Case Study: CGI Sweden future-proofs its payroll solution with OpenText Visual COBOL and COBOL Analyzer

Visual COBOL and COBOL Analyzer ensure business-critical COBOL-based payroll solution’s long-term future

CGI Sweden inherited a business-critical COBOL-based payroll solution and needed to keep it fully supported while preparing it for the future, including a possible move to the cloud. With senior COBOL developers nearing retirement, CGI turned to OpenText and its OpenText™ Micro Focus™ Visual COBOL™ for Visual Studio and OpenText™ Micro Focus™ COBOL Analyzer to modernize development and bring in new talent safely.

OpenText helped CGI Sweden recompile and validate the application in a parallel environment, preserving business logic and reducing risk to production. With COBOL Analyzer, developers gained deeper code insight, faster onboarding, and better impact analysis for changes; CGI also reported concurrent development, improved efficiency, and a more streamlined workflow. The upgrade extended the life of the solution by several decades and set a clear path toward future cloud deployment.

CGI Sweden

Carl Gerhardsson

Development Manager