Micro Focus achieved Microsoft Technology Innovation Award

Micro Focus announced that the company
has earned the Microsoft Technology Innovation Award at the Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC. The award was given
to Micro Focus for its contribution of application modernization and
application quality tools that enable the migration and reuse of
mainframe applications on the Microsoft Application Platform,
including AzureÔ.

The award recognizes the consistency of
Micro Focus' emphasis on application modernization and the depth of
its utilization of key Microsoft technologies, including Visual
Studio 2010, ADO.NET and .NET. In particular, it recognizes new
products that Micro Focus has brought to market in the past year,
including Micro Focus Visual COBOL, CICS for .NET, DevPartner Studio,
Silk4Net and Analyzer Express.

“Our business-critical migration
practice grew by over 120 percent last year, and is emerging as a key
area of focus for Microsoft's Enterprise Business,” said Bob
Ellsworth, Director-Enterprise Platform Modernization, Microsoft.
“Each of Micro Focus' products use Visual Studio 2010, enabling
developers to more easily build new applications, manage existing
applications, and reduce the cost of IT,” he added.

“At Micro Focus, we offer our clients
choices for their paths to modernization, and this award recognizes
the success we've had enabling enterprises to quickly, easily and
cost-effectively move applications to the Microsoft application
platform,” said Peter Duffell, VP of Strategic Partners, Micro
Focus. “We're thrilled to have won this award, and look forward
to continuing to build a successful partnership with Microsoft to
support our customers' needs,” he added.

In April 2010, Micro Focus launched a
new generation of developer tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
These products include: Micro Focus Visual COBOL, which enables
developers to exploit existing enterprise applications on the
Microsoft platform. The millions of organizations that continue to
rely on COBOL-based applications to run their business now have a
low-risk opportunity to take advantage of Visual Studio 2010 without
the need for rewriting their applications. Micro Focus Silk4Net, the
proven choice
of QA professionals for powerful functional and regression test
automation, brings the best test automation capabilities to Visual
Studio 2010. It achieves the benefits that have been sought after
with test automation for many years and are now demanded in Agile
transformations.

Micro Focus DevPartner Studio enables
developers to debug, analyze, test and tune applications and delivers
enhanced visibility into the inner workings of applications. Micro
Focus Analyzer Express for Visual
Studio helps developers to accelerate their day-to-day maintenance
activities. Developers can be faced with complex application
structures, which can be extremely challenging to fully understand.
This slows the execution of much needed business requirements.

In addition to these development and
testing products integrated with Visual Studio 2010, Micro Focus also
provides leading capabilities that enable mainframe customers to
migrate enterprise applications to the Windows platform, including
the recently announced Micro Focus CICS for .NET product, which
provides a managed code solution onto Microsoft technology.