Workshop: COBOL with Enterprise Java Beans

The customer offers high quality system solutions for textiles supply, company hygiene and occupational health and safety, e.g. for health care. It is responsible for procuring, delivering, caring for and cleaning textiles in line with a wide variety of hygiene specifications. This highly complex process is supported using software that is largely programmed in COBOL. There is a successor system that is very important to process controlling. The company is continuously expanding, meaning that geographically distant branches need to be integrated in terms of data processing. The aim is to find a strategy or technology that can modernize the customer's existing IT landscape in the long term. To minimize risk, the customer wants to use a gradual approach that would make it possible to continue to use existing COBOL programs. A complete replacement is to be avoided. Daily business must be ensured at all times.