Astadia supporting cost saving and improved performance at WorkSafe BC

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of British Columbia, Canada. Astadia is an enterprise IT modernization solutions company. For nearly 30 years, Astadia has a rich history of providing industry leading enterprise modernization services that focus on cloud application development, legacy migration and managed IT services in today’s blended enterprise and cloud ecosystem. WorkSafeBC decided to move the existing core application workload from its mainframe environment to server-based technology running on Windows. This standardized its operations on the Windows .NET platform and consolidated IT operations on a smaller platform footprint, reducing operating costs.

 

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Visual Studio

Visual COBOL for Visual Studio provides advanced COBOL editing and debugging for application developers. Continuous background compilation, auto complete, code analysis, and code search are just a few of the many developer tools available to streamline application delivery. Utilize REST and JSON to build new web services. Create new user interfaces using Win Forms or WPF. Combine COBOL with C#, VB, and other .NET languages—all within one IDE.

Eclipse

Visual COBOL for Eclipse provides advanced COBOL editing and debugging for application developers. Continuous background compilation code analysis, code search, and remote compile, and debugging are just a few of the many developer tools available to streamline application delivery. Utilize REST and JSON to build new web services. Create new user interfaces using HTML-5. Combine COBOL with Java and other Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages—all within one IDE.

Docker, Containers, and Cloud

The Micro Focus COBOL compiler and runtime system provides universal platform coverage enabling COBOL applications to be deployed across a range of distributed systems, ensuring compatibility and consistent behavior across different platforms. Standard library routines callable from COBOL applications enable a write-once, deploy-anywhere approach for developers. The latest release of Visual COBOL takes this development and deployment flexibility even further with support for Docker containers. New product packaging options enable Docker deployment to both Windows Server and Linux platforms.

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