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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUNNYVALE, Calif.,
Sept. 30, 2002 ¾
Micro Focus International Ltd. (Micro FocusÒ),
today announced the latest version of its highly-scalable legacy-to-Web
transformation and integration solution, EnterpriseLink®, which
seamlessly provides Web services to legacy applications. The updated EnterpriseLink product allows
current legacy applications to operate within the newest technologies in less
than 30 days while maintaining the integrity of the existing mission-critical
assets. The solution provides immediate
Web services access for clients built with Microsoft .NET Studio and allows
reuse of legacy assets in a low-risk, high-ROI environment.
"EnterpriseLink
has proven to be the fastest way for our product, the WebAccel framework, to
connect to legacy systems through a Web services interface," said Cory
Isaacson, president of CompuFlex, Inc. a provider of innovative tools and
expertise for migrating to Java-based Web technologies. "Micro Focus
helped us connect to our customers’ systems from our WebAccel product following
standard protocols such as XML, HTTP and SOAP.
We were most impressed by Micro Focus’ ability to do this without
modification of our customers’ legacy applications and without installing new
code on their mainframes."
By providing a Web services interface, EnterpriseLink now enables companies to establish an XML-based, language-neutral connection to “green screen” mainframe applications. As a result,
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companies can get their legacy applications up and running on the Web or other client/server platforms in a matter of days instead of months. Available on November 1, 2002, the new version of EnterpriseLink is deployable in UNIX and Windows environments to move legacy applications to Web services more quickly than with manual recoding. A study conducted by DePaul University in October 2001 showed that projects are completed up to 25 times faster using EnterpriseLink than with Java recoding. In addition, transformation with EnterpriseLink exposes companies to less risk than changing a mainframe application directly and is less expensive than staff-heavy recoding operations.
“The
latest version of EnterpriseLink provides companies the lowest total cost of
ownership of any legacy-to-Web solution,” said Mark Haynie, vice president of
enterprise extension at Micro Focus.
“In addition, the product offers businesses a complete solution that
requires no additional effort to bridge the gap between legacy applications and
Web services. Our technology has the
unique ability to scale to production workloads of up to 10,000 users, meeting
the demands of businesses that require high performance production under
high-stress workloads.”
With the new Web services features
of EnterpriseLink, companies now can:
·
Capture host screens and their
relationships without analysing or modifying source code;
·
Construct Web services interfaces to
those applications with a simple drag-and-drop interface that follow standard
XML Document Type Definition (XML DTD) and Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) formats;
·
Allow the generation of Web service
client applications through Microsoft .NET Studio as well as other tools;
·
Allow the same EnterpriseLink project
to be accessed from several client types, each expecting a different protocol,
such as HTML (web browsers), XML (Java applications), Web service clients, WML
and PDF;
·
Complement the existing SmartCOM
capability in EnterpriseLink allowing Microsoft COM applications, C++, Visual
Basic and Active Server page, in addition to SmartJ allowing Internet-based
Java applications and Java Server Page (JSP) applications access to legacy
data;
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Ensure optimal performance and 24/7
availability with load-balancing, fail-over support and non-hierarchical
clustering.
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Micro Focus is the fastest, most
effective way to migrate, extend, develop and deploy enterprise
applications. As the industry standard
for COBOL, Micro Focus enables organizations to maximize ROI while reducing development
costs for accelerated business success. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a
global company with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States and
Japan. For more information, visit www.microfocus.com.
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