Veröffentlicht: 26.10.2010
Customer Cases*
Tieto (Finland)
Business: Help customers achieve sustainable IT results by managing customers’ infrastructures, designing new applications, implementing digital services and supporting internal project teams.
“CA MSM greatly simplified the management of our CA mainframe software suite and decreased the workload for our system programmers,” said Matti Vaisanen, manager of mainframe products at Tieto. “As a result, we were able to reduce the installation time for 70 products from 50 days to just seven hours (99.4% improvement) and were able to free up skilled staff for more strategic work.”
“Because of the high level of automation of MSM, simplification of the installation and maintenance processes enables our more experienced mainframe team members to be released for more productive work,” said Raimo Virtanen, senior systems software architect and mainframe veteran for Tieto.
International Software Products (US)
Business: A CA Technologies development partner who manages some of the industry’s largest data and transaction environments on CA-IDMS for their customers, and provides value-added services to drive their relational data warehouse, data mart and query initiatives.
“We need to be efficient and cost effective in providing customers with required service levels, security and information access for large, transaction-intensive CA-IDMS environments,” said John Abell, president of International Software Products. “Since implementing CA MSM, it has helped us meet these challenges, allowing us to cut down the time it takes to keep our CA Technologies software up-to-date by about 80%.”
Garanti Technology (Turkey)
Business: Turkey’s second largest bank by asset size with nearly 800 branches and more than 3,000 ATMs. Eight million customers rely on Garanti Bank for a range of integrated financial services, including pensions, leasing, asset management, brokerage and retail banking.
“Before CA MSM, we were reliant on manual, time consuming processes to maintain and install products,” commented Adnan Can, principal mainframe specialist at Garanti Technology. “Now, we can update CA Technologies products at the click of a button, automating the maintenance process in a matter of minutes rather than hours.”
Analyst Research
EMA
“CA Mainframe Software Manager is described by CA Technologies as "InstallShield® and Windows Update for the Mainframe". It is a key differentiator for CA because it promotes ease of use, installation, and tools administration for the CA mainframe toolset. It is intended to reduce the time required for mainframe administration tasks, as well as potential for operator error. It also makes it easier for less-skilled mainframe personnel to come up to speed more rapidly than they can with traditional, mainframe-based toolsets.”
Clabby Analytics
“Because these tools feel ’familiar’ to IT personnel who have worked on Windows, Linux, and UNIX systems, they are expected to make it easier for managers/administrators who have experience on other operating environments to easily make the transition to managing mainframes. And because these tools automate underlying workflows, they can save hours (or even days) of manual administrative management work — enabling enterprises to make better use of mainframe management/administrative labor.”
*Some information in this publication is based upon CA and customer experiences with the referenced software product in a variety of development and customer environments. Past performance of the software product in such development and customer environments is not indicative of the future performance of such software product in identical, similar or different environments. CA does not warrant that the software product will operate as specifically set forth in this publication.
EMA, “
CA World 2010 Announcements: Customer-Driven Innovation Shapes the Future of Mainframe Management,” Julie Craig, June 17, 2010
