Case Study: Major Canadian Financial Institution achieves 3x faster time-to-market and higher-quality features with ARCAD Software's DevOps for IBM i

Major Canadian financial institution accelerates their time-to-market on IBM i, delivering higher-quality features 3 times faster using ARCAD for DevOps and Git

Major Canadian Financial Institution operated several mission‑critical IBM i applications (RPG/COBOL back end with Java web/mobile front ends) maintained by a 60‑developer IBM i team. Under pressure to adopt agile and DevOps and to standardize on enterprise tools like Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira and UrbanCode Deploy, the team struggled with long waterfall release cycles and needed a solution to make Git and CI/CD viable on the IBM i platform. They selected ARCAD Software’s DevOps for IBM i suite to address these challenges.

ARCAD Software implemented its DevOps for IBM i solution to integrate Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira and UCD with IBM i, validated 30 use cases in a proof‑of‑concept, migrated the largest RPG application (over 30K components) and trained the 60‑developer team during an 8‑month rollout. ARCAD’s automation of dependency recompilation, branch-based development and end‑to‑end CI/CD enabled parallel work and faster, safer releases—moving the bank from quarterly to monthly releases and delivering new features three times faster with measurable quality improvements.