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Rocket Software announces acquisition of Geniez AI to accelerate agentic AI for mainframe modernization. 13 October, 2026 Summary. Acquisition brings specialized talent to Rocket, helping enterprises simplify operations, close the skills gap, and modernize mission-critical systems with confidence. WALTHAM, Mass. - October 13, 2026 - Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, today announced it has acquired Geniez AI, a generative AI company that augments mainframe professionals with expert AI agents operating directly on the mainframe in every domain, monitoring live systems, diagnosing incidents, and executing agentic workflows using natural language. The acquisition brings Geniez AI's technical leadership and team to Rocket Software, where they will help accelerate Rocket's AI initiatives, including new capabilities within Rocket(R) EVA(TM), the company's agentic AI platform for core systems. Together, Rocket Software and the Geniez AI team are working to shift the industry from traditional, expertise-intensive mainframe management to intelligent, AI-assisted operations that make core systems easier to understand, manage, and modernize. "This is about continuing to transform what is possible on the mainframe," said Milan Shetti, president and CEO of Rocket Software. "By bringing Geniez AI's specialized expertise into Rocket, we are accelerating our vision to help enterprises securely apply agentic AI to their systems with speed, confidence, and control." "Geniez AI was founded on the belief that GenAI-based business applications can fundamentally change how enterprises understand and operate their mainframe environments," said Gil Peleg, CEO and co-founder of Geniez AI. "Joining Rocket gives us the scale, customer reach, and deep mainframe expertise to bring that vision to more organizations and help shape the next era of intelligent, mission-critical operations." The acquisition supports Rocket's strategy to help enterprises modernize core systems while safely extending agentic AI to the mission-critical workloads that run on them. By combining Rocket's mainframe expertise, global customer base, and modernization portfolio with Geniez AI's technical expertise, Rocket will further enhance its AI-driven capabilities by helping customers apply AI agents that can surface insights, support action, and automate mission-critical workflows with appropriate governance and control. The acquisition is expected to strengthen Rocket Software's ability to help enterprises move from manual, expertise-intensive mainframe operations to secure, AI-assisted modernization by: * Expanding specialized AI and mainframe talent: Bringing Geniez AI's technical leadership and engineering team into Rocket to help accelerate Rocket's AI strategy and the development of new EVA capabilities and advance agentic AI for core systems. * Accelerating Rocket's agentic AI roadmap: Adding frontline insight into how enterprises evaluate and adopt AI on the mainframe to help Rocket deliver new EVA capabilities with greater speed and focus. * Closing the mainframe skills gap: Helping enterprises turn institutional knowledge into actionable intelligence, so complex systems become more accessible to experienced teams and newer talent. * Reducing operational complexity: Supporting AI-assisted operations that help teams surface insights, take action, and automate mission-critical workflows with appropriate governance and control. * Raising the standard for mission-critical modernization: Advancing a future where enterprises can modernize core systems with greater speed, resilience, security, and operational confidence. About Rocket Software Rocket Software is a global technology leader in modernization and a partner of choice that empowers the world's leading businesses on their IT and mainframe modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. Trusted by over 13,500 customers and 850 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software enables customers to maximize their data, applications, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power its modern world. Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity. For media inquiries: Lacey Darrow

Rocket expands mainframe EVA AI platform with PlanGuard. Wed, 7th Oct 2026 (Today) Rocket Software has expanded its EVA agentic AI platform for mainframe systems and introduced a new security layer called PlanGuard. The update extends EVA into a broader range of operational tasks on core systems, including diagnostics, security, batch processing, application management and data work. Organisations in financial services, government, insurance, retail and telecommunications are already piloting the platform. EVA is designed to let AI agents analyse operational data and automate selected tasks within policies set by enterprise users. PlanGuard adds a control point between AI decision-making and system execution, using identity and policy checks to limit what an agent can access and do on a mainframe. Rocket is targeting a longstanding problem for large organisations that still rely on mainframes for core workloads: a shortage of specialist skills. In research commissioned from Hanover Research, 81% of financial services IT leaders said the mainframe skills gap was very or extremely significant, while 87% said AI would help address it over the next two years. Another Hanover finding cited by Rocket found that 94% of financial services IT leaders rank improving IT operations with AI as a high or top priority. EVA uses natural language interfaces to help staff work through operational issues that have often required specialist knowledge, multiple tools and manual investigation. Rocket outlined several areas where customers are testing the software. In operations and diagnostics, EVA is being used for job failure pattern analysis, dashboard and KPI generation, workflow automation, financial reporting analysis, online banking application optimisation, and queue and backlog analysis in IBM CICS environments. In security, the focus includes vulnerability detection, compliance work, patch management and identifying risks linked to post-quantum cryptography. For batch processing, the platform is intended to help teams monitor performance against service-level agreements, identify critical failures and investigate root causes more quickly. Application and configuration management is another target area, including analysis of high CPU use and degradation affecting IBM Db2 data sharing, buffer pools and cache performance. The latest EVA release also supports Rocket's broader aim of unified enterprise data access and output management. EVA is model-agnostic and uses a standards-based method to connect to z/OS data. Rocket says that approach is intended to simplify access to operational and enterprise data while keeping governance controls in place. Control layer PlanGuard is central to Rocket's pitch to customers seeking tighter oversight of AI activity in sensitive environments. The software is intended to keep AI-driven actions within approved boundaries, while logging activity for audit and allowing human oversight where needed. Mainframes remain deeply embedded in sectors such as banking, insurance and government, where organisations often want to modernise operations without disrupting systems that handle high-value or regulated workloads. That creates an opening for suppliers promising practical AI uses in established infrastructure rather than only in newer cloud environments. Rocket, which is privately held and backed by Bain Capital Private Equity, says it serves more than 13,500 customers and works with 850 partners. The business focuses on software for IT modernisation across mainframe, infrastructure, applications and data environments. "Enterprises have relied on the mainframe to run their mission-critical workloads for decades," said Milan Shetti, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Software. "AI promises to unlock even more value from these environments, but only if enterprises can deploy it securely and without disruption. We're helping customers apply agentic AI to mission-critical systems with speed, confidence and control, closing the skills gap and putting that expertise within reach of every enterprise team," Shetti said.

Rocket Software has expanded its EVA agentic AI platform for mainframe systems, introducing new governance and automation capabilities for mission-critical operations. The platform now includes Rocket PlanGuard, a security layer that provides policy controls between AI reasoning and system execution whilst maintaining auditability. According to a Hanover Research study commissioned by Rocket, 81% of financial services IT leaders report significant mainframe skills gaps, whilst 87% believe AI will help address this within two years. EVA enables teams to use natural language to tackle operational challenges across diagnostics, security, batch processing, and application management. The platform connects to z/OS data sources and provides governed access to mainframe resources. Global organisations across financial services, government, insurance, retail, and telecommunications are participating in EVA pilots. The company reports customers can move from installation to actionable insights within days.