BMC today announced it has extended its DevOps platform for mainframe environments to provide integrations with GitHub Actions, a framework for managing workflows, and HCL Launch, a continuous delivery platform from HCL Software. BMC gained the DevOps platform with the acquisition of Compuware in June 2020. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for […]
Delivering True DevOps on the Mainframe
Mainframe-inclusive DevOps enables organizations to accelerate application development and delivery so they can stay ahead of market disruptors. Efficient and effective DevOps practices in your mainframe environment allows developers to build, analyze, code, test and manage applications with improved agility and precision. In this interview, Mark Schettenhelm, senior product manager for Compuware, a BMC company, […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
Compuware Mainframe DevOps Integrations Further Automate Shift-left Testing
Integrated Test Data Management and Automated Testing Ensures Test Data Consistency, Accuracy and Security DETROIT—July 1, 2020—Compuware Corporation, a BMC company and the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, today announced new capabilities that further automate and integrate test data and test case execution, empowering IT teams to achieve high-performance application development quality, […]
BMC Software Closes Compuware Deal, Sets Course
BMC Software today announced it has formally completed its acquisition of Compuware as part of an expanded effort to modernize mainframe environments. Bill Miller, president of ZSolutions at BMC, said now that the deal has been closed the combined companies will be able to more tightly integrate Compuware’s Topaz application development and deployment platform with […]
BMC Completes Acquisition of Compuware to Mainstream Mainframe DevOps
Customers to benefit from an integrated DevOps toolchain with unparalleled mainframe operations management and agile application development and delivery HOUSTON, June 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced the close of its acquisition of Compuware, a leading provider of mainframe application development, delivery, and performance solutions. The strategic […]
Research Reveals Demand for Mainframe Innovation Will Surpass Non-mainframe Innovation in 2020, Requiring New Ways of Working
A new global survey of 400 senior IT leaders highlights that the mainframe is continuing to grow in importance – so much so that the deployment frequency of new mainframe application features is set to surpass that of non-mainframe application features in 2020. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Compuware, reveals that […]
EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe
In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM and Sam Knutson of Compuware to discuss app modernization, mainframes and DevOps. Find out what’s the right way to modernize your applications and how to do app modernization in a Z environment.
DevOps Deeper Dive: Mainframe Fallout from BMC’s Compuware Buy
The acquisition of Compuware this week by rival BMC Software signals that the rate at which mainframe environments are being modernized might not be occurring fast enough to support a vibrant third-party tools provider ecosystem. Both BMC and Compuware were sold to private equity firms in 2018 and 2014, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which acquired Compuware, […]
Compuware Announces CloudBees Partnership and New Topaz Version, Enabling Large Enterprises to Leverage Their Mission-critical Mainframe Systems
CloudBees TAPP Premier Status and Streamlined Usability within Topaz Suite Help Large Enterprises Fully Participate in the Digital Economy DETROIT—January 7, 2020—Compuware Corporation, the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, today announced a CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP) Premier Partnership and new advancements to Topaz that together enable organizations to quickly achieve low-risk, […]