In April 2007, Micro Focus announced it had extended the range of legacy hardware, languages and databases supported within its Application Modernization solution via a global partner ecosystem called the Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium (MTC). The MTC consists of approximately 50 companies specializing in migration or conversion, with each MTC partner focusing on just one or two platforms or languages to provide excellent depth of expertise while the consortium as a whole provides the breadth of platform coverage customers require.

Micro Focus, together with our MTC partners, has already completed over 600 legacy migrations.

Platform coverage includes BS2000, Bull GCOS, DEC VAX, DG, HP3000, ICL VME, Tandem, Unisys A series, Unisys 2200, and Wang. Popular third- and fourth-generation languages supported include ADSO, Application Master, Assembler, COBOL, CoolGen, CSP, EAE(LINC), Easytrieve, Ideal, Mantis, Pacbase, RPG, Telon and TPF, while proprietary databases such as Datacom, DMS, DMSII, IDMS, IDS2, INFOS, Model 204, PACE, and Supra are also supported.

As evidence of the success of the partner ecosystem, Scottish Life, with the help of Micro Focus and MSS International, moved its legacy applications from a proprietary Unisys Clearpath mainframe to a more open hardware and software environment. The project was completed within 18 months, on time, within budget, and Scottish Life has halved its IT operating costs as a result.

Micro Focus’ unique approach to migration dramatically reduces risk by maximizing the re-use of existing application business logic while minimizing or automating any required changes.

Using this approach you can move proven applications to whatever platform makes business sense without the excessive costs and inherent risks associated with application rewrites or package replacements.

Migrated applications can then be extended and modernized to meet new requirements and fully unleash your business capabilities using contemporary development environments which:

• Reduce ongoing development costs while evolving the skills of your staff
• Improve quality and customer satisfaction levels
• Enable integration of historical applications via SOA, Web services, .NET or J2EE.

With our partners, Micro Focus can help you migrate from a wide breadth of platforms, languages and databases. This breadth of support combined with our choice of modernization options on Windows, UNIX, Linux and zLinux has enabled Micro Focus to support more successful migrations than reported by any other independent software vendor.

For further information please visit http://www.microfocus.com/Solutions/ApplicationModernization
/AMM/index.asp  and
http://www.microfocus.com/partners/mtc.asp