Modernize and automate the mainframe for ROI

Exploit the full power of mainframe data

In a data-driven world, the mainframe plays a critical role for modern enterprises. From financial compliance and manufacturing optimization, to critical customer information and transaction logs, data is important to how your business runs. The mainframe might seem like a mysterious, hard-to-reach tool, but with the ibi™ product portfolio, you can unleash its power and transform your business with sleek analytics, seamless data integration and AI capabilities.

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Overcome key challenges

Transform your mainframe operations by tackling developer productivity, breaking data silos, eliminating repetitive tasks, and overcoming data "stickiness" for seamless integration.

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    Developer productivity

    The traditional green screen interface for mainframe developers has not changed in decades. This interface is inefficient when compared to interfaces used by developers in cloud and distributed environments.

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    Siloed data

    The mainframe has often been a black box isolated from other external systems. Additionally, inter-system communication has not leveraged APIs in the manner used in the cloud and distributed systems, excluding it from hybrid architectures.

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    Manual, repetitive tasks

    Repetitive manual tasks kill IT productivity on the mainframe

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    Stickiness

    Mainframe data is “sticky” (tough to remove). Even when it is migrated off the mainframe, often it is done in a manner where access to the data is not dynamic.

ibi OPEN DATA HUB FOR MAINFRAME

Need instant access to Mainframe data in the cloud?

ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe exposes the full power of your data while keeping it on the mainframe–allowing you to leverage and extend powerful visualizations in BI and analytics tools in a simple and secure manner.

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Transform the mainframe

When it comes to the mainframe, it is not one-size-fits all. We’ve built our solutions to adapt to your strategy, whether you need speed, efficiency or data accessibility.

Developer experience

ibi offers a modern development experience via web-based FOCUS Studio for connecting to data, creating metadata and creating/running reports. Ibi also offers Open Data Hub for the Mainframe which would allow them to continue writing code in their language of choice and benefit from our read and write adapters.

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API enablement

iWay Service Manager (iSM) provides comprehensive API enablement. iSM builds microservices that expose your Mainframe data to cloud and distributed systems. iSM can build API components to communicate with mainframe data and other API tools, in addition to other functional capabilities around orchestration and automation.

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Automation

iWay Service Manager (iSM) provides orchestration and automation capabilities via building microservices that build automation tasks. This provides developers with the ability to automate mainframe processes and non mainframe processes that leverage mainframe data.

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Hybrid data grid

Live access to mainframe data has been a strength of ibi for 50 years via our 25 data adapters to mainframe data. If you want to move the data into a cache for Analytics and BI use cases, organizations can use Data Migrator. Open Data Hub for the Mainframe also allows third party BI tools to access the mainframe data live.

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Modernize the mainframe

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    Enhance developer productivity

    With a better interface and toolset, through providing mainframe developers with the same modern experience as distributed developers.

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    Open access to the mainframe

    While also extending the overall capabilities of your blended solution.

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    Integrates business workflows with mainframe data

    Helps developers create integrations and workflows without deep mainframe knowledge.

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    Get real-time access

    Empowers users to independently access and utilize mainframe data.

Customer spotlight: International bank saves $1 million annually on reconstructing bank statements using ibi

The bank used ibi WebFOCUS software as an enterprise standard reporting solution to tap into their transactional records stored on the IBM Z platform and to instantly reconstruct consolidated bank statements over any selected time period.

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