Micro Focus
Micro Focus is an enterprise software company that provides infrastructure, operations, application modernization, and security solutions for large organizations.
- Application modernization and connectivity platforms for mainframe and distributed systems
- IT Operations Management (ITOM) and hybrid infrastructure management solutions
- Identity, access, and Security Operations (SecOps) products (security and governance)
- Information management and analytics tools for structured and unstructured data
- DevOps and application delivery management software for enterprise development teams
More About Micro Focus
Micro Focus develops and supplies enterprise software portfolios that target core IT workloads in large organizations, including mainframe-centric environments, hybrid infrastructure, and regulated industries. Its offerings are designed for deployment in data centers, private clouds, and public cloud platforms, with a focus on extending existing systems rather than replacing them. Enterprise customers use Micro Focus technology to maintain continuity of established applications while introducing new delivery models, automation, and security controls.
In application modernization and connectivity (application modernization), Micro Focus provides tools that connect legacy mainframe and midrange applications with modern interfaces, APIs, and cloud services. These products support COBOL and other established languages, enabling organizations to refactor, rehost, or integrate existing workloads into service-oriented and microservices-based architectures. This area often aligns with enterprise architecture frameworks that seek to separate business logic from presentation and integration layers.
Within IT operations and hybrid infrastructure management (IT operations management), Micro Focus software addresses monitoring, configuration, orchestration, and service management across on-premises (on-prem) and cloud environments. These tools commonly integrate with standard protocols such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, and log collection frameworks to aggregate telemetry, events, and performance data from heterogeneous infrastructure. Enterprise operations teams use these products to support incident, problem, and change workflows, often mapped to ITIL-based processes.
Security and governance offerings (security operations, identity and access management, and data governance) cover Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM), access controls, privilege management, and security analytics. These products integrate with directory services such as LDAP and Active Directory, as well as authentication standards including Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OAuth, to enforce policy across applications and infrastructure. In SecOps, Micro Focus tools ingest data from endpoints, networks, and cloud platforms to support detection, investigation, and compliance reporting.
Micro Focus also provides information management and analytics software (data management and analytics) that helps organizations store, classify, and analyze structured and unstructured data. This includes support for search, archiving, retention policies, and content analytics used in compliance, legal discovery, and knowledge discovery scenarios. These capabilities often integrate with document repositories, messaging platforms, and file systems, giving enterprises centralized policy control over information assets.
DevOps and application delivery management products (DevOps and Account Lifecycle Management (ALM)) from Micro Focus support planning, version control, build and test automation, and release orchestration. These offerings integrate with common Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, support automated testing across multiple environments, and provide traceability from requirements through deployment. Enterprises use these tools to coordinate distributed development teams and align software delivery with governance, quality, and regulatory objectives.
In a marketplace directory, Micro Focus can be categorized under application modernization and connectivity, ITOM and observability, identity and access management, SecOps and governance, data and information management, and DevOps and application lifecycle management. Its portfolios are oriented toward organizations that need to extend the lifespan and capability of existing systems while introducing automated, policy-driven management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.