COBOL Colleague:
Precise AI for COBOL
Revealing hidden business functionality within your mainframe applications. Powering knowledge-driven decision-making for your organization.
for your mainframe modernization goals
COBOL Colleague Solves Your Critical Business Problems
COBOL Colleague Solves Your Critical Business Problems
Reduce Cost
Code that is difficult to understand is expensive to change. Two-thirds (66%) of budgets are devoted to maintaining old code.
Reduce Complexity
34% of CIOs identify the complexity of systems as the top contributors to project failure. The risk of change is holding your business back.
If you don’t understand your code, you can’t have the confidence to change it. Developers can make changes with confidence and precision using Colleague.
Replace Lost Knowledge
The average age of COBOL developers is 55 years old. As they retire, knowledge about enterprise applications leaves. Who knows your system now?
Colleague reveals every business process that has ever been implemented in your code. Our powerful AI can help you slash the learning curve from years to days.
Increase Productivity
Code comprehension takes longer than changing code. Developers spend 74% of their time understanding code--not writing code.
Colleague understands your code at machine speed. Swiftly deliver code changes to production so your business can continue moving forward.
COBOL Colleague helps ...
Your intelligence amplified by our logic-based AI
An unbeatable partnership
Enterprise
Innovative understanding of COBOL applications
- COBOL Colleague is an innovative deterministic AI-driven tool that helps organizations decode, demystify, and understand the business processes implemented in their complex legacy COBOL systems.
Development
Complex legacy code changes
- Focus on the business processes implemented in the code
- Reduce the complexity of understanding with unraveled GoTos
- Isolate and highlight features in code viewer to explore effectively
Testing
Plan business process testing
- Understand the business processes impacted by change
- Plan testing strategy with targeted documentation
- View all transformations and constraints in the application
Business Rules
Discover the business rules (logic) in your code
- Instantly see a list of all business functions
- Read natural language descriptions
- Follow the subset of code to see logic flows and transformations
Onboarding
Accelerate the learning curve
- New hires self-serve understanding with comprehensive documentation
- Described and visualized business processes
Modernization Analysis
Informed decisions for effective modernization
- Identify business processes executed by legacy code
- Prioritize initiatives based on business value, complexity, and effort
- Understand data flow & transformation for accurate integration & conversion
Decoding Relevant Business Knowledge
Decoding Relevant Business Knowledge
Decoding Relevant Business Knowledge
Decoding Relevant Business Knowledge
Starting with source code, our symbolic AI untangles, analyzes, and translates/returns lost and encoded business knowledge.
Starting with source code, our symbolic AI parses, analyzes, and brings back lost and encoded business knowledge.
Starting with source code, our symbolic AI parses, analyzes, and brings back lost and encoded business knowledge.
COBOL Colleague Features
Precise & Accurate AI-driven Reasoning for COBOL Application Understanding
COBOL Colleague restructures and analyzes COBOL code, extracting the essential business functions that drive applications. This enables immediate understanding and informed decision-making for every role. It reveals the business functions implemented in your application and provides a bridge between business and technology teams.
View COBOL from a Business Perspective
COBOL Colleague transforms COBOL applications into structured, human-readable business logic.
- Enables an understanding of the transformations that run your business
- Maps data flow and business rules
- Highlights dependencies
Effortless Documentation and Understanding
COBOL Colleague generates organized, accurate documentation of the business functionality embedded in your code.
- Eliminates incomplete, expensive manual effort
- Accelerates the onboarding of new developers
- Generates precise facts and utilizes LLMs for natural-language descriptions
Visualize Your Business as Implemented
COBOL Colleague organizes business functions into interactive graphs that reveal relationships.
- Reveals the causal relationships inherent in your code
- Identifies high-impact areas for modernization and maintenance
- Makes complex business architecture visible
Focus on the Code That Matters
COBOL Colleague streamlines your COBOL source code to concentrate on the business functions implemented in your application.
- Increases understanding by simplifying the logic with the elimination of GoTo's
- Retains context and confidence by tying the original source to the restructured view
- Focuses on the business functions so you can develop, debug, refactor & modernize with precision and understanding
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