Computer Weekly

Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code

Last year, Unum partnered with Amazon Web Services and Pegasystems, which provides a low-code platform to Fortune 500 companies to automate their business processes, in a project to re-engineer Unum’s ...
TechSpot

Old-school mainframes could see renewed life with AI integration

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

156-year-old bank RBC still runs on mainframes, but it's working with IBM on tech updates that have helped speed up its development process by 30%

RBC still uses mainframes and a 61-year-old programming language called COBOL, but it's now working with IBM to "be faster ...
Computer Weekly

AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

The mainframe has been written off more than once, yet it remains stubbornly central to how the world’s largest organisations run. On IBM’s own reckoning, it sits behind 87% of all transactions ...