SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced an
expanded strategic collaboration with Microsoft to help reduce
government clients' infrastructure costs by bridging existing and
emerging technologies to transform and modernize. As state and
local government agencies work to provide reliable services to
their citizens in a cost-effective way, this partnership with
Microsoft provides a reliable and scalable strategy for enabling
mainframe applications to run on Microsoft Azure.
"When undertaking a digital transformation initiative, it's
important that the right partners and technologies are chosen to
support long-term success," said Neil
Fowler, Micro Focus General Manager of Application
Modernization and Connectivity. "With Micro Focus and Microsoft's
collaboration, government clients can reduce costs and extract
maximum value from their existing core systems, as opposed to risky
'rip and replace' initiatives."
"Modernization of core agency mainframe systems is critical to
ensuring that the vitality and flexibility they need to efficiently
serve their citizens is always available, now more than ever," said
Bob Ellsworth, Director Mainframe
Transformation at Microsoft. "Micro Focus is a long-standing
partner of Microsoft and our combined technology provides a proven,
robust and cost-effective path to mainframe modernization for our
State and Local Government customers."
The delivery of new value from core systems ensures short-term
resilience while supporting long-term business success.
With 92% of IT leaders regarding their COBOL applications
as strategic to their business, this collaboration helps to deliver
digital transformation strategies that maximize business potential
and ensure continued innovation. In the case of one government
client, Micro Focus and Microsoft delivered close to 90%
operational cost savings and completed the project 10 months ahead
of schedule.
As digital transformation continues to drive strategic business
change, this collaboration with Microsoft is one of the ways Micro
Focus helps customers build on what already works and take a high
tech, low drama approach to transformation.
Additional Information
Learn more about the Micro
Focus and Microsoft collaboration with this blog post and landing
page.
Micro Focus is a Microsoft Gold partner with competencies
achieved in Application Development, Application Integration,
Datacenter, and Data Analytics. As a managed Microsoft co-sell
partner, Microsoft and Micro Focus work together to enable
customers to take advantage of cloud computing on Azure.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft)
enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud
and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and
every organization on the planet to achieve more.
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus delivers enterprise software to empower 40,000
customers worldwide to run, transform, and adapt. With a
comprehensive portfolio, underpinned by a robust analytics
ecosystem, Micro Focus delivers pragmatic, customer-centric
solutions to bridge the gap between existing and emerging
technologies and enable organizations to achieve Smart Digital
Transformation. That's High Tech, Low Drama.
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