Rocket Software announced powerful new innovations to its Skills and Efficiency solutions, designed to help enterprises scale IT operations, close the IT skills gap and improve developer experience with intelligence and precision.
New product features include automation, productivity-focused tools, and optional AI-driven capabilities, supporting faster development, stronger system performance, and greater IT resilience without adding layers of complexity and risk. By making it easier for developers and infrastructure teams to work more efficiently, the company continues to support businesses in their IT modernization initiatives and transformation journeys.
These latest innovations from Rocket Software empower customers to:
- Boost developer efficiency by cutting task time from hours to minutes and accelerating new developer ramp-up from months to weeks.
- Improve system performance through AI-driven monitoring and anomaly detection for greater reliability across mainframe environments.
- Reduce IT workload with self-service automation to decrease ticket volume by up to 16%, all while maintaining compliance and security.
- Strengthen resilience with advanced, point-in-time data recovery that minimizes downtime and protects mission-critical systems.
“IT teams are facing unprecedented demands to deliver more while balancing innovation with operational resilience,” said Phil Buckellew, President, Infrastructure Modernization Business Unit at Rocket Software. “These advancements directly address today’s critical needs – closing the IT skills gap, improving operational efficiency, and enabling modernization without disruption. By aligning cutting-edge technology with business goals, we empower IT leaders to simplify their operations, accelerate business outcomes, and future-proof their organizations, without additional risk.”
Rocket Software’s approach to enabling IT modernization while reducing the risk of disruption is at the heart of its product development strategy. These advancements reflect the company’s commitment to delivering customer value through innovation, evidenced by the introduction of new optional capabilities for both developers and infrastructure teams, including:
- Rocket® TMON™: Proactively identifies mainframe performance issues and anomalies before they impact operations using AI-powered analytics, machine learning, and KPI measurement to proactively identify performance issues and anomalies before they impact operations.
- Rocket® Zena™: Empowers non-technical users to automate processes independently, resulting in reduced reliance on IT intervention.
- Rocket® EDX: Makes document management and search faster and easier with natural language input, done via voice or text.
- Rocket® Rapid Data Recovery: Reduces downtime through single point in time data recovery.
- Rocket® MultiValue Developer Assistant: Streamlines the generation, autocompletion, and explanation of MV BASIC code, speeding up time to productivity for new developers from months to weeks.
- Rocket® Uniface® Developer Assistant: Helps users navigate Uniface documentation, learn the platform faster, generate and explain ProcScript code, and enhance code clarity with comments and plain-language explanations.
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