In this presentation Gamal Khaldi will highlight the core theme and context of this sixth edition of the NRB Mainframe days. He will present a number of NRB’s customer cases and provide insights about the NRB Mainframe roadmap. He will then introduce the key points that will be further developed by the other speakers.

1. NRB Mainframe Day 2018, October 18th
NRB Mainframe YtD recap and
outlook 2019 – 2022 strategy
Gamal Khaldi - MIS Presales NRB

2. Where are we?

3. NRB Strategy update
PLAN 18 – 25
Agility program
1. Grow our existing capacity at a rate of 15%/year:
a. Identify new workload eligible for the platform:
Enterprise Linux, Data warehousing, AI
a. Help our client to modernize their Legacy
applications
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1. Increase flexibility and granularity levels in our global
service structure
2. Trim overhead resources
3. Transformation of our current Service organization:
a. Push Automation
b. Cost controlling tools
c. Shifting of the repartition of the tasks
i. System Engineer assigned on added value
tasks.
ii. Operators on basic daily management
tasks

4. Mainframe modernisation

5. 5
Why application modernisation as our main topic for our
Mainframe Day?
• Clients question the future of the mainframe
• Clients are unaware of the possibilities of the platform
• Modernisation: where do you start?
• Modernisation: where can I find help?
• What are the benefits?

6. Clients question the future of the mainframe
Top 3 reasons
High software development effort
High hardware, software and operating
system costs
Lack of skills available in the market
Market Trend
Keep as is (45%)
Leave the platform (30%)
New Development plans (25%)
MAINFRAMES REMAIN STRATEGIC TO THE BUSINESS, BUT OPTIMIZATION IS CRITICAL!!!

7. 7
How fast is your z-related expenditure growing annually, on the technology
itself and on the people required to manage the technology?

8. 8
How have organizations spend money on the Mainframe?
32.3%
42.7%
32.3%
31.5%
16.9% 16.1%
15.3%
7.3%
Increasing
Mainframe
Capacity
MainframeDataAnalytics
tobettersupport
BusinessDecisions
DevelopingNew
Mainframe
Applications
CloudSupport
None
zLinux
BuyingNew
Mainframe
Applications
Other
Mainframe spending for new capacity,
new applications, and data analytics
has increased over the prior year

9. Legacy application plan over the next 3 years?

10. 10
Clients are unaware of the possibilities of the platform
DevOps
Events
Connected Mainframe and API Management
Business Process Management
Business Rules, Analytics

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Modernisation: where do you start?
Front-end app
development
User
engagement
20%
of the effort is visible
(mobile UI)
80%
of the effort lies
under the surface
CICS®
IMS™
WAS
DB2®
Analytics
Enterprise
Integration
Operations Security
We reduce the
time clients
spend on this
MOBILE