In today’s business and economic environment, the challenge for IT is clear: improve responsiveness, reduce costs, and boost productivity. One of the most effective ways to meet this challenge is to exploit the unique capabilities of the modern mainframe for multi-platform application development. System z’s unparalleled ability to support diverse applications, architectures and technologies translates into higher speed and productivity for your development projects.
Less sprawl, more speed. Consolidating a sprawling network of distributed infrastructures into a single platform reduces complexity, improves performance, and lowers costs. Those advantages extend to the development environment, with improved support of central applications, seamless integration of multiple environments, and disruption-free processing, for end-to-end debugging, regardless of platform.
Leading German bank BayernLB realized these benefits by using System z software to integrate its development environments and help developers do more, faster.
Less investment, more productivity. With IBM solutions for System z, IT management can leverage new technologies and innovation without retraining existing IT staff; break skills silos by simplifying and accelerating multi-platform development; and leverage new or existing skills to deliver new applications.
Major Brazilian IT service provider Montreal Informatica utilized System z solutions to transform legacy systems to a modern development environment. Not only are they processing millions of online purchases per month; they are able to utilize existing development staff for both web and batch applications. And their ability to offer clients a choice of deployment platforms has resulted in new business opportunities.
To learn more, visit the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform for System z.

