Micro Focus Studio™ Enterprise Edition

Micro Focus Studio™ Enterprise Edition is a highly productive development environment for application engineers to analyze and migrate proven business applications to lower cost platforms and rapidly modernize those applications.

It also contains all the development and testing tools you need to fully unlock the value of these business assets by reusing them and extending them to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), through .NET, Web services or J2EE.

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Highlights

Supports the entire application development life cycle from analysis to test
Minimizes change via unsurpassed IBM mainframe COBOL, IBM CICS^TM , IBM IMS^TM and IBM JCL^TM compatibility
Delivers a highly-productive development environment
Includes both a CICS and IMS TM compatible OLTP system for unit testing COBOL/CICS or COBOL/IMS TM applications
Features a IMS DB compatible database for unit testing COBOL/IMS DB applications
Provides a Job Execution System (JES) engine for unit testing batch JCL/COBOL applications
Exposes COBOL, CICS COMMAREA, IMS SPA, BMS/MFS screens and 3270 workflows as programmable interfaces
Renders programmable interfaces as .NET Winforms/WebForms, Java server pages or Web services

Benefits

Helps determine the ROI you should expect in migrating any application
Delivers migration benefits earlier as application functionality is re-used intact
Mitigates risk as your core application logic behaves exactly as it did on the mainframe
Reduces annual development costs and dramatically cuts annual operating costs of applications
Increases productivity by up to 50%
Cuts time taken to deliver modernized applications with new web or graphical user interfaces
Improves agility as tried and tested business functions can be re-used as Web services
Simplifies business process integration through choice of platforms to execute core applications

Additional Information

Micro Focus Studio™ Enterprise Edition supports the entire development lifecycle from analysis to test, while its companion product Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition, supports the deployment of the migrated application on new Windows, UNIX or Linux production platforms.