Micro Focus Australian appointments

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 09:03

IT People - People

Application modernisation and management software developer, Micro Focus, has appointed two new account directors in Australia with a brief to build business and service customers for the company’s application lifecycle and financial services solutions.

Micro Focus Australian and New Zealand country manager, Keith Mante, said today Simon McCrostie, previously with services company Crossmark, has been appointed as account director – application lifecycle solutions for New South Wales and Queensland, and Martyn Bartlett, formerly with Sun Microsystems, takes up the role of account director financial services sector for NSW and Queensland to work with customers through legacy application modernisation projects.

Mante said the appointments would help the company better service its customers “at a time when the IT industry is pushing barrows full of new and distracting concepts – Green, Cloud, Web 3.0, to name a few.

“Customers continue to face the challenges of shrinking budgets, fewer human resources, and increasing demands from the business to help find, keep and grow the customer base.

“Simon and Martyn bring with them skills and experience that will be of great benefit to our business and customers and we expand our operations following the acquisitions of Borland and Compuware. They will give us both tactical and strategic depth with a view to listening to and supporting our clients in optimising their applications, and meeting the strict challenges posed by business, the industry and the general economy.”

According to McCrostie, succession of Y2K, ERP, Web and legacy modernisation projects over the last decade has left businesses with a “fractionalised adoption of software quality practices and tools.” 

And, Bartlett says that after a decade of changes, coupled with an unprecedented cost cutting regime, “the quality, agility and financial burden of legacy code needs to be reviewed and modernised to ensure businesses stay competitive.”