Happy National STEM Day!

Happy National STEM Day!

Today we celebrate all who work in science, technology, engineering, and math. These subjects push society to create, invent, and find innovative ways to change the status quo. Fun fact, the date of November 8th was chosen because it’s a play on words for Innovate...
Mainframe Modernization: The Why and How

Mainframe Modernization: The Why and How

Mainframes have been around for over 50 years. Billions of lines of code have been written to support business applications that reside on the mainframe. Today’s organizations rely on these legacy systems and the decades of business knowledge build into the...
Real-time Mainframe Integration Needs ‘Smart’ APIs

Real-time Mainframe Integration Needs ‘Smart’ APIs

Mainframe applications built decades ago had no concept of online transactions triggered by a REST or SOAP API request. The focus was on a computerized workflow via an interactive dialog, with an end-user sitting at a dumb terminal that supported specific business...
COBOL Turns the Big 6-0!

COBOL Turns the Big 6-0!

Happy 60th birthday, COBOL! COBOL or common business-oriented language was officially given its name on September 18th, 1959. COBOL is an English-like computer programming language widely used by companies and government entities around the globe. COBOL is extremely...