TechValidate Research on CA Mainframe

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on a May 2013 survey of CA Technologies Testing Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CA Testing Tools for the following reasons:
  • Improve testing of mainframe applications
  • Improve productivity of application developers

Use Case

• Using the following CA Testing Tools:
  • CA InterTest™ for CICS
  • CA RC/Update® for DB2 for z/OS
• Applying CA Testing Tools in the following ways:
  • To debug / step through CICS programs
  • To browse or update DB2 databases

Results

• Replaced the following vendors with CA Testing Tools:
  • Compuware
• Their application developers are satisfied with the ease of use of the CA Testing Tools.
• Agrees that CA Testing Tools help to a significant degree with delivering well-tested mainframe applications that perform as expected in production.
• Saw improvement in the following areas since implementing CA Testing Tools:
  • Reduced costs: up to 20%
  • Improved productivity: up to 20%
  • Achieved a return on investment: up to 20%
• Rated the following CA Testing Tools capabilities in terms of how valuable they are to their organization:
  • Ease of use: valuable
  • Depth of functionality: valuable

Introduction

This case study of International Business Machines Corporation 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:
  • Complex compliance audits

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 ability to operate 100% on the mainframe
  • 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:
  • Improved real-time notifications of users accessing sensitive mainframe data
• Rated CA Mainframe security and compliance capabilities compared to competitive products:
  • Ease of use: superior
  • Flexibility: superior
  • Functionality: superior
  • Depth of insights: superior
  • Reliability: superior
• CA’s Mainframe Security portfolio has helped address 60%-80% of their compliance challenges.