Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted into the Mainframe Migration Alliance.

Alpharetta, GA - December 1, 2009 - Emerald Software Group, LLC (Emerald Software), a world leader in business solutions based upon Business Process Management (BPM) technologies, today announces that the company has been accepted into the Mainframe Migration Alliance. Emerald Software's Legacy Modernization practice helps clients move critical workforce management applications, such as time and attendance, recruiting and hiring, and new employee onboarding, from mainframe platforms to a combination of the company's commercial off-the-shelf products in the AllegroHR Suite and custom BPM (business process management) enabled applications. The company has specializations in Natural and Adabas, COBOL, BPM (Business Process Management), data warehousing, Human Resources, and cloud computing.

The Mainframe Migration Alliance is an association of companies who work together to help customers migrate workloads off of mainframe platforms and onto the Microsoft platform. The Alliance represents a group of companies that have their interests aligned in making legacy modernization easier and more efficient for customers.

"We're thrilled to have been accepted into the Mainframe Migration Alliance," says Chuck Ros, President of Emerald Software Group. "We've helped organizations such as the Centers Disease Control migrate their mainframe-based HR applications to the .Net platform, proving that we can very cost effectively modernize legacy apps without sacrificing scalability and reliability. We're particularly excited about the opportunities that the Microsoft Azure cloud platform will bring to high availability corporate computing."

"We are delighted to welcome Emerald Software Group to the Mainframe Migration Alliance," said Mickey Pierce, director of the Mainframe Migration Alliance at Microsoft Corp. "With their technical expertise, we are confident they will provide value to existing MMA members and customers to help move business critical applications from expensive mainframe systems to the more agile and cost-effective Windows platform."

Emerald Software Group is a world leader in business solutions based upon Business Process Management (BPM) technologies. The company's Human Capital solutions include new employee onboarding, employee lifecycle requisitioning, personnel change management, and employment verification services including integration to the Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify program. The company also offers other solutions in Applied BPM. Emerald operates in both North America and Europe. Emerald Software's website is www.emeraldsoftwaregroup.com and their GSA contract number is GS-35F-0689V.