A newly privatized Compuware is
setting out to significantly impact the mainframe marketplace. The changes
started before the acquisition by private equity firm, Thoma Bravo. Compuware
now focuses exclusively on mainframe software products, while the distributed
application performance management products reside in spin-off Dynatrace. This
makes sense as the escalation in the use of technologies like Cloud, Mobile,
Big Data/Analytics, Security, etc. are recognized as natural mainframe workloads.
Some 80% of the world’s corporate data originates on the mainframe with some 30
billion business transactions executed every day. Wise CIOs are re-examining
their existing mainframe infrastructure, but many are not as they face two
problems:
1. Lack of experience with and knowledge
about the mainframe itself impedes understanding its current utility, as well
as its potential;
2. Mainframe expertise is becoming a
scarce commodity among computer architects, developers and operations staff.
Big problems that have no easy
answers, but these are exactly what Compuware has decided to attack with the
release of Topaz, a developer productivity solution designed to help a new development workforce
increase their understanding of mainframe data and applications.
Topaz is the first product release from the new Compuware.
It establishes a brand-new direction for mainframe product vendors. It is targeted
specifically to enhance the productivity on the mainframe of developers,
operations and architects without deep expertise on the platform. It does this
by using Open Standards technologies, design goals that include simplification
and a deep understanding of both the mainframe and non-mainframe environments.
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