by webadmin | Aug 5, 2013 | general
There are many benefits to off-the-shelf software, but companies should be aware that they are also relinquishing control in some critical areas. In the past decade, there has been a sea change in the business software domain. Many companies are no longer expending significant internal resources to develop software from scratch. Instead, they are opting for software that meets most or all of the business requirements as delivered “off the shelf” by a third party. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software is an extremely broad category that encompasses software that can be purchased and used with minimal or no configuration. There are virtually unlimited types of COTS software. Some examples include resource planning applications, customer relationship management tools, and quality system databases for CAPA, complaint handling, auditing, and document control. It also comprises laboratory information systems, accounting software, and software embedded in medical devices. There are many benefits to using COTS software. Foremost, it is the vendor that expends the resources to design, develop, test, and support the software. Often, the software vendor also has extensive expertise in the target market for the software and thus is able to incorporate functionality into the software to support best-practice methodologies. For certain types of COTS software, the vendor will also provide hosted software, which eliminates the need for the buyer to purchase and maintain servers and supporting hardware. Altogether, this can allow a company to implement tailored software more quickly and cost-effectively. But there are potential downsides to using COTS software as well. One of the fundamental limitations of implementing COTS software is that a company typically does not have direct control over the...
by webadmin | Aug 2, 2013 | general
IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL’s age IBM estimates that more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code are still being used across industries such as banking, insurance and retail. IBM is attempting to streamline development of COBOL apps for its System z mainframes with the latest release of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, its COBOL compiler for z/OS. COBOL apps using the compiler should see improved performance, with IBM claiming that in testing some applications’ performance increased by 10 to 20 percent. The compiler should also allow COBOL software to more easily swap information with websites and apps thanks to changes in the parsing of XML, the mark-up language commonly used to share information over the web. The new compiler allows parsing workloads to be offloaded to speciality engines. Interoperability with Java 7 should also make it easier to integrate COBOL software with new web apps. Improvements to UTF-8 Unicode handling will make language support easier and increased compiler limts will allow larger data items and groups of data to be handled, as well as improving application exploitation of system resources. Support for unbounded tables and groups has also been added to improve usability in defining variable length tables and groups. A new level of z/OS System Management Facilities tracking should also reduce the administrative burden for users who implement sub-capacity tracking.IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v5.1 compiler works with the latest versions of IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS), Information Management System (IMS) and DB2 software. It is expected...
by webadmin | Aug 1, 2013 | general
As the technologies modernize, the need of conversion of the legacy applications is more than ever since the support for legacy systems is very limited. Besides, there is always a question related to the security of legacy application and the cost of maintaining such application. These days, businesses are starting to realize how much they suffer by not taking advantages exhibited by the latest technologies; hence, legacy application web conversion has become inevitable for businesses worldwide. Some of the benefits of legacy application modernization are: • Improve performance and consistency • Web-based solution that can be accessed 24×7 from anywhere, at any time • Incapacitate security and vulnerable issues • Reduce maintenance costs • Leverage modern technologies without starting from scratch • Streamlines flow of data by making it available through faster web channels We at Curly Bit, being an IT consulting company serving clients around the globe, understand the client’s requirement of legacy application modernization. This is the reason why we always strive for excellence to deliver the client with exceptional solution for legacy application modernization. With an immense experience in various Microsoft and Open Source technologies, our team of experienced and skilled developers can provide exceptional solution with legacy application conversions as well as legacy application...
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