COBOL application development solutions

Our services include turnkey solutions as well as consulting, maintenance, and support, enabling our clients to expand their business beyond their current boundaries. Thanks to its user-friendliness, simple syntaxis, and immense portability, it is still used by government agencies, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, and human resources departments today.
With Innowise, you can count on our COBOL application developers to deliver cost-effective and high-quality services.

Many languages came into play, became obsolete and went away. But COBOL is still in the game. Choose Innowise as your COBOL partner.

COBOL application development services

We at Innowise help our clients bring their tech ideas to life. As seasoned IT specialists, we are able to fill the expertise gap and provide solutions to foster business performance. We assist customers during the entire software development life cycle, ensuring exceptional quality and a fast time-to-market.

Mainframe application development

Our vetted software engineers work with large central computer systems to develop complex mainframe applications that allow high-speed calculations and multitasking.

COBOL application testing

During comprehensive testing, we evaluate the solutions' performance and eliminate flaws, thereby reducing costs, saving development time, and facilitating product release.

COBOL application deployment

Our services are designed to help you get your application up and running as efficiently as possible, so you can focus on what you do best - running your business.

COBOL maintenance

Keeping up with the latest tech advancements, we change, modify, and enhance software to comply with new requirements and customer needs regardless of the project's complexity.

COBOL migration

Innowise assists in software migration, transferring data, settings and other configuration details from the existing COBOL ecosystem to a new one seamlessly.

COBOL support

Our top-tier developers deliver technical product help and guarantee complete support if anything goes wrong. We always stay in touch with customers after product launch.

COBOL development product integration

Though the tech community often considers COBOL a legacy programming language, many Fortune 500 companies employ it to address their tech challenges. Besides its simplicity and agility, it offers convenient tools to ensure smooth integration with third-party platforms and services. We at Innowise know how to reap all the language’s benefits and channel them toward business transformation.

Visual COBOL

We leverage Visual COBOL capabilities to design, test and deploy solutions that stay compatible across various platforms and are easy to scale, including .Net, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Linux, and Docker containers.

RM/COBOL

RM/COBOL finds implementation as a comprehensive development tool that enables software engineers to reuse application logic and data for supporting new business requirements and initiatives.

COBOL Analyzer

This smart toolset ensures that large-scale, complex applications run smoothly and the team won't encounter any tech issues when planning and implementing modifications.

ACUCOBOL-GT

When considering business-critical applications, ACUCOBOL-GT is an indispensable assistant since it supports hundreds of platforms and offers extensive interoperability facilities with C, Java, .NET and XMS.

Hire COBOL developers

Since 2007, Innowise strives to expand its vast pool of experienced software engineers, accumulating and multiplying broad expertise. Throughout our existence, we have partnered with clients from + countries, completing more than projects of various complexity and size. As we begin a new collaboration with a client, we remain transparent and approachable, always willing to discuss changes to the project’s scope.Whether you need help with transforming your business to digitalization or developing a custom solution using COBOL, our teams are ready to help.

Unleash the benefits of Cobol software development with Innowise.

Embrace digitization that opens new business possibilities.

Some of the unique benefits of COBOL development

Since 1959, COBOL has evolved significantly, embracing enhancements in code writing. Though the language’s development was discontinued in 2014, it is still in demand and continues to exist until the software is ready to migrate to a new alternative. Below, we unleash the benefits of this programming language.

Global business language

Fintech, healthcare, retail, and automotive industries still use COBOL to address software challenges. For instance, business giants such as IBM, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase still put stakes on the language in business computing.

Easy readability

Since the philosophy behind emerging COBOL was immense understandability, developers today can easily comprehend the basic language’s syntax that does not employ pointers, functions and user-defined data types.

Seamless integration

COBOL is easily compatible with modern architectures and complex technologies such as Java, C#, and Docker container, runs on .NET and JVM and smoothly interoperates with Azure and AWS cloud environments.

Portable language

We at Innowise aim to develop solutions that stay accessible across various operating systems. Thus, the platform-agnostic aspect allows for building COBOL apps that run on Windows and Mac.

COBOL applications – where are they used

COBOL is still a powerful programming language widely employed by a range of companies, governmental organizations, non-commercial institutions, and many others. The platform is expected to continue supporting critical business functions for another decade, helping startups, SMEs, and large enterprises fulfill their aspirations. Below are some industries where the programming language is used.

Finance

Innowise helps FinTech companies take full advantage of COBOL as a high-level tool for ensuring safe transactions, batch-processing tasks, and finance software development

Finance

Education

Our team of competent specialists will deploy eLearning applications and education solutions that make the educational process interactive, efficient, cost-effective, and engaging for both teachers and students.

Education

Healthcare

With our extensive experience in custom healthcare software development, we are capable of constructing complex solutions that comply with medical quality standards.

Healthcare

eCommerce

Innowise makes the best of building online shopping software and enterprise marketplaces that ensure great customer journeys and retention rates.

eCommerce

Logistics & Transportation

We design and deploy solutions to manage supply chains and monitor the delivery process, accelerating stable and predictable transportation processes.

Logistics & Transportation

Automotive

Our top-tier teams equip customers with software in the automotive industry that allows for configuring and maintaining error-free production lines.

Automotive

Manufacturing

We know how to help enterprises improve operational performance, reduce costs, and increase revenue with Go-based solutions, including custom manufacturing software, possessing exceptionally high ROI.

Manufacturing

Enterprise

Innowise helps enterprizes of different sizes build custom software that satisfies their business needs and brings high ROI.

Enterprise

Finance

Innowise helps FinTech companies take full advantage of COBOL as a high-level tool for ensuring safe transactions, batch-processing tasks, and finance software development

Finance

Education

Healthcare

With our extensive experience in custom healthcare software development, we are capable of constructing complex solutions that comply with medical quality standards.

Healthcare

eCommerce

Our exceptional developers will raise the value of customer business, be it an online shop or an enterprise marketplace, offering a one-of-the-kind user experience for online purchases.

eCommerce

Logistics & Transportation

Within this industry, accuracy and speed of operation can be vital, hence, our developers present digital services for storage handling, sorting, packing, and goods transportation.

Logistics & Transportation

Automotive

We have many creative technology-driven developers on board, ready to deliver comprehensive media and entertainment solutions that attract the target audience and increase engagement rates.

Automotive

Manufacturing

Marketing

Innowise pays much attention to marketing, advertising, PR, and other promotion-related activities and helps companies address the new reality of today’s customers: selective and tech-savvy.

Marketing

COBOL development technologies

Innowise applies in-house expertise and best-in-class technologies to complete custom projects. No matter what the project, our hand-picked professionals are overachievers who implement advanced technologies and deliver flawless bespoke solutions.

Visual Studio

As an IDE, this technology links Visual Studio and COBOL, creating an environment for building native apps with managed .NET tools.

Visual Studio Code

We use this powerful code editor for bug fixing, syntax highlighting, smart code completion and refactoring, snippets, and embedded Git.

GnuCOBOL

This tool plays the role of a transcompiler to C, making native and executables from COBOL compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac, and other OS.

OpenCobolIDE

Based on the GnuCOBOL compiler, this simple and lightweight IDE allows for smart syntax highlighting and computing PIC fields offsets.

SQL/DB2

We use relational databases and Structured Query Language capabilities to gain access to data and provide secure storages that withstand high server loads.

Endevor

With Endevor, software versions are automated, controlled, monitored, and managed smoothly, allowing developers to keep track of the project status.

How much does it cost to build a custom COBOL application?

Since every custom software development project is unique, there is no predefined answer to the question. The final cost is calculated proceeding from the project’s complexity and scope, team size, members’ hourly rates, selected tech stack, project duration, etc. We at Innowise are not interested in budget ballooning and, therefore, offer transparent pricing conditions based on T&M, fixed price or dedicated team cooperation models.

Something is fashionable, something is outdated, but something is eternal - and that’s COBOL.

We build things that last.

Why hire COBOL developers from Innowise?

Although many of the world’s transaction processing systems still use COBOL, finding competent, reliable software engineers may be challenging. With a vast pool of dedicated software evangelists, Innowise fills the knowledge gap and delivers solutions that drive revenues and give customers competitive advantages.

If a customer lacks industry-specific IT expertise, our specialists can either augment their existing team or start a new project from scratch. Thanks to this, more than 90% of clients come back with new projects to tackle, cementing long-term relationships that we describe as professionals to professionals.

Since 2002, COBOL has become one of the object-oriented programming languages, but only a handful of COBOL software developers manage to obtain enough competence to deal with complicated maintenance and development projects. Based on that, today, many customers struggle to find reliable vendors that can complete complex bespoke projects. When you choose Innowise, you can rest assured that all milestones will be reached and that you will receive the results that you expect.

Dmitry Nazarevich

CTO at Innowise

What our customers think

Since our collaboration is successful, Innowise’s resources have stayed engaged in our projects for a long time. The reliability and vast expertise of their frontend, backend, and QA engineers are impressive.

George Fironov CEO Talmatic

Since 2019 we've been enjoying the services rendered by Innowise to implement a strategically important project on the modernization of a network of internal IT systems.

Dr. Udo Richter Director N:aip

We are more than satisfied with our fruitful cooperation with Innowise, as they perform tasks in accordance with our high requirements and corporate standards and bring the desired results.

Stefania Basciu Senior Manager Topcon Agriculture

FAQ

Can Innowise help me migrate to COBOL?

Yes, Innowise renders full-fledged migration services with no data loss.

What is COBOL?

It is a compiled computer programming language founded in 1959 with simple syntaxis and portability.

Why COBOL is used for the business applications?

As it is seamlessly integrated with other programming languages, external platforms, and services, COBOL is still in use in fintech, education, healthcare, eCommerce, etc.

How long does it take to develop COBOL application?

There are no unambiguous frames that determine the project duration. Every case is influenced by such factors as project industry, complexity, scope, and team size.

Need other services?

Audit and consulting

Our experienced consultants will ensure the relevance and proper use of technologies in your project.

Custom software development

Innowise develops and implements a wide range of custom solutions for various industries.

Dedicated developers

Innowise has a great number of skilled technical and IT management experts to enhance your project team.

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Having received and processed your request, we will get back to you shortly to detail your project needs and sign an NDA to ensure the confidentiality of information.

After examining requirements, our analysts and developers devise a project proposal with the scope of works, team size, time, and cost estimates.

We arrange a meeting with you to discuss the offer and come to an agreement.

We sign a contract and start working on your project as quickly as possible.

COBOL application development solutions

COBOL application development services