Company Background

Micro Focus Company Overview (pdf)

Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.

Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise and more than 15,000 customers and one million licensed users, including more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies.

Our recent acquisition of HAL Knowledge Systems has enabled us to provide an industry-leading Application Portfolio Management solution, which aligns IT spend with business strategy by providing factual business intelligence for informed decisionmaking. In short, it takes the risk out of change. 

Our Application Modernization solution enables our customers to continue to gain value from their investment in business applications while meeting the latest demands of the business as a low risk alternative to re-writing or replacing existing systems with packages. 

Our COBOL Technology solution allows our customers to extend and integrate existing applications to meet new and emerging business needs in the most cost effective and quickest way.

By exploiting the latest technologies and leveraging the strength of our business partners worldwide, Micro Focus enables customers to make sense of their application portfolios, improve the productivity of application developers, take advantage of Web services to modernize core applications and exploit 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 development and deployment.

Micro Focus has more than 500 employees worldwide, with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan.

Micro Focus Services
Micro Focus is a true business partner that brings to bear expertise and services across the enterprise. Micro Focus offers a complete solution, business and technical, including strategy, integration, extension and infrastructure, with market-leading products. Micro Focus Services provides a broad spectrum of enterprise application development services. It specifically offers consulting, which leads its industry in the evolution of information technology, and training, which provides comprehensive education and training solutions that help IT teams build software for competitive business advantage.

Micro Focus SupportLine
Micro Focus SupportLine is a complete support program for Micro Focus product users, providing unlimited access to 24x7x365 telephone assistance from Micro Focus technical and product experts. SupportLine offers updates, fixes and new product releases through convenient download pages on the SupportLine web site. The Omega Management Group continues to award SupportLine with its NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for "World Class Excellence in Customer Satisfaction" from 2001 - 2006.