TechValidate Research on CA Mainframe

Introduction

This case study of Duke Energy Corporation is based on a February 2017 survey of CA Mainframe Management solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CA Mainframe Management solutions:

• Unable to control mainframe operations costs
• Taking too long to remediate problems
• Companies evaluated prior to choosing CA Mainframe Management solutions:
  • ASG
  • BMC

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CA Mainframe Management solutions that the surveyed company uses:

• Mainframe machine learning and predictive analytics for supporting business goals are critical in the following areas:
  • Improving IT staff effectiveness: extremely critical
  • Reducing risk: extremely critical
  • Predicting system issues: extremely critical
  • Increasing IT automation: extremely critical
  • Lowering overall IT cost: extremely critical

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CA Mainframe Management solutions:

• Reasons for deploying Mainframe Management solution from CA versus other vendor solutions:
  • Ability to help reduce software and operating costs
  • Product integrations and interoperability
• Realized benefits:
  • Improved the ability to predict incidents sooner
  • Improved their ability to drill down into the root cause of a problem and remediate it faster
  • Became more proactive versus reactive for mainframe management
• Rated CA Mainframe Management solutions on the below compared to other vendor solutions:
  • Ability to lower TCO: better than
  • Breadth of capabilities and portfolio integration: better than
  • Depth of mainframe system insights: superior to
  • Ability to detect abnormal patterns of operation: superior to
  • Ease of use to improve IT staff efficiency: better than
• Improved their team’s productivity and effectiveness by 30%-50% using CA Mainframe Management solutions.
• CA Mainframe Management solutions improved the following:
  • The frequency of war room calls: significantly improved
  • The number of incidents / events: improved
  • Their ability to isolate the root cause: significantly improved
  • Problem remediation: significantly improved
  • Their ability to proactively prevent issues: improved

Introduction

This case study of Arcelor Mittal is based on an October 2016 survey of CA Technologies Mainframe Security solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CA Technologies Mainframe Security solutions:

• Challenges addressed with the CA Mainframe Security portfolio:
  • The inability to easily prove to auditors that compliance controls are in place

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CA Technologies Mainframe Security solutions that the surveyed company uses:

• CA Mainframe compliance capabilities that are used and critical to the success of their business:
  • The simple user interface and workflow
• Industry regulations that CA Mainframe Security solutions help to comply with:
  • Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CA Technologies Mainframe Security solutions:

• Benefits realized with CA Mainframe Security solutions:
  • Gained confidence in knowing that their mainframe data is secure
• Rated CA Mainframe security and compliance capabilities compared to competitive products:
  • Ease of use: superior
  • Flexibility: superior
  • Functionality: superior
  • Depth of insights: superior
  • Reliability: highly superior