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ISPW BenchMark Technologies Ltd.

Type: Private

Industry: Computer software, Application lifecycle management, IT management

Founded: 1986

Founder(s): Christina McGill

Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Key people: Paul Kuszyk, CEO

Website: www.ispw.com

ISPW BenchMark Technologies Ltd. is a privately held, employee owned company. ISPW is exclusively focused on improving the Software Change Management (SCM) processes in large computing complexes.

Contents:

1 Products

2 History

3 External links

Products:

ISPW supplies software and services to modernize mainframe and distributed systems to create a single point of control for all changes across the enterprise. ISPW automates analysis, coding, testing and deployment, and speeds up the delivery of maintenance and new systems.

ISPW addresses the following industry segments:

IT management Application lifecycle management (ALM) Release management (RLM)

Agile development

Configuration management (CM)

Information technology operations (IT Operations)

DevOps Product development

History:

ISPW was designed when a major resource company moved from Toronto to Calgary, and most of their IT staff left the company. There were hundreds of programs written in various languages, with almost no one left who knew where the code was or how to support those systems. The IT department hired external specialists to help keep the shop afloat, and Christina’s team was contracted to build some “software to manage their software”.

When the VP of IT spoke at a conference about how they could now support their applications in half the time, with only half the staff, other companies asked to buy the software.

As new Customers came on board, Christina met SCM experts in other countries who joined up to work with ISPW over the internet. With those technical resources, that software evolved into a DB2-based cross-platform SCM product.

Today, we know it as ISPW, one of only a few commercial Software Change Management (SCM) products in the world.

External links:

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/casestudies/banking-finance/commerce_bank/?page=3

Official website http://www.ispw.com