Micro Focus International

Micro Focus is an international software company based in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of the FTSE 250 Index.

Services

With solutions and services for Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernisation, Testing and Management software to modernize and optimize large-scale software applications such as mainframe applications company.

The modernization includes the addition and expansion of existing applications using technologies such as J2EE or. NET, as well as optimization of applications on mainframe and host systems using low-cost platforms such as Windows, Unix and Linux. With the Micro Focus cloud services, companies can shift their core applications from your own host system on any cloud platform and reduce costs in this way and simplify processes. In early 2011, Micro Focus has introduced with Visual COBOL R3, a tool that can be operated with either Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse and can translate and Others COBOL directly for the Java Virtual Machine.

Micro Focus also offers consulting services in the fields of Application Portfolio Management, modernization of enterprise and mainframe applications, application development and quality assurance.

History

Micro Focus was founded in 1976 and was able to take a leading position in the COBOL market in the following years. The company became famous because it soon a complete COBOL development environment for the PC platform offering flexible development of user- COBOL programs on the PC and they could 1:1 port on mainframes or other systems.

1999 Micro Focus was merged with Intersolv to Merant. In June 2001, sold the company Merant Micro Focus area to the California investor group Golden Gate Capital and Parallax Capital. Since then, Micro Focus is acting again as a completely independent company.

Micro Focus has expanded its portfolio in recent years through a series of acquisitions. So in 2006 the Italian HAL Knowledge Solutions SPA, a manufacturer of Application Portfolio Management software acquired. 2007 acquired Micro Focus COBOL vendors Acucorp and 2008 NetManage, a company that develops software for the conversion of applications in Web -based solutions developed. 2009 took over the Micro Focus software maker Borland and Compuware 's business areas " Application Testing " and " Automated Software Quality ".