Case Study: a business outsourcing company boosts developer productivity with IBM Rational Developer for System z

IBM Rational software supports multiplatform development

The customer, a business outsourcing company, needed to modernize its mainframe-based payroll application by creating web services for its Java front-end systems. To address this challenge, it turned to vendor IBM and selected the IBM Rational Developer for System z software to facilitate this development effort.

IBM provided the solution with its Rational Developer for System z software, which served as a single integrated development environment (IDE) for multiplatform work. The implementation resulted in significant developer productivity gains, reducing the time spent on tasks like syntax checking from days to minutes and enabling the quick creation of necessary web service artifacts.