Hello Enterprise Suite Community!
Welcome back to the Enterprise Suite Newsletter. Each quarter, we will continue to share Rocket® Software and Enterprise Suite updates, practical tips, and market insights to help you get more value from your Rocket solutions—and stay connected with a growing community of peers.
As always, thank you for being our loyal customers and active members of this community.
We hope this edition is useful and informative.
Your Enterprise Suite Team
Meet the Team
Scot Nielsen - VP, Product Management – Enterprise Suite
Scot Nielsen leads product management for Rocket Software's Enterprise Suite, bringing more than 25 years of experience in application modernization. With a foundation in software engineering, he has spent his career helping organizations evolve mission-critical COBOL applications without disrupting the business.
What drives Scot is helping customers see and extend the art of the possible with COBOL. He works closely with the people running these systems, showing how COBOL fits into the wider technology landscape they manage and how the applications it powers can keep delivering on whatever the business needs next. Whether that means embracing AI, connecting to cloud, or simply protecting the performance and reliability customers count on, Scot and the Enterprise Suite team are always looking for ways to push what's possible further.
Neil Fowler - SVP, Software Engineering
Neil Fowler has spent more than 30 years in enterprise software, starting his career as a software engineer — and some of his code is still running in production today. That engineering foundation never left him, and he remains actively involved in the architectural decisions shaping where Enterprise Suite is headed next. Today he leads Rocket's full COBOL and Enterprise Suite modernization business end-to-end, overseeing Engineering, Product Management, Support, and Professional Services, while also working directly with C-suite leaders at customer organizations to shape their long-term modernization strategies.
That end-to-end ownership matters and means the teams closest to customers — solving real problems in complex, long-lived environments — are directly connected to the people building and evolving the product, with a leader who understands both sides of that equation from the ground up.
Rocket Software Recognized in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Technical Debt Management Tools
Rocket Software has been named a Challenger in the Gartner 2026 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Technical Debt Management Tools, highlighting what we believe to be our strength in helping enterprises modernize mission-critical systems with confidence. This recognition underscores our approach to reducing technical debt through incremental, low-risk strategies that improve agility while protecting core operations. For more information, read: A 5-Step Recipe for Technical Debt Management.
Licensed Gartner users, read the Gartner MQ here.
Watch Now: Practical AI Strategies for Mainframe Modernization
In this short video, From Hype to Reality: Using AI to Modernize Core Applications and Data, Brent Ellis, Forrester Technology Thought Leader for AI Infrastructure, Tech Resilience, & Enterprise Strategy, plus Neil Fowler, SVP, Software Engineering at Rocket Software, explore how enterprises can practically integrate AI into their modernization strategy while maintaining strict security and avoiding downtime.
A Platform-Smart Approach to Mainframe Modernization: Gartner® Insights on Workload Placement and Migration Strategies
While industry hype often pushes total mainframe exits, large-scale enterprise environments require a more nuanced, platform-smart approach to avoid unnecessary risk. This Gartner Insights Report provides actionable insights for matching mission-critical workloads to the right infrastructure, at the right time. The report also highlights where “an overestimation of generative AI tooling capabilities” can affect modernization efficiency.
Now Available: IDC Insights for Banking and Insurance
How Banks Deploy AI Without Disruption
To scale AI effectively, banks need a structured, enterprise-wide approach rooted in strong data foundations and clear business alignment. Phased, use case–driven modernization enables progress without impacting stability—acknowledging that “AI is data hungry, and without a good data foundation, any AI initiative will eventually crumble.” Enterprise Suite helps you adopt AI with confidence to modernize and replatform without disrupting critical operations.
Read the banking whitepaper here.
What are the Modernization Priorities and Blind Spots for Insurance Executives?
This industry report offers a high-level look of how enterprises are modernizing applications and data—balancing risk reduction with gains in agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. Learn the key drivers, challenges, and practical approaches to moving core workloads to the cloud without disruption.
Read the insurance whitepaper here.
