COBOL-IT Enterprise Edition has been certified with Syncsort's High Performance Sort and Data Manipulation utilities.
Certification connects COBOL-IT applications to high-performance data manipulation tools

ACTON, MA, October 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- COBOL-IT, the Enterprise Class Open Source COBOL, today announced that Syncsort has certified its high performance data transformation technologies with the COBOL-IT Enterprise Runtime. Using the industry-standard EXTSM interface, COBOL-IT customers, which include Fortune-class corporations and government agencies, can now leverage the superior performance provided by Syncsort's suite of data manipulation products. With Sycsort's products, COBOL-IT customers can enhance their application's performance, and advance their modernization initiative with very few changes to their existing application, and consequently, very low risk.
"Syncsort is excited to partner with COBOL-IT to deliver world class enterprise application modernization solutions to our customers", said Matt Dowling, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances at Syncsort.
Syncsort's data transformation technologies improve the run-time performance of many data intensive applications through algorithm design, architecture exploitation, dynamic optimization, and constant benchmarking. It also optimizes run-time performance through state-of-the-art parallel processing technology and using the best I/O method available. This reduces CPU, memory and disk resource usage, allowing applications to be deployed on significantly smaller hardware systems, in turn lowering hardware costs considerably.
"COBOL-IT is committed to providing our customers with access to the highest performance solutions available", said Stephane Croce, CEO of COBOL-IT. "Data manipulation is an area that always commands attention, and Syncsort has a history of leading the industry in providing high-performance solutions. With this certification, COBOL-IT users can be assured that they can architect the very highest performance solution possible."

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