Micro Focus unveils Modernization Workbench suite

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced the launch of Modernization Workbench 3.1.

Modernization Workbench 3.1 unites all three of Micro Focus’ Application Portfolio Management (APM) technologies to deliver a single, business-led view of an organization's applications portfolio, said a press release.

Organizations 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.

Organizations therefore need a single view of their IT portfolio to prioritize 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 organizations to truly align their applications with their business priorities, said the release.

The platform offers unparalleled business and technical insight into the most complex of applications. This intelligence makes development teams more productive, accelerates key modernization projects, and boosts alignment between application realities and business needs.

The 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 technical information about applications.
   Powerful queries, visualizations, and specialized assessment tools, including for platform migrations, are
   available.

* Expanded Language Coverage: This new release expands its coverage of Java, JEE, additional job
   schedulers

* Mass Change Activities: 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,” said Peter Mollins, director of Product Marketing at Micro Focus.

He added that through this solution, 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.