The work, as it actually went
Real engagements — what the client ran, what was in the way, and what changed. Filter by industry, or read them all. Some clients are named with permission; others are described but not identified.
A large insurance company retires a 40-year-old homegrown z/OS deployment tool
A U.S. insurer’s mainframe deployments ran on APTF — an Assembler tool built in-house decades earlier, whose last maintainer retired mid-project and which couldn’t survive the coming z/OS upgrade. Strongback replaced it with IBM UrbanCode Deploy (now IBM DevOps Deploy), wired into their existing SCM, ServiceNow approvals, and XL Release orchestration.
- Deployments requiring manual intervention cut from 32% to under 5%
- 49 development teams’ applications migrated into UCD across 61 components
- 4,262 production deployments run across 26 LPARs and two data centers
A payment processor turns 100% of its 3270 green screens into a modern web interface
A large publicly traded electronic payment processor was losing entry-level market share to competitors with rich web interfaces, while a full rewrite was cost-prohibitive. Strongback used IBM Rational HATS to transform the 3270 applications into a browser-based Java EE interface, and cross-trained COBOL and .NET developers onto the new stack.
- 100% of the 3270 applications transformed to a rich web interface
- New customer-service-rep training time reduced by nearly 75%
- Piloted into production in under three months
Santa Fe College cuts application deployment from four hours to eight minutes
One of Florida’s top public colleges ran student registration, grades, and accounting on custom applications, but deployments took a skilled resource half a day and risked missing semester deadlines. Strongback modernized their IBM Rational Team Concert environment, automated the build, and mentored the team on agile delivery.
- Deployment time reduced from 3–4 hours to 8 minutes
- Deployments freed from a single dedicated resource and a calendar window
- Agile planning and real-time delivery adopted across teams
Different industries, same shape: critical systems, aging tooling, one manual step everyone fears. The fix is discipline your platform already understands — applied with modern tools.
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