Micro Focus Releases RUMBA For Improved User Efficiency

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, a provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing, and management solutions, has 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.

“The ‘old thinking’ has given way to the new economics of terminal emulation. Previously business leaders faced compromising on performance, customer service and productivity to achieve business goals, cut costs and make provision for growth. The new economics for terminal emulation, embodied in Micro Focus RUMBA, removes the need for compromise and positions businesses to take advantage of new technology, improved performance and enhanced security," said Nitin Dang, Country General Manager- India at Micro Focus.

Kevin Brearley, Senior Director of Product Management for 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 is part of a family of enterprise application modernisation technologies from Micro Focus, which help organisations transform the value of their core business systems.