Mainframe Software Solutions

“We’re introducing Agile at scale and it actually works. We’ve seen a massive improvement where we’ve rolled out ISPW and Topaz to the rate and level of quality at which we deploy changes.”

– Jolene Olivier, head of CI/CD execution strategy, Standard Bank

 “It is great that Compuware continues to develop a complete DevOps toolchain for COBOL. Adding code coverage is a major achievement and I am very happy this is happening,” said Olivier Gaudin, CEO of SonarSource. “Our partnership with Compuware significantly enhances the ability of large enterprises to bring their mainframes into their cross-platform DevOps processes while still rigorously ensuring the quality of their core enterprise applications.”

Enterprises can gain tremendous business value from mainframe-resident data, but making use of this key asset is often limited by the need to understand the mysteries of applications developed in CICS and COBOL. Compuware is taking aim at this limitation by more broadly empowering IT professionals to understand and leverage data residing on IBM System z using graphical visualization tools.

 — Tim Grieser, Program Vice President for Enterprise System Management Software, International Data Co.

Strobe showed us that one SQL statement was eating up a good 60 percent of CPU usage. After we fixed the problem, we noticed more than a 25 percent reduction in CPU usage.

—Joe Reimann, IT Project Coordinator, Comerica Incorporated

Strobe identifies inefficient processing quickly and presents it simply via iStrobe. It also highlights instances of inefficiency that traditional analysis couldn’t find. In fact, the proof of value exercise alone identified sufficient saving to pay for our use of Strobe and iStrobe.

—Bank of Ireland

To me, it’s a no-brainer. If you can improve your performance, you can contain hardware and software costs. Strobe is the best tool on the market to do that, and we hope to have it in our shop for a very long time to come.

—Joey Brown, Systems Development Manager, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company

Compuware is opening up the mainframe to our non-mainframe staff so we can unleash the full potential value of our mainframe resources.

—Luis M. Bonilla , Team Lead, Technical Services, Acxiom

It typically takes three hours to complete a batch processing task, of which the CPU processing alone takes one and a half hours. With Strobe, however, our programmers have cut batch processing time down by 28.9 percent, with CPU processing time down by 24.57 percent. The benefits of optimization are obvious.

—Lin Ruizhen, Director of First Division, Accounts Processing, Northern Taiwan Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom Co.

With Topaz Workbench, we can integrate all of our Compuware tools—including Strobe, File-AID, Abend-AID and Xpediter—into a single, seamless collaboration environment. Competing products could not offer this level of integration. Additionally, Compuware products have an easy-to-use interface that works for both mainframe and distributed developers. Based on our careful evaluation, it was clear that Compuware was the partner most committed to addressing future change—as well as offering us the best tools for our immediate needs.

—Head of Mainframe System Services, sIT Solutions Austria

With ThruPut Manager, we saved $1,700,000 in the first year with software maintenance cost reduction.

—Financial Services Customer

Hapag-Lloyd determined that Compuware and their Test Data Management solution, which leverages data privacy and test data optimization product File-AID, provided the best solution for its needs.

—Hapag-Lloyd

There’s no comparison. We recognize Compuware’s tools as some of the best in the industry.

—Jeff Price, Project Leader of Technology Development Support Services, Royal Bank of Canada

Group 1 Software, a subsidiary of Pitney Bowes, quickly selected Compuware Xpediter and Abend-AID for their application debugging and fault management needs.

—Group 1 Software

ThruPut Manager paid for itself in the first year in software license savings alone.

—Financial Services Customer