Micro Focus Mainframe Solution

A unique approach that releases business applications to deliver maximum value.

IBM application modernization strategies can hit constraints caused by the complexity of existing business applications and the environment that has grown up around them. It is possible to modernize core IBM mainframe systems so that they become flexible applications with the agility to respond quickly to changing business demands.

This requires an innovative approach that enables application modernization goals to be achieved at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods

The Micro Focus Mainframe Solution accelerates traditional IBM mainframe analysis, development, testing, and execution processes to enhance all elements of application delivery. It opens up the complexities of the application environment and helps organizations:

• Ensure a thorough understanding of the application portfolio at both management and technical levels
• Expand the skills pool by bringing modern development and testing techniques to the mainframe environment
• Exploit cheaper and easily available processing power for development, testing and production
• Enable choice for modernizing mainframe applications

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Fully understand your mainframe application portfolio for optimum modernization decisions

Micro Focus application analysis solutions help quickly identify which IT systems make the greatest contribution to business as well as those that no longer add sufficient value. Highlighting the most pressing development and application modernization needs attention, effort and investment focused on where it returns most value. The returns are significant: Maintenance costs go down, while the productivity of development teams goes up.

Application Portfolio Management provides rich technical insight into the inventory and structure of the application portfolio. It accelerates IT change and provides business-level perspectives on applications. Development organizations can optimize the cost and agility of core applications as managers scope and plan modernization and development tasks better, and developers understand how to modernize their applications to respond to business requirements with a higher degree of confidence.

• Understand the value that each of your mainframe applications deliver and the contribution these make to business
• Plan the strategic mainframe modernization initiatives to take your business forward
• Improve quality by measuring and managing change, ensuring that the right return is obtained from streamlining and modernizing applications
• Increase confidence with technology that demystifies large complex applications

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Bring speed, new skills and greater capacity to cut through the development backlog

Micro Focus Mainframe solutions optimize the performance of the mainframe. Using the mainframe for development puts pressure on performance and increases demand for processing power. Rehosting mainframe development on alternative platforms releases developers from resource and skills constraints. The result is faster application modernization changes delivered with greater assurance. 

• Increase productivity by as much as 40% through best-in-class developer tooling
• Faster time to market as workstation MIPS shorten development and unit test cycles, so new products and features are in use faster, delivering competitive advantage and ROI
• Innovate more through faster development, subject matter experts can focus on innovation and budget reinvested in innovative projects
• Expand the resource pool with contemporary tooling, legacy applications become easier to maintain and modernize to a much wider development community and new IDEs make it easier to attract new talent used to working on PCs

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Rehost testing to deliver more with fewer resources

By moving application testing off the mainframe, Micro Focus Test Server releases valuable processing power for production. By breaking down capacity barriers, Test Server introduces flexibility and makes it possible exploit application modernization resources to meet delivery schedules on time and in budget.

This unique capability revolutionizes the application service delivery process, making it possible to meet increasing business delivery demands. 

• Faster time to market by removing capacity bottlenecks
• Improve application quality and unify the development process
• Reduce costs of testing resources and contain costs of expanding test resources

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Use automation to test early and often, identifying and eliminating expensive defects

Micro Focus' highly automated quality tooling is built around visual interfaces and the notion of reusability. Tests cases can be captured easily and run frequently and earlier in the development lifecycle with defects caught and eliminated fast. A comprehensive range of testing tools – from functional testing to cloud-based performance testing – helps users to spot and correct weaknesses across the application portfolio, for mainframe, SAP, distributed, and Web 2.0 applications.

• Align testing with a clear, shared understanding of business goals, to focus test resources and measure what matters
• Increase control through greater visibility over all quality activities
• Improve productivity by testing earlier in the lifecycle, catching and driving out defects faster

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Rehosting COBOL and PL/I applications onto non-mainframe environments

By moving application execution, wholly or partially, away from the mainframe CIOs see rapid substantial cost savings. Where it makes sense, deploying mainframe applications onto alternative environments can save millions in running costs and improve the performance of the applications that remain on the mainframe.

Micro Focus migration solutions include technologies for rehosting both COBOL and PL/I applications onto alternative, non-mainframe environments.

The Micro Focus Reference Architecture demonstrates a viable alternative to the mainframe for mission-critical, production-ready environments. This application modernization route has proved to be the lowest risk option for many companies, delivering the fastest return on investment and releasing budget to support innovation and growth.

• Reduce costs, application costs have been reduced by up to 80%
• Increase choice, mainframe applications can run on a variety of platforms such as, z/Linux, Linux, Windows, UNIX and the cloud with minimal change
• Innovate by reinvesting released budget to realize modernization strategies faster to deliver greater opportunities

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Terminal emulation and user interface modernization

Micro Focus' terminal emulation suite modernizes the user interface, providing unmatched reliability and security to connect Microsoft Windows desktops to any host system with mission critical reliability.

The Micro Focus solutions also convert existing green screen business processes into Web applications and reusable services.

• Increase productivity by processing more transactions in less time
• Improve user experience by providing a single point of view across multiple platforms
• Deliver reliable and secure access to information and data with the highest level of encryption

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