Overview Capital Software provides payroll, payments and collection services to corporate and SME customers throughout Africa. The company is also one of the largest issuers of co-branded pre-paid debit cards in South Africa. Challenge This 50 year old business ran on a COBOL- based mainframe application since the late 1960s. During the client/server era in the 1990s, Capital Software converted its COBOL code to ACUCOBOL-GT, meeting customer demand for increased platform and data- base interoperability. It has since followed the Micro Focus ACUCOBOL upgrade path, as Jacques de Wet, Managing Director for Capital Software, explains: “Every extend release gave us new features enabling us to bring a richer customer experience. However, the underly- ing architecture was perceived

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