ISLANDIA, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced that CA Mainframe Chorus and CA
Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management are available now.
CA Mainframe Chorus is the most important innovation yet in CA
Technologies Mainframe 2.0 strategy to simplify mainframe
management, and help this critical platform to continue to be an
effective and integral part of our customers' evolving IT
infrastructures. It offers management capabilities that are
designed to appeal to the next generation mainframe staff while
also offering significant productivity improvements to today's
mainframe experts.
"The most critical challenges faced by mainframe customers are
to control costs, increase productivity, sustain high levels of
mainframe skills amongst employees, and enhance the agility of the
platform to meet their business needs," said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA
Technologies. "CA Mainframe Chorus is a ground breaking
innovation that addresses all these concerns by simplifying
mainframe management through integration, automation, and
modernization, thereby helping the mainframe to continue to help
power the global economy."
CA Mainframe Chorus helps:
- Reduce the time and effort required to securely manage the
mainframe environment.
- Enable faster problem resolution and improved service
levels.
- Increase productivity for current expert mainframe staff and
more rapid on-ramping of new staff.
CA Mainframe Chorus' role-based integrated management workspace,
rich data visualization, modern GUI, and advanced knowledge capture
and transfer capabilities, help redefine the future of mainframe
management.
Each CA Mainframe Chorus role leverages functionality from the
CA software that supports a key management discipline. CA
Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management is the first role
bringing together features from seven individual CA tools that
support IBM® DB2® for z/OS® in the unified workspace.
Customers including Health Care Services Corporation, SCANA and
Tieto have commented on the strong business value they've realized
with Chorus*:
Health Care Services Corporation
"The Mainframe will continue to be critical to our IT operation
well into the future – you can't effectively support our
applications and workloads on a distributed platform," said
Russ Nejdl, senior director,
enterprise technology services at Health Care Services Corporation,
which supports over 12 million Blue Cross Blue Shield customers
across 4 mid-west states. "With an average age of 60 on our
mainframe staff, we've already begun to hire young talent to help
support over 200 different products, so we are excited about the
potential for CA Mainframe Chorus to help us maximize productivity
of our entire staff, and help make it easier for our experts to
train our new hires."
SCANA
"We are pleased to see CA Technologies taking a leadership
position and delivering such game-changing innovation targeted at
its customers' needs and engaging with its customers so closely,"
said Randy Senn, CIO for SCANA
Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy-based holding company. "We
see great potential in CA's vision and in the benefit of CA
Mainframe Chorus to SCANA's operation."
"SCANA recognizes that to continue delivering quality energy
services to its over one million customers, the mainframe and DB2
specifically need to be managed effectively and perform
proficiently," said Efrain Berdecia,
newest DBA team member for SCANA Corporation. "With CA
Mainframe Chorus, we anticipate having a shorter learning curve for
novice users, faster problem solving of DB2 for z/OS related
performance issues, and increased productivity for the whole
team."
Tieto
"To help meet our goals for increased efficiency, while
maintaining services levels for customers in high transaction
industries like banking, insurance and telecommunications, we have
been reducing the costs of managing our mainframe environment,"
said Juha Parnisto, director of mainframe environments for Tieto, a
leading IT service provider in Northern Europe. "We've
already created a consolidated mainframe environment, leveraging
120 CA Mainframe products, including CA Mainframe Software Manager
to reduce our costs, and foresee huge benefits from the automation
and simplified management in CA Mainframe Chorus."
"We are particularly interested in the new knowledge sharing
features in CA Mainframe Chorus that pass information to younger
specialists, helping us with a key training challenge we will face
in the near future," continued Parnisto.
Key benefits specific to CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database
Management (highlighted by customers) include:
- Increasing productivity and faster problem solving via enhanced
visualization of data and historical data comparative
capabilities
- Saving time and money with simplified management of complex DB2
for z/OS workloads
- Optimizing DB2 for z/OS performance by proactively monitoring
DB2 for z/OS thresholds and alerts, more quickly identifying and
resolving DB2 for z/OS bottlenecks and leveraging displayed
historical data to predict trends
- Simplifying mentoring of new staff and accelerating the ability
to expertly manage DB2 through instant access to decades of DB2
experience and ongoing knowledge management capture and transfer
capabilities
CA Technologies Mainframe 2.0 management strategy helps
organizations to maximize platform value and workforce agility by
simplifying its management through integration, automation, and
modernization.
For more information on CA Mainframe Chorus and CA Mainframe
Chorus for DB2 Database Management visit
http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Mainframe-Chorus.aspx.
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*Some information in this press release is based upon CA and
customer experiences with the referenced software product in a
variety of development and customer environments. Past performance
of the software product in such development and customer
environments is not indicative of the future performance of such
software product in identical, similar or different environments.
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specifically set forth in this press release.
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