Micro Focus unveils Rumba+ Mobile on iPad

BANGALORE, INDIA: Micro Focus, provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced the availability of Rumba+ Mobile on iPad, the first terminal emulator and user interface (UI) modernization application for tablet devices.

The new solution enables organizations to quickly modernize green-screen applications on mobile devices.

The Rumba+ Mobile terminal emulator offers a native iPad client application, taking full advantage of iOS functionalities. It turns green-screen applications into touch-screen apps, with integrated and customizable gestures capabilities or skins, in addition to the use of controls such multi green-screen tables, tabs, images calendars, drop down menus and much more.

iPad gestures are also fully integrated and can be customized to interact with the host or to control the terminal emulation session.

According to Gartner, Inc. in a recent report "2013 is the year many organizations woke up to the imperative to do something about mobile". But according to Kevin Brearley, Director of Product Management at Micro Focus: "The need for mobile apps is challenging the agility of many critical legacy applications today.

Traditional 3270 and 5250 or "green-screen" applications are a good example of this. They can be considered out-dated, difficult to learn and navigate for today's modern user. This not only frustrates employees, but often affects a business' customer service.

In trying to bring these applications forward, organizations often rewrite the entire green screen application, or adopt a middleware solution that connects business logic on the mainframe to the user interface. It's time consuming and costly and can have an unacceptable time to market.

Rumba+ is part of a family of enterprise application modernization technologies from Micro Focus, which help organizations transform the value of their core business systems.

In addition to Rumba+ Mobile, companies can also take advantage of Rumba+ Web to enable remote access to centralized applications through web browsers, and Rumba+ Desktop for simple but efficient improvement to their traditional Windows client view of these legacy applications.