Accelerate Mainframe Applications at the Speed of DevOps
How future-focused enterprises are winning the race
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Digital Business Demands Mainframe DevOps
When it comes to delivering the experiences your customers want, you need the power of the mainframe. Your customers expect constant updates and improvements to their experience, and they won’t accept twice-yearly mainframe application updates. How are future-focused enterprises responding? They…
Recognize the potential of DevOps for mainframe application development
Face big challenges without the right tools
Know that they need better mainframe development tools
Build a mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchain to enable DevOps across the organization
of IT leaders are seeing increased mainframe transaction volume
of organizations choosing the mainframe want to update applications more frequently
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The latest BMC Mainframe Survey shows the implications of this urgency:
The latest BMC Mainframe Survey show the implications of this urgency:
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Your customers expect constant updates and improvements to their experience, and they won’t accept twice-yearly mainframe application updates. How are future-focused enterprises responding? They…
According to Dimensional Research, 98% of organizations believe DevOps will deliver the same great benefits for mainframe application development as what’s being done on distributed and cloud platforms. For those forward-looking organizations already using DevOps processes in their mainframe software development lifecycle (SDLC), they’re seeing…
Future-Focused Enterprises Recognize the Potential of DevOps on the Mainframe
Improved efficiency and increased team productivity
Higher-quality applications
Months-faster mainframe application delivery
A modern DevOps toolset means you don’t have to rely on developers with old-school expertise. You can attract today’s brightest talent—and that’s a big plus for your team. But many enterprises recognize they’re still lagging and need to modernize their development tools.
Future-Focused Enterprises Know They Need Better Mainframe Development Tools
Disconnected from enterprise DevOps initiatives
Slow application development
Shortage of skilled developers
of surveyed organizations say they face mainframe application development challenges:
of organizations use modern DevOps tools for the key phases of the mainframe SDLC
Dimensional Research echoes the need of mainframe developers for better tools:
Lack of modern DevOps tools affects mainframe application quality—slowing down development and increasing the risk of defects and errors.
Future-Focused Enterprises Face Big Challenges Without the Right Tools
According to a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ report, manual testing, for example, means…
developers waste 30% of their time testing rather than coding
a simple code change can take more than half a day
complex code changes can take 3-4 days
organizations must allocate 3 days of every 10-day sprint for testing
Plus outdated tools...
lead to increased cyberattacks, breaches, and other security risks
result in slower release cycles
hinder application modernization efforts, automation of SDLC tasks, and front- and back-end integration
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Speed Mainframe Application Delivery Without Compromising Quality with BMC Compuware Topaz for Total Test
BMC gives enterprises the toolchain that delivers on these three essential capabilities recommended by Forrester:
Future-Focused Enterprises Look to BMC’s Mainframe-Inclusive DevOps Toolchain to Enable DevOps
A modern integrated development environment (IDE) for editing and debugging code and automated testing
Modern source code management (SCM) for better version control and deployment capabilities
The ability to provide process metrics, such as velocity, quality, and efficiency
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BMC Compuware Topaz
A comprehensive IDE suite of modern mainframe development and testing tools for greater developer visibility, knowledge, and productivity
BMC Compuware ISPW
A mainframe SCM, build, and deploy tool enabling continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) to ensure a secure, stable, and streamlined mainframe code pipeline throughout the DevOps lifecycle
BMC COMPUWARE zADVISER
A machine learning-based analytics tool to measure and improve mainframe DevOps processes and development outcomes continuously based on key performance indicators
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Forrester estimates an
ROI of 166%
over five years for the typical organization—with a net present value of
$23.43 million.
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Developers spend up to
When developing a composite case study of BMC Compuware customers using Mainframe DevOps, Forrester’s TEI™ report showed dramatic benefits:
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175%
more time writing code each day.
Code deployment dropped from
per developer, per week, with up to
3 hours to 2 minutes,
95%
of deployment activities automated.
A modern, productive experience helps organizations attract new mainframe talent—and save
over five years by enabling junior-level developers to work on the platform successfully.
$12.3 million
BMC Compuware ISPW and the BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench
the time new developers need to learn mainframe development tools and processes and become productive.
cut in half
Organizations achieved a
in deployment frequency—valued at
over five years.
600% increase
$11.4 million
When developing a composite case study of BMC Compuware customers using Mainframe DevOps Forrester’s TEI™ report showed dramatic benefits:
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