Mainframe Excellence 2025: A Generational Call for Strategic Platform Stewardship

I've now been at Compuware for three months and I'm excited to share what we've been internally calling the new "Mainframe Manifesto."

Now more than ever, mainframe investments must be protected and aggressively leveraged to meet the demands of the digital economy. However, Millennials with little to no hands-on mainframe experience are taking IT leadership roles and veteran mainframe heroes are retiring. This paper will help IT leaders understand the importance and urgency of managing these challenges and more importantly, get maximum business value from the mainframe over the next ten years.

This paper is the beginning of a story that we will be sharing with our customers over the next few months. Our customer engagement teams will be reaching out to begin a conversation on the points made in this paper, and, correspondingly, share promises for what we will be delivering and innovating in our products in the quarters to come.

One IT executive recently told me, "Mainframe software vendors are like a bunch of fat, old Bulldogs lying on the porch in the summer shade endlessly arguing over who was the fastest 20 years ago, but not one willing or able to get up and move off that porch." We are rapidly transforming ourselves into a Greyhound that's set to run off this porch forever.

Please give your customer engagement team the opportunity re-introduce ourselves as the new Compuware and begin a conversation to a better mainframe partnership that will take us to 2025 and beyond.

You can download the paper titled, "Mainframe Excellence 2025: A Generational Call for Strategic Platform Stewardship," by clicking here.