Program Benefits
Over the past six months we talked to a number of Application Providers to understand the benefits they want from the Micro Focus Application Provider Program. Please tell us what you want.
Specialized commercial terms for application deployment
In order to remain competitive in today's fast-paced, global market, Application Providers want to find ways to make it easier for end-customers to do business with them. For many, this means aligning the costs of deploying and supporting applications with the Application Provider business model. Under the program Micro Focus will work with the Application Provider to assess the appropriate licensing model to meet your commercial requirements.
What do you think? Will this help? How could we improve?
Specialized pricing for in-house development and application modernization tools
Application Providers need to deliver highly competitive, high performance modern applications with excellent end-user experience to maximise revenue opportunity and win new customers.
Micro Focus will offer specialized pricing for application development and modernization tools to enable you to maximize the value and attractiveness of your applications. A flexible approach working with you to develop a pricing model that helps to reduce your total cost of development.
Faster access to the latest Micro Focus technologies
Through the Program, Application Providers may access new Micro Focus technologies to enhance application competitiveness and reduce development & deployment costs. The technology is always changing, whether it be the addition of a graphical user interface, access to a relational database, interoperability with XML, Java, and .NET, or the deployment of a service-oriented architecture. Application Providers can benefit from these new technologies early to enhance applications and generate additional revenue opportunities.
Let us know how you would like to access and leverage new technology
Responsive technical support aligned to your development and customer needs
Whether you have 10 customers or 1,000, your applications must be designed to meet their critical business needs—making timely and accurate technical advice crucial to your organization’s success. At Micro Focus, we realize how important this is and are committed to providing the best technical service to our Application Provider customers.
From development to deployment, with Micro Focus support contract, our Customer Support Team are available to quickly respond to your support needs 7 days a week and 24 hours a day — via the Internet and telephone. Support agreements may be aligned to the service you provide to end-users.
We would like to hear from you to understand how we could improve our support services to better enable your business.
One-on-one communication with specialized Account Manager and technical experts
As new technologies emerge and business needs fluctuate, Application Providers must be able to identify the long-range plans and strategies of their IT vendors. To communicate these important initiatives, Micro Focus maintains continued and prolonged contact with Application Provider customers. It is our goal that you are as familiar with our technology plan as you are with your own. To ensure this, Micro Focus meets with our Application Provider customers on an on-going basis to develop joint technical roadmaps. We are not just concerned with being a good business partner; we strive to be a critical technical partner.
What are your expectations and needs concerning contact with Micro Focus?
Business development and marketing resources
Growing business is an imperitive for today's Application Provider. In future, Application Providers may be able to access marketing and business development resources including marketing segmentation and planning, campaign development and marketing investment.
The team would like to hear from you to understand what would help drive your business.
Unparalled product stability and reliability
Perhaps the greatest benefit to Application Providers is utilising a flexible development environment which delivers the highest product stability and reliability. Application Providers can maintain competitiveness and minimize customer maintenance costs by ensuring their software applications are stable and reliable. For more than 30 years, Micro Focus’ COBOL development system is respected for its proven reliabilty and stabilty underpinning numerous Application Providers' solutions.
Tell us how we can help you utilize your proven COBOL-based software with alternative development architectures incorporating languages such as Java and .NET.
