Case Study: Ameritas achieves mainframe modernization and Agile developer productivity with Compuware

Ameritas - Customer Case Study

Ameritas, a mutual life and health insurer with $35.6 billion in assets, faced a digital transformation challenge when new Director of Software Development Mike Wells discovered that about 70% of the development team was mainframe-focused and lacked the automation, visibility and metrics common in distributed development. Legacy fragmentation, widespread duplicate code and limited insight into who was doing what were slowing delivery and threatening the company’s ability to compete in a fast-moving digital market.

Wells applied mainstream Agile practices to the mainframe by cataloging applications and integrating open-source tools (Jenkins and SonarQube) with Compuware’s mainframe tooling, driving regular product integrations and rapid vendor responsiveness. The approach avoided risky re-platforming, unified mainframe and non-mainframe processes, and delivered measurable gains in developer productivity and software quality while enabling Ameritas to manage mainframe assets with the same agility as the rest of its digital estate.

Ameritas

Mike Wells

Director of Software Development