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Women in Mainframe: The Legacy of Innovation Continues

This article highlights the historical and ongoing contributions of women to the mainframe industry, starting with pioneers like Grace Hopper who helped develop COBOL. BMC specific…

Your automation foundation for the AI era: Intelligent, Trusted, Enterprise-ready

This article announces the latest release of Control-M, an orchestration platform designed to help organizations manage increasingly complex data, applications, and AI pipelines. T…

Choosing the Right Mainframe DevOps Tools: Forrester Consulting TEI Shows Speed and Quality Gains with BMC AMI DevX

A recent Forrester study commissioned by BMC found that organizations using BMC AMI DevX significantly improved their mainframe development processes, achieving a 217% ROI. Specifi…

Forrester Consulting TEI: How BMC AMI DevX Solved Mainframe Talent Gaps While Transforming the Developer Experience

A recent Forrester study commissioned by BMC found that organizations using BMC AMI DevX significantly improved their mainframe developer experience, addressing a critical talent s…

How AI Is Revitalizing Mainframe Software and Empowering a New Generation

Despite perceptions, mainframes remain crucial for critical business operations and are actually experiencing renewed optimism – a recent survey shows 97% of organizations view it …

From Operations to Outcomes: How Orchestration Evolved in 2025

The article highlights a shift in how businesses view application and data workflow orchestration, moving it from a purely IT function to a core business capability driving growth …

Shaping the Mainframe’s Future with AI and Collaboration

BMC’s January 2026 release significantly expands AI capabilities within its mainframe solutions, particularly through an enhanced chat assistant (BMC AMI Assistant) that can now be…

Intelligent. Insightful. Efficient: AI-powered Workflow Automation with Control-M

This article highlights Control-M’s latest release (26.01) focused on integrating AI to revolutionize workflow orchestration and real-time responsiveness. New features like AI-powe…

Enabling business-driven automation

This article argues that traditional automation efforts often fail because the business users who *possess* crucial knowledge aren't the ones *building* the automation, leading to …

A Practical Guide to Managed File Transfers for the Enterprise

This article argues that organizations often fail at Managed File Transfer (MFT) not due to the technology itself, but because they focus on *how* files are transferred (speed, pro…