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COBOL's enduring dominance
  • Oct 6, 2025

COBOL's enduring dominance

An estimated 220 billion to 800 billion lines of COBOL code remain in active use across global enterprises. Over 80% of organizations anticipate these systems will outlast their current workforce. COBOL Colleague transforms the workforce crisis into an opportunity by preserving the business intelligence embedded in your code—creating a permanent knowledge base that outlasts any individual developer.

How AI can support maintenance of aging government systems
  • Jul 21, 2021

How AI can support maintenance of aging government systems

Phase Change President Steve Brothers recently authored a contributed article for Nextgov.com about how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help governments deal with the mainframe-developers skills shortage and continue to maintain critical legacy systems. The article, How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs, describes how we should change the current industry strategy […]

AI rises to the challenge with COBOL
  • Jun 3, 2021

AI rises to the challenge with COBOL

A May 28 article published by TechRadar pro, and written by Phase Change President Steve Brothers, explains how the well-reported “COBOL skills shortage” is not really a fundamental problem for enterprises that rely on mainframe systems. The real challenge is application knowledge. Developers can learn COBOL in less than 6 months. What they can’t learn […]

Legacy system failures expose the application knowledge gap’s harmful risks
  • Feb 24, 2021

Legacy system failures expose the application knowledge gap’s harmful risks

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 […]