduce in 2015
Above 25
million LOC
Between 10
and 25 million
LOC
Between 5
and 10 million
LOC
Between 2
and 5 million
LOCBetween 1
and 2 million
LOC
Less than 1
million LOC
Decrease
Remain
broadly the
same
Increase
62.7% of respondents estimate their COBOL estate at
> $1m LOC
Lines of Code Expected change during 2016
Nothing new – COBOL apps are huge and getting bigger!

15. Expected Application Lifetime
COBOL applications aren’t going away
85% of respondents believe that the average
lifespan of their COBOL applications is > 3 years
and 45% believe that it will be >10 years
Less than 3
years
From 3 to
10 years
From
more than
10 years
Less than 35
years
Between
35 and 45
Between 45 and 55
Between 55
and 60
More than 60
70% of COBOL developers are between 35 and 55
years old
Expected Application Lifespan Average age of developers

16. Micro Focus helps its customers to
innovate faster with lower risk
We enable them to embrace new
technology while building on what
already works. We call this bridging
the old and the new

17. • Strategic
• Maintenance mode
• Considering alternatives
• Retiring
• New direction
Application Strategies Vary…
Micro Focus enables our customers
to innovate faster and with less risk
… to achieve their application
strategy

18. Should you move to
Visual COBOL?

19. Worldwide ACUCOBOL Deployment

20. • Application deployment is increasing
• Windows is the dominant deployment
platform
• Since 2010 there is significant increase
for Linux
• Unix deployments remain relatively
stable
Platform Trends for ACUCOBOL
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Series1 Series2 Series3 Series4 Series5
ACU deployments are increasing!

21. Why RDBMS?
• BI and analytics
• RFP requirements
• Improved reliability and
recoverability
COBOL Data Trends
A Resurgence in Relational Data
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ACUCOBOL Data Tools

22. Quiz

23. After ACUCOBOL-GT,
what is the most popular product?
AcuConnect Thin Client
AcuServer
Acu4GL
AcuXDBC
AcuConnect Thin Client

24. Roadmap ACUCOBOL

25. • Regular scheduled maintenance updates and hotfix deliveries
• ERQF - Enhancement Request Qualification Form process
• Major new release: extend 10
• extend 10.1 in January 2017
• extend 10.2 in December 2017 – January 2018
• 5+ year support for the latest version of extend
extend® Roadmap
Sep
2015
10.0
Mar
2016
10.0.1
Jan
2017
10.1
Jul
2017
10.1.1
Dec
2017
Tbc
10.2
Feb
2014
9.2.2
Aug
2014
9.2.3
Nov
2014
9.2.4
Mar
2015
9.2.5
extend 10.2
• AcuToWeb on UNIX platforms, all remaining
control Properties supported
• Native Code for Windows 64-bit
• Acu4GL for MSSQL for Linux
• ACU4GL for ODBC on Linux and UNIX
• C$PDF

26. extend 10

27. • An ongoing commitment to development and support
• Added value with RDBMS and IDE now included ‘in-the-box’
• Support for the most recent platforms
• New diagnostic tools
• Faster application performance
• First steps towards a comprehensive ACU UX modernization plan
A Strong Commitment to All ACUCOBOL Users
extend 10

28. • New ACUCOBOL-GT platform support –
Windows 10, Apache 2.4, .NET 4.5
• Large File support – Single files over 2gb
are now supported
• ACUCOBOL-GT enhancements including AutoFill
field
• Relational database support is now included as
standard ‘feature’
• Tracing and profiler enhancements
Top 5 Features
extend 10
microfocus.com/extend10

29. What’s new in 10.1?

30. AcuToWeb
A new and innovative technology that transforms your ACUCOBOL application
into a modern HTML5 appearance, ready for web, mobile and the cloud.
• Vision – File System Utility Enhancements
• Unicode Support for Multi-National Applications
• Built in Print-to-PDF
Top Features
extend 10.1

31. File management enhancements to vutil
• Add, remove or modify keys on an existing indexed file
• vutil -key [-q] ([-a # kdesc] | [-d #] | [-m # kdesc]) file
• -a add a key
• -d deletes a key
• -m modifies a key
• Faster rebuilds – multi-threaded vutil
• vutil -rebuild [-J #] filename
• -J number of threads to use
Vision – File System Utility Enhancements
extend 10.1

32. Unicode Support for Multi-National Applications
extend 10.1
ACCEPT and DISPLAY
• UTF-16 data encoding on screens
XML technologies
• UTF-8 data encoding
• AcuXML
• C$XML
• XML Parse/Generate
Acu4GL for Microsoft SQL Server
COBOL_CHARACTER_SET
• OEM
• ANSI
• UTF-8
• Numeric Value : ANSI CodePage
(Ex: 437)
Unicode library routines
• C$UTF16-UTF8, C$UTF8-UTF16
• C$COBOL-UTF8, C$UTF8-COBOL
• C$88591-UTF8, C$UTF8-88591

33. SELECT file-name ASSIGN TO [device]
• Where device can be one of the following:
• PRINT
• PRINTER
• PRINTER-1 to PRINTER-9
On the configuration file add the following variable
• PRINTER -P PDF filename
Configuration variables
• PDF_FONT_NAME, PDF_FONT_SIZE,
• PDF_FONT_TRUETYPE_TTC
• PDF_FONT_TRUETYPE_TTC_INDEX, PDF_PAGE_SIZE
• PDF_PAGE_DIRECTION, etc…
Built in Print-to-PDF
extend 10.1
No need to change your
ACUCOBOL application - you can
use the runtime configuration
file to print straight to a PDF

34. New UI Possibilities for
ACUCOBOL Applications

35. User Experience Trends for ACUCOBOL
1996:
Graphical
Desktop
2001:
Remote access –
Thin client
2004:
Browser access –
Web thin client
2008:
Native look
and feel
2010:
SOA
1987:
Character
mode
Now
• HTML5
• Mobile and
tablet
• Multi-browser
support

36. Your UX Needs
ACUCOBOL-GT
Application
Web Thin Client

37. Multiple browsers
HTML5 compliant – no plugins
Modern look and feel
Character mode to web
Windows desktop and Mac
Same app for web and desktop
Tablet or Mobile
Secure
Dynamic customization
Reuse what you have already created
You want it now
AcuToWeb
You can try it now!

38. How does AcuToWeb compare to
ThinClient?
Feature Acu Thin Client AcuToWeb
Web browser support
Internet Explorer only -
ActiveX plugin required
All HTML5
browsers supported
No plugin needed
HTML5 support
Mobile Tablet
Modern look and feel
Multi-platform
Dynamic Customization

39. Modernize Your Business Applications
Your Next Step
extend 10.1 & AcuToWeb are available NOW!
Sign-up for a Value Profile Assessment
• A complimentary offering for Micro Focus customers
• Review business and technical goals alongside available resource
and skill plans
• Build a future application roadmap
Contact your Micro Focus Account Manager
• Request a Product Evaluation
• Schedule a Value Profile Assessment
• Microfocus.com/contactus
Learn More: microfocus.com/acutoweb

40. community.microfocus.com
The COBOL Community
Resources for You

41. Silk Test - Testing AcuToWeb®
• https://youtu.be/LQcagJbVzXs

42. • Join an exclusive group
• Promote ACUCOBOL
solutions and your own!
• Share best practices
• Micro Focus will guide
through the process
• Contact your Account
Manager to get started
Help Us Build A Strong ACUCOBOL Community
Share your story

43. Customer Success

44. Country – USA
Textile Management Systems
An early adopter of AcuToWeb
“IT delivery is changing and we had to adapt to keep our solution
cutting edge. Micro Focus AcuToWeb helped us deliver a Cloud-
ready Web and mobile solution. We have transformed the user
experience and our service delivery model while reusing our
application source code which is exactly what we wanted to do.”
— Dev O’Reilly
President
Textile Management Systems

45. Extend 10.1 & AcuToWeb
Questions