accelerating time to delivery with ibm zsystems
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Accelerating Time to Delivery with IBM z Systems
and Micro Focus
Accelerating Time to Delivery with IBM z Systems
and Micro Focus
Graham Owen Product Manager - Enterprise Solutions
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
40+ years of innovation
has delivered incredible
returns but at the cost of
huge levels of complexity
Majority of IT spend
'keeping the lights on'...
Challenges for the digital enterprise Barriers to change
…leaving insufficient
room for innovation
Micro Focus bridges the old and
the new, enabling customers to
unlock the value in their core
business applications
Micro Focus’ portability delivers future investment savings
Cloud
Distributed
Virtualized Mainframe
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COBOL applications written yesterday run on today’s modern platforms
COBOL applications written today will run on tomorrow’s leading platforms
COBOL is already part of the next generation of platforms
Micro Focus is investing today so that business applications can support your business for the coming generations
Deploy Knowledge UX Develop
Accelerating time to value in the enterprise Streamlining the enterprise IT journey to deliver more value, faster
Quality
Enterprise wide insight to support superior IT decision making Analyze
Insight Manage drivers for change, Establish
expertise to de-risk IT strategy,
reduce redundancy and IT budgets
Understanding Review technical, operational and
business impacts based on the only
source of application truth, the
applications themselves
Acceleration Provide
knowledge at the point of change for application developers
Streamline Remove
infrastructure limitations and
unnecessary mainframe reliance
Extend Introduce
flexibility across the development
life-cycle and enhance the
resource pool
Accelerate Maximise developer
efficiency and improving delivery times by up to 40%
Best in class efficient z Systems development Develop
Enterprise testing for rapid high quality service delivery Test
Flexibility Remove existing
capacity bottlenecks and improve time to delivery with a flexible, scalable
testing model
Cost Efficiency Reduce or contain
testing costs by testing more in less time using cheaper
resources
Quality Improve application delivery quality and throughput without
additional costs
User Acceptance Testing
System Testing
Functional Testing
Integration Testing
Unit Testing
Development
Efficient Service Delivery
Better together
Moving to the digital age, embracing next generation technology
Faster IT delivery cycle each year
IT to deliver more functionality (not less), continuously
Efficient use of existing resources to manage IT costs
Addressing enterprise challenges Mainframe development and testing
Q: How do you deliver more with less on the mainframe? A: By embracing new ways to break down existing silos through
• Modern tools • New collaboration • A new approach to
innovation on the mainframe
Continuous mainframe application delivery
Continuous integration framework (development and test)
Improved team collaboration
Visibility of requirements and changes
Greater development velocity Maximize efficiency
Mainframe development and DevOps
Optimizing application development and testing
Fast – overcoming agile and DevOps challenges with highly collaborative, productive, available mainframe development and test technology
Future proofed – today’s core applications have a robust and flexible future path, and the staff to support them
Flexible – Standardized IDE enables instant mainframe connection or fully detached, distributed set up
Distributed
Virtualized
Mainframe
Sequential build streams don’t reflect IT reality • Distributed source updates don’t align with mainframe processes,
despite being the “complete system” today
Host based application development • Reliance on mainframe resources limits introducing any level of
velocity or flexibility
Inflexible test provision • Continuous integration and parallel testing is hampered by severe
limitations in test environment flexibility
Bottleneck issues
Effective parallel development for multiple teams • Integrating modern distributed source control with mainframe
processes supports concurrent project delivery
Streamlining mainframe application development • A better IDE and reduced reliance on mainframe resources increases
velocity and flexibility of changes
Rapid test environment provisioning and delivery • Continuous integration and parallel project testing with commodity
tools removes bottlenecks and improves quality
Removing bottlenecks
Integrating modern distributed source control with mainframe processes supports concurrent project delivery
Parallel development for multiple teams
A better IDE and reduced reliance on mainframe resources increases velocity and flexibility of changes
Streamline mainframe application development
Continuous integration and parallel project testing with commodity tools removes bottlenecks and improves quality
Rapid test environment provisioning
User Acceptance Testing
System Testing
Functional Testing
Integration Testing
Unit Testing
Dev Test
Instantaneous replication of test environment provides limitless scale and flexibility in delivery model
Net IT Results: Shortened Delivery Cycles
Greater Release Velocity
Improved Defect Detection
Reduced Failures and Rollbacks
Reduce Recovery Time
Lower operational cost
…yielding smarter outcomes
Technical Contemporary, powerful technology is available to mainframe developers
Cultural New ways of working enables greater team flexibility and agility
Task Flexible, parallel development and testing dramatically increases rates of change
Development and testing
z/OS
Enterprise Test Server
Enterprise Analyzer
Enterprise Developer
z/OS Test Environment
For mainframe application
development
Unit Testing Functional
Testing
Func & Non Func
Testing
User Acceptance
Testing Deploy
Coding / Building
Req’ments Continuous Integration
Testing Analysis
Software Configuration Management (SCM)
SHIFT
LEFT Reduce costs, speed up delivery, enable innovation
Delivering better time to value
Transform UI for immediate 100% efficiency improvement
Achieve rapid insights for better decision making
Improve Dev Efficiency by 25% Provide knowledge at the point of change
Establish fast and flexible test cycles which deliver up to 50% faster
z Systems workload flexibility with a 50% time to market improvement
VA
LU
E
T I M E / R I S K
Achieve business value quickly to drive investment for future innovation and growth
Outline survey of key application stakeholders
Micro Focus / client meeting
Discussion of current situation, strategy, criteria, priority
Review and outline proposal within days
General information Overall summary – application totals, developer totals, outline application summary, indicative costs
Application overview Application by application key data - value, cost, composition, function, deployment characteristics
Technical review Detailed application information - languages, data volumes, interfaces, subsystems
Strategy Fit Outline of IT strategy and key considerations
What next? Value profile meeting
GSE November 2015
Stand 9 Astons