Veryant, the COBOL technology innovator
       Evolution, without revolution
       Small business customers and government agencies 
       benefit from change to isCOBOL                     CASE STUDY
       Milan, Italy
                                                                                             Leader of administrative software applications Case Study | Rev 1.0
             Benefit from change to isCOBOL                             Another COBOL vendor had acquired 
                                                                        Acucorp, Inc, and the acquiring company’s 
             When a leader in providing administrative                  past practices with acquisitions included 
             software applications to local governments                 cancelling the product, reducing support, and 
             and small and medium-sized businesses                      rapidly increasing license fees. They didn’t 
             in Italy since 1980 wanted to offer a Java                 want to be caught in this changing environ-
             version of its COBOL application, they turned              ment that could affect its core business
             to Veryant.  Veryant’s isCOBOL Evolve was 
             used to add Java capability, preserve COBOL                The company decided to move its application 
             assets, and remove uncertainty over support                with 14,000 online and batch COBOL pro-
             and pricing from their previous COBOL                      grams to isCOBOL. Veryant offered the most 
             supplier.                                                  portable and cost-effective solution with the 
                                                                        best technology and ease-of-use. Veryant has 
             Business Goals                                             had proven success in helping companies  
                                                                        worldwide extend their valuable enterprise 
             This well-respected company wanted to                      application assets by blending the optimized, 
             introduce the benefits of Java to its customers            business-oriented nature of COBOL with the 
             by offering a Java version of its existing                 openness, portability, and power of the Java 
             application to end users. The addition of                  platform, without requiring businesses to 
             Java to an existing COBOL application                      retrain staff or rewrite code. 
             would provide an extremely robust solution 
             to simplify development, adminis tration, and              With isCOBOL, the company could retain its 
             implementation tasks, and ease application                 core business logic that has proven so valuable 
             modernization efforts. Current customers                   to their customers for nearly 30 years. At the 
             could keep their sizable investments in the                same time, they can offer their customers 
             COBOL-based application, and gain the                      a user-friendly, portable environment that 
             flexibility of Java. New customers would have              extends to many platforms. Though the 
             the choice of adopting either technology,                  application was originally deployed in a UNIX 
             giving the company additional competitive                  environment, isCOBOL offered platform 
             advantage in the market.                                   independence and flexibility for future 
                                                                        development. Because the isCOBOL Runtime 
             In addition to offering new technology,                    Framework is written completely in Java, 
             there was an urgent need to reduce COBOL                   COBOL application developers can develop 
             licensing costs, which were rising quickly and             and deploy across many platforms, including 
             unpredictably. With cost pressures mounting                AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac 
             for its custom ers, especially government                  OS, and mainframe systems, using a single 
             agencies and small businesses, it was                      code base.
             important to offer a cost-effective solution.
             Veryant selected as best COBOL                                   We considered Veryant the best solution for 
                                                                          maintaining our existing applications and expanding to 
             Though they had previously used                             new technology and absolutely trusted the people who 
             ACUCOBOL-GT®, the company knew that                                       worked for Veryant.
             was not a viable long-term solution. 
                                                                                Vice President and Technical Director
                                                                                             Leader of administrative software applications Case Study | Rev 1.0
             With isCOBOL, the company could retain its                 Java solution proves successful
             core business logic that has proven so valuable 
             to their customers for nearly 30 years. At the             The company is pleased to have the innovative 
             same time, they can offer their customers                  Java option added to its valued COBOL asset 
             a user-friendly, portable environment that                 of many years.  They’ve created new business 
             extends to many platforms. Though the                      agility by moving to isCOBOL; the application 
             application was originally deployed in a UNIX              is more competitive because of its extended 
             environment, isCOBOL offered platform                      offering and switching to Veryant has reduced 
             independence and flexibility for future                    costs. In addition, they’ve realized better use 
             development. Because the isCOBOL Runtime                   of its re sources through the partnership with 
             Framework is written completely in Java,                   Veryant. When there are questions, the Very-
             COBOL application developers can develop                   ant response is always very quick, qualified, 
             and deploy across many platforms, including                and comprehensive, noted  a company VP.
             AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac 
             OS, and mainframe systems, using a single                  The decision to use isCOBOL Evolve from 
             code base.                                                 Veryant is expected to serve this vibrant 
                                                                        company and its customers for many years, 
             New Veryant environment                                    with added flexibility and options for new 
                                                                        technologies, and, of course, its highly-valued 
             The company chose several components                       application.
             of isCOBOL SDK including the Application 
             Server for distributed processing and 
             isCOBOL Web Direct.                                        Highlights
             To move the application to isCOBOL, the                    •  Added Java deployment platform 
             company relied on its internal IT team of                      for ease-of-use, portability, and new 
             very experienced COBOL developers. The 
             migration project was quick and efficient,                     technology integration
             especially with the feature-rich management                •  Preserved investment in existing 
             utilities of isCOBOL and the assistance of                     COBOL application
             Veryant experts, who have years of experience              •  Eliminated risk of uncertain prod uct 
             in helping customers move their applications 
             with minimal effort.                                           support and higher licensing fees
             The company’s current environment now 
             includes the c-treeRTG, a high capacity, 
             scalable, transactional client/server indexed                            WHY VERYANT?
             file system. For its relational database 
             needs, the company uses DBMaker and in                        Opening up our application to 
             one instance, Oracle. Within the complex 
             application, there are 5,000 screens, 1,800                   Java has proven easy, fast, and ef-
             files, and eleven million lines of code. Users                ficient with isCOBOL. We are now 
             access the application directly from their                    able to deliver powerful multi-plat-
             desktops from a web browser.                                  form user interfaces to our cus-
                                                                           tomers and have been extremely 
                                                                           pleased by the talented, respon-
                                                                           sive team at Veryant.”
                                                                                        Vice President
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