Rational solutions enable enterprise systems to extend agile, cloud, and mobile computing
Your mission-critical, enterprise applications contain a wealth of knowledge and logic that can be leveraged to propel your business into surprising new directions. Using the proper tools, techniques and collaborative teamwork, you can extend your existing code and knowledge with newer techniques and technology to speed delivery of new services supporting new delivery channels and strategic initiatives such as agile, cloud and mobile computing. These solutions from Rational help you take your existing investments forward without taking unnecessary risk or incurring additional cost:
Modern mainframe application development to boost developer and team productivity
- IBM Integrated Solution for System z Development (ISDz). ISDz offers a flexible, modern, multiplatform application development environment including development, team collaboration, unit test, analysis, and software change and configuration management.
- IBM Rational Team Concert unifies disparate software teams across a multiplatform environment. Lower your total cost of software delivery by deploying a common team infrastructure, and enabling collaborative application lifecycle management for all platforms.
These solutions integrate traditional mainframe-based applications and databases (offering agile multiplatform development) with integrated application lifecycle management. Clients are seeing decreases in development time by 15-20%1, reduced testing time by 50%2, and reduced times to market from 14 months to nine months3.
Continuous integration and testing to expedite cross-platform integrated application delivery:
- IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z enables distributed and mainframe organizations to build and test end-to-end cross-platform applications continuously and at low-cost. By automating and monitoring app quality and testing, organizations can reduce defect identification and repair costs by up to 90%4, and compress the app delivery cycle from months to weeks or days.5
New compilers to increase application performance and optimize zEnterprise infrastructure:
- The new IBM compiler for Enterprise PL/I exploits the new zEC12 hardware to support multi-threading and CICS transactions and to deliver maximum performance and dramatic improvements in speed – up to 31% improvement over PL/I-based CPU-intensive applications.6 Rational also recently announced updates to the C/C++ compilers and have opened nominations for a new COBOL VNext beta program starting in October allowing customers to help shape the next generation of COBOL compilers for zEnterprise.
IBM Rational offers a game-changing portfolio of enterprise systems solutions for today's vital, compute intensive databases and workloads.
1 Reference -- PharmaPartners B.V. is a provider of IT services to the healthcare industry in the Netherlands boosts developer productivity by up to 12%.
2 Case Study -- Regence BlueCross BlueShield reduces testing time by 50%. Three employees can run required 1,250 tests in less than one week.
3 Case Study -- Danske Bank enhances efficiency of IT development by 10%. Reduces times to market from 14 months to nine months.
4 National Institute of Standards & Technology, Source: GBS Industry standard study.
5 IBM internal customer study.
6 Based on internal early ship testing of the compiler and zEnterprise EC12
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