BMC Introduces New DevOps Capabilities to Accelerate High-Speed Innovation with Control-M Workbench

Singapore — June
15, 2017 — As part of its
strategy to empower developers and continue to drive DevOps innovation in multi-cloud environments, BMC, a
global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today
introduced Control-M Workbench, a
no-cost, self-service, standalone development environment. This new capability
accelerates application delivery and improves application quality for
organizations driving innovation to market in an ever-increasingly competitive
digital business economy.

Control-M Workbench
expands the capability of the Control-M Automation API introduced in
2016. Control-M Automation API is a set of programmatic interfaces that allows
developers and DevOps engineers to automate application workflows in a
self-service manner within the agile application release process. Control-M
Workbench can be deployed in minutes, giving developers the autonomy to code,
debug, and test workflows the same way that any other coding activity is
performed.

Control-M Workbench
supports Digital Business Automation,
which BMC believes is a new adaptive approach to IT automation that simplifies
managing hybrid multi-cloud environments.

The movement of testing,
monitoring, automation, and policy compliance earlier in the development
lifecycle is often referred to as a shift left strategy, and it is a key
enabler of accelerating digital service innovation. With a Jobs-as-Code
approach, developers can code business application automation directly into the
delivery pipeline using their current DevOps tools and shift left enterprise
automation for business applications. By giving developers direct access
to Control-M, the market-leading workload automation solution, operations
receives tested, production-ready applications to advance the business.

When using this approach
and leveraging Control-M Workbench, organizations can:

·       Complete application delivery up to 20%
faster;

·       Run jobs with up to 50% less full-time
equivalent staff resources;

·       Reduce production incidents by up to 25%;

·       Reduce the impact of batch processing
failure by up to 80%.

“Our research
repeatedly finds that the companies most successful at promoting high-quality
collaboration between Dev and Ops are those most likely to see exceptional
revenue growth. Still, it is too often the case that new applications and
services are signed off and ‘tossed over the wall’ for Operations to deal with
and maintain,” said Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA.) “The
Jobs-as-Code concept supports the ‘shift left’ trend in terms of work stream
specification so that the steps required to execute a given job become part of
the code itself.”1

Control-M Workbench
fosters skill-sharing and collaboration between development and
operations.  This new capability gives developers access to build, test,
and debug batch automation in a sandbox environment and seamlessly integrate
with their preferred Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools
and methods, including JSON, Git, Jenkins, and others.

BMC customer Carfax
has adopted this new DevOps approach with developers across varying
applications. “A Jobs-as-Code approach is paramount for anyone doing agile
development and DevOps,” said Robert Stinnett, Automation Analyst, IT
Operations at Carfax. “We have been using Control-M for years in operations,
and now the product gives our developers full ownership and control of their
jobs in a coding environment that is familiar to them, so they can define the
business processes they want to automate in production.”

“The key to being
agile in a multi-cloud environment is for companies to adapt to the challenges
posed by diverse infrastructure, disparate data, and accelerated applications
to deliver true Digital Business Automation. One of these specific challenges
is better collaboration in the Dev to Ops application hand-off process,” said Gur Steif, president, digital business automation at BMC.
“With our latest innovation, Control-M Workbench, developers and DevOps
engineers can shift left and deliver applications faster and with better
quality to drive business growth and competitive advantage.”

To learn more and
download Control-M Workbench, click here.

1 Enterprise Management Associates,
“Jobs-as-Code Approach Infuses DevOps Focus into Scheduling, Workload
Automation”, 2017

About BMC
BMC is a global leader in innovative software solutions that enable businesses
to transform into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage.
Our Digital Enterprise Management solutions are designed to make digital
business fast, seamless, and optimized from mainframe to mobile to cloud and
beyond. BMC digital IT transforms 82 percent of the Fortune 500 and serves more
than 10,000 customers worldwide.

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