Case Study: B+B Unternehmensberatung achieves COBOL modernization and expanded market reach with OpenText

Successfully bridging the old with the new to gain competitive advantage through reusing long-standing, trusted COBOL solutions

B+B Unternehmensberatung, a German consultancy founded in 1986, helps clients modernize mission‑critical COBOL systems that remain business‑critical but are locked into rigid, monolithic infrastructures. The challenge was to enable flexible, cost‑effective access to new channels—cloud, mobile and DevOps—without the time, cost and risk of rewriting or replacing heavily customized legacy applications.

B+B uses Micro Focus COBOL Analyzer and Enterprise Analyzer to visualize dependencies and cut redundant code, then builds pilots with Micro Focus Visual COBOL to run COBOL on modern distributed platforms. The phased approach opened legacy systems to integration, cloud and mobile, reduced maintenance and transaction times, lowered infrastructure costs, and attracted modern development skills—giving clients a low‑risk path to new markets and improved competitive agility.

B+B Unternehmensberatung

Sören Kemmann

Managing Director