micro focus - not only cobol

Eclipse Day 2010 in RomeOctober 5th, 2010

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Luca Devoti

Sales Account Manager ISV



• 30 years Leading Enterprise Application Management and Modernization Company

• Innovative software that evolve IT assets for optimum business benefit

• Significantly reducing cost

• Increasing productivity

• Enabling product innovation• Improving time-to-market

Micro Focus



Financial solidity

• Stable

• FTSE250 member

• Capitalizaiion 1,3 Mld US $

• Acquisitions (November 2006 – July 2009):

• Hal • Acucorp Relativity

• NetManage • Liant

• Relativity • Compuware T&ASQ

• Borland

Leader inEnterprise Application Modernization, Management & Testing

Micro Focus

FTSE 250

Techmark All Share

Techmark 100

Eclipse Day 2010 in Rome

Sales Account Manager ISVLuca Devoti

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• The re-use, extension and ongoing management of existing IT assets to meet new challenges and support the business. A low-risk, high-return alternative to re-write or replacement strategies

• Application Portfolio Management

• Application Modernization

• Application Quality Management

• Application Lifecycle Management

Application Management & Modernization



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Why Eclipse?

• Widely used IDE – millions of downloads• Developed by developers for developers• Rich client interface across all platforms

– GUI for UNIX/Linux– Rich, consistent functionality on all platforms

• Strong plug-in infrastructure– Choose the tools for the job– Not vendor-dependent

• Consistent IDE for COBOL and non-COBOL apps• Eclipse – a strategic platform for Micro Focus



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• Problem: Global development

teams must understand the reality

of their core applications

• Solution: Detailed technical

reports and visualizations provide

understanding 70% faster

• Solution: Queries and analysis

cuts the cost and risk of

development actions by 20%

• Solution: Business-centric analysis

focuses effort on what matters

most (process, geography, etc.)

• Solution: Central knowledgebase

gives ‘one source of truth’

improves collaboration by 40%

Combines deep technical insights into

application portfolios with rich business

intelligence, reports, visualizations and

Impact Analysis

Combines deep technical insights into

application portfolios with rich business

intelligence, reports, visualizations and

Impact Analysis

Application Analyzer™



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Intelligent Code Browsing



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Flowchart diagram

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Program Structure diagram

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Data Flow diagram

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‘CRUD’ diagram

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Reports



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User Interface Languages

�CICS BMS�Unisys DPS� IMS/MFS�AS/400 Screen

� VS COBOL II �OS/390 COBOL�Siemens COBOL� ICL COBOL �Micro Focus COBOL�AcuCorp AcuCOBOL �Unisys 2200 UCS COBOL�Unisys 2200 ASCII COBOL�Unisys MCP COBOL 74/85�UTS 4000 COBOL�HP COBOL (II/XL)�Fujitsu COBOL (OS IV MSP & OS IV

XSP systems)

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Data

�Program data definitions�VSAM and flat file definitions�SQL, including ANSI standard and DB2; plus exports to Oracle

and MS SQL Server�Natural Adabas�Unisys DMS, DMS II�AS/400 DDS� IMS DB�CA-IDMS

Modernization Workbench: Supported Environments



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COBOL support in Eclipse

• Focussed on developer’s typical needs– COBOL Perspective, COBOL Projects– Editor– Debugger– Build– Interface mapping– Consolidated Trace Facility

– Remote Development Option = Cloud Computing



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COBOL Debug Perspective



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Interface Mapping Toolkit



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CTF Viewer



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Eclipse

Key Benefits

•Fully integrated, COBOL sensitive development environment quickly ramps the productivity and skill sets of COBOL and non-COBOL developers

•Standard Eclipse functionality allows the re-use of existing Eclipse skills and enables non-COBOL developers to quickly develop and modernize existing COBOL assets



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The traditional application lifecycle

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$139 $455 $ 977 $7,136 $14,102

1x 3x 7x 51x 101x

Defect Cost Correction Rate (per defect)

Source: B. Boehm and V. Basili, “Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List”, IEEE Computer



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� SilkTest supports True functional Test Automation by offering� Test creation

� Test execution� Test execution analysis

� Extensibility

� SilkTest supports testers and developers by offering a robust and powerful tool that� best supports testing of state-of-the-art application technologies� best reduces the cost of test automation maintenance by providing the strongest

object recognition techniques and failure-detection techniques in the industry

� best increases confidence in quality by providing the most robust and reliable replay synchronization techniques

� best maximizes test coverage by providing the fastest replay for enterprise application

� best improves test automation effectiveness by allowing different stakeholders to build true test automation frameworks



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What is StarTeam ?

• A Version Control System– Centralised repository– Basic VCS operations– Containers, fine-grained security

• An SCM System– File/non-file artifact types– Visual branching/merging – Change tracking, process rules ..

• ST supports enterprise ALM– Collaboration (topics, push notifications, tasks, requirements)– Customisation (workflow, forms), SDKs, wizards– Geographically distributed development– Traceability



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What Makes StarTeam Unique ?

StarTeam provides…• Unified repository for all enterprise assets

– Integrates all key lifecycle assets in one repository– Supports full lifecycle traceability and impact analysis

• Highly optimized client-server interaction– Enables scalable, highly efficient communication

– Supports true multi-cast and event-based transactions

• Customizable workflow and forms– Requires little, if any, programming skill

– Managed at the server so no client deployment issues

– Workflow objects are versioned with all other assets– Enables workflow and forms definition for all asset types



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Unified Repository For All Assets

StarTeam provides a single, integrated interface for managing files, change

requests, requirements, tasks, and topics

All asset types are stored within the same project and folder structures

StarTeam’s unique Project and View definitions provide unlimited flexibility for sharing/restricting assets



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Automated File Status Tracking

History view shows all revisions and identifies which revision working version is based on

Real-time file status indicates how working folders compare to latest

server versions

“Group By” options let developers perform bulk operations quickly



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Integrated Change Management

Change requests are native objects that the StarTeam Server understands

Change requests record defects, enhancements, suggestions, etc.

Change requests can be entered in StarTeam or synchronized from other defect tracking sources

Change requests definitions can easily be customized with custom fields and forms



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Integrated Requirements Management

Requirements are native objects that the StarTeam Server understands

Requirements can be entered in StarTeam or synchronized

from CaliberRM

Requirement definitions are exposed to StarTeam users without needing CaliberRM



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Integrated Task Management

Tasks are native objects that the StarTeam Server

understands

Tasks can be entered in StarTeam or synchronized from Microsoft Project

Work records can be added by StarTeam users to identify actual time spent performing task and are synchronized back into

Microsoft Project



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Native BI Capabilities

Allows simple trending and charting from within the StarTeam

client



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StarTeam - View Compare



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StarTeam Datamart Dashboards



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Luca [email protected]

Sales Account Manager ISV

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