At its second annual Built to Change Summit in early June, CA Technologies showcased new and updated innovations across the portfolio that help companies evolve into modern software factories.
These solutions integrate powerful advanced analytics and data science with machine-learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation into the tools and technologies that support the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Across various industries, the use of AI and advanced analytics within the enterprise is certainly top-of-mind for companies looking to optimise their business.
According to a recent Gartner report, “AI and machine learning strategy development/investment is already in the top five CIO priorities.”* Yet while the benefits of AI at a high level are readily accepted and new use cases continue to emerge, hurdles to fully realising the business benefits of AI still exist. In fact, Gartner also states in the same report, “CIOs face two key challenges in exploring and adopting AI: the availability of skilled and experienced staff, and the lack of IT and business understanding of AI's potential,” which highlights for us the need for organisations to consider aspects beyond technology when embarking on a digital transformation journey.
Leveraging the vast amounts of data generated to glean actionable insights that drive business impact is an ongoing challenge. Adding to the complexity of the issue is being able to use the data in modern architectures that use APIs and microservices for new and improved services and offerings. To address this challenge, CA is giving customers the ability to derive and apply deep insights for machine learning and AI that help with more accurate planning, as well as predictive modelling, and real-time remediation to operational issues.
“As a leading management consulting and technology services firm that focuses on digital innovation, we understand the critical role that data plays in business transformation,” said Karl Kleinert, VP of Sales at IntelliNet, whose parent company IC Intracom has a presence in mainland China and Taiwan. “The ability to leverage data taken from various platforms and correlate that data to derive insights that have an impact on our company’s bottom line is an extremely powerful thing.”
New ways CA is helping companies apply key insights include:
CA Digital Operational Intelligence, a machine learning-driven solution that provides comprehensive insights by automatically ingesting cross-domain data from IT operations tools. Powered by CA Jarvis, the solution uses algorithmic intelligence to quickly identify the root cause of problems, measure and enhance business service levels, improve cost and resources utilisation, and proactively detect and remedy potential issues.
CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) 15.4 introduces a strategic planning capability with a roadmapping module for top-down visual planning and collaboration. It gives users the ability to view, pivot and sort investment information across the organisation and delivers actionable business intelligence with modelling and forecasting capabilities.
The latest update to the CA Automic One Automation Platform empowers the "ops" of DevOps through new lifecycle management of automation artifacts, intelligent critical-path management, and support for PostgreSQL. It also supports shift-left automation capabilities for developers with new automation-as-code functionality, and connects automation silos with new integrations for CA Workload Automation, CA Continuous Delivery Director, and CA Jarvis to deliver analytics capabilities. The shift-left movement refers to getting testers involved in the development process earlier to accelerate time-to-market.
The latest addition to the CA Security portfolio, CA Veracode SourceClear, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based software composition analysis (SCA) tool which relies on a vulnerability database that goes beyond the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the US and vulnerable methods technology to increase the actionability of SCA results. NVD is the US government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).
Unique to CA, the combination of CA Veracode and CA Veracode SourceClear offerings enable organisations to use open source libraries to accelerate software development without adding unmanaged risk to support the DevSecOps movement.
“Being able to integrate application scanning in our DevOps practices means delivering new value-added services to customers quickly, with the reassurance of security and integrity in all apps and services,” said Scot Bellamy, Manager and Senior Security Architect at Cardinal Health. The global, integrated healthcare services and products company has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and New South Wales, Australia.
“We’re shifting left and cutting down cycle times by integrating security into our development practices.”
“We’re seeing the benefits of advanced analytics, machine learning and AI today and for the future,” said Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer at CA Technologies. “CA is helping every modern software factory by integrating and incorporating these capabilities with big data, automation and security to help customers realise even greater value from their technology investments.”
In addition to these new and updated solutions and capabilities, CA also announced new innovations for mainframe environments at the Built to Change Summit that open opportunities for the modern software factory.
CA and long-term partner IBM have agreed to jointly develop and sell new services for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services on z Systems (zCloud). The partnership enables clients that rely on the mainframe for business critical operations to easily access development, testing, application management and regulatory compliance services within IBM’s zCloud offering for operational resiliency, efficiencies and workforce agility.
IBM and CA Technologies will jointly provide a suite of mainframe software solutions, including the newly-released CA Brightside. First available on IBM zCloud, CA Brightside makes it easy to integrate the mainframe into enterprise DevOps workflows. It is the first solution designed to increase the productivity of development teams to control, script and build for the mainframe like any other cloud platform, using familiar open source tools.
“Our clients are accelerating their digital transformation and many are incorporating the mainframe as an essential part of their transformation,” said Philip Guido, GM, Infrastructure Services for IBM Global Technology Services. “To assist our clients, IBM introduced Cloud Managed Services on z Systems. This service combines the security and power of IBM’s mainframe with the flexibility and scalability of the IBM Cloud. IBM and CA are committed to deepening the platform’s role in enterprise digital transformation.”
Clients using Cloud Managed Services on z Systems can also leverage CA tools to help reduce costs, speed application deployment and integration with:
CA Brightside: Easily develop applications for the mainframe using existing open source tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, Gradle and IntelliJ thru a command line interface.
CA Service Virtualization: Rapidly test and modify applications in place, making it easier for companies to do mainframe test and development in the cloud.
CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence: Monitor applications in the cloud and integrate into existing digital performance management solutions.
CA Data Content Discovery: Find, classify and protect data to safeguard clients’ personally identifiable information and help meet compliance regulations.
“CA and IBM have an opportunity to help our clients overcome challenges in rising costs of IT ownership, workforce evolution and security issues head on,” said Greg Lotko, GM, Mainframe at CA Technologies. “Together, we give every company an opportunity to realise even greater value in their investments by combining the reliability of the mainframe with the speed and agility of DevOps.”
The software and services are already available to all IBM Managed Cloud Services for z Systems clients in North America and will be rolled out globally throughout the rest of 2018.
CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence is a new solution to help realise the greatest value from existing mainframe investments. Delivering reports with actionable insights and practical steps to achieve business results in days, rather than months, this SaaS-based assessment offering automates the collection of disparate data to assess and visualise potential savings, optimisation and investment scenarios. This is impactful as 78% of mainframe clients plan to grow MIPS by 10%**, but most have not been given any additional budget or resources to do so.
MIPS are a measure of computing performance, and stand for million instructions per second.
*Gartner, Predicts 2018: Artificial Intelligence, November, 13, 2017, Whit Andrews, Moutusi Sau, Chirag Dekate, Anthony Mullen, Kenneth F. Brant, Magnus Revang, Daryl C. Plummer.
*Arcati Yearbook, 2018
These solutions integrate powerful advanced analytics and data science with machine-learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation into the tools and technologies that support the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Across various industries, the use of AI and advanced analytics within the enterprise is certainly top-of-mind for companies looking to optimise their business.
According to a recent Gartner report, “AI and machine learning strategy development/investment is already in the top five CIO priorities.”* Yet while the benefits of AI at a high level are readily accepted and new use cases continue to emerge, hurdles to fully realising the business benefits of AI still exist. In fact, Gartner also states in the same report, “CIOs face two key challenges in exploring and adopting AI: the availability of skilled and experienced staff, and the lack of IT and business understanding of AI's potential,” which highlights for us the need for organisations to consider aspects beyond technology when embarking on a digital transformation journey.
Leveraging the vast amounts of data generated to glean actionable insights that drive business impact is an ongoing challenge. Adding to the complexity of the issue is being able to use the data in modern architectures that use APIs and microservices for new and improved services and offerings. To address this challenge, CA is giving customers the ability to derive and apply deep insights for machine learning and AI that help with more accurate planning, as well as predictive modelling, and real-time remediation to operational issues.
“As a leading management consulting and technology services firm that focuses on digital innovation, we understand the critical role that data plays in business transformation,” said Karl Kleinert, VP of Sales at IntelliNet, whose parent company IC Intracom has a presence in mainland China and Taiwan. “The ability to leverage data taken from various platforms and correlate that data to derive insights that have an impact on our company’s bottom line is an extremely powerful thing.”
New ways CA is helping companies apply key insights include:
CA Digital Operational Intelligence, a machine learning-driven solution that provides comprehensive insights by automatically ingesting cross-domain data from IT operations tools. Powered by CA Jarvis, the solution uses algorithmic intelligence to quickly identify the root cause of problems, measure and enhance business service levels, improve cost and resources utilisation, and proactively detect and remedy potential issues.
CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) 15.4 introduces a strategic planning capability with a roadmapping module for top-down visual planning and collaboration. It gives users the ability to view, pivot and sort investment information across the organisation and delivers actionable business intelligence with modelling and forecasting capabilities.
The latest update to the CA Automic One Automation Platform empowers the "ops" of DevOps through new lifecycle management of automation artifacts, intelligent critical-path management, and support for PostgreSQL. It also supports shift-left automation capabilities for developers with new automation-as-code functionality, and connects automation silos with new integrations for CA Workload Automation, CA Continuous Delivery Director, and CA Jarvis to deliver analytics capabilities. The shift-left movement refers to getting testers involved in the development process earlier to accelerate time-to-market.
The latest addition to the CA Security portfolio, CA Veracode SourceClear, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based software composition analysis (SCA) tool which relies on a vulnerability database that goes beyond the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the US and vulnerable methods technology to increase the actionability of SCA results. NVD is the US government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).
Unique to CA, the combination of CA Veracode and CA Veracode SourceClear offerings enable organisations to use open source libraries to accelerate software development without adding unmanaged risk to support the DevSecOps movement.
“Being able to integrate application scanning in our DevOps practices means delivering new value-added services to customers quickly, with the reassurance of security and integrity in all apps and services,” said Scot Bellamy, Manager and Senior Security Architect at Cardinal Health. The global, integrated healthcare services and products company has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and New South Wales, Australia.
“We’re shifting left and cutting down cycle times by integrating security into our development practices.”
“We’re seeing the benefits of advanced analytics, machine learning and AI today and for the future,” said Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer at CA Technologies. “CA is helping every modern software factory by integrating and incorporating these capabilities with big data, automation and security to help customers realise even greater value from their technology investments.”
In addition to these new and updated solutions and capabilities, CA also announced new innovations for mainframe environments at the Built to Change Summit that open opportunities for the modern software factory.
CA and long-term partner IBM have agreed to jointly develop and sell new services for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services on z Systems (zCloud). The partnership enables clients that rely on the mainframe for business critical operations to easily access development, testing, application management and regulatory compliance services within IBM’s zCloud offering for operational resiliency, efficiencies and workforce agility.
IBM and CA Technologies will jointly provide a suite of mainframe software solutions, including the newly-released CA Brightside. First available on IBM zCloud, CA Brightside makes it easy to integrate the mainframe into enterprise DevOps workflows. It is the first solution designed to increase the productivity of development teams to control, script and build for the mainframe like any other cloud platform, using familiar open source tools.
“Our clients are accelerating their digital transformation and many are incorporating the mainframe as an essential part of their transformation,” said Philip Guido, GM, Infrastructure Services for IBM Global Technology Services. “To assist our clients, IBM introduced Cloud Managed Services on z Systems. This service combines the security and power of IBM’s mainframe with the flexibility and scalability of the IBM Cloud. IBM and CA are committed to deepening the platform’s role in enterprise digital transformation.”
Clients using Cloud Managed Services on z Systems can also leverage CA tools to help reduce costs, speed application deployment and integration with:
CA Brightside: Easily develop applications for the mainframe using existing open source tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, Gradle and IntelliJ thru a command line interface.
CA Service Virtualization: Rapidly test and modify applications in place, making it easier for companies to do mainframe test and development in the cloud.
CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence: Monitor applications in the cloud and integrate into existing digital performance management solutions.
CA Data Content Discovery: Find, classify and protect data to safeguard clients’ personally identifiable information and help meet compliance regulations.
“CA and IBM have an opportunity to help our clients overcome challenges in rising costs of IT ownership, workforce evolution and security issues head on,” said Greg Lotko, GM, Mainframe at CA Technologies. “Together, we give every company an opportunity to realise even greater value in their investments by combining the reliability of the mainframe with the speed and agility of DevOps.”
The software and services are already available to all IBM Managed Cloud Services for z Systems clients in North America and will be rolled out globally throughout the rest of 2018.
CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence is a new solution to help realise the greatest value from existing mainframe investments. Delivering reports with actionable insights and practical steps to achieve business results in days, rather than months, this SaaS-based assessment offering automates the collection of disparate data to assess and visualise potential savings, optimisation and investment scenarios. This is impactful as 78% of mainframe clients plan to grow MIPS by 10%**, but most have not been given any additional budget or resources to do so.
MIPS are a measure of computing performance, and stand for million instructions per second.
*Gartner, Predicts 2018: Artificial Intelligence, November, 13, 2017, Whit Andrews, Moutusi Sau, Chirag Dekate, Anthony Mullen, Kenneth F. Brant, Magnus Revang, Daryl C. Plummer.
*Arcati Yearbook, 2018
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