Many Organizations Not Measuring, Prioritizing Vital Key Performance Indicators
DETROIT, March 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The mainframe is becoming more important to large enterprises, with the percentage of organizations running at least half their business-critical applications on that platform expected to increase next year. However, the loss of skilled mainframe staff, and the failure to subsequently fill these positions, pose significant threats to application quality, velocity and efficiency.
These are among the findings of research and analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Compuware. According to the study, “As mainframe workload increases—driven by modern analytics, blockchain and more mobile activity hitting the platform—customer-obsessed companies should seek to modernize application delivery and remove roadblocks to innovation.”
The survey of mainframe decision-makers and developers in the U.S. and Europe also revealed:
These findings and others suggest that mainframe investments, culture and management practices need to evolve significantly in light of changing market realities. Insufficient emphasis on velocity, for example, is a holdover from an earlier era that predates the demands of today’s fast-paced digital economy. Inadequate attention to efficiency likewise reflects an era when the mainframe development and quality assurance staffs were significantly larger and extraordinarily stable.
According to the Forrester study, “Mainframe is alive and growing at the heart of many businesses. IT decision makers cannot afford to treat their mainframe applications as static environments bound by long release cycles, nor can they fail to respond to their critical dependence on a retiring workforce. Instead, firms must implement the modern tools necessary to accelerate not only the quality, but the speed and efficiency, of their mainframe, as well as draw skilled people to work on the platform.”
The complete Forrester Opportunity Snapshot study, entitled “Modern Mainframe KPIs Are Key To A Successful Digital Strategy,” can be found here.
“Many enterprise CIOs are clearly facing a do-or-die moment when it comes to the mainframe,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “They must quickly re-think, re-design and re-tool their approach to mainframe DevOps or face a future where they are simply too slow and inflexible to keep pace with their more nimble competitors.”
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