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Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility and Efficiency with Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Intex Circle

Intex Consulting Group needed to meet customer demand for cloud solutions by modernizing their core application. The goal was to provide deployment flexibility and reduce costs without losing decades of embedded business logic. Here’s how Rocket® Visual COBOL® enabled their success.

Sfida

Intex needed to migrate their complex COBOL application to the cloud while preserving business logic, leveraging existing COBOL skills, and integrating with modern platforms like SAP HANA.

Soluzione

Intex chose Rocket Visual COBOL to migrate their COBOL application to .NET. This allowed code reuse, supported modern .NET and APIs, and offered flexible deployment on Linux® or Windows®.

Risultati

Productivity for system tasks improved by 70%. Intex can now offer their software as a service on any cloud, providing unmatched flexibility and cost-effective deployment.

With Visual COBOL we provide our customers with a range of platform and cloud choices. With minimum effort, we can offer our software as a service with any cloud provider chosen by our customers.”

Gruppo di consulenza Intex

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Settore: Tecnologia dell'informazione e servizi

Intex Consulting Group delivers specialized Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions that manage the entire textile production process, from machine supervision to company-wide administration.

Sfida

Intex needed to respond to strong customer demand for more flexible and cost-effective cloud deployment options for their core textile industry application.

Intex faced the challenge of modernizing their large COBOL application for cloud deployment. The goal was to preserve their valuable business logic and leverage existing COBOL expertise, while supporting integration with modern platforms like SAP HANA. Customers needed flexibility in operating systems and cloud providers to control costs, which was crucial in the competitive textile market.

 

Soluzione

Intex adopted Rocket Visual COBOL to transition their COBOL codebase to the .NET platform, enabling new deployment capabilities and developer efficiencies.

The Intex team used Rocket Visual COBOL to modernize their application, automatically compiling 97% of their 12,000 COBOL source files into .NET while preserving decades of business intelligence. Developers retained their COBOL skills within Visual Studio® Code and accessed extensive .NET libraries. The solution supported modern APIs, encryption, and deployment on both Windows and cost-effective Linux platforms.

Risultati

The modernization project with Rocket Visual COBOL delivered significant productivity gains, platform flexibility, and enhanced customer choice.

Intex's development team saw a huge leap in efficiency. Access to .NET libraries cut complex coding tasks from 10 days to under three — a 70% productivity boost. This change lets Intex offer their solution as a service on any cloud their customers prefer, quickly adapting to the textile industry's needs while maximizing existing skills and code.

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