Micro Focus has announced the general availability of its free-of-charge Enterprise Developer Personal Edition product. Â A powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for IBM mainframe applications, Enterprise Developer Personal Edition is a simple to use, entry-level version of the full Micro Focus Enterprise Developer product for IT development professionals and students. Â It offers a choice of Eclipse or Visual Studio IDE to develop enterprise-class mainframe and distributed applications.
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IT plays a significant role in ensuring that business objectives are met against a background of cost control and a relentless demand for efficiency. Gartner’s worldwide survey of CIOs in 2012 confirmed IT organizations must deliver on multiple priorities without an increase in their IT budget.Â
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“IT teams need new approaches to balance the essential work of keeping the business functioning and enabling innovation initiatives to improve corporate performance,” said Kevin Brearley, Director, Product Management at Micro Focus. “This means addressing challenges that directly impact time to market in order to remain competitive and sustain business growth – namely skills, productivity, quality resources and integration.”
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The product comes with smart COBOL editing, syntax checking and compilation to create a simple way to modernize, develop and maintain mainframe applications. It is the entry-level development platform of the Micro Focus Mainframe Solution – a comprehensive product suite to help organizations through the journey of delivering mainframe work load.  It includes Enterprise Analyzer, Enterprise Developer, Enterprise Test Server and Enterprise Server.Â
