Micro Focus launches new ‘3 in 1’ Modernization Workbench® suite

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announces the launch of Modernization Workbench 3.1. Modernization Workbench 3.1 delivers ‘3 products in 1’, uniting all three of Micro Focus’ Application Portfolio Management (APM) technologies to deliver a single, business-led view of an organisation’s applications portfolio. For the first time, Micro Focus Revolve and Enterprise View are consolidated into the proven and battle-tested Modernization Workbench platform.

Organisations are built on sophisticated IT portfolios, with thousands of different software applications working together to keep the business running. Each year these applications grow more complex, inflexible, risky, and costly to adapt. Organisations therefore need a single view of their IT portfolio to prioritise and then execute development activities that support business goals.

By combining with Micro Focus Revolve and Enterprise View, Modernization Workbench 3.1 delivers the most powerful APM platform available, allowing organisations to truly align their applications with their business priorities. The platform offers unparalleled business and technical insight into the most complex of applications. This intelligence makes development teams more productive, accelerates key modernisation projects, and boosts alignment between application realities and business needs. 

Modernization Workbench version 3.1 unites key functionality onto a single, proven foundation. Additional functionality includes:

• Single Platform for Managers: Modernization Workbench provides the only business-centric solution for measuring and managing the application portfolio. Its integrated Enterprise View module delivers browser-based dashboards that help prioritise development projects via metrics like application cost, complexity, value, and risk.
• Single Platform for Assessments: Modernization Workbench provides the richest technical information about your applications. Powerful queries, visualizations, and specialized assessment tools, including for platform migrations, are available.
• Expanded Language Coverage: Modernization Workbench provides deep and now even broader language coverage. This new release expands its coverage of Java, JEE, additional job schedulers, and more.
• Mass Change Activities: Modernization Workbench dramatically accelerates the execution of projects that require numerous changes to application code -for instance, to adhere to regulatory requirements like ICD-10.
• Major Relational Database Support: Modernization Workbench 3.1 adds support for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that all three major relational databases are supported (adding to existing support for Oracle RDBMS and IBM DB2).

“Micro Focus Modernization Workbench 3.1 realizes the vision of centralized intelligence on the applications that run your business.  Now global development teams can seamlessly identify and then accelerate modernization activities that make their applications more responsive to business needs. Modernization Workbench 3.1 is the definitive, most-complete APM solution on the market,” says Peter Mollins, Director of Product Marketing at Micro Focus.

Additional Resources

• Micro Focus APM website: www.microfocus.com/apm
• Modernization Workbench overview
• Application Portfolio Management blog
• HSBC APM case study
• White Papers: http://www.microfocus.com/Solutions/APM/resources.asp  

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, Testing 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 please visit www.microfocus.com