Brown Brothers engineers secure the modernization of their IBM i applications using ARCAD Transformer and ARCAD for DevOps

The Customer

Established in 1908 and a pioneer in the field of electrical engineering, Brown Brothers Engineers is now one of the largest pump businesses in New Zealand, specializing in the assembly, distribution, testing and custom building of pumping systems together with installation and after sales service. Today Brown Brothers Engineers operates in 13 locations across Australia and New Zealand, providing high quality custom pump solutions and services in the industry, horticulture, agriculture, irrigation, construction, municipal and mining sectors.

Context

To keep pace with growing digital transformation demands, Brown Brothers Engineers embarked on an extensive modernization initiative spanning both their development processes and application source code.

Solution

Thanks to the incremental version support in ARCAD for DevOps, the database was converted on a parallel modernization branch while day-today maintenance continued as usual on the trunk to satisfy the everyday demands of the business.

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Case Study Highlights

Company: Brown Brothers Engineers
Industry: Specialized in pumping systems
Challenge: To keep pace with growing digital transformation demands, Brown Brothers Engineers embarked on an extensive modernization initiative spanning both their development processes and application source code.
Solutions: ARCAD Transformer DB, ARCAD Transformer RPG, ARCAD for DevOps

ARCAD provides us with a unique set of integrated tools, and once we have improved one part of the process, ARCAD is ready to help with the next challenge such as the automation of unit testing, source code analysis, cross-referencing and many other resource intensive tasks on IBM i.

Wayne Millow, IBM i Systems Manager