m2o and Micro Focus Partnership Delivers Successful Legacy Migrations around the World

Oxford, UK - May 11, 2004 - MOVE2OPEN (m2o), a leading provider of data migration and application conversion solutions, today announced a partnership with Micro Focus, the leading provider of COBOL application development and deployment software for contemporary platforms and architectures.

The partnership combines the unparalleled accuracy and automation of the m2o toolset with the productivity and portability of the Micro Focus products. This combination allows clients to convert their platform of choice, in the shortest possible timeframe.

"Micro Focus was a natural choice," says Huw Price, Managing Director of m2o. "We have been impressed with the productivity of its development tools and the portability and scalability of its runtime platform for many years. This has enabled us to go live successfully with migrations in major companies around the world."

"Companies have traditionally balked at the prospect of manual conversion or code re-writes. Projects are potentially open-ended, and the quality of converted code is often seen as questionable", says Andy Sinclair, Migration Technology Consortium Manager of Micro Focus. "m2o offers an automated solution which lowers risks and cost dramatically. This leads to the fastest possible ROI for our clients."

The need to maximize ROI from IT, and to increase systems flexibility to meet the demands of changing business processes, is leading to renewed interest in obtaining value from legacy systems. The partnership between Micro Focus and m2o solves many of the major issues associated with legacy applications, including high running costs and the scarcity of the skill set required to service them.

About m2o

m2o is a leading provider of data migration and application conversion solutions that unlock the value of relational databases and legacy systems. m2o specializes in transforming legacy applications, including automated conversions from CA-IDEAL to open languages such as COBOL and Java and migrations from CA-Datacom to open databases such as CA-Ingres, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. m2o provides automated conversion tools and migration services that offer wide platform coverage, exceptional accuracy and clear Return on Investment that are unmatched by any other vendor or solution. m2o has over ten years experience with a worldwide customer base of blue-chip organizations that benefit from its unique expertise and automated tools.
 

Contact Details:

Nick Jones (Sales Director)

m2o Limited
The Oxford Centre for Innovation
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Oxford, OX2 0JX