Empowering CIOs and IT Leaders to Drive Strategic Modernization

Navigate complexity with confidence. Rocket Software supports CIOs and IT leaders in modernizing mission-critical systems, strengthening security, and accelerating innovation without compromising business stability.

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SUMMARY

How can CIOs balance innovation with operational stability?

Many Chief Information Officers we work with are under pressure to drive transformation while managing costs, integrating AI, and managing skills gaps—without disrupting the systems that power the business.

Rocket Software helps CIOs modernize with confidence by unlocking the value of core platforms, connecting them to cloud and AI initiatives, and strengthening security and operations. By extending existing infrastructure investments and enabling seamless integration across hybrid environments, we provide a practical, low-risk path to modernization without breaking what runs the business.

How Rocket Software helps CIOs succeed:

Optimize technology spend and prove ROI

Extend the value of existing systems while reducing operational overhead and accelerating delivery—without costly, high-risk rewrites.

Bridge skills gaps and empower hybrid teams

Enable developers with familiar tools and streamlined workflows to improve productivity and reduce reliance on specialized expertise.

Integrate core systems across cloud, AI and enterprise ecosystems

Connect critical environments to modern ecosystems, unlocking real-time data and innovation without compromising stability.

Strengthen security, resilience, and operational stability

Enhance protection, governance, and system reliability to ensure business continuity and safeguard mission-critical workloads.

Why IT leaders worldwide are partnering with Rocket Software

69 %

of IT leaders report data security keeps them up at night1

48 %

of organizations still rely on outdated systems for critical operations1

93.7 %

Customer satisfaction rate with Rocket Software's global modernization solutions and partner network

Expertise

What modernization solutions address CIOs’ most critical challenges?

 

COST OPTImIZATION

Balancing cost, ROI, and budget constraints

Optimize spend while accelerating modernization

Many CIOs we work with must reduce costs and prove modernization ROI within tightly constrained budgets. As a CIO, you’re strategizing how to optimize technology spend and improve ROI by extending the value of existing infrastructure and enhancing efficiency across operations, development, performance management, storage, and hybrid cloud environments. By combining AI‑driven insights, modern developer experiences, secure integration frameworks, and intelligent workload and workflow optimization, Rocket enables CIOs to reduce costs, accelerate time‑to‑value, and maximize the return on their technology investments.

  • Extend existing investments through solutions that help you modernize on existing infrastructure or replatform applications to other systems and the cloud, without replacement or rewrites
  • Improve system efficiency and reduce costly outages with smarter, AI driven performance insights.
  • Boost team productivity and shorten delivery timelines through modern, unified development experiences.
  • Lower operational overhead by streamlining key workflows, minimizing manual effort, and optimizing storage and capacity usage
  • Reduce integration costs and complexity by connecting mainframe, cloud, and distributed environments more seamlessly.
  • Strengthen resilience and minimize downtime expenses with stronger protection, faster recovery, and better operational stability.
  • Accelerate time-to-value by improving developer productivity and delivery speed

Together, these capabilities help you maximize existing investments, reduce operational overhead, and achieve measurable budget impact across the entire IT estate.

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Featured Cost Optimization Products

Explore Rocket Software's suite of products designed to address your cost and ROI needs.

Rocket® ChangeMan ZMF

Automated lifecycle management that reduces maintenance costs and regression errors through package-driven governance and controlled promotion workflows.

Rocket® TMON

Performance monitoring that improves system efficiency and reduces costly outages through smarter, AI‑driven insights to help organizations optimize spend and prevent resource waste.

Rocket® C\Prof

Deep diagnostic analysis with an intuitive operation that accelerates issue resolution and enhances system performance, minimizing the financial impact of outages and performance bottlenecks.

Rocket® z/OS Storage Solutions

Intelligent storage and capacity optimization that reduces manual effort, prevents over‑provisioning, and helps control storage‑related expenses across the IT estate.

Rocket® Enterprise Server

Infrastructure optimization that extends the value of existing mainframe investments and improves efficiency across workloads—avoiding the cost, risk, and disruption of rip‑and‑replace strategies.

Rocket® Enterprise Orchestrator with AI Predictive Pulse

AI‑assisted workflow automation that streamlines operations, reduces manual intervention, and lowers operational costs while improving delivery speed.

Rocket® Enterprise Suite

Integrated development and operations tools that boost productivity, reduce maintenance effort, and support faster delivery cycles for measurable time‑to‑value improvements.

Rocket® EVA

Rocket EVA delivers precise, end-to-end diagnostics across core systems through an AI-powered, agentic platform

Rocket® z/Assure Vulnerability Analysis Program (VAP)

Code-based vulnerability management with industry-leading precision, so security teams can focus on real risk and protect their most critical data.

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Skills & Efficiency

Staffing, skills gaps, and knowledge transfer

Modernize the developer experience to empower next-generation teams

An aging mainframe workforce and difficulty recruiting new specialists strain modernization timelines. Rocket Software modernizes the developer experience by enabling Git-native workflows, IDE choice, and desktop integration. This approach speeds onboarding of non-mainframe developers, supports global hybrid teams, and protects institutional knowledge.

  • Enable familiar tooling including VS Code, Eclipse, Zowe CLI, and traditional ISPF
  • Accelerate onboarding for developers without mainframe backgrounds
  • Support distributed collaboration across global, hybrid teams

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Featured Skills & Efficiency Products

Explore Rocket Software's suite of products designed to address your staffing and skills challenges.

Rocket® Support for Zowe

Desktop integration that provides modern interfaces for mainframe development and operations.

Rocket® ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack

Client-side tools that enable developers to work with mainframe assets using familiar desktop workflows.

Rocket® Open AppDev for Z

A unified development framework that accelerates modern application delivery on the mainframe.

Rocket® Enterprise Orchestrator with AI Predictive Pulse

AI-driven automation that anticipates issues and streamlines end-to-end mainframe workflows.

Rocket® Enterprise Suite

Integrated tools that enhance developer productivity and modernize core mainframe development processes.

Rocket® Visual COBOL

A modern development environment that brings COBOL into contemporary workflows across distributed and mainframe systems.

Rocket® EVA

Rocket EVA delivers precise, end-to-end diagnostics across core systems through an AI-powered, agentic platform

DevOps Integration

Integrating mainframe with modern DevOps and cloud ecosystems

Achieve seamless integration across distributed, cloud, and mainframe environments

We often hear from CIOs that they are challenged with maintaining system integrity while supporting API-driven architectures, hybrid workloads, modern developer tooling, and continuous delivery. Rocket Software provides capabilities that integrate mainframe and other workflows into CI/CD pipelines via REST APIs and automation interfaces, bridge core operating systems with distributed and cloud environments, and enable traceable builds with automated packaging.

  • Integrate into CI/CD pipelines through REST APIs, webhooks, and automation interfaces
  • Enable 100% native Git integration for version control and collaboration
  • Ensure source-to-load integrity through package-driven architecture

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Featured DevOps Integration Products

Explore Rocket Software's suite of products designed to address your DevOps and cloud integration needs.

Rocket® ChangeMan ZMF

Modern DevOps capabilities with REST APIs, Git integration, and automated packaging that connect mainframe development to enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

Rocket® Enterprise Analyzer

Deep application insight that accelerates development and modernization by mapping dependencies, improving code understanding, and reducing analysis effort across complex environments.

Rocket® Developer and Test Server

A flexible development and testing environment that brings mainframe application development to distributed systems—improving productivity, enabling parallel work, and shortening delivery cycles.

Rocket® Visual COBOL

A modern COBOL development experience that integrates with contemporary IDEs and CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster build cycles, streamlined testing, and easier collaboration across hybrid teams.

Rocket® C\Prof

High‑speed performance diagnostics that help teams quickly identify bottlenecks, validate changes, and resolve issues earlier in the lifecycle—strengthening code quality and improving delivery speed.

Rocket® PRO/JCL

Automated JCL checking and validation that reduces errors, improves reliability, and ensures production‑ready batch workflows before changes reach downstream environments.

Rocket® Enterprise Orchestrator

Centralized workflow automation that connects mainframe and distributed processes, enabling consistent, end‑to‑end CI/CD orchestration and simplifying multi‑platform development.

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Security & Compliance

Managing risk, compliance, and security across hybrid environments

Strengthen authentication, compliance, and governance

Rising vendor software costs, zero-trust security requirements, and regulatory complexity demand proactive risk management. Rocket Software strengthens authentication and compliance with MFA and auditability features, provides automated backout and impact analysis to reduce deployment risk, and delivers end-to-end protection across vulnerabilities, storage, and data integrity.

  • Implement multi-factor authentication and identity and access management controls
  • Automate audit trails and version control for regulatory compliance
  • Protect against ransomware with fast recovery and vulnerability scanning

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Featured Security Products

Explore Rocket Software's suite of products designed to address your security and compliance needs.

Rocket® z/Assure Vulnerability Analysis Program (VAP)

Code-based vulnerability management with industry-leading precision, so security teams can focus on real risk and protect their most critical data.

Rocket® Secure Host Access

Secure terminal access with multi-factor authentication and single sign-on capabilities.

Rocket® Rapid Data Recovery / Data Recovery Manager

Point-in-time surgical recovery that minimizes downtime and data loss.

Rocket® Mainframe Security Solutions

End‑to‑end mainframe security that safeguards critical data, ensures integrity, and reduces operational risk.

PROVEN RESULTS

What do customers say about working with Rocket Software?

Michael Tores

Rocket Software allowed us to bridge proven mainframe technologies with modern IT systems. We can seamlessly support ongoing modernization projects and react faster with fresh, up-to-date data.

Michael Tores Mainframe Systems Engineer, SDK Insurance

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CASE STUDY

Transforming Financial Services in Brazil With Rocket® Zena®

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CASE STUDY

Mainframe Vulnerability Scanning with Rocket® z/Assure VAP

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CASE STUDY

Streamlining Security Practices with Rocket® Secure Host Access

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INSIGHTS

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