Mainframe DevOps—the development challenge
Embracing change can be easier to say than do for mainframe organizations. Resource priority on the mainframe is given to production rather than dev and test. Current tooling, processes and practices may be cumbersome, linear, iterative and slow—but they will also be long-established.
New efficiencies from mainframe environments
By embracing modern development tooling and contemporary testing capability, organizations can achieve DevOps levels of efficiencies and see new returns on mainframe investments. Working collaboratively, teams can deliver more releases faster—and in parallel.
Efficiency, collaboration and flexibility—the pillars of mainframe DevOps
Adopting a DevOps culture and modern tooling can remove bottlenecks and enable parallel development at scale while preserving quality and process integrity and managing mainframe cost.
2. Most of today’s DevOps dialogue
focuses on enabling faster change
and velocity for customer facing
applications——also known as
Systems of Engagement or systems
of innovation—deployed to or
accessible from mobile devices.
What isn’t always obvious is that these systems have a
dependency on core business applications—also known
as systems of record. Business revenues and one’s
competitive advantage are both underpinned by these
core systems, which provide access to needed business
process and data.
So the challenge becomes how to best re-align,
automate, and integrate the development practices
aligned to both Systems of Record and Systems of
Engagement and enable a more continuous, efficient,
and faster approach to application delivery.
From mainframe to mobile, the business imperatives
are the same—accelerate time to market, improve quality,
and ensure IT infrastructure and software remain agile
to support new business initiatives. These demands
underpin the need for digital transformation and drive
to embrace DevOps practices.
How can Micro Focus support your
Mainframe DevOps journey to meet the
needs of digital business?
The Engagement Model
Micro Focus has a 40-year track record of helping IBM
Mainframe customers improve their application delivery
process. On that journey, we’ve enabled our customers
to transform their development processes, improve
efficiency, better collaborate across teams, and deliver
greater development and test resource flexibility at scale.
These benefits, coupled with unrivaled application
deployment choice, deliver application agility across any
fit for purpose platform strategic to the business.
With this record of experience and maturity, Micro Focus
has developed a DevOps Engagement Model to close
the development process gap between systems of record
and systems of innovation. This model delivers a common
and unified DevOps approach, across these systems and
practices, to meet your businesses goals.
The Micro Focus team can help you define your ideal
roadmap and path along your DevOps Journey.
Modern Infrastructure
Modern Architecture
Modern Processes
Great User Experience
IT Delivery Capablilities Business Demands
Legacy Infrastructure
Legacy Architecture
Legacy Processes
Poor User Experience
Nexus of
Forces
Time
Digital Industrial Economy
Agility&Scale
Today
Internet of
Things
Delivery Gap
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Customer Challenge——Keep up the pace
3. Through these service offerings,
we share our expertise and industry
best practices along with personal-
ized consultation to make your
Mainframe DevOps journey a
success.
Our DevOps service offerings consist of
three key elements:
1. DevOps Value Workshop
An onsite workshop where we review your existing
mainframe software delivery life-cycle (SDLC)
processes, current challenges preventing you from
meeting business goals, and prioritize key pain points
identified along the way. The workshop is typically
one to three days in duration.
2. Proof of Value
A hands-on experience with the Micro Focus solution
based on defined use cases identified during the
workshop. Use cases are aligned to meet the success
criteria you define to achieve your business goals
3. Implementation
Once business value is recognized and your DevOps
objectives delivered through the Proof of Value process,
our professional services team will work to support you
throughout the needed implementation phase to ensure
best practices are used to maximize your results.
DevOps Service Offerings
The DevOps Value Workshop
The DevOps Value Workshop is designed to obtain a
detailed overview and understanding of:
• Business Goals
• Business case for change
• An assessment of your SDLC
• Enterprise Organizational Overview
• Tools and Technology Overview
In this onsite workshop, your subject matter experts (SMEs)
will work with our experts to collect the information needed
to create a personalized Pain Point Heat Map.
Based on the Pain Point Heat Map, your SMEs will
prioritize the area of needed improvement, review
expected benefits, and define the Success Criteria to
achieve them. From this gathered information, we define
a Draft DevOps Roadmap using Micro Focus solutions
integrated with any existing tooling on either mainframe
or distributed platforms.
Contact your account manager to learn more about
the DevOps Value Workshop and how to get started.