mobilizing your applications to harness business value now
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Mobility and modernizing applications are in the top 5 CIO priorities. But driving business growth through mobility, while delivering the most from IT budgets, is a challenge for most organizations. 43% of companies say integrating mobile devices with existing applications is critical (VDC research). Most organizations are investing in developing mobile solutions, yet struggle to understand how mobile apps will work with their legacy systems and are making compromises as connecting legacy to mobile isn’t straight forward. The first companies to mobilize their existing applications will have a distinct advantage. The session looks at how Fujitsu can help you mobilize your current applications, with studies of how this has been achieved. Speakers: Mr. Chris Gaskin (Fujitsu Australia)TRANSCRIPT
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Human Centric Innovation
Fujitsu Forum 2014
ICM Munich 19th – 20th November
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Mobilizing Your Applications - Harnessing Application Business Value Now!
Chris Gaskin
Legacy Modernization, Global Offering Owner, Fujitsu
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Business innovation (Customer engagement)
Social Innovation
(Intelligent social infrastructure)
An unstoppable force
The Direction of IT/World
Modernization
Conventional IT systems (Transactional)
Not an immovable object
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Human Centric Innovation
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Modernization Hot Spots
Time Marches On
Business Opportunities, Risk and Pain
Mobility
Future Proofing
What has changed that makes Legacy Modernization vital now?
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Modernization Challenges
Interoperability: Challenges integrating mobile clients with existing enterprise applications
Skills Gap: In house developers may lack skill sets and are leaving rapidly the workforce
Tools Gap: Most open source/commercial tools are designed for new development and cannot integrate with host-based systems
1999: People born in this year are joining the workforce but tech savvy at 5 years old (oh yes they are!)
Speed to Market: Smartphone App can be old and out of date 6 months or less from initial idea
Applications
Data
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Fujitsu’s capabilities on one slide
System Migration System Modernization
Data Migration Data Integration
Cloud Migration Cloud Interface
Interface Modernization Analysis/Investigation/Options
Redocument/Tech Analysis
IP Incl. Progression NetCOBOL AVA SoftwareMap PortfolioVision
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A Typical Journey - Keeping it Simple Lowering Risk
Cloud Readiness
DC and On Premise Deployment Open Source
Microsoft
Migration Phases
Quality Assurance
Migration Testing Application Value
Assessment
DB Cleansing
Re Fronting
Web Service from Legacy & Mash-up
DB Migration
Emulation
Re Documentation
Lowering Risk
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A real journey from one of our clients
System Functions Well Stable Does not fall over The sun is shining The road ahead looks good
But…
Training ,Gen Y, Distance, Lack of Integration Validation, Scalability, Office Bound
On Site Functions, Mobile Device Availability Cost
The problem is only getting worse
Clients and Staff getting more and more upset
Application Value Assessment (AVA) What about keeping the system and modernizing the interface
Fast, Low Risk, Cost effective Win Win
Introducing the new system Green version still available, No code changes, New mobile front end
Excellent Validation Excellent Integration Intuitive Users love it
It ticks off the boxes IT dept. are looking pretty good
In the eyes of management and users
System Functions Well Stable, Does not fall over
The sun is shining The road ahead looks good No Buts
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Modernization – Reuse NOT Replace
Extend and leverage core applications and data to web, mobile, & BI technologies.
Gain more value from existing applications without replacing them.
Rapid, non-invasive approach to modernizing back-end systems.
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A Capability Example
Mobile
Windows
Web
Enterprise
Dashboards
z/OS
UNIX
VME
Linux
Windows
IBM i
User Interfaces
RESTful and SOAP Services
Standard ANSI92 SQL
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Access data via Mobile & Web Apps
To this:
Access Anywhere
Rapid time to results
Leverage new technologies such as HTML5
Eliminates desktop application maintenance
Self service for customers and employees
Go from these:
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Mainframe Midrange Client: New Brunswick
Opportunity
Reduce TCO, Mainframe reliance and need for rare skills
Improve data quality, testing, security, scalability, compliance, architecture (SOA), accessibility and maintainability.
Solution
We migrated the mainframe to .NET whilst ensuring all of the above opportunities were dealt with
Result
Enhanced Architecture, reduced TCO, realized the above
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Application Value Assessment: Large Manufacturing Company Business Opportunity
The client wished reduce costs, remove vendor lock-in and move to a more agile environment. They released a very large tender that covered the entire modernization project but did not allow for all options
Solution
We undertook an AVA to identify the feasible options
Result
The client removed the tender and is reissuing the work as a number of smaller and more efficient requests
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