Micro Focus, a provider of software solutions that allow organizations to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications, revealed that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has awarded the company with a software application development pilot program that will support the Automated Collection System of the IRS.

The company is a member of the FTSE 250 group, which is the 101st to the 350th largest companies on the London Stock Exchange; and offers enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions. The Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software offered by Micro Focus helps the customers to respond through their business applications to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk in a quick manner.

The IRS pilot program includes licenses for the Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition (MFEEE) solution of Micro Focus, which helps the users in transferring their software application development environment off of the mainframe and onto the Windows platform. Leveraging the solution, developers can move off the mainframe to build and maintain software applications with enhanced levels of convenience, speed and efficiency. Automated Collection System of the IRS is a three-tiered Customer Information Control System application, which provides the customer service representatives with enhanced case management abilities for contacting taxpayers, reviewing their case histories and issuing notices, liens or levies to resolve the cases.

In August 2010, Micro Focus launched SilkTest 2010 and SilkCentral Test Manager 2010, two new software quality products that had been designed with an aim to drive quality improvements across the entire software development life cycle. The SilkTest 2010 automated testing products allowed the users in creating test automation, ensuring continuous validation of quality throughout the development lifecycle. The solutions also support automating Web 2.0 applications, which help the clients to move away from software life cycles dominated by manual testing to those where automated tests continually test software for quality.