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Ways DevOps Practices

Boost Innovation
on the Mainframe
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But innovation Digital transformation in the modern software factory is essential.

And mainframes are mission-essential elements of this transformation in
many industries, including, finance, transportation, insurance and others.

doesn’t apply The industry is adopting agile and DevOps practices throughout IT to

to mainframes,
increase business agility. But mainframe teams have been left out of this
transformation. Until now.

does it? In this book, explore the potential for DevOps in your organization,
told from a mainframer’s point of view.

Improve Business Achieve End-To-End Continuous Testing: Continuous Delivery Continuous

Agility Through Agile Managerial Visibility Shift Left to Improve Keeps Mainframe Availability, Monitoring
Development into the SDLC Quality and Reduce Applications & Performance
Test Cycles Up to Speed Enhances UX

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Improve Business Agility

Through Agile Development

“Teams face a variety of challenges in delivering mainframe application

improvements at digital business speed.”
Kurt Bittner and Robert Stroud, Forrester Research, Inc., “Digital Transformation Needs Mainframe DevOps,” June 20, 2016

Agile projects are

65%
3x
of CA Gen, CA Endevor®
MORE LIKELY TO or CA ALC users surveyed deem these
SUCCEED THAN TRADITIONAL products “effective” or “very effective”
WATERFALL PROJECTS.1 in addressing the pressure of delivering
software more frequently.3

Highly agile organizations are Turn to CA Mainframe Application Development, Quality

40%
and Testing Tool solutions to build agile capabilities into
your mainframe environment.
MORE LIKELY
TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE Learn how CA development solutions drive
THEIR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES.2 business value.
Try the ROI calculator.

1 InfoQ, “Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report--Interview with Jennifer Lynch,” October 4, 2015, https://www.infoq.com/articles/standish-chaos-2015
2 Project Management Institute, “Capturing the Value of Project Management,” Feb 2015, http://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/
learning/thought-leadership/pulse/pulse-of-the-profession-2015.pdf
3 TechValidate, “CA Technologies Mainframe Tech Facts,” Dec 10, 2015, https://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/ca-testing-solutions/facts/
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Achieve End-To-End Managerial

Visibility Into the SDLC
End-to-end reporting,
Heterogeneous system Intelligent alert
real-time dashboards
Cluster/job/node management management Real-time
management job information

Complete visibility

55% & traceability

of a developer’s time
is typically spent on
non-development work1

Single, Unified View

That’s why developers
need tools to effectively Flexible/modern interface
coordinate systems
development lifecycle
activities for project
management CA Application Lifecycle Conductor enables agility
and governance. and DevOps on the mainframe.
Calculate the savings now and learn more

1 Application Developers Alliance, “Developer Insights Report,” Aug 2015, http://www.appdevelopersalliance.org/developer-insights-report-2015/

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Continuous Testing: Shift Left to

Improve Quality and Reduce Test Cycles
Early error detection = BIG $ SAVINGS1 MAINFRAME TESTING REMAINS A BARRIER
“When their only option is extensive manual testing, they
$1 for code-fix during testing
hold off changes for as long as possible. Preventing change
$10 for code-fix during QA is not the solution; better and more complete testing is.”
$100 for code-fix during production — Kurt Bittner and Robert Stroud, Forrester Research, Inc., “Digital Transformation
Needs Mainframe DevOps,” June 20, 2016

CA Service Virtualization reduces development and test THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
cycles and speeds time to market.

Maximize efficiency by adopting the CA Testing Tools suite:

Property & Casualty
Insurer achieved2 67% of surveyed
companies with integrated
• CA File Master™ Plus CA Endevor SCM
50% 90% and CA Testing Tools
• CA InterTest™ / CA SymDump® reduced manual errors
CYCLE TIME ERROR by 50% or more3
• CA Test Data Manager
REDUCTION REDUCTION
• CA Service Virtualization
We’re building the next generation of continuous
and automated testing capabilities on the mainframe
environment. Request a Call and Learn More
1 Ovum, “Meeting the Challenges of Change Management,” February 20, 2012
2 CA Service Virtualization data sheet, http://www.ca.com/content/dam/ca/us/files/data-sheet/ca-service-virtualization.PDF
3 TechValidate, “Survey of 25 Users of CA Technologies Testing Solutions,” Published Sept. 10, 2013, TVID: F93-240-0F1
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Continuous Delivery Keeps Mainframe

Applications Up to Speed

To deploy a successful continuous delivery strategy, adopt CA Endevor Software Change Manager, the industry‘s
leading mainframe source code and configuration management solution, with CA Release Automation.

Building DevOps competency delivers huge CA Endevor SCM CA Release Automation

business advantages. Ccompared to lower
performing IT teams, high performers:1 A Fortune 100 company
achieved continuous 389% ROI
automated deployments TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT
REDUCE TIME TO MARKET IMPROVE RELIABILITY
WITH PAYBACK IN
Deploy 200x Spend 22% 500 DEV PACKAGE 2.8 MONTHS.2
PROMOTES PER MONTH
more frequently less time on unplanned

Require 2,555x work and rework 150 PRODUCTION ING INCREASED

RELEASE FREQUENCY
shorter lead times Have 3x
lower
PACKAGE DEPLOYS PER MONTH
TO CONSISTENTLY OVER

Recover 24x faster change failure rates Zero 12,000/MONTH 3

PRODUCTION BACKOUTS

We’re building the next generation of continuous delivery

capabilities on the mainframe environment. Request to call.
1 Forrester, “State of DevOps,” 2015
2 Forrester, “The Total Economic Impact(TM) of CA Release Automation,” December 2015
3 “ING Builds Highly Available Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Microservices and Containers,” CA World® 2015 Presentation 6
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Continuous Availability, Monitoring

& Performance Enhances UX

REDUCED LPAR REDUCED HOURS

80% An insurance company in Germany

reduced their overall daily batch
14 to 1
And a public company in Brazil
processing time from 14 hours to
reduced the processing time
7 hours, and were able to reduce LPAR
of a troublesome batch job from
utilization to 80% in just two weeks.1
14 hours to 1 hour 10 minutes.1

INCIDENT DETECTION SAVED Run the CA Mainframe Application Tuner

450K+ A banking customer saved $450K+

over three years with proactive
business value estimations asset

Learn more about CA Enterprise

incident detection, while improving Performance Management. 
collaboration between distributed
and mainframe teams.1

1 Customer ROI study conducted by CA Technologies, 2015

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help you build agile DevOps capabilities
and innovate on the mainframe.
Request a Call.

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