Micro Focus, a leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, has unveiled the latest in its enterprise modernization solutions with the launch of Micro Focus SOA Express. The new solution provides customers with a high-performing business tool for enterprise-based applications and offers a seamless and open approach to Service Oriented Architecture.
SOA Express enables customers to rapidly build and deploy new "services" by modernizing core business applications using proven methodology and standards-based technology (SOA certifiedù"Ready for IBM"). Enterprise systems need to evolve at increasing pace to meet business demands, such as regulatory compliance, aligning IT and business after merger and acquisition activity, or improving time to market of new products and services. With Micro Focus SOA Express, customers are able to respond to market conditions and opportunities more efficiently without the need to overhaul existing IT infrastructure or retrain existing staff.
Stuart McGill, chief technology officer, Micro Focus, said: "SOA Express truly enables CIO's and IT directors to fully exploit their existing enterprise architecture, providing a platform for delivery of competitive advantage by exploiting the benefits of SOA. Everything is delivered in a predictable and repeatable fashion with a fast and low-risk option to extend legacy business applications from the enterprise to Web Services."
SOA Express dramatically reduces the risks associated with moving to SOA by ensuring that new services do not impact the existing architecture or applications and by retaining historical investments and intellectual property. In addition, the new solution allows existing application experts to focus on business priorities rather than building IT infrastructure, so the associated costs are also dramatically reduced.
Hal Peters, president of Pinebrook Consulting Inc. said: "For our large financial clients, adapting their core mission-critical enterprise systems to new business requirements is a crucial challenge for IT. With SOA Express we can leave what's already running unchanged and exploit legacy interfaces to build services from existing systems to meet new business requests faster and more effectively."
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About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information visit Micro Focus
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