Micro Focus
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| legal form | Public limited company |
| ISIN | GB00BD8YWM01 |
| founding | 1976 |
| Seat | Newbury , Berkshire , United Kingdom |
| management | Stephen Murdoch ( CEO ) Kevin Loosemore ( Executive Chairman ) |
| Number of employees | 14,000 (2018) |
| sales | 4.4 billion US dollars (2017) |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.microfocus.de |
Micro Focus is a global software - companies based in Newbury , Berkshire , United Kingdom . The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of the FTSE 100 index . After taking over the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise , Micro Focus is one of the seven largest software companies worldwide with sales of 4.4 billion US dollars.
Services
With the solutions and services from Micro Focus for enterprise application modernization, testing and software management, companies can modernize and optimize large software applications such as mainframe applications.
The modernization includes the addition and expansion of existing applications with technologies such as J2EE or .NET , as well as the optimization of applications on mainframe and host systems with low-cost platforms such as Windows , Unix and Linux . With the Micro Focus Cloud Services , companies can move their core applications from their own host system to any cloud platform, thereby reducing costs and simplifying processes. At the beginning of 2011, Micro Focus introduced Visual COBOL R3, a tool that can be operated either with Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse . a. COBOL can translate directly for the Java Virtual Machine .
Micro Focus also offers consulting services in the areas of application portfolio management, modernization of enterprise and mainframe applications, application development and quality assurance .
In addition, the Novell and SUSE brands are owned by Micro Focus International.
history
Micro Focus was founded in 1976 and was able to take a leading position in the COBOL market in the following years. The company became known because it soon offered a complete COBOL development environment for the PC platform, with which users could flexibly develop COBOL programs on the PC and port them 1: 1 to mainframes or other systems.
In 1999, Micro Focus was merged with Intersolv to form Merant. In June 2001 Merant sold the Micro Focus division to the Californian investor group Golden Gate Capital and Parallax Capital . Since then, Micro Focus has been operating as a completely independent company again.
Micro Focus has expanded its portfolio through a number of acquisitions in recent years. In 2006, the Italian HAL Knowledge Solutions SPA, a manufacturer of application portfolio management software, was taken over. In 2007, Micro Focus acquired the COBOL provider Acucorp and in 2008 NetManage, a company that develops software for converting applications into web-based solutions. In 2009 Micro Focus took over the software manufacturer Borland and from Compuware the business areas "Application Testing" and "Automated Software Quality". In 2014, Micro Focus acquired the Attachmate Group with its subsidiaries Novell and SUSE . The successful merger of the two companies was announced on November 21, 2014 .
This was followed in 2016 by the acquisition of Serena Software for 540 million US dollars and the acquisition of large software divisions from Hewlett Packard Enterprise for 2.5 billion US dollars . HPE shareholders will retain 50.1% of the joint venture, which will issue shares worth $ 6.3 billion in a reverse merger.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://investors.microfocus.com/our-business/company-overview/
- ↑ Micro Focus Completes Merger with HPE Software Business, Creating One of World's Largest Pure-play Software Companies | Micro Focus. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.microfocus.com/about/press/pressreleases/2014/pr15092014.aspx
- ↑ Micro Focus completes merger with Attachmate Group. (No longer available online.) In: www.microfocus.de. November 21, 2014, archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; Retrieved July 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ HP Enterprise sells software for $ 2.5 billion. In: www.golem.de. September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
