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San Jose, April
30, 2002
- Affiliated Network Services (ANS) of Chicago, which delivers real time
insurance information to dentist's offices via the web, is among the first
companies to migrate to Fujitsu Software Corporation's NetCOBOL™
for .NET, a compiler and rich development environment for COBOL built
for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. As a result,
dentists who use ANSLink®, ANS' flagship product, can immediately
provide patients with information about insurance benefits and coverage
for specific procedures.
"When I founded
ANS in 1997, our application developers chose Fujitsu's COBOL development
platform because of its stability, unparalleled support and tight integration
with our chosen environment - Microsoft Windows," said Dr. Fred Horowitz,
chairman and CEO, ANS. "Now, rapid growth is our biggest challenge
and we need to adopt the latest technology so we can handle larger numbers
of users. With NetCOBOL for .NET, we will have the ability to support
our anticipated growth to 15,000 dental offices, processing 28 million
claims in the next 12 months."
NetCOBOL for .NET
allows companies with existing COBOL assets to recompile their COBOL85
programs and enhance them using the wealth of technologies available in
the Microsoft .NET Framework. The ability to compile existing code enables
a clear migration path for businesses wanting to move to a platform that
can deliver the kind of cost savings and technological innovation necessary
to give them a competitive edge.
"By using these
latest tools from Fujitsu and Microsoft, we're able to deliver a product
to our users that goes way beyond anything we could have imagined just
a year ago," said Jordan Fifer, chief technology officer, ANS. "With
Fujitsu's NetCOBOL, we've been able to take current COBOL applications
and migrate them to the latest and greatest technology quickly and efficiently."
The Microsoft .NET
platform supports an unprecedented level of integration between a variety
of languages and technologies. NetCOBOL for .NET also takes advantage
of the Microsoft .NET Framework's strengths in developing XML Web services,
making it easier for COBOL programmers to expose their code as components.
"I'm a dentist,
not a computer whiz, but I can tell you that ANSLink makes everything
in my office run more smoothly and efficiently," said Dr. Henry Lotsof,
DDS. "It makes life easier for me, my staff and my patients."
NetCOBOL for .NET
includes a new compiler targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework common
language runtime, support for ASP.NET and XML Web services, and integration
with the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment. The released
product also includes preliminary support for the Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET Windows Forms designer, which supports a rich drag and drop design-time
experience for developing rich client user interfaces using COBOL.
"At Fujitsu,
we're committed to language integration as a strategic component of the
Microsoft .NET Framework. Tight integration with .NET allows COBOL programmers
to take advantage of the significant investment Microsoft has made in
making the .NET platform scaleable," said Dr. Basim Kadhim, chief
architect, languages, Fujitsu Software Corporation. "As the only
COBOL compiler vendor to provide direct support for the Microsoft .NET
platform, Fujitsu is excited about exploring even greater opportunities
for our products and our customers."
For more
details about NetCOBOL for .NET, visit the NetCOBOL Web site at http://www.netcobol.com.
About Fujitsu Software Corporation
Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is part of
the Fujitsu Limited family. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu's
international scope and expertise in developing and providing information
technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products include
INTERSTAGE™, e-business infrastructure software that includes the
INTERSTAGE Application Server and INTERSTAGE i-Flow™, and NetCOBOL™.
The INTERSTAGE Application Server enables enterprises to build and run
mission critical applications.
The INTERSTAGE i-Flow Business Process Management Engine empowers enterprises
to manage business processes and business process change. NetCOBOL is
a COBOL development environment and suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical
business systems on open platforms, including Microsoft's .NET Framework.
For more information, visit http://www.fsw.fujitsu.com.
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