Micro Focus APS Users Score Major Win with Support from Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench(R); Application Understanding, Rich Reporting & Analysis, and Business Rule Management Help Clients Modernize Their APS Applications.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Organizations with Micro Focus APS applications gain significant value through the ability of Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench to richly document, analyze, and modernize their APS code. APS users can leverage the Modernization Workbench platform to rapidly adapt their applications to align with new business strategies.

This alignment of sophisticated APS applications with business needs requires that developers have a solid understanding of the structure and function of their code. This insight should be built not simply on high-level documentation and analysis. Rather, it should contain deep reporting and visualizations like impact, data, and control flow analysis, as well as the ability to create semantic queries that probe deeply into the APS code. Further, to govern APS applications, organizations must be able to locate and then document, organize, and audit their business logic.

To address these needs, Relativity Technologies, Inc. has expanded the environment coverage of its flexible Modernization Workbench platform to embrace APS applications. Now, users can rely on the Modernization Workbench to:

--Facilitate Management of the Application Portfolio: The Modernization Workbench provides managers with detailed, readily accessible metrics and reports on their APS applications. Armed with this information, managers can effectively allocate development resources to the highest value maintenance and modernization activities.

--Reduce Maintenance Costs: The Modernization Workbench gives users synchronized views of their applications at both an inter- and intra-program level, including crossprogram impact analysis. By better understanding their complex APS applications, developers can execute needed changes in less time with reduced risk.

--Rapidly Modernize APS Applications: Through the Modernization Workbench, users can quickly locate, document, and manage their applications' business logic. Doing so helps business analysts and developers to more efficiently specify how applications need to be adjusted to support new business requirements.

--Expedite Regulatory Compliance: Organizations in regulated industries must be able to efficiently adapt their business processes to align with industry standards and government regulations such as HIPAA. The Modernization Workbench accelerates the alignment of APS applications with new requirements while simplifying auditing via browser-based views into your business logic.

The Modernization Workbench platform provides a complete and integrated solution for understanding, managing, modernizing, and maintaining enterprise applications. Because of the flexibility of its standards-based repository, the Modernization Workbench allows users to concurrently analyze and modernize applications developed in numerous programming environments. Further, through the Enterprise Application Modernization (EAM) Framework, the addition of support for virtually any additional environment can be rapidly achieved.

"The ability to precisely understand and adapt enterprise applications to meet new requirements is a prerequisite in today's extremely competitive business environment," said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies. "This extension of the Modernization Workbench's already comprehensive programming language support enables organizations to reduce risk and derive more business value from their APS-based applications. The addition of support for environments like APS is straightforward via our recently announced EAM Framework."

The Modernization Workbench for APS has already been successfully deployed within multiple large financial services development organizations.

About Relativity Technologies, Inc.

Relativity Technologies' software solutions drive down the cost and accelerate the understanding, modernization, management, and maintenance of enterprise applications. The Modernization Workbench(r) serves as a platform for organizations to address critical business challenges such as increased IT productivity, outsourcing management, risk reduction, regulatory compliance, and SOA enablement of business-critical applications. Founded in 1997 and based in Raleigh, NC, Relativity Technologies provides its Enterprise Application Modernization solutions to over 300 Global 2000 companies, outsourcers, system integrators, and government organizations - - including 8 of the world's 25 largest banks. For more information, please visit www.relativity.com.