SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) announced that Citi, the
leading global bank with 200 million customer accounts worldwide,
has received its Digital Transformation (DX) Innovation
Award in recognition of exceptional creativity in leveraging
technology to win in today's digital economy. The award will be
announced this week at Micro Focus Universe 2021, the
company's flagship customer event.
Citi earned the coveted DX Innovation Award for finding an
inventive solution to address the need for more skilled engineers
to build and run performance tests. Engineers skilled in functional
and performance testing are scarce and command high prices in the
marketplace. Citi's digital transformation project, labeled VPE
("Virtual Performance Engineer"), aims to bring applications to
market quicker. Utilizing Micro Focus Performance Products as an
automated performance engineering tool, Citi is simplifying
performance testing to easily plan, run, and scale performance
tests and identify problems faster.
To help its engineering teams focus more on higher-level
innovation, Citi minimized some trivial tasks of a performance
engineer by integrating Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
and automation to "virtualize" them. This methodology combined both
functional and performance testing into a single step and eased a
bottleneck in Citi's continuous integration and continuous delivery
process (CI/CD).
"Citi is well known in the FinTech industry for being at the
leading edge of applying technology to help deliver even greater
value to their customers, and we are excited to play a part in
that," said Eric Varness, Chief
Marketing Officer at Micro Focus. "With a comprehensive portfolio,
underpinned by a robust analytics ecosystem, Micro Focus delivers
pragmatic, customer-centric solutions that enable customers to both
run and transform at the same time. We often talk about taking a
High Tech, Low Drama approach to solving real-world IT challenges
in today's ever-evolving market, and we believe Citi is a shining
example of how this is manifested."
In today's financial services industry, customers expect to
conduct banking transactions digitally as easily as in person.
Banking products should offer value and relevance to its clients,
as technology transforms consumers' expectations. Citi is
well-known as a digital banking leader, dating back to 2007 when it
was the first major U.S. bank to offer a downloadable mobile
banking app, as well as the first to offer apps designed for Apple
Watch and Kindle Fire in subsequent years. And through its current
digital transformation project VPE, Citi continues to prioritize
its digital-first strategy by optimizing its performance testing
process.
Nominations for the DX Innovation Award started earlier this
year for this second annual award. It was a competitive and
rigorous selection process, with companies showcasing remarkable DX
results resulting in critical outcomes, including accelerating
application delivery, simplifying IT transformation, strengthening
cyber resilience, and analyzing in time to act. The nominations
were reviewed by Micro Focus' executive committee which evaluated
prospective winners on a number of key metrics, including scope,
scale, and overall impact to the business.
Winners of last year's award included General Motors and the
Carrefour Group.
About Micro Focus Universe
Micro Focus Universe is the company's flagship customer event.
Attendees will have an opportunity to learn from Micro Focus
experts about what it takes to win in a digital economy. Attendees
will also see and experience use cases, and hear best practices
from Micro Focus customers and partners around the world.
With more than 1,000 product releases in the last 24 months, and
one of the world's largest patent portfolios, Micro Focus is
already in a strong position to deliver on its vision of providing
high tech with low drama – bringing together the product breadth,
customer-centric technology and expertise necessary to help
customers run and transform at the same time without surprises.
Those interested can register for the regional agenda of your
choice (EMEA, AMERICAS, or APJ).
Other key presentations include speaker James Barclay, Team Director at Jaguar Racing,
as well as presentations from product experts, thought leaders, and
partners such as PWC and DXC.
More Information
For more information or to register for Micro Focus Universe
2021, visit here.
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About Micro Focus
Micro Focus delivers enterprise software to empower 40,000
customers worldwide to run, transform, and adapt. With a
comprehensive portfolio, underpinned by a robust analytics
ecosystem, Micro Focus delivers pragmatic, customer-centric
solutions to bridge the gap between existing and emerging
technologies and enable organizations to achieve Smart Digital
Transformation. That's High Tech, Low Drama.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million
customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and
jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments
and institutions with a broad range of financial products and
services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and
investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and
wealth management.
Media Contact:
Harper Schmidt
microfocus@pancomm.com
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