TechValidate Research on CA Mainframe

Introduction

This case study of BlueCross BlueShield Of Illinoiis is based on a October 2013 survey of CA Technologies Testing Solutions and CA Endevor® Software Change Manager customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Experienced the following challenges when there was little or no integration between their testing tools and their software change management solution:
  • Too many manual procedures
• Integrated their software change management solution with their testing tools to achieve the following business objectives:
  • Free up resources for critical work
  • Speed turnover of applications to production
  • Save money

Use Case

• Integrated their software change management solution with their testing tools to achieve the following technical objectives:
  • Simplify and automate test case setup
  • Reduce the number of manual errors

Results

• Made improvements in the following areas by integrating their software change management solution and their testing tools:
  • Increased productivity: 75-100%
  • Reduced manual errors: 75-100%
  • Accelerated delivery of apps: 75-100%
• Finds the integration of their software change management solution and their testing tools solution to be extremely important to their development teams.
• Rates the following integrated software change management solution and testing tools capabilities in terms of how valuable they are:
  • Ease of use: extremely valuable
  • Depth of functionality: extremely valuable
  • Lower cost of ownership: very valuable
  • Ability to quickly produce quality apps: extremely valuable
• Achieved the following benefits from the integration of their software change management solution and their testing tools:
  • Can test earlier and/or more often in the software development life cycle
  • Can accomplish more testing in less time
  • Improved application performance in production

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise insurance company is based on a June 2013 survey of CA Technologies Testing Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CA Testing Tools for the following reasons:
  • Reduce high software costs

Use Case

• Using the following CA Testing Tools:
  • CA Mainframe Application Tuner
• Applying CA Testing Tools in the following ways:
  • To identify the root cause of a performance problem in test or production

Results

• Replaced the following vendors with CA Testing Tools:
  • ASG
• Their application developers are satisfied with the ease of use of the CA Testing Tools.
• Agrees that CA Testing Tools help with delivering well-tested mainframe applications that perform as expected in production.
• Rated the following CA Testing Tools capabilities in terms of how valuable they are to their organization:
  • Ease of use: very valuable
  • Depth of functionality: very valuable
  • Integration among the tools: very valuable
  • Lower cost of ownership: very valuable