Acucorp Reinforces Commitment to Legacy Understanding Market Through Alliance with ASG

San Diego, CA – April 13, 2004 – Acucorp, Inc., a leading developer of legacy application modernization and extension solutions, today announces its strategic alliance with ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies—offering Fortune-class corporations and independent software vendors (ISVs) the ability to extend and transform their COBOL investments in significantly less time and for less expense than other alternatives. This alliance, part of Acucorp’s Professional Service program, will add to ASG’s complete solution for legacy business system understanding, modernization and extension. Using ASG’s critical services and software technologies, including ASG-becubic™, customers can discover, identify and analyze their vital legacy assets. Then, with Acucorp’s extend® solutions, they are able to wrap these COBOL business assets and deploy them in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based enterprise.

“Like Acucorp, we are committed to extending the life of legacy systems,” explains Arthur L. Allen, president and CEO of ASG. “Our partnership with Acucorp extends our ability to provide our clients with comprehensive support for the entire application lifecycle—from the identification of software assets to the integration of these assets with different technologies, computing languages and environments.”

Using the ASG-becubic suite of tools—which operates in more than 100 environments from mainframe to distributed architectures—organizations can inventory, reference and document their enterprise IT assets (including source code, and functional and technical programmatic components), thus reducing the time required to complete migration, modernization and distributed development projects. Once those assets are identified and the legacy code has been streamlined and restructured, it can be migrated to Acucorp’s robust development system, ACUCOBOL-GT®. ACUCOBOL-GT, along with Acucorp’s other extend technologies, provides innovative COBOL modernization solutions for: interoperability with XML, .NET, J2EE as well as other computing languages and application servers via SOA and Web services; Internet deployment and mobile computing; graphical user interface design; thin client architecture; and access to relational database management systems (RDBMSs) or other data sources.

By taking advantage of extend’s unparalleled portability and affinity to the original COBOL source code, corporations can preserve their existing legacy assets. And, with the many compatibility switches embedded in ACUCOBOL-GT’s compiler and runtime, they can do so while substantially lowering their total cost of ownership and increasing their return on investment. This, in addition to Acucorp’s companion products, makes it easier for these corporations to “reuse” their legacy code.

“ASG offers comprehensive extension, modernization and transformation products and services, and Acucorp develops tools for the extension and modernization of COBOL applications—so the progression towards a strategic alliance was natural,” says Dr. Pamela Coker, Acucorp’s President and CEO. “Forming this alliance has enabled us to enter the legacy understanding market and provide enterprise-class customers with the tools and services necessary to extract their applications’ business rules and leverage them in a service-oriented environment.”

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, and celebrating its 15th anniversary, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world. Its over 4,000 customers and one million end users include Diageo (formerly Seagram Americas), Ford Argentina, L’Oréal Mexico, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Siemens, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company, which grew its revenues by 20 percent last year, continues to design, develop, and market innovative solutions for extending the life of vital COBOL business systems.

About ASG

ASG's business is to partner with clients to improve productivity and significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately-held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management arenas — including business re-engineering, systems integration and systems development. ASG has approximately 900 employees, $169 million in annual revenues, 7,000 customer sites, and 18,000 software licenses worldwide. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Inc. magazine recognized ASG as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, with a three-year growth rate of 394 percent. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.

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