Micro Focus Enterprise Developer
Micro Focus Enterprise Developer is a comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) that enables the modernization, development, and deployment of COBOL and PL/I applications across modern platforms. It allows enterprises to maintain and evolve their critical business logic written in…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Micro Focus Enterprise Developer was created to solve the critical challenge of modernizing and extending vital business applications written in COBOL and PL/I, which often reside on expensive and increasingly talent-constrained mainframe systems. It addresses the need for these applications to participate in modern IT initiatives like cloud migration, DevOps, and microservices architectures, without requiring costly and risky complete rewrites. Essentially, it bridges the gap between legacy mainframe assets and contemporary development paradigms.
- Platforms
- Kubernetes, Microsoft Windows (development environment), IBM z/OS (for compatibility and target environment understanding), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Linux (development and deployment target), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker
Related technologies
Notable users
- Any enterprise with significant mainframe COBOL/PL/I investments
- Major retailers
- Large financial institutions (banks, insurance companies)
- Telecommunications companies
- Government agencies (federal, state, local)