Micro Focus Accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty.--Service Oriented Architecture Approach Drives Business Agility and Flexibility-- ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Micro Focus (Micro Focus[R], LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announced its acceptance as an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Business Partner for the SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Specialty after meeting IBM's technical, education and business requirements. With this achievement, Micro Focus' Mainframe Express[R] Enterprise Edition integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA. "SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "Micro Focus' commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce development costs while rapidly deploying operational, fully modernized applications." Mainframe Express, Micro Focus' unified environment for mainframe development is the industry's leading technology for creating, maintaining and testing COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. applications. Adding compliance with SOA standards enables Mainframe Express to immediately link to all IBM software and strategy for SOA. The results are reduced project times and complexity coupled with accelerated adoption of IBM WebSphere Application Server This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The key to innovation and operational excellence in business is in using existing resources. "Having already successfully tested in the same technological framework ourselves, we are delighted that Micro Focus and IBM are working together around our SOA efforts," said Steve Wiggins, chief information officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. "Since Micro Focus and IBM technologies are central to our SOA strategy, this integration is an important positive step for us." "Support for SOA is critical to reducing the cost and time to deployment for business-critical mainframe applications," said Stuart McGill, chief technology officer at Micro Focus. "IBM software and strategy for SOA provides our joint customers with a best-of-breed development platform for solving business challenges." About Micro Focus Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com. Micro Focus and Mainframe Express are registered trademarks of Micro Focus. All other products and companies mentioned in this announcement are trademarks of their respective organizations. |
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