21CS and Eccox are proud to announce a strategic bilateral alliance designed to accelerate the next phase of mainframe modernization across North America and Brazil.
This partnership is not about product distribution.
It is about enabling a new execution model for mission-critical environments.
At a time when global enterprises depend on z/OS to run the core of their business, the pressure to deliver faster without compromising resilience, has never been greater. Traditional testing, modern DevOps tooling, and shift-left release cycles are no longer sufficient to support digital innovation, quality at speed into the Core.
Together, 21CS and Eccox are creating a new path forward.
A Cross-Continental Execution Model
Under this alliance:
- Eccox becomes an authorized 21CS partner in Brazil, expanding regional access to advanced mainframe solutions that Customers already love, within newer, extended and innovative capabilities to the market.
- 21CS becomes an authorized North American partner for Eccox Environment Management for Application Parallel Testing (Eccox APT(r)), bringing next-generation test environment manager for scalable parallelism, runtime isolation, reproducibility, and autonomous automation capabilities to enterprise z/OS customers.
This creates a unified innovation bridge between two highly strategic markets and combining scale, agility, and deep technical specialization.
Why This Matters to the Market?
Modern enterprises face a structural tension:
• They must move at digital innovation speed.
• They must protect systems that cannot fail.
The answer is not replacing the mainframe.
The answer is evolving in how it is engineered and tested.
By integrating 21CS’s enterprise-grade capabilities with Eccox’s Environment Management for Application Parallel Testing (Eccox APT©)— a platform that enables isolated, ephemeral, time flow-controlled, parallel execution at scale of real z/OS workloads— organizations gain:
- True runtime-level test isolation
- Parallel release cycles without environment contention
- Reduced regression risk
- Increased release velocity
- Measurable improvement in delivery Confidence
This is not an incremental improvement.
It is a structural shift in how mainframe change is validated and deployed.
From Bottlenecks to Parallelism
For decades, serialized testing models have constrained innovation in core banking, insurance, healthcare, and government systems.
Eccox APT introduces containerized software objects (programs and data) execution paths within native z/OS environments— enabling ephemeral, controlled, production-like testing without duplicating entire subsystems or LPAR(s).
Combined with 21CS’s market presence and execution strength, this alliance empowers organizations to:
- Unlock parallel development at scale
- Increase coverage without expanding infrastructure footprint
- Align mainframe engineering with modern DevOps tool chains, automations, and velocity
- Preserve stability while accelerating change
Strategic Intent
This alliance is built on four pillars:
- Trust – Mutual commitment with excellence in practice and deep technical expertise to colab with Clients needs
- Execution – Excellence at execution across both organizations, discipline to serve our Clients
- Expansion – Joint motions targeting across priority industries and ecosystem
- Acceleration – Delivery measurable business impact to large z/OS enterprises
The focus is not theoretical modernization — it is operational transformation for evolution.
The Bigger Vision
Mainframe systems power the global economy.
The next era of innovation will not come from abandoning them. It will come from unlocking their agility and cost efficiency.
21CS and Eccox believe that the future of enterprise computing lies in:
- Stable core integrations
- Parallel innovation delivery
- Controlled experimentation and optimal quality at speed
- Measurable business outcomes, new revenue drivers
This partnership is a step towards that future.