Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. (DCD) is over 20 years old and is the world's largest distributor of English-language comics and related items - with more than 1,000 suppliers buying and selling 2,500 new items each month to over 4,500 comic book shops and speciality retailers worldwide.

Several years ago DCD developed a COBOL application and database that met its needs and evolved as the company grew. But more recently a faster and better way of conducting business was needed, and DCD's customers increasingly wanted to manage their accounts in real-time on the Web. DCD turned to existing supplier Transoft to see how it could transfer data from the company’s main server to a Web interface.

The answer was Transoft Component Adapters - designed to speed up development time, reduce risk and allow DCD's new e-business application to integrate seamlessly with its existing business systems. Transoft has made DCD's COBOL data available to the Web, and it is now 10 times faster than the original approach.