MigrationWare, a South African company with 13 years' of international legacy systems modernisation and migration experience, is launching itself into the local SAP market.
In choosing to take on the representation responsibilities for its SAP-oriented partners, MigrationWare began by first searching the market for best-of-breed products that were synergistic with its existing focus on system modernisation. The result was the selection of two world-class SAP expert companies: smartShift Technologies as its partner in the SAP Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) space, and, in the SAP testing arena, through its partnership with Micro Focus, Borland's Silk for use with SAP testing tools.
With more than 20 years' of experience providing unique rule-based techniques and services for SAP ABAP clients around the world, smartShift Technologies brings complementary capabilities to the partnership that will benefit current and potential customers.
smartShift Technologies' industry leading tools use unique and proprietary techniques to identify and automatically correct potential coding errors, security vulnerabilities and performance issues. The company's systems simultaneously resolve coding challenges while also updating programming language to the latest SAP and Unicode standards, negating the need for additional updates.
To maintain this high standard of code quality, smartShift Technologies offers its specially designed software, smartDevelop, an automated SAP tool that integrates with the SAP Change and Transport Management System. The software allows users to capture, analyse and correct code errors before the testing phase begins.
"The partnership of MigrationWare and smartShift Technologies connects SAP users in South Africa - and across the African continent - with a solution provider that understands their challenges and can offer real solutions," said Stefan Hetges, CEO of smartShift Technologies. "Our experience and skills complement each other perfectly, particularly in the testing space, where MigrationWare's extensive knowledge will be greatly enhanced with our overall product offering."
According to MigrationWare Sales and Marketing Director Jo~ao de Oliveira: "We are looking to this exciting technology to firmly establish MigrationWare as a serious partner to SAP users in South Africa."
He adds that smartShift is a best-of-breed technology innovator of note and should be welcomed into this market with open arms.
In the SAP testing arena, MigrationWare is working with its long-standing partner, Micro Focus, to offer Borland's "Silk" for use with SAP testing tools adapted and integrated specifically with SAP Solution Manager.
For the second year running, Borland, a Micro Focus company, has been positioned by Gartner in the "Leaders" quadrant of the 2013 'Integrated Software Quality Suites Magic Quadrant' report. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company's ability to execute and completeness of vision.
Borland has continued to innovate in mobile and Agile across its Silk portfolio, with recent extensions to its Silk Mobile, Silk Performer, Silk Central, Silk for use with SAP and Silk WebMeter products.
"Initial interest for these technologies in this market has been encouraging," says De Oliveira. "We predict that they will take off quickly, as they have in overseas markets.
"Any technology that speeds up long and costly manual processes, increases quality and reduces overall costs, as these technologies do, has to be welcomed during such trying times," he adds.
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smartShift Technologies
smartShift Technologies is the leading provider of solutions for automated optimisation of complex IT systems and cloud enablement and management services. smartShift Technologies offers issues-detection and correction solutions for SAP products that perform automatically - and error-free - dramatically improving system performance and stability. Perfected over two decades and thousands of customer implementations, smartShift Technologies' comprehensive solutions are designed to deliver rapid results. The company's customers include major global organisations such as BMW, Shell, Commerzbank, Kimberly-Clark, OfficeMax and Scotts Miracle-Gro. For more information, visit http://www.smartShifttech.com.
Borland & Micro Focus
Originating in 1983, Borland Software Corporation is a Micro Focus company and the Borland brand identifies the requirements, test and change management solutions which help companies to build better software, faster.
Borland software development products work across the entire application development life cycle to transform good software into great software. Uniquely, its tools are open, agile, and fit for enterprise.
Borland recognises that developers and development organisations need to define, manage and measure the software delivery processes based on their unique needs, tools and preferences.
Micro Focus 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 more information, please visit www.MicroFocus.com.
MigrationWare
MigrationWare is a solutions company established in 2000 dedicated to the preservation and protection of the life expectancy of business applications threatened by obsolete technology, as well as by external factors such as licensing costs and skills shortages.
MigrationWare is a partner of both smartShift and Micro Focus, including Borland.
For more information, please visit www.MigrationWare.com.
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