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Introducing LRS

Nigel Whitmore& Taras Ciuriak


Introducing LRS

LRS® helps large organisations ‘keep loving your mainframe’ by reducing costs associated to output management, document archiving and document data transforms in both legacy and cross platform environments.

Our output management software helps the ‘love’ by:• Eliminating costs• Reducing risk• Improving business agility


Introducing LRS

-In business since 1979-Offering software to IBM sites for over 30 years

- Sold to over 70% of Fortune 500 companies- IBM z/os sites 70% of our revenue stream- Local customers RBS, Aegon, Standard Life and HBoS

- Gartner and other analysts recognize LRS as a global IT leader

- Offering expertise in all areas of enterprise output management across all platforms


Typical IT Portfolio Spending

14%20%

66%

TransformIntroduce new products

and services

GrowImprove existing products

and services

RunSustain existing products

and services

Source: Gartner 2011 IT Metrics Spending and Staffing Survey


Improve Business Processes• Future proof business agility by creating an enterprise wide output

management service• Enhance delivery options to multiple destinations in multiple formats • Improve customer service through improved reliability and flexibility

Reduce Business Risks• When modernizing mainframe business applications • Manage and control all output – with assured document delivery • Unlock vendor dependency on specialist hardware for printed output• Remove constraints of using hard coded, application or o/s based output

True Enterprise Output Management • Manage ALL output from ALL platforms • Optimize / Reduce MIPS costs by moving output management,

document storage and data transformations to the most appropriate target platform

• z/Linux, Linux, AIX, Unix

Eliminate Costs

Benefits

Reduces Risk

ImproveBusiness

Agility


Trusted Counsellor…

I love my mainframe… BUT…. LRS Solutions


More…. With less

- 66% of budget spent on keeping ‘lights on’- Yet, need to deliver on new initiatives such as

cloud and mobile technologies - Application Portfolio Management seems to

be the ‘buzz’ word


More…. With less

Solutions…- Identify the applications/processes that are

- creating the output, where is it going and what are the processes involved?

- Print intensive- MIPS intensive


I love my mainframe… BUT…. Too Many Costly Processes and Products

• Too many mainframe archives• Output/document generation on the

mainframe is costly and consumes too many MIPS

• We have directives to print less• Printing internal reports is getting too

expensive – view not print


Costly Mainframe Products

How LRS can help • Migrate/Replatform Mainframe Archives to

the most appropriate target platform– z/Linux - Linux– AIX – Open systems platform

• Send Printing off mainframe • Send internal reports via portal


I love my mainframe… BUT…. Too Many Datastreams

- Our processes are restricted by datastreams - We are creating documents in AFP, text, Xerox

LCDS, EBCIDIC - As an example, we are transforming AFP to

PDF and LCDS to PDF- These are MIPS intensive processes


Too Many Datastreams

How LRS can help - Perform transforms on the most appropriate

target platform- Offer overlays and transformations - Optimize workload- Chose most appropriate output destination


I don’t love my mainframe... I want a divorce… and soon!

- Need to merge data centres- Cost reduction initiative to reduce mainframe

applications- Have to turn the mainframe off in 12 months


Need to decommission… and soon!

- Moved 3 TB of legacy archive in 8 months - Fixed cost – delivered early and on-budget


The New World


DatabasesDocument Archiving

Document CompositionAdminJob Scheduler

Before LRS Software

Operating System

MainframeApplications

Data Transforms

Output Management

Library Utilities

BackUp

Sort

Security

Monitoring & Management

File Transfer

Z/os Mainframe


The New Enterprise

Windows Print Server

Unix Print ServerUnix Print

ServerUnix Print Server

Linux Print Server


End

Use

r Acc

ess

Tablet

Smart Phone

Mobile Laptop Worker

Desktop Computer

Thin Client

Z/OS

Windows Server

Linux Server

UNIX Servers

Cloud Servers

iSeries

Desktop MFD

Barcode Printer

Wristband Printer

Locally Attached Printer

Scanner

Label Printer

ProductionPrinter

Email

Printer

Fax

MFD

Printer

Document Archiving

Data Transforms

Output Management

LRS Output Management Service Layer running off z/os

LRS Enterprise Environment

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