SOLUTION BRIEF Application Development. How can you deliver the mobile-to-mainframe apps your business needs on time and within budget?

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1 SOLUTION BRIEF Application Development How can you deliver the mobile-to-mainframe apps your business needs on time and within budget?

2 SOLUTION BRIEF CA DATABASE MANAGEMENT FOR DB2 FOR z/os DRAFT In today s application economy, every organization is challenged to deliver the mobile-to-mainframe apps that drive their business quickly. With integrated Application Development solutions from CA Technologies, you can better manage, modernize and maintain your complex applications at the speed your business demands. By automating and Healthcare coordinating the Security disparate components Solutions: of the Protecting application lifecycle, Your CA Organization, Technologies can help you Patients, deliver better And quality Information applications in much less time while providing valuable visibility into and beyond your AppDev processes.

3 3 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Executive Summary Challenge Every business is in the software business. Your apps are how you communicate with the world with your customers, prospects and staff. And for so many companies, government departments, schools and hospitals, those apps get critical data from their systems of record, which often resides on the mainframe. So how can you update and modernize those complex mobile-to-mainframe apps at the speed the application economy demands? Opportunity A new suite of Application Development solutions from CA Technologies is designed to help you manage, modernize and maintain your applications across the entire application lifecycle, regardless of platform: mobile, cloud, distributed and mainframe. Through automation, coordination and integration, these solutions can help you bring quality applications to market much more quickly and easily. Benefits Faster time to market is the most important benefit you ll realize from an integrated approach to managing all facets of application development and delivery. You ll be able to respond much more quickly and effectively to business demands for new or enhanced applications. And the applications you deliver will perform well in production to support both your external and internal customers.

4 4 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Why Is Application Development So Difficult? Application development becomes more important and more difficult to manage every year as the application economy explodes. There are several reasons why application development today is so difficult: The business demands new and enhanced applications in far less time than ever before. Traditional applications must be modernized and repurposed for mobile devices to retain their value. Speeding Application Development Development has always struggled to keep up with business demands for new and enhanced applications; the application backlog has traditionally been measured in months or years, not weeks. But the huge importance of first the Web and now mobile applications to drive business has completely altered how organizations think about applications. In a recent CA/IDG research survey, 77 percent of the respondents said it s important to speed app delivery but only 15 percent are confident they can do it. 1 Every organization wants to deliver applications with a wow factor faster than their competitors. They rely on external applications not only to drive new business but to connect with their existing customers and provide instant support. And their internal applications enable them to communicate effectively with their staff and form the basis for a successful and efficient work environment. Delivering quality applications in less time is what every organization wants. According to research commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by Vanson Bourne in 2014, 94 percent of business executives are facing increased pressure to release apps more quickly. They just don t know how to achieve this elusive goal. Managing Change and Risk Not so long ago applications ran on a single platform: the mainframe, Windows or the Web. But over the last decade applications have become increasingly complex, spanning multiple platforms including mobile devices and tablets. This is especially true for mainframe organizations whose systems of record are typically the mainframe. In fact, 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies consider the mainframe their system of record. 2 As the mainframe has become intertwined with customer-facing applications, mainframe application development has become increasingly focused on applications that access the mainframe rather than on applications that run primarily or exclusively on the mainframe. Exposing the mainframe to the world necessarily involves significant risks. According to Enterprise Management Associates, The reality of accessing the mainframe via a mobile device is this: a platform originally designed for access only by trained IT operations staff becomes accessible to virtually any consumer with a mobile phone. 3

5 5 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Managing Multi-Platform Application Challenges Everything about developing and deploying multi-platform applications is more challenging. The code is typically written in multiple languages, the different components must be tested separately and as an integrated whole and all the components must be deployed in production together at the same time. When there are bugs or performance issues, it may be very difficult to determine where the problem lies. The tools used for development, testing, change management and deployment are typically unique to their platforms and may not communicate with each other well or at all. This complexity is going to increase as businesses demand increasingly sophisticated applications that seamlessly leverage mainframe data and logic. Your challenge is to manage and simplify that complexity so that you can quickly deliver the applications your customers demand. Limiting Application Development Risks Agile development promises to speed application development and help you deliver the features your external and internal customers require. But faster release cycles introduce more risk and create considerable work. How can you leverage the advantages agile development promises without risking the quality and reliability of your applications? Also, follow-the-sun development with teams scattered around the globe in different time zones introduces additional risks. It s so much harder for these teams to communicate with each other and for each group to know what the other groups are doing so they can maximize efficiencies. When one team s timeline changes, it impacts all the other teams. Modernizing Traditional Applications Successfully making the transition from traditional mainframe or distributed applications to mobile and tablet applications can be very challenging. Leveraging the application logic developed over decades is essential because that logic is highly customized to address the requirements of your organization. Replacing it with out-of-the-box solutions is impossible. But how can you expose that logic to mobile devices and combine it with other services to create the new services that your customers expect? Clearly, a manual approach to modernizing these applications is neither a quick nor easy solution. The team that developed them over the years may no longer be available. Your developers may not have the skill set required to convert and modernize these applications. Without an automated approach, you cannot deliver the new mobile services in the time frame your organization demands. To manage these risks, application development teams need a centralized control center that consolidates the information from all the different groups working on a project, as well as the information from the different tools they use. Every change and approval must be traceable and auditable. Keeping the development of multiple application components in sync is impossible without automated solutions that manage the changes, promote all the components into production together and provide a detailed summary of the updates and approvals to satisfy the most rigorous auditing requirements.

6 6 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Addressing the Challenges: An Integrated Application Development Solution CA Technologies is introducing a set of integrated application development solutions to address the key challenges faced by virtually all development organizations: Speed the delivery of quality applications that span mobile-to-mainframe platforms. Seamlessly manage the many updates to complex applications while controlling risk. Modernize legacy applications to adapt them for the Web and for mobile and tablet devices. These solutions are designed to manage and coordinate the entire application lifecycle, from the initial service desk ticket to deployment in production. By automating the lifecycle processes and integrating the tools that support these processes, these solutions help development organizations to successfully address these challenges. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor: Accelerating Application Development CA Application Lifecycle Conductor accelerates the development of high-quality, mobile-to-mainframe applications by providing insight across the entire, complex application lifecycle. It provides a control center and dashboard that delivers the comprehensive, traceable information that governs, drives and supports critical management decisions across the application development process. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor s unique connector technology provides insight into the process and tools associated with a particular development activity, enabling development teams to take advantage of best-in-breed products, regardless of vendor, to speed application delivery. According to Enterprise Management Associates, The new CA Application Lifecycle Conductor is one of the most notable aspects of the [Application Development] story. It links, synchronizes, and integrates both CA Technologies and third-party products across the lifecycle. With this solution, developers can develop, test, release, and manage new and existing enterprise applications from a single User Interface (UI). CA Technologies has converted its lifecycle solutions into building blocks which can talk to conductor, ensuring smooth transitions as code and metadata, such as requirements and configurations, flow from one stage to the next. 4

7 7 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Coordinating the Application Lifecycle For years organizations have struggled with a collection of disparate processes and tools to support the application lifecycle. First there are the design tools that capture and define the business processes and outline an application s release plan. Then there are a host of development tools that run on multiple platforms and create application logic and associated data for multiple platforms. Next, there is the build phase that creates the apps and services and incorporates the all-important testing component, from regression testing and test data generation, to load and performance testing and then through to final integration testing. Finally the application is deployed in production to one or more logical and physical locations where it must be monitored to make sure that there are no unexpected performance issues. And then the cycle begins again as feedback from customers and developers initiates another release cycle. The Application Lifecycle Design Develop Build Ideation Feedback Software Change Management Model Test Monitor Deploy CA Application Lifecycle Conductor coordinates the complex components of the application lifecycle, from the early design phase through deployment and monitoring in production. Through a single user interface, CA Application Lifecycle Conductor provides intelligent coordination, insight and traceability for the application development products and processes that manage the development and delivery of critical applications. Regardless of where they are in the lifecycle, task coordination and cross-functional communication occur automatically while developers, QA, release engineers and project managers continue to leverage existing products, thus making adoption seamless, fast and reliable.

8 8 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com CA Application Lifecycle Conductor Coordinates the Application Lifecycle and the Tools that Support it CA Application Lifecycle Conductor s unique connector technology integrates all products that participate in the application lifecycle: from requirements to development to deployment and monitoring. In this example, CA Application Lifecycle Conductor is coordinating distributed and mainframe CA solutions, but it is also integrated with a number of third-party solutions so you can continue to use the tools you prefer. By providing a consolidated Web or GUI dashboard, CA Application Lifecycle Conductor serves as the central point of insight and control, helping to drive and support decisions associated with the application change policy and eliminating overlapping functions tucked inside the individual products. End-to-End Traceability and Standardized Processes Managing application development projects requires extensive documentation to ensure that the right processes have been followed by the right people and the right approvals have been granted at the right time. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor provides end-to-end traceability of activities, timestamps and users for audit and regulatory compliance. This information, which is captured independently of platform or tool, is stored for viewing and reporting. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor also helps reduce risk by enforcing repeatable, mandated and predefined policies for each development project. It creates, tracks and stores project requirements, tests and defects so that you have visibility into the lifecycle activities. By monitoring, controlling and coordinating these processes, CA Application Lifecycle Conductor can reduce the errors inherent in manual procedures and help you deliver quality applications in less time.

9 9 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Integrated Testing It is commonly accepted that it is far more cost-effective to find software errors early in the application lifecycle through careful and comprehensive testing, but demands to deliver applications quickly often curtail this critical development phase. A defect found by a customer in production can be a thousand times more expensive to fix. But when there is a hard deadline looming, the application often gets thrown over the wall into production, no matter how incomplete the testing. 5 By coordinating and managing testing as part of the application lifecycle, CA Application Lifecycle Conductor helps project managers quickly identify roadblocks and errors and require that they be addressed well before impacting users. CA Application Lifecycle Conductor integrates with testing solutions like CA InterTest (for mainframe debugging and fault analysis), CA File Master Plus (for mainframe file and database data manipulation) and CA Service Virtualization (for simulation of systems to support parallel software development, testing and validation). This integration helps organizations be more confident that they are delivering well-tested, high-quality applications that will perform as expected in production while adhering to their firm project deadlines. Managing Change: Leveraging CA Endevor Software Change Manager and CA Harvest Software Change Manager CA Technologies has decades of experience in software change management. Thousands of developers and administrators rely every day on CA Endevor Software Change Manager (CA Endevor SCM) for mainframe change management and CA Harvest Software Change Manager (CA Harvest SCM) for distributed software change management. The State of New Hampshire recently implemented CA Harvest SCM primarily to safeguard their software assets, reduce risk and increase efficiency. As State of NH Technical Support Specialist VI Alan Soucy comments, Without an effective change management solution, source code and IP could be lost...it would require a further investment of time and effort to recover or even redevelop the code at a cost to the taxpayer. Your software assets are invaluable to your organization. Updating them must be done with great care and all changes must be auditable. These SCM solutions provide software lifecycle checkpoint and promotion functionality that includes snapshots of current or prior versions of all files and the promotion of current file versions. And you can drill down into the change history of each file to quickly determine who made what changes and when they made them. This is especially important for auditing and compliance mandates. With thorough inventory management, business-driven authorization requirements and electronic approval capabilities, these solutions protect software assets, helping to maintain industry best practices and compliance standards while keeping organizations better equipped to address software change audits.

10 10 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com CA Software Change Management and Testing Tight integration between software change management and testing offers significant advantages for developers because it saves time and helps them avoid costly manual errors. CA InterTest customers leverage CA Endevor SCM to take advantage of the Footprint feature that enables CA InterTest to dynamically locate and format program symbolic information, eliminating all program-level setup requirements. Because these solutions share a common symbolic file, CA InterTest will automatically know which listing to use, helping to ensure that the right version is tested. Moreover, access to a program s change history will help developers quickly understand why a change was made and who made it so they can better understand the problem and fix it. In a recent TechValidate survey of 125 customers who use both CA Endevor SCM and CA InterTest, over 90 percent cited the value of that integration in helping them quickly produce quality applications, lowering the cost of ownership and improving ease of use. 7 CA App Services Orchestrator: Modernizing Traditional Applications The applications that drive your business may have been developed over decades, and they are the cornerstone of how you interface with your customers and your internal staff. Their business logic has been extensively customized to reflect your unique business objectives and processes. But they need to be modernized and accessible to Web, mobile and tablet users. How can you accomplish this? One option might be to rewrite the applications using newer technologies. But these are not simple applications that can be rewritten easily. Your staff has neither the time nor the skill set to start rewriting from scratch your extensive and critical application portfolio. Another option might be to purchase off-the-shelf applications to replace your customized applications. But off-the-shelf applications cannot begin to duplicate the unique functionality of the applications you rely on today. And customizing them to represent your specific requirements could take just as long as rewriting them from scratch. What you need is an automated way to expose your existing Web and cloud services as RESTful services that Web, mobile and tablet development can consume, both as unique services and in combination with other services. RESTful Web services have emerged as the standard method to expose business applications to development teams that can then quickly convert them into mobile applications. This approach enables your organization to leverage the logic in current applications, whether on mainframe or distributed platforms, so that it is easily accessible by mobile, tablet and browser-based frontends. Driven by a services oriented architecture (SOA), this methodology makes it possible for you to quickly and cost-effectively modernize your extensive application portfolio as both your internal and external customers are coming to expect. This is the solution CA App Services Orchestrator provides.

11 11 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Integrating Web Services Today you have a host of Web services from a variety of sources. What you want to do is orchestrate these existing services into more powerful, more valuable, contemporary Web APIs and publish them with helpful documentation so they are easier to use. But doing this manually is very time consuming and error prone, especially if you need to convert SOAP services into RESTful services. CA App Services Orchestrator simplifies this task in three easy steps: 1. From the CA App Services Orchestrator interface, you can browse all the SOAP and RESTful services stored in a common repository (CA API Gateway) and select the ones you want to use. 2. CA App Services Orchestrator quickly orchestrates the services you select into RESTful services. 3. CA App Services Orchestrator publishes the newly created RESTful API into the CA API Gateway so that you can access it for testing or move it to production. It also provides documentation that describes the request and response of the new API so a developer can easily understand how to use it.

12 12 SOLUTION BRIEF: CA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Exposing CA Gen and CA Plex Applications to the Mobile World For decades you have taken advantage of the model-driven development environment CA Gen and CA Plex provide. Because CA Gen and CA Plex enable you to create the model once and then deliver applications written in multiple languages, they are cornerstones of rapid application development. They generate 100 percent of the code, including SQL calls and platform-specific code. But now you want to expose their services to create Web, mobile and tablet apps. This can be accomplished in a few simple steps. First, SOAP services can be published directly from CA Gen or CA Plex into the CA API Gateway. Once there, using CA App Services Orchestrator, these services can be easily integrated (orchestrated) with other services, including cloud-based services like Get Map or Like on Facebook, to create new RESTful services. Finally your development teams can use these new RESTful services and their preferred mobile app integrated development environment (IDE) to create the mobile apps necessary for their businesses to best connect with their customers. Providing Business Benefits: Application Development Solutions Application Development from CA Technologies is an integrated suite of solutions designed to speed application development, intelligently manage change and risk and help organizations modernize their application portfolios to address the requirements of the Web and mobile world. Faster Application Development How will these solutions speed application development? Standardizing on a common set of governed processes and methodologies helps organizations deliver reliable applications more quickly because developers won t be under the radar, reinventing the wheel with every project. Automating communication among the application lifecycle tools helps projects to move forward much more quickly because the information that is essential for the next steps is automatically shared. All staff involved in a development project has instant visibility into the status of each task, helping them to spot and address roadblocks immediately. And unifying the software change management of all the components of an application, regardless of platform, speeds all steps in the process, from development through test to delivery. Better Management of Change and Risk All application development projects involve change and change inevitably introduces risk. But the CA Technologies integrated suite of Application Development solutions is designed to help you manage change as effectively as possible and thereby limit risk. These solutions provide detailed tracking and traceability to help you address your auditing and regulatory requirements. By enforcing a standard methodology and required approvals and by providing rollback capabilities when necessary, they limit manual errors and help you be more confident that you are installing the right software changes that include multi-platform components.

13 13 SOLUTION BRIEF: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ca.com Streamlined Modernization of Your Portfolio A huge benefit provided by Application Development solutions from CA Technologies is the ability to continue to leverage the value of your large portfolio of customized applications while modernizing them for Web, mobile and tablet devices. Converting your traditional services to RESTful services not only lets you adapt them to new environments but also helps you easily integrate them with cloud services to better meet the needs of internal and external customers. Next Steps Do the challenges described in this paper sound familiar? Are you struggling to manage a large portfolio of applications that span multiple platforms? Would you benefit from a structured methodology for application development that speeds the release of new and updated applications, limits risk and helps you modernize your portfolio? Are you eager to expose the customized logic that drives your business to Web and mobile users? CA Technologies can help you successfully manage these challenges and transform application development at your organization. For more information, please visit ca.com/application-development or call or your local CA Technologies office. Connect with CA Technologies at ca.com CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business, in every industry. From planning to development to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact and communicate across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at ca.com. 1 CA Technologies commissioned IDG Research to conduct an independent survey of 110 respondents in the CIO LinkedIn Forum, to understand the importance of accelerating the delivery of new applications to market and organization s current ability to meet their objectives. 2 IBM. Evolving IBM s Core Franchises Overview Taming the Heterogeneity Beast: Application Development and Delivery in a Mainframe to Mobile World, Enterprise Management Associates, November Taming the Heterogeneity Beast: Application Development and Delivery in a Mainframe to Mobile World, Enterprise Management Associates, November The Top 5 Signs You Need DevOps, CA Technologies, 6 State of New Hampshire Maximizes Resources and Saves Taxpayers Money with CA Harvest SCM, May 2013, 7 TechValidate Survey, TVID: 9ED-2CE-350 Copyright 2015 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document as is without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. In no event will CA be liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. CA does not provide legal advice. Neither this document nor any CA software product referenced herein shall serve as a substitute for your compliance with any laws (including but not limited to any act, statute, regulation, rule, directive, policy, standard, guideline, measure, requirement, administrative order, executive order, etc. (collectively, Laws )) referenced in this document. You should consult with competent legal counsel regarding any Laws referenced herein. CS200_134843_0515