Subject: CM First Group September 2026 Newsletter

Explore the future of modernization

 September 2026

In this issue...

  • Conference: Get your free virtual passes!

  • Featured: The IBM vs. Anthropic Debate Is Missing the Actual Scarce Resource - CM First Group

  • Broadcom Support: Let us Help You Get the Support You Need

  • Article: Gartner — 2H26 CIO Report - Gartner

  • Intelligence: Further Reading on the Web

15th CA 2E / CA Plex Worldwide Conference

AI Deep Dives, Keynote Speeches, and Customer Roundtable available for streaming


Our AI Day Deep Dives, Keynote Sessions and Customer Roundtable are all  available for streaming.


If you couldn't make it in person to the conference, these are the next best thing to immerse yourself in the latest CA 2E and CA Plex AI, or take in the latest from Broadcom and IBM straight from the source.


Watch now →

Heads Up

The IBM vs. Anthropic Debate Is Missing the Actual Scarce Resource


IBM and Anthropic are publicly disagreeing about whether COBOL modernization is a platform problem or a language problem, but both sides of that debate quietly assume the retiring engineers' institutional knowledge will still be around to validate the answer whenever the tooling question finally gets settled. And that assumption is running against a retirement clock neither company's roadmap controls.


Read the full article  →

Announcing CM evolveIT 11.7


Available for Streaming: Join us for informative, hands-on sessions focused on the new CM evolveIT 11.7 release. 


Tailored for future-minded developers, these sessions showcase groundbreaking enhancements aimed at revolutionizing your code analysis and transformation workflows. Expect hands-on demonstrations that you can take to your development workflows right away.

Watch a webinar now...

Mainframe COBOL

Latest Advances in Mainframe COBOL Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn about cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools that promise streamlined analysis and transformation processes, automated tools that convert legacy COBOL code to Java, and advanced code slicing.


Watch Now

IBM i

Latest Advances in IBM i Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn how to cut your analysis costs by up to 80% with new capabilities. We'll demo new CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex superpowers, AI and Code slicing innovations, and improved support for DB2 and COBOL and more.


Watch Now

Conference

Gartner — 2H26 CIO Report


Gartner's latest CIO report projects that AI-augmented tooling will go from under 20% of software modernization projects today to 90% by 2029, cutting modernization costs roughly 30% along the way, with 73% of organizations already planning to spend more. 


Buried in the same report: 51% of CIOs name the AI skills gap as their single biggest challenge, and half say IT simply cannot keep pace with the rate of change. 


We chose it because those findings sit uneasily beside each other — the tooling curve is steep, and the supply of people who can verify what the tooling produces is not climbing with it.


Read now →

 Broadcom Support 


Many enterprises struggle with obtaining Broadcom support for their CA 2E (Synon, COOL:2E) or CA Plex systems


If you're working with an older unsupported release, upgrading your IBM OS, or otherwise under the shadow of lapsed maintenance, we can get you back on Broadcom support based on your unique situation. We specialize in all sizes of customers.


Fill out our 2 minute form and schedule a no-commitment fifteen minute conversation with a CM First Group technical rep.

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Current CM First Group customers can access tutorials and submit support tickets at support.cmfirstgroup.com.

Current Releases


CM WebClient 1.8.8 (with nightly builds) For details, go here.

CM Matchpoint ALM 7.0 Build 004. For details, go here.

CM evolveIT 11.7, last supported 10.6
CA Plex 7.3, last supported 7.2.1 (as of October 31, 2024)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
CA 2E 8.7.4, last supported 8.7 (as of October 31, 2024)
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