Large organizations continue to rely on the mainframe for a majority of their business-critical data management and processing. Maintaining and modernizing mainframe-based applications is fraught with challenges as experts retire with fewer professionals to take their place. As part of a strategy for mainframe modernization and sustainability, WebLayers zCenter provides the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively.

For Business Executives:

• Understand how your initiatives are meeting key business goals including: revitalization and modernization of legacy applications and new application development; reducing MIPS consumption, reducing corporate risk, improving user performance
• Iterative mainframe guidance shows you exactly where your work does not conform and how to do it right
• Revitalization and modernization work can be checked incrementally throughout the project delivering guidance when and where you need it most
• Obtain hard data on the quality of a particular project, application or individual
• Improved team productivity and reduced rework cycles
• Understand exception handling to keep projects on time and on budget

For IT Executives:

• Overcome the organizational hurdles to hiring new mainframe application developers by codifying internal mainframe policies and best practices
• Understand how your mainframe revitalization, modernization and institutional knowledge retention are meeting key IT goals including: interoperability, improved security and performance
• Assess the quality of work from internal or outsourced teams
• Rapid deployment of mainframe policy governance
• Maximizes your existing infrastructure investments including registry/repository, runtime management and development platforms

For Enterprise Architects:

• Implement the largest collection of pre-built mainframe governance policies based on industry best practices and standards
• Discover, define and manage all enterprise policies
• Define policies once and automatically enforce at any point in the service life cycle
• Obtain complete transparency and visibility across the entire enterprise through the mainframe governance dashboard, an essential element to building a governance Center of Excellence