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	Standard Bank Makes Digital and Mainframe DevOps Advancements with Compuware Topaz and ISPW BMC

Standard Bank Makes Digital and Mainframe DevOps Advancements with Compuware Topaz and ISPW

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Predictive Maintenance
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Standard Bank, a major international financial services group based in South Africa, has been focusing on driving Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to grow strategic digital, digitization, infrastructure and application software engineering capabilities. The core of Standard Bank’s portfolio, which includes corporate and private banking, sits on the mainframe, accounting for 80 percent of processing. As the system of record, it’s also the foundation for much of the bank’s frontend digital transformation. However, as Standard Bank’s digital transformation process matured, the mainframe had to be repositioned to mitigate risks between it and the rest of the Agile and DevOps framework supporting CI/CD. There were several cultural, process-related and tooling impediments to integrating the mainframe into that framework. Read More
About Customer	Standard Bank is a major international financial services group based in South Africa. The bank has been focusing on driving Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to grow strategic digital, digitization, infrastructure and application software engineering capabilities. The core of Standard Bank’s portfolio, which includes corporate and private banking, sits on the mainframe, accounting for 80 percent of processing. As the system of record, it’s also the foundation for much of the bank’s frontend digital transformation. The bank's mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale, and it actually works. Read More
Solution	To solve these challenges, Standard Bank implemented Compuware Topaz—a suite of mainframe development and testing tools—and Compuware ISPW—an Agile SCM, Release Automation and Deployment Automation tool. With Topaz, Standard Bank made significant improvements to Automation and Governance and DevOps Toolchain Extensibility. Topaz Workbench, Compuware’s Eclipse-based IDE, embedded years of technical proficiency and automated the best possible way of doing things on the mainframe. ISPW enables concurrent development and encourages collaboration through features like alerts when developers check out code. Developers can see versions of a program at multiple points in the lifecycle to ensure smooth code integrations and graphical relationship visualizations guide users to failure points. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Standard Bank, a major international financial services group based in South Africa, has been focusing on driving Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to grow strategic digital, digitization, infrastructure and application software engineering capabilities. The core of Standard Bank’s portfolio, which includes corporate and private banking, sits on the mainframe, accounting for 80 percent of processing. As the system of record, it’s also the foundation for much of the bank’s frontend digital transformation. However, as Standard Bank’s digital transformation process matured, the mainframe had to be repositioned to mitigate risks between it and the rest of the Agile and DevOps framework supporting CI/CD. There were several cultural, process-related and tooling impediments to integrating the mainframe into that framework.

About Customer

Standard Bank is a major international financial services group based in South Africa. The bank has been focusing on driving Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to grow strategic digital, digitization, infrastructure and application software engineering capabilities. The core of Standard Bank’s portfolio, which includes corporate and private banking, sits on the mainframe, accounting for 80 percent of processing. As the system of record, it’s also the foundation for much of the bank’s frontend digital transformation. The bank's mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale, and it actually works.

Solution

To solve these challenges, Standard Bank implemented Compuware Topaz—a suite of mainframe development and testing tools—and Compuware ISPW—an Agile SCM, Release Automation and Deployment Automation tool. With Topaz, Standard Bank made significant improvements to Automation and Governance and DevOps Toolchain Extensibility. Topaz Workbench, Compuware’s Eclipse-based IDE, embedded years of technical proficiency and automated the best possible way of doing things on the mainframe. ISPW enables concurrent development and encourages collaboration through features like alerts when developers check out code. Developers can see versions of a program at multiple points in the lifecycle to ensure smooth code integrations and graphical relationship visualizations guide users to failure points.

Impact #1	Standard Bank’s mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale, and it actually works.
Impact #2	The bank has seen a massive improvement where they've rolled out ISPW and Topaz to the rate and level of quality at which they deploy changes.
Impact #3	Standard Bank’s ISPW implementation was one of the most successfully executed initiatives in the organization.

Impact #1

Standard Bank’s mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale, and it actually works.

Impact #2

The bank has seen a massive improvement where they've rolled out ISPW and Topaz to the rate and level of quality at which they deploy changes.

Impact #3

Standard Bank’s ISPW implementation was one of the most successfully executed initiatives in the organization.

Benefit #1	Standard Bank installed ISPW and facilitated the source code migration of 61 applications, 55 application types, 395,760 active application components, and 393,263 historical components.
Benefit #2	The bank's mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale.
Benefit #3	The bank has seen a massive improvement where they've rolled out ISPW and Topaz to the rate and level of quality at which they deploy changes.

Benefit #1

Standard Bank installed ISPW and facilitated the source code migration of 61 applications, 55 application types, 395,760 active application components, and 393,263 historical components.

Benefit #2

The bank's mainframe team is introducing Agile at scale.

Benefit #3

The bank has seen a massive improvement where they've rolled out ISPW and Topaz to the rate and level of quality at which they deploy changes.

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Standard Bank Makes Digital and Mainframe DevOps Advancements with Compuware Topaz and ISPW

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