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Micro Focus Changes 'the Face' of Terminal Emulation With Release of RUMBA
ROCKVILLE, MD, Jan 17, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Organizations today face competitive and productivity challenges
with so-called legacy mainframe applications. End-users of green
screen mainframe applications, who are used to working within Windows
and other graphically oriented environments, often become frustrated
with the rigidity of their business applications. But to modernize
this environment satisfactorily can be an expensive option, with a
high dependency on specialized developer skills. To address this
challenge, Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L), the leading provider of
enterprise application modernization, testing, and management
solutions, today launched RUMBA 9.0 and RUMBA+, which enable
organizations to quickly modernize the end-user experience in
isolation from the application code. This maximizes end-user
productivity and satisfaction without the risks associated with
heavy-duty modernization development projects.
Micro Focus RUBMA enhances the end-user experience of legacy
applications by transposing their archaic green-screen presentation
onto more familiar Windows, mobile and web environments. This allows
organizations to improve end-user productivity, shorten business
process learning cycles and cut through laborious data
input/retrieval processes. Organizations will simply respond faster
to market dynamics, their customers will realize the benefits of
increased efficiency, and investments and knowledge present in the
existing mainframe applications will have been preserved.
Commenting on the new release, Kevin Brearley, Senior Director of
Product Management for Micro Focus, said: "RUMBA enables connectivity
from Microsoft Windows, iPads or web browsers to virtually any host
system with mission critical reliability. With wider reaching
deployment capabilities, end-user productivity improvement is quickly
delivered through a simple point and click interface. This enhanced
experience can be delivered at a pace that suits, to the entire
organization, individual departments or specific users. RUMBA is
designed to modernize green screen applications with no risk to
business continuity."
RUMBA in focus:
-- RUMBA 9.0 is the core server required for RUMBA+ deployment. Quickly
and securely connects to a range of host systems, enabling
green-screen terminal emulation along with a set of popular supporting
features and functionalities.
-- RUMBA+ introduces three different clients that allow the customer to
modernize green-screen applications without the need of specialized
knowledge of mainframe applications or Windows, iPad or web browser
technologies. Easy point and click controls can be created to enhance
a single green-screen or to considerably update an entire
application.
-- RUMBA+ Desktop is the Windows based client that can quickly introduce
productivity enhancements to the green screen pop-up calendars,
dropdown menus, tool tips, in line help, graphs, Google maps and
more.
-- RUMBA+ Mobile is an iPad client that enables mobile access to the
application with the RUMBA+ Desktop enhancements driven by native iPad
functions.
-- RUMBA+ Web is a Web client with out-of-the-box usability and immediate
extended reach to the mainframe applications. It offers a modern,
fresh and user-friendly interface through browser technology without
the normal system overheads.
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.
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software
that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of
their Enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application
Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers'
business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and
embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For
additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.
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