1. COBOL Product Update
The Agent of Change
Ed Airey & Scot Nielsen
Micro Focus

2. Session Agenda
Industry
Pressures
The IT Scorecard
Barriers to
Innovation
Introducing
Visual COBOL
The Road Ahead
Current
Perspectives
FLAT US
ECONOMIC
GROWTH:
0.1% GDP

3. Current Perspectives
Flat US Economic
Growth: +0.1% GDP
Record US Debt: 16.6T
Job-less Recovery:
Unemployment at 7.9%
Downgraded S&P
Credit Rating: AA+
Sequestration:
85B in Budget Cuts

4. Current Perspectives
Flat US Economic
Growth: +0.1% GDP
Record US Debt: 16.6T
Job-less Recovery:
Unemployment at 7.9%
Downgraded S&P
Credit Rating: AA+
Sequestration:
85B in Budget Cuts

5. Industry Pressures
FINED $1.5B FOR
LIBOR RIGGING
NEWS

6. Industry Pressures
NEWS
IS TO CUT 2,500 JOBS
FROM ITS FINANCIAL AND
RISK DIVISION

7. Industry Pressures
NEWS
IS TO CUT 4,000 JOBS IN
2013, SAVING $1B IN
COSTS

8. Industry Pressures
NEWS
ANNOUNCES IT WILL CUT 30% OF
IT’S IT MANAGEMENT WITHIN IT’S
DEFENCE SPACE & SECURITY UNIT

9. Industry Pressures
FINED $1.5B FOR
LIBOR RIGGING
NEWS NEWS
IS TO CUT 2,500
JOBS FROM ITS
FINANCIAL AND
RISK DIVISION
NEWS
IS TO CUT 4,000 JOBS IN
2013, SAVING $1B IN
COSTS
NEWS
ANNOUNCES IT WILL CUT
30% OF IT’S IT
MANAGEMENT WITHIN
IT’S DEFENCE SPACE
NEWS
EVEN HOSTESS
FILES FOR
BANKRUPTCY.
ASSET ACQUIRED
BY PRIVATE
INVESTORS

10. Government Legislative Action
• Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
• Debt Ceiling Debate
• Higher Tax Rates
• New US Healthcare Law
• Sequestration
• State & Local Gov. budget cuts
• IRS

11. The IT Scorecard

12. Scorecard Results
2013 IT budgets to increase
spending by
1.4%

13. Scorecard Results
2013 IT spending facing
challenges Expected 2.09T
global spend. US to show
7.5% increase

14. Scorecard Results
Measured as a percentage of
revenues, financial services
firms spend more on IT than
any other industry. Ranging
from $270B to 460B

15. Scorecard Results
Financial services IT budgets
equal 7.3% of their
revenues, well above the
industry average of 3.7%

16. Scorecard Results
Financial services IT budgets
equal 7.3% of their revenues,
well above the industry
average of 3.7%
Measured as a percentage of
revenues, financial services
firms spend more on IT than
any other industry. Ranging
from $270B to 460B
2013 IT spending facing
challenges Expected 2.09T
global spend. US to show
7.5% increase
2013 IT budgets to increase
spending by 1.4% to
$1.1 trillion
‘Keeping the Lights On’
70-80%
of IT budget

17. IT Perceptions
57%
Significant differences in perception between
IT and non-IT employees:
of IT leaders agreed
that their organization was
"distributed, agile, and flexible”
of business people
outside IT agree
27%

18. Barriers to Innovation

19. Barriers to Innovation:
IT Debt - -the backlog
46% did not know
the value of their
IT debt
44% have no structured
process for measuring
and managing IT Debt
45% without a process
are not planning to
implement one
57% say they have an
unclear picture of their
application portfolio
Source:
$1 trillionGlobal IT debt will rise to by 2015

20. Barriers to Innovation:
The Skills Challenge
Data gathered from a global survey of Academic leaders
1 in 4 Universities
surveyed teach
COBOL today
65%COBOL
is uncool
65% state that COBOL is considered (by
students) ‘uncool’ or is unheard of completely
5% of new graduates
have COBOL language
skills
10,000 US workers reaching retirement age
(65) every day - Occurring over next 19
years. Representing 26% of US workforce

21. Barriers to Innovation:
The Skills Challenge
Data gathered from a global survey of Academic leaders
5% of new graduates
have COBOL language
skills
10,000 US workers reaching retirement age
(65) every day - Occurring over next 19
years. Representing 26% of US workforce
1 in 4 Universities
surveyed teach
COBOL today
65%COBOL
is uncool
65% state that COBOL is considered (by
students) ‘uncool’ or is unheard of completely
Amid this, 70% of
all business Data
Processing is still
driven by COBOL
70

22. Barriers to Innovation:
Disruptive Forces
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
Cloud
computing
Mobile
Social Media &
Collaboration
Analytics
& Big Data
Innovations to
Change the Face
of Business
Digital Disruption –
CIOs, are you
disruptive enough?
Gartner and Forrester agree
New Generation technology is taking up a lot of mindshare
new budget
new skills
new technology
new processes
Requiring

23. Barriers to Innovation:
Disruptive Forces
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
Cloud
computing
Mobile
Social Media &
Collaboration
Analytics
& Big Data
Innovations to
Change the Face
of Business
Digital Disruption –
CIOs, are you
disruptive enough?
Gartner and Forrester agree
New Generation technology is taking up a lot of mindshare
new budget
new skills
new technology
new processes
Requiring
It’s Time to
Think Differently.
To Think Smarter.

24. The Road Ahead

25. Smart Thinking
REDUCTION OF
BACKLOG / IT DEBT
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
New Architecture
Mobile
Cloud
Development
Efficiency
Skills and
Organization

26. IT Innovation – Smart Thinking
Modernization
: Clearing a
Pathway to
Success
53%
Success with
Application
Modernization
30%
Success with
replacing
application
with a COTS
package
4%
Success
when re-
writing
application
from
scratch
42%
Chance of
project failure
or excessive
delays
Package:

27. A Customer Perspective:
Application Modernization
Package
Rewrite
Modernize
COST
RISK
TIME TO
VALUE
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
(0 – 10)
Lowest cost
High risk
Medium risk
Low risk
2-3 years
3-5 years
4 months
4x cost
10x cost
1x cost
0/10 competitive advantage
6/10 competitive advantage
10/10 competitive
advantage
Lowest risk
Shortest time
Greatest
advantage
Package
Rewrite
Modernize
Package
Rewrite
Modernize
Package
Rewrite
Modernize

28. Introducing
Visual COBOL

30. Forces of Change
REDUCTION OF
BACKLOG / IT DEBT
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES

31. Embracing Innovation
REDUCTION OF
BACKLOG / IT DEBT
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
New Architecture
Mobile
Cloud
Development
Efficiency
Skills and
Organization

32. Embracing Innovation
Cloud
Mobile
New Architecture
Skills and
Organization
Development
Efficiency

33. Efficiency
Highly effective development results with Visual COBOL
• Faster code compile, edit and debug process
• 30% improvement in developer productivity
• Greater development team collaboration
• Advanced COBOL development tooling – background
parsing, autocomplete, smart editing, etc.
• Unified development environment supporting efficient
cross-team development
• Developer collaboration across all languages
Benefits Capability

34. Industry standard development tools
34

35. Skills & the Organization
Bridge the Skills Gap with Visual COBOL
• Address the skills challenge issue
• Attract a new talent pool
• Protect the value & importance of your core
apps
• Works with industry standard IDEs - Visual
Studio and Eclipse
• Consistent development experience for C/C++,
.NET, Java and COBOL developers
• Smart editing tools make cutting “new” COBOL
code easier to learn than ever
Benefits
Capability

36. Cloud Computing
Scalable, cost-effective application deployment to the Cloud
• Up to 70% reduction in IT costs
• Increased application reliability,
availability and serviceability
• Rapid service delivery
Benefits
Capability
• Deploy existing on-premise COBOL
applications into the Cloud
• Access data from SQL Azure, Amazon
S3 and other Cloud data storage
• Supports Amazon and Azure Cloud
models

37. Mobile Computing
Enhance the User Experience with Visual COBOL
• Build vibrant user interfaces. Deliver a
better user experience
• Respond to consumer service demands
• Get ahead of the competition.
• Access COBOL applications and data from
IPhone, Android, Windows 8, and
Blackberry devices
• Create Web 2.0 & HTML 5 applications
• Build SOA-enabled systems
Benefits
Capability

38. Architecture
Portable, agile, application deployment with Visual COBOL
• Reduce your Time to Delivery by up to
50%
• Flexible application deployment & greater
choice
• Build once. Deploy anywhere!
• Enterprise-wide portability of COBOL
business apps
• Application deployment across 50+
platforms including Windows, Unix, Linux,
z/Linux, .NET, and JVM.
• Integration with modern technologies such
as XML, SOA, Web Services, and
Relational Databases
Benefits
Capability

39. Choose your
development
platform
Build your
application as
you do today
Embrace the
IDE
Modernize
your apps
Cloud and
Mobile
Moving to Visual COBOL
Delivering More Value

40. COBOL
Product Roadmap
Scot Nielsen
Micro Focus

41. R3/4
JVM
COBOL
Preview
JVM
COBOL
Launch
2.0
JDBC
support
Pure JVM
2.1
Web
Container
support under
Tomcat
Web services,
JSP and
Servlet
deployment
2.2
Web
container
support for
WebLogic,
Websphere,
JBOSS
2.3
EJB
container
COBOL JVM Roadmap
From desktop to J2EE EJB deployment…
…re-use core COBOL apps directly within
the Java Virtual Machine

42. Performance

43. The #1 Development toolset for COBOL

44. Summary Point
• Your Future requires
Innovative Thinking
• For Enterprise
Application
Development, the
solution is:
www.visualcobol.com/

45. @microfocus or hashtag #devcon2013
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