DevOps: Optimizing Mainframe Team Effectiveness

Common Challenges Facing Enterprise Mainframe Teams Today

• Long release cycles (often measured in months instead of days)  
• Siloed mainframe and distributed development teams with minimal collaboration  
• Manual build, test, and deployment processes, introducing errors and delays  
• Lack of visibility into codebase quality, deployment status, and metrics  
• Difficulty attracting younger talent who expect modern tools and AI

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Key Benefits of Astadia’s DevOps Approach

• Faster Release Cycles - Start pushing mainframe updates in days instead of quarters, sometimes the same day.  
• Unilateral Control - One repository rules everything. COBOL, Java, it doesn't matter.  
• Improved Team Collaboration - Your existing stack stays exactly where it is; we just wrap modernized pipelines around it.  
• Reduced Risk - Every commit runs the test suite automatically and alerts you automatically if something is wrong.  
• Lower Costs and Improved Productivity - Removes manual hand-offs and firefighting

Our Proven Implementation Approach

• Assessment - Map your current tools, processes, and biggest bottlenecks.
• Toolchain Integration - Hook your current tools up to whatever modern coding infrastructure you already have (or add the missing pieces).
• Pipeline Automation - Build the real pipelines: compile, test, promote, deploy, all automated.
• Monitoring & Feedback - Throw dashboards on top so everyone from developers to auditors can see what's going on.

Results Our Clients Have Achieved

• U.S. Air Force – Accelerated software delivery after migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud
• Jefferson County – Full mainframe-to-cloud migration with a fully automated DevOps pipeline on the new platform
• Global Insurance Provider – Cut release cycles from 9 months to weeks on the refactored cloud-native applications
• Leading Global Bank – Eliminated deployment errors and boosted auditor confidence with modern post-migration pipelines