Veryant Helps Businesses Bridge the COBOL to Java Divide

Latest isCOBOL Release Enables Cost-Effective Application Modernization
PHOENIX--(Business Wire)--
Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced a new software
release to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL
assets. This latest version of Veryant`s isCOBOL Application Platform Suite
(APS) simplifies COBOL and Java integration, enhances the Eclipse-based
development environment, and includes several improvements to make moving to
isCOBOL from alternative platforms even easier.

"Many businesses rely on a combination of language environments and want greater
value from their existing COBOL investments," said Alfredo Iglesias, vice
president of Veryant. "Our newest release makes it easy to expose core
applications and data to SOA, Web Services, and other initiatives without
sacrificing functionality, retraining staff, or adding complexity."

Organizations have reduced licensing costs by as much as 80 percent and gained
important business benefits by moving to Veryant. Ron Turley Associates (RTA), a
pacesetter in fleet management solutions, chose Veryant`s technology to protect
its COBOL application investments, enhance graphical user interfaces, and expand
into new markets.

"Veryant`s isCOBOL technology opens new markets for us because of its pure Java
deployment model and the foreign language localization capabilities," said Larry
Turley, president of RTA. "It makes us more competitive and will help expand our
business."

isCOBOL APS blends the optimized, business-oriented nature of COBOL with the
openness, portability, and power of the Java platform. With isCOBOL 2009, COBOL
programmers can automatically generate Java classes that enable Java programs to
directly access COBOL data without proprietary middleware or time-consuming,
risky reengineering. This feature enhances productivity and eases integration
between legacy and new application environments.

The isCOBOL Runtime Environment is 100 percent Java, so COBOL applications can
be deployed across multiple platforms using a single code base. The same
flexibility is delivered with isCOBOL`s Eclipse-based integrated development
environment (IDE). Users can leverage one development environment across
multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and UNIX and switch
between development projects when integrating COBOL with programming languages
such as Java.

An import facility has been added to the isCOBOL IDE that allows existing
projects and programs from alternative environments such as AcuBench to be
automatically brought into the flexible Eclipse framework. Other IDE
enhancements such as the addition of a GUI screen designer and an integrated
event editor further simplify transitions to Veryant and enhance developer
productivity.

The isCOBOL 2009 release offers many other new features and enhancements,
including:

* The addition of Javadoc style comments in COBOL source code, enabling the
automatic generation of documentation from isCOBOL programs.
* Full support for MySQL, DB2, and DB2/400 (the AS/400 version of DB2 from IBM),
to include functionality such as record locking, optimization, and other
database-specific features.
* Tighter integration between isCOBOL Server and isCOBOL ISAM Server. By
eliminating the need to start a separate isCOBOL ISAM Server process during
execution, thin client deployment performance is enhanced.

isCOBOL APS 2009 is available immediately. The Eclipse-based isCOBOL IDE is
included at no extra charge with the isCOBOL Development System.

Veryant simplifies deployments and lower total cost of ownership by bundling the
isCOBOL Debugger, isCOBOL Server (thin client and distributed processing), as
well as isCOBOL ISAM Server with the isCOBOL Runtime Environment at no extra
fee.

Visitwww.veryant.com/products/2009 for additional details.

About Veryant

With an extensive COBOL and Java heritage, Veryant delivers software that
optimizes IT resources, improves business performance and revitalizes
programming resources. Whether your business is extending applications with new
user interfaces, evolving existing applications through SOA, or improving
quality and distribution processes, Veryant's expertise and innovative products
will increase the productivity of your applications. Veryant is headquartered in
Phoenix, with offices worldwide. Please visit www.veryant.com.

Veryant
Sue Myers
978-369-6336
pr@veryant.com

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