APRA AMCOS is a music rights organization representing over 100,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. APRA AMCOS licenses organizations to play, perform, copy, record, or make available its members’ music, and distributes the royalties to its members. APRA AMCOS is affiliated with similar collecting societies around the world. So when Australian and New Zealand songs and compositions are performed overseas, Australian and New Zealand writers get paid. 

The challenge was to accommodate a massive increase in streaming music data locally and globally, by modernizing a dated IT infrastructure.

Read the full story and how this was done with Visual COBOL here.