Acucorp to Debut Character-to-GUI Wizard at CeBIT 2001
Latest Version of Acucorp's extend technology to be showcased at CeBIT 2001
Hanover, Germany - March 22, 2001 - Germany Convention Center, Booth D24 218/219 in the Software Center, Hall 4 - Acucorp, Inc., an international provider of legacy extension solutions for COBOL applications, will showcase its innovative new Character-to-GUI Wizard at CeBIT 2001. The Character-to-GUI wizard is included in Version 5.1 of extend5 with ACUCOBOL-GT, a comprehensive set of technologies available for transforming inherited applications into modern systems. These solutions include Internet deployment, graphical COBOL transitions, data access, distributed computing, and programmer productivity.
Character-to-GUI Wizard
ACUCOBOL-GT's new Character-to-GUI Wizard helps ease and speed up the process of converting a character-based application into a graphical one, retaining all the efficiencies that have been built into the character interface, and making the interface familiar and usable for the application's user-base. The tool works by monitoring a running character-based application and, at a specified point that is chosen, constructing an equivalent graphical screen. This screen is then automatically imported into the AcuBench Screen Designer where greater customization can be made as desired.
Using COBOL to go GUI - Minimizing Risk, Expense, and Time to Market
Most application developers believe that graphical user interface (GUI) technology has revolutionized program design and function in graphically-based environments, but not in character environments - and not for COBOL. In reality, advanced GUI technology is available for COBOL and can be effectively deployed in character environments. Acucorp offers the industry's only GUI-enhanced COBOL with syntax extensions and runtime supports for implementing a graphical user interface directly in COBOL. What's more, a UI developed with this unique technology can run in both a full-featured graphical and character-based environments.
A Case in Point
It's like money in the bank for IT leaders like Joe Horlander, of Seagram Americas. He knows what many of his colleagues have yet to learn: that there is no need to replace most legacy business systems. Challenged with cost issues, obsolescence, and demand from end users for modern capabilities, IT managers like Horlander have turned to a strategy of application extension v. application replacement. This approach is far more cost effective and much less disruptive than rewriting in a new language or replacing customized applications with off-the-shelf packages.
Recently, Horlander enlisted Acucorp's assistance in a migration project that moved 1.8 million lines of IBM mainframe COBOL to ACUCOBOL-GT, and moved 350 character screens to a graphical user interface. Seagram users are now fully productive and working much more efficiently with the easy-to-use ACUCOBOL-GT created GUI. Performance levels have increased dramatically. Horlander attests that Seagram Americas' manufacturing management system was revitalized by the conversion, at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. "We feel we are positioned to take on the challenges of our expanding business, as well as those of the 21st Century."
About Acucorp
Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Lockheed Martin, McDonald's Corporation, Siemens, Thomas Cook, Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications.
Platforms and Pricing
Version 5.1 of extend5 with ACUCOBOL-GT is an extended, ANSI compliant COBOL development system with compiler, runtime, debugger, and support utilities. Object files produced by the compiler are 100 percent portable to all of the more than 600 platforms supported by Acucorp. ACUCOBOL-GT object files run under AIX, Digital UNIX, Extended MS-DOS, NETBIOS, OpenVMS, SCO Open Server, Solaris, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, and the Windows NT/2000 operating systems, among others.
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