Acucorp Technologies Offer Enhanced Support for the HP Adaptive Enterprise

San Diego, CA – August 17, 2004 – Acucorp, Inc., an HP business partner and international provider of legacy application modernization solutions, today announces its enhanced support for the HP Adaptive Enterprise—making it possible for Fortune-class corporations, government end users and independent software vendors (ISVs) to manage costs, mitigate risks and increase service quality by leveraging existing information technology (IT) assets. These assets, many of which include business systems written in COBOL, can be integrated with other enterprise IT components using Acucorp’s extend® interoperability solutions in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This allows companies to quickly adapt to changes within their organizational environment as well as drive business strategy and processes through IT—all fundamental principles of the HP Adaptive Enterprise.

“Since our inception, Acucorp’s focus has been to develop innovative technologies that facilitate the modernization of COBOL applications,” explains Joe Seiley, Acucorp’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. “Using our tools, organizations can retain the value inherent to their legacy systems while taking the first step in moving towards SOA and the HP Adaptive Enterprise.”

Like HP’s IT strategy, Acucorp’s extend solutions incorporate many of the same design principles: simplify, standardize, modularize and integrate. Businesses adhering to the HP Adaptive Enterprise and wishing to simplify their application infrastructure, will benefit from Acucorp’s unparalleled portability made possible by the COBOL Virtual Machine™. This portability enables extend to run on more than 600 platforms including HP-UX (RISC and Itanium2), Linux (x86 and Itanium2), Windows (x86 and Itanium2), Tru64 and Open VMS (Alpha and Itanium2). Standardization, as defined in the HP Adaptive Enterprise, is also evident in Acucorp’s technologies, which support SOA design—allowing companies to create industry-standard interfaces that enable COBOL applications to interoperate with .NET, Java, Visual Basic, C# and other languages. Through modularization, organizations subscribing to the HP Adaptive Enterprise can break down monolithic business systems and create reusable components that are available across the enterprise. With Acucorp’s Component Adapter Technology, these companies can do the same thing, transforming COBOL applications into service components that can be consumed by other applications either internally or across the Internet in a Web services architecture. The HP Adaptive Enterprise integration design principle stresses the importance of connecting business systems and processes throughout the organization. Using Acucorp’s COBOL Virtual Machine™, companies can future-proof their applications, ensuring interoperability and portability.

“Like the HP Adaptive Enterprise vision, Acucorp’s platform-independent approach provides insurance for an organization’s back-end architecture against major changes in language or platform on the front-end,” says Seiley.

In addition to enhanced support for the HP Adaptive Enterprise and SOA, Acucorp’s extend solutions provide technologies for Internet and mobile device deployment, graphical user interface (GUI) development, thin client architecture and distributed computing, relational database management system (RDBMS) access, and programmer productivity.

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc.—an HP Business Partner, HP e3000 Transition Partner and active member of the HP Developer and Solution Partner Program (DSPP)—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 100 countries throughout the world. Its over 4,000 customers and 1,000,000 end users include Diageo (formerly Seagram Americas), Ford Argentina, L’Oréal Mexico, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Siemens, SSA Global, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The Company designs, develops, and markets innovative solutions for extending the life of vital COBOL business systems.

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