Micro Focus changes the face of terminal emulation with release of RUMBA
Announcement posted by Micro Focus 17 Jan 2013
Organisations today face competitive and productivity challenges with so-called legacy mainframe applications. End users of green-screen mainframe applications are frustrated with the rigidity of the business applications when they are familiar with contemporary computing within Windows or graphically driven experiences. But to modernise this environment satisfactorily can be an expensive option, with a high dependency on specialised developer skills. To address this challenge, Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing, and management solutions, today launched RUMBA 9.0 and Rumba+, which enable organisations to quickly modernise the end user experience in isolation from the application code. This maximises end user productivity and satisfaction without the risks associated with heavy duty modernisation development projects.
Micro Focus RUMBA enhances the end user experience of legacy applications by transposing their archaic green-screen presentation onto more familiar Windows, mobile and web environments. This allows organisations to improve end user productivity, shorten business process learning cycles and cut through laborious data input/retrieval processes. Organisations will simply respond faster to market dynamics, their customers will realise the benefits of increased efficiency and investments and knowledge present in the existing mainframe applications will have been preserved.
Commenting on the new release, Bruce Craig, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Micro Focus, said: “RUMBA enables connectivity from Microsoft Windows, iPads or web browsers to virtually any host system with mission critical reliability. With wider reaching deployment capabilities, end user productivity improvement is quickly delivered through a simple point and click interface. This enhanced experience can be delivered at a pace that suits, to the entire organisation, individual departments or specific users. RUMBA is designed to modernise green-screen applications with no risk to business continuity. ”
RUMBA in focus:
· RUMBA 9.0 is the core server required for Rumba+ deployment. Quickly and securely connects to a range of host systems, enabling green-screen terminal emulation along with a set of popular supporting features and functionalities.
· RUMBA+ introduces 3 different clients that allows the customer to modernise green-screen applications without the need of specialised knowledge of mainframe applications or Windows, iPad or web browser technologies. Easy point and click controls can be created to enhance a single green-screen or to considerably update an entire application.
· RUMBA+ Desktop The Windows based client that can quickly introduce productivity enhancements to the green-screen - pop-up calendars, dropdown menus, tool tips, in line help, graphs, Google maps and more.
· RUMBA+ Mobile An iPad client that enables mobile access to the application with the Rumba+ Desktop enhancements driven by native iPad functions.
· RUMBA+ Web A Web client with out-of-the-box usability and immediate extended reach to the mainframe applications. Modern, fresh and user friendly interface through browser technology without the normal system overheads.
RUMBA is part of a family of enterprise application modernisation technologies from Micro Focus, which help organisations transform the value of their core business systems.
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Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their Enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.