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The so-called “COBOL Skills Shortage” is compelling many organizations to impetuously hire and train programmers to maintain, support, and attempt to modernize their COBOL systems. But understanding how to write COBOL is not enough — developers have to comprehend what an application actually does and how code changes can impact the system as a whole […]
Government system failures during the rush to provide public benefits to alleviate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic publicly exposed the mainframe knowledge crisis that also threatens financial institutions, healthcare providers, and many other organizations foundational to the world economy. Several states discovered the knowledge-gap’s potentially devastating consequences when waves of unemployment-claims poured into […]
COBOL maintenance costs are rising as aging developers leave the workforce and well-trained replacements are in short supply. Learn about how pervasive COBOL-based applications remain, why the supporting developer workforce is shrinking every year, and scrutinize our estimates of how high these applications’ maintenance costs are rising. I began working with mainframe programming languages in […]
Gary Brach, Ken Hei, and Brad Cleavenger discuss how Phase Change’s assistive AI removes the doubt associated with changing software applications. Changing software is difficult and expensive, and it can be a major stumbling block to business innovation. Phase Change’s assistive AI will enable software teams to quickly and fearlessly address market opportunities by rapidly […]
Today’s AI technology is amazing. Only a few short years ago, only humans could interpret the meaning of text and speech. Now our cell phones understand our voices and language well enough to distinguish accents, metaphors, and sarcasm. IBM’s Watson supercomputer even understood Alex Trebek well enough to beat some of Jeopardy!’s® best players. Computers […]
This is the fourth and final in a series of practical talks by founder and CEO Steve Bucuvalas about Phase Change Software, what we are developing, the math and science behind our technology, and the impact on the software development process. Using a whimsical example of dog banking, Steve discusses how the knowledge that’s encoded […]
