Rocket Software is Helping Customers Tackle Economic Instability with Enhancements to the Modernization Suite for IBM i

March 2, 2023

IBM i has rapidly become a ubiquitous part of digital-first strategies for businesses around the world. As the pace of modernization continues to accelerate, IBM i remains an essential part of many business’ plans, no matter what stage of modernization they find themselves. Research commissioned by Rocket Software found that of businesses who are running core applications on IBM i, 14% intend to accelerate their modernization efforts over the next two years, marking a solid commitment to the platform moving forward. But with the looming specter of economic instability and rising costs, any disruption can prove catastrophic to organizations that have invested so heavily in IBM i.

Although important, businesses aren’t merely looking to protect their investments in IBM i, they are also seeking to incorporate tools that enable them to boost their ROI and cut budgets, while also mitigating risks and unlocking greater innovation. To make those objectives a reality, businesses must take a holistic approach to IT, with a modernized IBM i platform at its core.

Rocket Continues Strengthening IBM i Modernization

To better support the modernization efforts of businesses within the IBM i platform, Rocket Software has announced significant enhancements to its Modernization Suite for IBM i, which advances an organization’s business environment, tracks data and business logic engagement, automates processes, enables agile work methodologies like DevOps, and empowers organizations to deliver strong ROI.

These enhancements deliver IBM i customers improved automation and management of the DevOps environment and an enhanced High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) user experience through a newly refined interface. With Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i businesses can achieve greater integration, avoid siloes, and fuel innovation, delivering the tools developers need to boost customer experience.

Optimizing processes, enabling fit-for-purpose user interfaces, and creating a modernization blueprint for leaders, the Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i provides organizations with a breadth of tools to ultimately drive results and achieve their business goals. The latest release of the Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i brings solutions that are uniquely suited to support these goals. This includes:

• Rocket DevOps, which helps developers to better avoid coding errors in the middle of the production environment.
• Rocket iCluster delivers high availability capabilities that help organizations keep going no matter the disruption, minimizing system downtime, and keeping them one step ahead of infrastructure developments.
• Rocket Process Automation (API) lets organizations integrate their front-end solutions with IBM i applications by unlocking IBM i core systems without needing to interact with anything that exists in the underlying legacy code or business logic.
• Rocket Terminal Emulator maximizes user efficiency, enabling employees to leverage systems and data from a mobile device.
• Rocket Modern Experience enables businesses to transform customer experience, bringing capabilities to create new customer-facing interfaces.
• Rocket Process Insights give organizations the capability to engage with the data and business logic of IBM i applications, generating new insights and providing a blueprint for their long-term modernization journey.
• Rocket MFA (IBM i Edition) allows businesses to build a multi-layered approach to IBM i security that effectively mitigates risk.

To find out how the enhancements to the Rocket Modernization Suite for IBM i is helping businesses accelerate their modernization and boost ROI visit our web page.