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COBOLpro’s “Maintain Your Legacy” suite of solutions combines people and own crafted products to offer comprehensive support for your mission-critical COBOL systems.
From knowledge retention and system analysis to ongoing maintenance and performance optimization, we ensure your legacy infrastructure remains stable, secure, and efficient—allowing you to focus on your core business.
Legacy systems are often misunderstood. While newer technologies exist, your COBOL infrastructure has a proven track record of stability and reliability, supporting mission-critical operations for years. A “rip and replace” strategy is rarely the best approach. Maintaining and modernizing strategically offers significant cost advantages, minimizes disruption, and leverages your existing IT investment. We help you maximize the value of what you already have.
- For who is this ervice
Unlock the hidden agility within your existing legacy infrastructure. Integrate with modern technologies like cloud platforms, APIs, and mobile applications to enable faster innovation and adaptation to changing business needs. Modernize incrementally and strategically to support new features and functionalities without disrupting core operations.
Minimize the risks associated with managing complex legacy systems. Proactively address potential vulnerabilities, prevent knowledge loss through expert retention and documentation, and ensure business continuity through robust maintenance and support. Avoid the disruptions and uncertainties of full-scale system migrations.
Enhance the security posture of your mission-critical legacy systems against evolving cyber threats. Protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry regulations through vulnerability assessments, security hardening, and integration with modern security tools. Minimize the risk of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and operational disruptions.
Optimize your existing IT infrastructure to avoid the high costs and disruptions of full-scale system replacements. Our targeted modernization and maintenance strategies deliver significant cost savings while maximizing the value and lifespan of your legacy systems. Achieve your business goals without breaking the bank.
- Our Capabilities
Maximize Value of Legacy
Retain & Preserve
Our Retain & Preserve service safeguards your institutional knowledge by capturing the expertise of retiring employees and integrating it directly into your systems. This ensures a smooth knowledge transfer, empowers your team to learn from seasoned professionals, and even allows you to reintegrate retired experts as consultants. By preserving this invaluable knowledge, you accelerate project timelines and maintain a deep understanding of your mission-critical systems.
Document & Analize
Our Document & Analyze service provides comprehensive documentation of your COBOL systems, creating a clear roadmap for better understanding and easier maintenance. We identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and areas for improvement within your codebase, mapping out system dependencies to avoid potential issues during updates or integrations. This analysis provides actionable insights that guide strategic decision-making for system enhancements.
Debug & Sustain
Our Debug & Sustain service focuses on maintaining the stability and reliability of your legacy systems. We fix bugs, resolve performance bottlenecks, and ensure 24/7 monitoring to prevent downtime in critical operations. This proactive approach improves the reliability of your mission-critical functions, ensuring seamless service delivery.
The process we use for Maintenance
COBOL System Discovery & Assessment
We start by conducting a comprehensive discovery and assessment of your existing COBOL systems. This involves analyzing your codebase, understanding system architecture, and identifying key dependencies. We work closely with your IT team to gain a complete picture of your current infrastructure and its role in your business operations. This initial assessment helps us determine the best path forward for modernization.
Talent Retentation & Knowledge Preservation
Recognizing that institutional knowledge is invaluable for legacy system maintenance, we prioritize retaining your COBOL experts. Our Retain & Preserve service helps capture the expertise of retiring employees and integrate it into your systems and documentation. This crucial step prevents the loss of critical knowledge, ensuring continuity and minimizing disruptions during future maintenance or modernization efforts. This knowledge transfer is essential for long-term system health.
Systems Documentation & Analysis
With a solid understanding of your systems and preserved institutional knowledge, we leverage COBOLpro’s powerful tools for Document & Analyze. We generate comprehensive documentation of your COBOL codebase, making it easier to understand, maintain, and enhance. Our AI-powered analysis tools identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and areas for improvement, providing actionable insights for optimization and modernization. This in-depth analysis is crucial for informed decision-making.
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If your systems contain bugs or “spaghetti code” (complex, tangled COBOL code that is difficult to understand and maintain), our Debug & Sustain service steps in. We identify and resolve bugs, optimize performance bottlenecks, and refactor code to improve its structure and maintainability. This ensures COBOL system stability, reduces the risk of errors, and makes future modifications easier and safer. We don’t just fix problems; we improve the underlying COBOL code to prevent future issues and reduce technical debt.
COBOLpro’s integrated approach to legacy system maintenance provides a cost-effective and low-risk alternative to full-scale migration. We help you preserve your existing IT investments, minimize disruptions, and ensure the long-term viability of your essential COBOL systems. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you maintain your legacy and prepare for the future.
