Micro Focus

Application Migration and Modernization

Micro Focus' Application Migration and Modernization offering enables you to migrate selected applications to alternative servers in order to operate and modernize them in the most optimal fashion.

CIO’s evaluating the future of their business systems are looking at a variety of Enterprise Application Modernization options namely rewrite, replace, modernize or migrate.You may be considering these options because you are concerned about

  • the risks of running business systems on obsolete ( or non-strategic) platforms
  • diminishing skills and support for hardware or software that support key business systems
  • excessive annual hardware or software costs impacting business line profitability
  • supporting or adhering to a strategic consolidation initiative to simplify your IT infrastructure
  • delivering mainframe-based business capabilities on decentralized lower cost servers
  • A lack of capabilities to modernize or integrate traditional systems with new systems.                  

If you are, you should consider Application Migration and Modernization as a lower risk, faster and more cost effective option than re-write or packaged application replacement approaches.

Windows, UNIX, Linux or zLinux servers now offer a robust and cost effective alterative to run today’s enterprise applications. These platforms also offer greater choice of competitively priced technology that you can exploit to better serve the business. The Micro Focus Application Migration and Modernization offering enables you to take advantage of contemporary platforms while preserving the unique business value encompassed in your existing IT systems. This approach to enterprise application modernization means you can:

  • reduce the annual operating costs of your enterprise applications by up to 80%
  • complete key batch business processes in half the time
  • double the number of online transactions processed in any given time interval
  • modernize applications sooner by enabling IT to deliver new functionality 40% faster     

while minimizing risk, cost and disruption and maximizing business system agility.

Micro Focus’s unique approach to migration dramatically reduces risk by maximizing the re-use of existing application business logic while minimizing or automating any required changes.

Using this approach you can move proven applications to whatever platform makes business sense without the excessive costs and inherent risks associated with application rewrites or package replacements.

Migrated applications can then be extended and modernized to meet new requirements and fully unleash your business capabilities using contemporary development environments which:

  • Reduce ongoing development costs while evolving the skills of your staff
  • Improve quality and customer satisfaction levels
  • Enable integration of historical applications via SOA, Web services, .NET or J2EE.     

With our partners, Micro Focus can help you migrate from a wide breadth of platforms, languages and databases. This breadth of support combined with our choice of modernization options on Windows, UNIX, Linux and zLinux has enabled Micro Focus to support more successful migrations than reported by any other independent software vendor.

Micro Focus customers that have chosen our migration route have found this to be the lowest risk option that yields the fastest return on investment.