Micro Focus, the unknown-known “Bridge” software company

Micro Focus, you may not have heard this name before, but you certainly heard about part of its portfolio, ArcSight, Borland, COBOL, NetIQ, Novell, Serena, Vertica, ZENworks, and so on. Suse, the open-source Linux based software, was also once owned by Micro Focus, sold in March 2019.

Micro Focus’ Trademarks

Micro Focus was established in 1976 in Newbury, England. The company has two headquarters, UK and USA, 122 offices in 49 countries worldwide. Annual revenue of US$ 3.3 Billion and about 12,000 employees.

Those were just numbers; the most important thing is what they do and how they got so far. The Micro Focus core business is based on making old software work on new platforms. Let me explain, imagine how many businesses developed their own software or acquired software that was developed on what we could call nowadays “dead” technologies? Imagine how much money, effort have those customers spent on it, or how important would that software be for their businesses? 

Believe it or not, for many banks, savings institutions, and insurance firms, their code lives on today, running as components in environments maintained by Micro Focus tools.

According to Kevin Loosemore, Micro Focus Executive Chairman, “What we do… is, we take mature software and we extend the life of it for customers, and get more value from it by linking it to new technologies.”

What makes Micro Focus so unique, and special is when they acquire, merging or buying a mature software company, they do not bring only new customers and old applications, but they also bring innovation, understanding their necessities as they navigate from the past to the present, making a smooth path to the future.

Micro Focus is the “Bridge” since its very beginning, and they know their place in this tech world, where nothing is created, everything is transformed. Being “The Bridge” was not only a smart decision but also the right one.

Micro Focus helps organizations run and transform their business through four core areas of digital transformation: Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Predictive Analytics and Security, Risk & Governance. Driven by customer-centric innovation, their software provides the critical tools they need to build, operate, secure, and analyze the enterprise. By design, these tools bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies—enabling faster innovation, with less risk, in the race to digital transformation.

Micro Focus has been a more integral part of the world’s technology infrastructure than most will ever realize.

Micro Focus

Source:

https://www.microfocus.com/media/flyer/micro_focus_fact_sheet.pdf

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/legal/trademarks

https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2019/micro-focus-completes-suse-sale/

https://thenewstack.io/back-future-micro-focus-can-make-hpe-software-purchase