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1 SOLUTION BRIEF Mainframe Software Rationalization Program want to reduce costs and rationalize your mainframe software change management environment? agility made possible

2 CA Endevor Software Change Manager is now a part of our Mainframe Software Rationalization Program (MSRP) which helps you to lower your costs by migrating from other vendors and homegrown software change management solutions while minimizing risks to your business. 2

3 executive summary Challenge Today s IT organizations are under constant pressure to reduce software costs at an acceptable level of risk. While there is a significant potential for savings and efficiencies by consolidating and migrating software change management solutions, there can also be a significant amount of risk and possible impact to your business. Opportunity This is why CA Endevor Software Change Manager is now part of the Mainframe Software Rationalization Program (MSRP) from CA Technologies. MSRP provides a comprehensive nine-step methodology to analyze your current solution(s), identify potential risks, migrate from your existing software change management to our solutions, and confirm project migration success. Our software developers have created discovery, analysis and migration tools to automate the conversion process from end-to-end. Benefits The Mainframe Software Rationalization Program from CA Technologies can help provide the following benefits to your software change management consolidation and help you to avoid the common pitfalls: Lower costs by consolidating other vendors and homegrown software change management solutions Reduce migration risk by following a proven methodology Streamline the migration process with software automation tools Leverage best practices based on decades of experience and expertise 3

4 Section 1: Challenge While there is a significant potential for savings and efficiencies by consolidating and migrating software change management solutions there can also be a significant amount of risk and impact to your business. Migrating an existing software change management environment to another can be both challenging and risky as many have been in place for a large number of years and have been heavily customized and tightly integrated with change processes, debugging and testing tools, etc. Often when companies migrate they end up with a clone of their existing practices, processes and customizations cobbled on top of another vendor s software change management stack which often times neither operates nor preforms in a desired manner. This can cause potential outages in mission critical systems and applications as well as leaving you dependent on unnecessary upkeep and administration. All of this limits total cost of ownership reductions. Manual migration Manually migrating existing components and metadata can be daunting and error prone at best especially when there can be literally thousands or millions of them. Also, great care must be taken to understand any integration into existing products or processes and how they will be impacted and changed. Inconsistent practices Selecting practices from your existing environment and carrying them over to your new environment is usually not the best approach. Simply cloning your environment doesn t work because quite often this merely transports old problems to a new product and doesn t address the underlying business requirements. 4

5 Section 2: Opportunity CA Endevor Software Change Manager and MSRP CA Technologies has added CA Endevor Software Change Manager to our Mainframe Software Rationalization Program (MSRP) set of robust capabilities. MSRP provides a proven methodology designed to decrease the time of migration and overcome the common challenges discussed in the prior section. There is no need to reinvent this process on your own and risk success. We ve done this many times and we leverage that know-how. The Mainframe Software Rationalization Program features an experienced staff and a robust suite of mainframe software migration tools: Discovery tools. Our software discovery tools are designed to provide transparency. They identify which mainframe vendors and homegrown software change management solutions you are running, how often they are being used, where they are installed and potential integration with other vendor tools. Analysis tools. Our software analysis tools are designed to provide customers with an additional level of transparency. The analysis tools provide detailed information about how widely deployed the products are today and what product functions are being used and identify customization or integrations. Together, the results of this analysis help us more accurately scope the software migration effort and identify potential risks. The analysis tools scan your configuration libraries and control information to provide the additional level of transparency described above. The advantage of running both the discovery and analysis tools together is that it enables us to provide an even more reliable estimate of the conversion scope, costs and potential risks. The analysis also helps us understand the complexity of the migration. Migration tools. We offer repeatable migration through our own exclusive BPI Framework that automates the process of migrating your existing software change management solutions to CA Endevor Software Change Manager. By using software instead of manual efforts, we reduce the risk of keying errors and accelerate time to value. More information on the BPI Framework follows in the next topic. Verification tools. At the end of the project, our software auditing tools give us visibility into the current status of your environment. We use the results of the auditing software to confirm that the migration work is complete. 5

6 BPI framework CA Technologies has developed our exclusive Best Practice Implementation (BPI) Framework which helps stand-up a CA Endevor Software Change Manager implementation based on best practices evolved over decades of experience and industry expertise. Export and import facilities then migrate the components and metadata from your existing software change management environment over to CA Endevor Software Change Manager based on these best practices. Figure A. The Best Practice Implementation (BPI) Framework. MSRP provides the tools to export the components and metadata from your existing software change management solutions and converts them into configuration items and source code to be used by the BPI Framework import facility. Since this process is automated, it doesn t matter if there are a few or a million items they are all processed automatically and accurately. The converted configuration data and elements are structured and built around industry standards during the conversion so by time they are imported in CA Endevor Software Change Manager they are ready to be tested and deployed into production. The BPI Framework and MSRP proven methodology help provide for a repeatable migration with a significantly reduced amount of time and risk than other vendor or manual approaches. 6

7 Section 3: Benefits The Mainframe Software Rationalization Program from CA Technologies can help provide the following benefits to your software change management consolidation and help you to avoid the common pitfalls Migrating an existing software change management environment to another is both challenging and risky and laden with common pitfalls inherent to manual migration and inconsistent practices. CA Technologies Mainframe Software Rationalization Program and our exclusive BPI Framework for CA Endevor Software Change Manager can help you realize the following benefits: Lower costs and simplified operations You can lower your costs and streamline your operations by consolidating other vendors and homegrown solutions to CA Endevor Software Change Manager. Reduced risk Your consolidated solution will be based on a proven methodology that is both reliable and repeatable and will help to reduce time to completion and avoid the common mistakes often made during more manual, makeshift migrations. Automation We utilize the MSRP capabilities and the power of our exclusive automated BPI Framework to assemble the architecture and streamline the migration process reducing the errors prone to manual migrations. Best practices We leverage CA Endevor Software Change Manager best practices during our assessment, build, migration and overall software change management process flow to help provide for optimal configuration based on decades of experience and expertise. 7

8 Section 4: The CA Technologies advantage CA Services provides software change management services delivered through CA Technologies internal staff and a network of established partners chosen to help customers achieve a successful migration and get the desired business results as quickly as possible by leveraging MSRP capabilities. Our standard service offering is designed to speed both configuration and deployment while accelerating product adoption. Field-proven mainframe best practices and training from CA Technologies are carefully employed to lower risk, hasten adoption, empower users and most importantly securely align the product configuration to the underlying business requirements. Figure B. Proven Nine-Stage Methodology. Our proven nine-stage methodology is used during your migration from end-to-end. It starts from the assessment, planning and pilot stage of your first application to migration of the remaining applications. 8

9 Section 5: Next steps Leveraging the Mainframe Software Rationalization Program to consolidate your software change management solutions to CA Endevor Software Change Manager is an outstanding option for companies looking to save money and streamline efficiencies at an acceptable level of risk. Contact your CA Technologies sales or CA Services representative today for additional information or to receive an assessment of your environment and the potential rationalization savings. To learn more about CA Endevor Software Change Manager, visit ca.com/endevor. CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. CA Technologies is committed to ensuring our customers achieve their desired outcomes and expected business value through the use of our technology. To learn more about our customer success programs, visit ca.com/customer-success. For more information about CA Technologies go to ca.com. Copyright 2013 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. 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 or 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, lost investment, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. CS3304_0113