Extremely good news for Innoveo today!

Although I am already on holidays, I would like to mark this day and to share my excitement with you all!

:-)

After about six months, we have reached a a great team-achievement again.

More “explicit information” to share with you in the coming time!

(and no, this has nothing to do with the fact that we are going to St Barth in some hours!)

Innoveo Launches New Corporate Identity

Dear customers, partners and friends

After 9 exciting and successful months on the market, we are proud to introduce our new corporate identity. It now represents our personality, culture, spirit and soul in a more appropriate way, as it has been built on our company’s…

VALUES /

  • INNOVATION
  • QUALITY, PROFESSIONALISM AND TRANSPARENCY
  • TRUST AND RESPECT
  • DYNAMISM AND FUN

MISSION /

  • ENABLING BUSINESS INNOVATION

VISION /

  • BE RESPECTED LEADERS IN CONNECTING THE INSURANCE BUSINESS WITH TECHNOLOGY

 

Find below our new Logo and get additional information about our CONSULTING SERVICES and our insurance framework INNOVEO SKYE by visiting our new company WEBSITE.

 

We are looking forward to a continuous successful co-operation and collaboration with you all under our new brand!

For the Innoveo Team,

Didier

PS1: a BIG THANK to Laurent for the great and efficient .Net implementation.

PS2: another BIG THANK to Andreas Koch, our absolutely great designer, for his support, commitment, and creativity.

PS3: another THANK to evaluant for their great Open Source product, EUSS (Evaluant Universal Storage Services).

PS4: and the last THANK to wygwam for their great help in the field of CSS.

Cobol is the future…if you agree or not!

via Ed Cone

Okay, I am a bit provocative ;-)

Cobol is surely not the development language you want to program with as Software Engineer today.

On the other side, one figure remains in my mind since more than 12 years. In 1995, there were more than 80 billion (billion, not million) SLOC (single line of code) developed in Cobol worldwide and in production. 80 billion! People thinking that you can get rid of these in the midterm are just….wrong ;-)

It was funny to read this post of Ed this morning:

And the hot new tech job is…COBOL programmer?

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but readers of this post about antiquated Pentagon systems are crowing about demand for old-school skills.

Says a commenter who goes by “Sing”: I do not know any young programmers that are interested in learning COBOL, but I do know a lot of older programmers that are looking forward to the inevitable jump in salary.

A recent report claimed that 65 percent of core systems at surveyed companies in the insurance industry were written in legacy code, including COBOL. And a computer science prof I spoke with says the skills crunch is for real, with big iron outlasting the folks who know what to do with it.

Related: Vint Cerf says, “Over time the bits we accumulate that represent value will not be able to be interpreted. We have to maintain the meaning of the data we accumulate.”

I am working in the Insurance Industry for a while and I personally think that much more than 65% of the legacy systems are written in Cobol… My perception is that we are near a 80-85% level, at least… Perhaps more the case in Europe? Could be!