Micro Focus Cobol Survey Itl 2015 Report PT

Micro Focus
International Cobol Survey

April 2015
Whats the Future for your COBOL applications?
Survey Summary
An unique international study on the challenges and evolution of COBOL
assets around the world according to the words of its users
Key questions to get a complete overview of COBOL applications in

businesses.
More than 200,000 IT professionals in more than 50 countries have
been asked to participate
Up to 5 000 answers , including 3 500 complete answers to the survey in 6
languages
International Cobol Survey Report
Key points
COBOL is not dead and very much alive
63% of the respondents estimate that the size of their COBOL estate is above 1 million
LOC.
82% expect the size of their COBOL estate to increase or stay the same in 2015.
82% consider their COBOL applications to be strategic to their organization.
COBOL stays in-house

59% do not outsource at all the development and maintenance of their COBOL
applications.
Outsourcing is mostly done in-country (72%).
COBOL is changing and evolving

32% are in the process of modernizing their COBOL applications.
44% of the respondents have budgeted projects to upgrade their COBOL assets in 2015.
Aligning applications to business and creating systems that are agile and easy to evolve
are the 2 most important criteria when modernizing or upgrading COBOL applications.
Micro Focus International Cobol Survey Report 2015
1. What is your organizations primary industry or market?
Healthcare
2,7%
Education
3,2%
Other
6,5%
Manufacturing
7,0%
7,3%
Public sector
8,1%
Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
8,8%
Services
9,6%
Distribution / Retail
20,0%
Information Technology
27,0%
Financial Services / Insurance
2. What is your job function?

Student
IT Business Manager
Application Manager
External Consultant
Other
0,7%
4,4%
5,2%
6,0%
7,3%
Project Manager
7,9%
IT Architect
8,1%
Development Manager
8,2%
System / Support Administrator
10,8%
CIO/ IT Manager
14,6%
Developer
26,7%
3. Number of employees?
5000+
18,9%
1000 to 4999
15,9%
500 to 999
7,8%
100 to 499
16,5%
10 to 99
17,5%
1 to 9
23,4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
4. How many developers support COBOL applications in your

business?
Over 50
20-50
5-20
16,1%
7,2%
15,8%
1-5
0 Outsourced /
ISV app
43,4%
17,4%
5. Please estimate the size of your COBOL estate. (Lines of Code)
Above 25 million LOC
10,2%
Between 10 and 25 million LOC
8,3%
10,6%
13,8%
19,7%
Less than 1 million LOC
37,4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
6. In 2015, do you expect that the size of your COBOL estate will:
(Lines of Code)
50%
46,2%
45%
40%
35,4%
35%
30%
25%
18,4%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Increase
Remain broadly the same
Decrease
10
7. How would you describe the COBOL applications within your

organization?
18,2%
Very strategic
Moderately strategic
51,1%
30,7%
Not strategic
11
8. Which platforms are you running your COBOL applications on?

50%
45% 43,6%
40%
35%
30%
25,5%
25%
24,1%
20%
15%
10%
5%
13,9% 13,9%
6,8% 6,8% 6,8%
4,0% 3,7% 2,9%
2,1% 1,6% 1,3%
0,9% 0,8% 0,8%
0%
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9. How much of your IT development budget is spent on COBOL

maintenance / innovation?
5,2%
14,1%
49,7%
31,0%
Below 15%
Between 15% and 30%
Between 30% and 60%
Above 60%
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10. Do you outsource the development and maintenance of your

COBOL applications?
12,0%
8,2%
7,9%
59,1%
12,8%
Not outsourced
Less than 25%
Between 25% and 50%
Above 50%
Completely outsourced
14
11. What type of outsourcing have you adopted?
80%
72,4%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
24,9%
20,8%
20%
10%
0%
Offshore
Near-Shore
In-country
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12. What was the rationale behind outsourcing?
3,0%
Other
12,3%
Applications are not strategic
17,5%
Application modernization
20,0%
Development quality and productivity
32,2%
Flexible resource management
42,1%
Limited availability of internal
resources
46,7%
Control and/or cost reduction

0,0%
10,0%
20,0%
30,0%
40,0%
50,0%
16
13. How much does COBOL resource management concern you?
Impact of retirement
University courses
meeting
requirements
Ease of knowledge
transfer
Ability to recruit
18,9% 12,3% 20,7%
37,9%
19,7%
17,0% 15,4%
25,4%
24,1%
20,4% 11,9%10,1%
27,0%
15,2%
23,9%
25,4%
22,8%
19,3%
1 lowest score; 5 the highest
Criteria
Average mark
1 to 5
Median
1 to 5
Impact of
Retirement
3,2
Ease of
knowledge
transfer
3,1
Ability to
recruit
2,9
University
courses
meeting
requirements
2,4
15,2%
17,3%
17
14. What is the average age bracket of your COBOL developers?
4,3%
11,5%
14,5%
less than 35 years
between 35 and 45
28,0%
between 45 and 55
between 55 and 60
41,7%
more than 60
18
15. In 2015, your enterprise COBOL applications are:
Being replaced by packaged solutions
At their end of life without substitution
Being migrated to open systems
Being rewritten in another language,

such as Java
12,7%
13,7%
16,1%
20,5%
In the process of being modernized
31,8%
Maintained in current state and in

production
57,1%
19
16. When thinking of your COBOL apps, which of the following technologies
and IT trends do you already support or will support during 2015?
Other
5,6%
Cloud
10,0%
Supporting mobile/tablet computing
Virtualization
Moving to Linux
11,6%
15,0%
15,5%
16,3%
SOA/web services/REST
17,1%
Adoption of Visual Studio tooling
18,8%
Adoption of Eclipse tooling
22,3%
Integration with .NET systems
30,6%
Integration with Java systems
32,8%
Integration with Relational Database

Systems
20
17. What are the most important criteria employed when

modernizing / upgrading your strategic COBOL applications?
23,4%
Increase or introduce mobility
24,7%
Reducing delivery period and time to

market
35,4%
Minimize risk
36,2%
Reduce cost by improving

price/performance ratio
46,4%
Create systems that are agile and

easy to evolve
52,5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Align applications to business need to

deliver competitive advantage
60%
21
18. What is average future life-span of your COBOL Applications?
17,5%
Less than 3 years

39,0%
From 3 to 10 years
43,6%
More than 10 years
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Micro Focus

International Cobol Survey

Whats the Future for your COBOL applications?

Key questions to get a complete overview of COBOL applications in

International Cobol Survey Report

COBOL stays in-house

COBOL is changing and evolving

International Cobol Survey Report

Micro Focus International Cobol Survey Report 2015

1. What is your organizations primary industry or market?

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

International Cobol Survey Report

2. What is your job function?

System / Support Administrator

International Cobol Survey Report

International Cobol Survey Report

4. How many developers support COBOL applications in your

5. Please estimate the size of your COBOL estate. (Lines of Code)

Above 25 million LOC

Between 10 and 25 million LOC

Between 5 and 10 million LOC

Between 2 and 5 million LOC

Between 1 and 2 million LOC

Less than 1 million LOC

International Cobol Survey Report

Remain broadly the same

International Cobol Survey Report

7. How would you describe the COBOL applications within your

International Cobol Survey Report

8. Which platforms are you running your COBOL applications on?

International Cobol Survey Report

9. How much of your IT development budget is spent on COBOL

Between 15% and 30%

Between 30% and 60%

International Cobol Survey Report

10. Do you outsource the development and maintenance of your

Less than 25%

Between 25% and 50%

International Cobol Survey Report

11. What type of outsourcing have you adopted?

International Cobol Survey Report

12. What was the rationale behind outsourcing?

Applications are not strategic

Development quality and productivity

Flexible resource management

Control and/or cost reduction

International Cobol Survey Report

13. How much does COBOL resource management concern you?

18,9% 12,3% 20,7%

1 lowest score; 5 the highest

International Cobol Survey Report

14. What is the average age bracket of your COBOL developers?

less than 35 years

International Cobol Survey Report

15. In 2015, your enterprise COBOL applications are:

Being replaced by packaged solutions

At their end of life without substitution

Being migrated to open systems