Application Performance
Summary of research on the innovative steps 60 global market leaders took to drive mainframe efficiencies and the benefits realized -- whether in actual dollars, productivity gains, and/or reduced risk to the enterprise.
Better management of MIPS consumption is one of the most overlooked opportunities for reducing mainframe hardware and software costs. MIPS usage is growing faster than both business growth and IT budget growth.
Many organizations are using web services to extend the reach of their legacy mainframe applications to distributed platforms and the Internet. One unintended consequence of this trend is a much more complicated problem resolution process.
Developer Productivity/Workbench
A recent global Compuware study shows many CIOs are unprepared to address the mainframe developer shortage.
The Workbench provides an evolutionary, low-cost, low-risk, non-disruptive path for modernizing your mainframe application development environment. See specific features in this overview.
Summary of research on the innovative steps 60 global market leaders took to drive mainframe efficiencies and the benefits realized -- whether in actual dollars, productivity gains, and/or reduced risk to the enterprise.
CFOs and CEOs believe that productivity is most important to IT, followed by efficiency and hard savings. In contrast, CIOs consider their own focus to be less about productivity; ranking efficiency first, then hard savings.
ROI assessments are a necessary part of any business, but especially in the context of economic uncertainty that demands a careful accounting of every dollar. Still, it’s not exactly a favorite pastime for CIOs or CFOs.
In recent years, deployed mainframe hardware capacity has greatly increased. Traditional mainframe environments are essential foundations for high-value applications and data within organizations that regularly perform large volumes of transactions.
Modern IT organizations are under constant pressure to meet the expectations of an increasingly connected customer base. This complexity increases the challenges IT faces in meeting its core objectives: business agility and cost control.
Optimized Test Data
By finding and searching data repositories deployed in enterprise networks, DgDiscover provides the business intelligence required to manage the risk of using sensitive data for application tests.
Insomniac CPOs and frustrated CIOs are realizing the reality of undisguised test data crossing over borders. Privacy Associates International discusses how disguising data before it crosses borders can relieve legal burdens related to this activity.
This paper presents the experiences of two companies who engaged in test data
privacy projects elaborating on the unique challenges they faced and successes they achieved.