IDEA INTEGRATION BUILDS COBOL APP DEV PRACTICE WITH MICRO FOCUS REVOLVE ENTERPRISE EDITION
- Several Fortune 500 companies leverage Idea Integration Legacy Documentation Services-

ROCKVILLE , Md. , and NEWBURY, England., Oct. 24, 2006 - Micro Focus® (LSE: MCRO.L), a leading provider of core system application development solutions, and Idea Integration®, the technology solutions and systems integration unit of MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE: MPS), have teamed to provide leading organizations new tools and processes powered by Micro Focus Revolve® Enterprise Edition. Revolve enables companies to document, analyze and understand mission-critical COBOL applications to lower IT development costs and reduce inherent risks in mass change projects.

Several Fortune 500 companies leveraging this service offering are now able to clearly understand their application source code as they prepare for system modernization efforts and for ensuring regulatory compliance. With Revolve as the key technology offering at their COBOL Center of Excellence (CCE), Idea Integration helps its customers reduce costs for application development and provides a pathway forward for critical systems, some of which are more than 30 years old.

Through the CCE and its use of Revolve Enterprise Edition, Idea Integration's customized service offerings provide customers with large investments in COBOL applications clear, concise information about their legacy systems in either hard-copy or via a secured website. This information includes source code documentation, impact analysis and overall understanding of the entire makeup of core applications. When companies embark on application modernization projects or desire to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory concerns such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Revolve Enterprise Edition enables them to accurately estimate time and effort on these projects while allowing Idea Integration to pass savings on to its customers.

"We continue to see organizations wanting to do more with existing assets," said Steve Steuart, senior vice president for legacy solutions at Idea Integration. "Revolve Enterprise Edition is a key component of our overall application development solution set and its ability to accurately reflect entire systems, often many years old, is a great benefit when helping customers meet their IT objectives."

A large power supplier recently embarked upon a worldwide SAP deployment and with COBOL code more than 30 years old, they wanted to identify all components of their legacy systems to ensure that all requirements were being met. As a result, a group of files that were creating reports were not contemplated in the SAP deployment. Revolve Enterprise Edition has been able to find these orphan programs and allow their client to understand the impact of any changes to such programs. In some cases, orphan programs are critically important but cannot be imported to newer packages. Idea Integration is then able to provide low-cost platform options for migrating the critical application.

A Fortune 500 financial services company is seeing the benefits of the Idea Integration and Micro Focus partnership by analyzing and documenting its COBOL source code to ensure regulatory compliance. With Idea Integration managing this project, their client does not have to purchase any hardware or software and is provided with the most accurate and detailed reporting on source code available.

"We are pleased to partner with Idea Integration on providing technology solutions that help end users with better understanding of their core systems, often residing on the mainframe platform," said Stuart McGill, vice president of worldwide marketing at Micro Focus. "Revolve Enterprise Edition, together with Idea's additional capabilities for all 'flavors' of COBOL, is a key pathway forward for modernizing mainframe-based applications in a cost-effective and low risk manner."

About Idea Integration
Idea Integration is a professional IT consulting and technology solutions firm specializing in application development, digital data management, business intelligence, infrastructure and security, and interactive marketing. Idea serves clients throughout the United States with high value application consulting services. For more information, please visit www.idea.com.

Micro Focus - Unlocking the Value of Legacy™

Micro Focus is a leading provider of legacy development and deployment software for enterprise platforms. Micro Focus enables organizations to reduce costs and increase agility with minimal risk by reusing their legacy applications with contemporary architectures and Web services. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a global company with principal offices

in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan. For more information, visit www.microfocus.com.

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