ASG Software Solutions Joins Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program

ASG-becubic(TM) Enhances Visual Studio's Integrated Environment to Simplify the Entire Development Lifecycle


NAPLES, FL--(Marketwire - April 19, 2010) -  ASG Software Solutions, the originator of ASG's Business Service Portfolio™ (BSP) and a worldwide leader in business solutions for global enterprises, today announced that it has joined the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program to closer align ASG-becubic™ with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

By integrating ASG-becubic with Visual Studio Ultimate, users will be able to spend more time thinking about creative solutions rather than interpreting code. ASG-becubic will extend the rich visualization power of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to a broader range of environments, including customized legacy applications and databases. It creates a dependency diagram to understand where to make changes and facilitates comprehensive impact analysis. These integrated solutions lead to improved productivity and simpler development for a growing number of application types in a single, collaborative environment. 

With almost 200 partners, the VSIP program provides technical and marketing support to partners who have integrated their products with Visual Studio.

Quotes

Bill Thomson, VP of Solutions Management, ASG
"By working closely with Microsoft, we feel confident that we can extend the benefits and simplicity of the integrated Visual Studio environment to a much broader range of languages, databases, and technologies. We look forward to enabling developers of mainframe, legacy, distributed, and other applications to collaborate more effectively with coders from a Microsoft environment."

Catherine Crim, Lead Marketing Manager, Developer Platform and Tools, Microsoft Corp.
"We are pleased to have ASG join the VSIP program and add more depth to the discovery and understanding of both packaged and customized applications. With this end-to-end visibility of enterprise applications and portfolio management capabilities, ASG-becubic strongly enhances Visual Studio's capacity to simplify the entire development lifecycle."

Supporting Resources

Solution sheet: ASG-becubic 

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ASG provides a full range of practical software solutions that help IT organizations lower costs, save time, and make proactive decisions that drive business success. Best known for its broad portfolio of best-value, results-driven technologies, ASG partners with 85 percent of the world's largest companies to optimize IT service delivery in both mainframe and distributed environments. Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global company based in Naples, Fla., with more than 70 offices worldwide.

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Contact Information:

Contacts:
Shelly Lucas
ASG Software Solutions
239.435.2284
shelly.lucas@asg.com

Kristen Orfanos
Lois, Paul and Partners
781.782.5852
kristen_orfanos@lpp.com