Sonata Information Technology Limited and Micro Focus Ltd. signed up a partnership agreement on 1st of May' 05 wherein Sonata became a Value-added Distributor of Micro Focus Ltd. By virtue of this relationship, Sonata has been selling Micro Focus products & services around the product sale directly as also through its partner network to End users.

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO) is a leading provider of legacy development and deployment software for enterprise platforms with nearly 30 years of expertise and more than 5,000 customers and one million licensed users.

Micro Focus' Leverage and Extend and Lift and Shift™ solutions enable their customers, which include more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies, to continue to gain value from their legacy of investment in business applications.

By exploiting the latest technologies and leveraging the strength of our business partners worldwide, Micro Focus enables customers to improve the productivity of application developers and take advantage of Web services by modernizing legacy applications or migrating to low-cost contemporary platforms, such as Windows, UNIX or Linux. Micro Focus helps its customers reduce application development and operating costs, increase the flexibility and value of their information technology resources and better manage the risks inherent in legacy development and deployment.

Micro Focus' core Leverage and Extend solution is designed to increase the productivity of application developers and allow customers to provide new ways of accessing critical legacy applications and services residing on mainframe and contemporary platforms. Micro Focus' Lift and Shift™ solution enables its customers to migrate legacy applications by providing a mainframe compatible environment on Windows, UNIX and Linux.

Micro Focus has more than 425 employees worldwide, with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan

Leverage and Extend

More agile. Costs less. Works harder. That's what you get with a Leverage and Extend solution from Micro Focus.
Leverage and Extend enables organizations to re-use their investment in trusted people, processes and technology. It extends legacy applications into new business processes using today's Service Orientated architectures and Web services.
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Move forward in the information economy
With COBOL applications continuing to process 85% of all computer transactions, CTOs in large organizations face a dilemma - how to exploit the value in their existing system, while reducing spiraling maintenance costs, long development cycles, and delivering new services to the business?
Leverage and Extend is the chosen path of organizations with a strategic commitment to existing delivery platforms (mainframe, Windows, LINUX) but who wish to leverage and extend their legacy applications.
Our Leverage and Extend solutions portfolio offers industry-leading development environments for IBM Mainframe, Windows and .NET, and UNIX and Linux applications.
Legacy applications are extended into J2EE, .NET or Web services. From here, businesses can exploit the benefits of a Service Orientated Architecture - namely a truly modular IT environment.
CTOs can concentrate more on delivering new services to the business, and devote less effort, time and cost to maintaining legacy applications.
With Leverage and Extend, development costs are reduced immediately by using available skills and platforms efficiently. Furthermore, extending applications does not involve the risk and disruption associated with "rip and replace" strategies.

Benefits

Reduce development costs and improve operational efficiency.
Decrease application development times.
Extend your legacy to contemporary platforms with Web services.
Drive business innovation through legacy reuse.
Mitigate the high cost and risk of "rip and replace" strategies.
Reduce reliance on greying technologies.

Lift and Shift™

Lift and Shift™ offers organizations the ability to postpone mainframe upgrades or reduce hardware and software costs by up to 80 percent through migrating appropriate legacy application workload to more cost-effective, modern, open and extensible platforms.
By re-using as much as of the existing systems as possible, Lift and Shift™ migration projects are significantly lower risk and more cost effective than any re-write or many packaged application implementation projects.
Once migrated, the resulting cost savings in operational costs can then be used to fund further evolution of the application using Micro Focus' complementary Leverage and Extend solution.
Lift and Shift™ Supported Platforms
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Turn legacy applications into strategic assets
Mainframe customers are facing several challenges, including a decrease in available technical skills, shortage of innovation in the ISV ecosystem, and a need for increased flexibility.
Micro Focus Lift and Shift™ delivers the agility organizations need to adapt to continuously changing business requirements at a lower cost, without sacrificing the scalability, reliability and security they have come to expect from the mainframe.
The solution is enabled by Micro Focus Studio™ and Micro Focus Server™.
Micro Focus Studio™ provides the integrated development environment to maintain and enhance the migrated application to evolve towards SOA - utilizing contemporary technologies like .NET, J2EE, XML and Web services.
Micro Focus Server™ provides the high-performance transactional environment and job execution system required to deploy the migrated online and/or batch workload or new Web services on Windows, UNIX or Linux.

Benefits

Reduce the time, risk and cost of migration.
Immediately cut ongoing hardware and software costs. Increase business agility by utilizing contemporary platforms and Web services.
Enter new markets or integrate self-service capabilities by exploiting the Internet.
Minimize disruption to business continuity.
Implement a consolidation initiative around a single target platform (e.g. Windows and .NET).

Lift and Shift™
Product for Legacy Application Migration
Where your strategy is to migrate legacy applications from existing mainframe platforms on to Windows, UNIX or Linux, the following Micro Focus products provide the foundations for low-risk platform redeployment.