Welcome to the Micro Focus Application Modernization & Connectivity Podcast Series – Tech Talks with Matt hosted by Micro Focus’ Matthew Hennessey. Be sure to tune into to the entire series to hear from senior IT practitioners about how they are addressing their biggest IT challenges.

Synopsis of the episode:

A very interesting facet of the mainframe modernization journey is role of COBOL, a piece of code that is over 50 years old and which can run on the cloud, on the web or even via a mobile application. In an uncertain environment, modernization efforts underpinned by Cobol have allowed business to stay agile and flexible without demanding heavy up front expenditures. Hear from this duo of experts at Syntax IT Group share their rich experience as a partner, who for the past 27 years has been helping organizations of all sizes modernize their mainframes by leveraging Micro Focus solutions powered by COBOL. Stefanos Vasileiadis and Konstantinos Knostantinidis explain that while COBOL applications may seem challenging for many developers to maintain and modernize, Micro Focus’ Visual COBOL studio allows developers to re-use, re-purpose and write COBOL programs as easily as any other programming language such as C# and C++. With Micro Focus technology anyone can dive into COBOL as all coding needs is supported by modern, industry-standard IDEs such as Visual Studio or Eclipse.