COBOL still underpins a vast amount of the software running in UK banks, insurers, public sector bodies, and large retailers. Much of it processes money, and much of it has been running since long before the developers maintaining it today joined the organisation. As COBOL expertise retires out of the workforce, the...
Legacy Modernisation
Articles, guides and tutorials on modernising legacy systems, covering strategies, risks and practical approaches for ageing infrastructure.
COBOL powers an estimated hundreds of billions of lines of code still running in global financial systems, government infrastructure, and enterprise backends. In the UK, many of those systems are running in banks, insurance companies, public sector organisations, and large retailers. The developers who wrote them are...
A COBOL to C++ migration is one of the most impactful modernization projects an organization can take on, and also one of the most underserved. There are still roughly 220 billion lines of COBOL running in production today. Banks process trillions of dollars through it. Governments run pension systems, tax collection,...