VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Micro Focus has announced the finalization of its merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) software business to create the seventh-largest pure-play enterprise software company in the world. This merger brings together two leaders in the software industry to form a new, combined company uniquely positioned to help customers maximize existing software investments and embrace innovation in a world of Hybrid IT. Following merger, Chris Hsu, formerly COO of HPE and Executive Vice-President and General Manager of HPE Software, was appointed CEO of Micro Focus. “Today marks a significant milestone for Micro Focus, and I am honoured to be leading this team,” said Chris Hsu, Chief Executive Officer of Micro Focus. “We are bringing together a powerful combination of technology and talent uniquely positioned to drive customer-centred innovation at enterprise scale – enabling organizations to maximize the RoI of existing software investments while embracing the new hybrid model fo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Micro Focus has announced a comprehensive solution from the company’s Borland portfolio, which comprises of three solution offerings, Silk Mobile, Silk Performer and Silk Central, that deliver mobile automated testing, mobile performance testing, mobile network speed simulation, and mobile test management.  “Mobile ecosystem is now a buyer’s market and a new minimum standard is being set.   Customer loyalty is fragile and a failing application not only means loss of revenue but impacts the brand reputation. Testing mobile applications is critical to ensure quality is delivered to all users; the application performs each and every time it is accessed; the application is reliable and meets the user’s expectations and that the application experience is constant across devises and platforms,” said Nitin Dang, Country General Manager, Micro Focus, India and SAARC “The fundamental purpose of the product is to test the funct...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Micro Focus has launched Silk Mobile - a mobile application testing solution designed to provide a comprehensive approach to the functional testing of applications on mobile devices across multiple OS platforms, including Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and HTML5. Moreover, Silk Mobile test scripts can be exported to a number of scripting languages such as Java, C#, Python or Perl. David Taylor, President, Micro Focus, Asia-Pacific and Japan, said. "The demand for smartphones is voracious. This trend is powering the demand for innovative applications with much higher degrees of sophistication. There is an ever-increasing pressure on the testers to keep pace with the explosive growth of mobile apps. With most of these applications being used for commercial purposes, businesses are striving to deliver a smooth and flawless customer experience on the mobile devices." "The extent to which Smartphon...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Borland Silk Test 13.0, the latest version of its premier test automation suite.  Silk Test 13.0 increases the broad range of application technologies for Windows, significantly improves usability, and delivers more advanced dynamic Web and custom control support enhancements. Silk Test 13.0 is extending its Web testing capabilities by adding support for Google Chrome and enhancing support for Firefox and Internet Explorer.  Archie Roboostoff, Borland Portfolio Director, Micro Focus said, "In today's multi-device, multi-channel environment, businesses need to have the ability to test new applications that can be validated and checked across any device an end user might have. With Silk Test, we are giving organizations an automated test environment which works across a range of platforms, reducing the testing effort and reducing time to market. Organizations using Sil...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to the findings of "Mainframe Transformation: the Elephant in the Room", an independent global research study undertaken by Vanson Bourne   and commissioned by Micro Focus, Application Portfolio Management is strategic imperative and has a pivotal role to play in the current business setup.  However, 46% of IT decision makers have admitted they do not know the value of their IT debt, creating a hidden balance sheet liability for those organizations as well as a growing business risk. IT Debt is defined as the cost of clearing the backlog of maintenance to bring the corporate applications portfolio up to date. Moreover, 590 CIOs and IT directors from around the globe estimated their IT debt at $10.9 million on average, with $8.5 million attributed to mainframe applications, and guessed their IT debt would grow on average by 9% over the next five years.   Kevin Brearley, Director, Product Management, Micr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micro Focus has announced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company's Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organizations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software. New capabilities in Caliber 10.1 include integration between Caliber RM and Caliber RDM. The synergy between visual and text-based requirements provides better shared goals for all stakeholders, giving the software development and business analyst teams the tools needed to establish implementation consensus early on and then maintain a common vision. Using Caliber 10.1, requirements changes and traceability can be managed from inception to production. "Caliber is about managing ideas and making sure inspiration captured on a whiteboar...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micro Focus has announced that the company has accepted the 2011 Microsoft Technology Partner of the Year Award in the Technology Innovation category recognizing the company's Visual COBOL R3 solution. Held at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, the award was given to Micro Focus for its contribution of application modernization and application quality testing tools that enable the migration and reuse of mainframe applications on the Microsoft Application Platform, including Microsoft Azure. Visual COBOL R3 is the first solution to translate the COBOL language directly to the Java Virtual Machine, giving developers the freedom to extend COBOL to the latest platforms using a variety of application environments. With over 220 billion lines of COBOL being used within today's enterprise, rewriting these COBOL applications to incorporate new technologies and platforms prove to be a costly and risky proposition. Microsoft's col...