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

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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.

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Understand Code with COBOL Colleague

Debug and Fix Faster

Quickly locate undesirable behavior, understand the root cause & impact, and apply targeted fixes efficiently.

Prove the Quality

After change, ensure that desired functionality is preserved and undesired behavior is eliminated.

Find Dead Code

Streamline and remove risk from your codebase or modernization project by identifying code that no longer provides value.

Modernize Efficiently

Leverage insights from COBOL Colleague to make strategic modernization decisions.

Identify your Precise Business Rules

Find and understand the critical business logic and processes, even the edge cases.

Comply with Confidence

Verify and document application behavior against regulatory requirements.

Your intelligence amplified by our logic-based AI

An unbeatable partnership

Decoding Relevant Business Knowledge

Starting with source code, our neuro-symbolic AI untangles, analyzes, and translates/returns lost and encoded business knowledge.

Starting with source code, our neuro-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.

COBOL Colleague - Effortless Documentation and Understanding

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

COBOL Colleague - View COBOL from a Business Perspective

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

COBOL Colleague - Focus on the Code That Matters

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