With millions of lines of code, hundreds of dependencies, and dated documentation, developers can spend weeks or months trying to understand all the changes needed with no guarantee the updates won’t break something.
IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI) is an analysis tool that helps you visualize applications, data, and jobs on z/OS®. ADDI enables architects and developers to discover dependencies in a click, make changes with confidence, and keep documentation current and accurate. Use ADDI to enable your IT teams to make informed decisions about modernizing, consolidating, or decommissioning applications.
With ADDI, you can expect developer productivity to increase by 20% to 30%.
Developer productivity is increased by 20–30%, providing more time for innovation¹.
Clients using ADDI were able to achieve an ROI of 163% over three years, with an average payback period of under one year¹.
Cost saving of up to 10% due to infrastructure consolidation¹.
Evolve systems and applications rapidly to take advantage of hybrid cloud.
Visualize existing applications to derive requirements for enhanced user story creation.
"Time to market is critical to going up against digital competitors and to meeting client expectations. What we’ve done shows that with DevOps tools like ADDI, the mainframe can be just as quick as distributed environments in the long run. " — Gary Lesage, Product Owner, Sun Life Financial
“We will be more likely to get it right first time, dramatically reducing lead times for new releases and driving up development quality.” — Girish Wani, Agile Product Owner, Mainframe Development Team, Swedbank
“With IBM Application Discovery, we can support a greater number of software releases, allowing us to deliver new services to our customers faster—a valuable advantage in today’s ultra-competitive banking industry.” — Managing Director of Application Development, A pan-African bank
“With IBM Application Discovery, we now have the flexibility to respond faster when we recognize a new demand from our client base.” — Solutions Architect and Manager of Database and Application Development, US insurance company
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Learn how you can plan changes to your z/OS hybrid applications with confidence.
Unlock a new experience of application discovery and planning with IBM ADDI 6.1.1. Explore the new features.
Learn about the cryptographic discovery feature in ADDI v6.1 that supports the quantum-safe cryptography of IBM z16™.
Learn how ADDI and ODM can help you modernize z/OS applications.
Groupama uses ADDI to modernize IBM Z applications with greater speed and confidence.
Forrester Consulting and IBM explain why 58% of businesses want to modernize in place, and how ADDI can help them accelerate their journey.
Accelerate application modernization with a more standardized enterprise approach to IT automation.
Speed development with RESTful APIs to and from your IBM Z mainframe.
Discover, capture, analyze, automate and govern rules-based business decisions on premises or on the cloud.
Manager for z/OS Facilitate access to IBM Z relational and traditional non-relational data sources.
A comprehensive and robust toolset for developing and maintaining IBM z/OS applications through using DevOps practices.
Measure, report and maximize performance of systems and applications.