2nd May 2007 13:00
Micro Focus (Micro Focus(R), LSE: MCRO.L), a leader in enterpriseapplication management and modernization solutions, today announcedits acceptance as an IBM Business Partner for the SOA Specialty aftermeeting IBM's technical, education and business requirements. Withthis achievement, Micro Focus' Mainframe Express(R) Enterprise Editionintegrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA. £ "SOA is an increasingly important business requirement fororganizations because of the business flexibility it enables," saidSandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group."Micro Focus' commitment to SOA provides their customers with apowerful way to reduce development costs while rapidly deployingoperational, fully modernized applications." £ Mainframe Express, Micro Focus' unified environment for mainframedevelopment is the industry's leading technology for creating,maintaining and testing COBOL, CICS and IMS applications. Addingcompliance with SOA standards enables Mainframe Express to immediatelylink to all IBM software and strategy for SOA. The results are reducedproject times and complexity coupled with accelerated adoption of IBMWebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.The key to innovation and operational excellence in business is inusing existing resources. £ "Having already successfully tested in the same technologicalframework ourselves, we are delighted that Micro Focus and IBM areworking together around our SOA efforts," said Steve Wiggins, chiefinformation officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina."Since Micro Focus and IBM technologies are central to our SOAstrategy, this integration is an important positive step for us." £ "Support for SOA is critical to reducing the cost and time todeployment for business-critical mainframe applications," said StuartMcGill, chief technology officer at Micro Focus. "IBM software andstrategy for SOA provides our joint customers with a best-of-breeddevelopment platform for solving business challenges." £ About Micro Focus £ Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovativesoftware that allows companies to dramatically improve the businessvalue of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus EnterpriseApplication Modernization and Management software enables customers'business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embracemodern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additionalinformation please visit www.microfocus.com. £ Micro Focus and Mainframe Express are registered trademarks ofMicro Focus. All other products and companies mentioned in thisannouncement are trademarks of their respective organizations. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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