Ready for the Mobile-First and

Cloud-First Economy:Micro Focus COBOL, SUSE Linux Enterprise

and the IBM Mainframe

Derek Britton

Strategy Director | Micro Focus

@DerekBrittonUK

Ed Airey

Solutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus

@EdAirey

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z Systems delivery

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z Systems delivery

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CORE APP DEVELOPMENT WITH COBOL

IBM Mainframe

Z Systems

Distributed Systems

Linux/Unix/Windows

Proprietary Systems

Unisys, DEC, Tandem, …

DISTRIBUTION [BY PLATFORM]

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IN GOOD COMPANY

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THE COBOL MARKET

…A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

EVOLUTIONARY

DevOps, agile

The end user

Commoditisation

Cost management

REVOLUTIONARY

Mobile

Big Data

IoT

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z Systems delivery

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APPLICATION CHANGE DRIVERS

…A SPECTRUM OF CHALLENGES

NEW SERVICES

PACE OF

CHANGE

COMPETITIVE

PRESSURE

COMPLEXITY

REGULATION

INEFFICIENCY

COST MANAGEMENT

INFRASTRUCTURE

LIMITATIONS

SKILLS QUESTIONS

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SOLVING THE CHALLENGE

REPLACE OR REUSE?

Business logic

and data remain

an organization’s

competitive

advantage

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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling customers to unlock the value in their core business

applications

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z Systems delivery

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UNLOCKING VALUE

TODAY’S IT CHALLENGE

Private

Cloud

z/OS

PL/I

IMS COBOL CICS

Public

Cloud

C#

Web/Ajax/Flash

C++/Java

Linux

Java

40+ years of innovation has delivered incredible returns.

But at the cost of huge levels of complexity

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CORE APPLICATIONS MEAN BUSINESS

COBOL – HEART OF THE ENTERPRISE

Mainframe Distributed Virtualized Cloud

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

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DEVELOPING FOR THE FUTURE

CLASS-LEADING #APPDEV TECHNOLOGY

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DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITY

UNRIVALLED PLATFORM PORTABILITY

UBIQUITOUS APPLICATION

AVAILABILITY

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AN OPEN FUTURE

Maximizing efficiency and value

Minimizing unnecessary change

Building in future flexibility

SUSE AND MICRO FOCUS COBOL

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z System delivery

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WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION…THROUGH CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING

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Why Re-host core applications?

Reduce TCO up to 90%

Improve business

agility

Increase time to delivery by 40%

Build talent for the future

Customer Success

WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATIONRE-HOSTING BENEFITS

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CORE APPLICATION REHOSTING

Micro Focus Consultancy Services

Partner eco-system

System Integrator

Micro Focus COBOLCOBOLCOBOL

KEY DELIVERY COMPONENTS

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Optimize how business applications are built, tested and deployed

Execute with the right balance of cost, flexibility and risk

Access your applications on any device

Cloud

Distributed

Virtualized

Mainframe

Core COBOL

application

PLATFORM CHANGE

Take core COBOL applications to any platform

MOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX

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Why Change?

Application Portability

Platform Choice

Increase IT Flexibility

Improve Business

Agility

A Platform for Business Success

PLATFORM CHANGE

MOVING FROM PROPRIETARY UNIX TO OPEN LINUX

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AGENDA

• The Core Application Development Market

• Business drivers for change

• Tackling change: Micro Focus

• COBOL in an open future

– Core Workload consolidation to SUSE

– Accelerating IBM z Systems delivery

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IBM Z SYSTEMS WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

Fast – overcoming agile and DevOps challenges with highly collaborative, productive, available mainframe dev / 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

A Unified, Fully Integrated Toolset

ACCELERATING Z SYSTEMS APP DEVELOPMENT

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User Acceptance

Testing

System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development

EfficientServiceDelivery

Low cost, scalable resources for continuous application testing

Remove test capacity constraints with a scalable test execution environment

Scale-up test capacity on demand

Flexible access to mainframe applications, job steps and data where needed

Faster time to delivery with less risk of production failure

OPTIMIZING MAINFRAME TESTING

IBM Z SYSTEMS WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

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Leverage z System flexibility by managing workload across z/OS and SUSE Linux environments

Consolidate disparate core systems into a single infrastructure

Leverage performance gains on z13 or Linux One

Distribute workload as needed to contain/reduce MIPS, replicate or offer new services, or support a “fit-for-purpose” strategy

FLEXIBLE MAINFRAME APPLICATION DELIVERY

IBM Z SYSTEMS WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

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Micro Focus bridges the old and the new, enabling

customers to unlock the value in their core business

applications

SUMMARY

FUTURE-PROOFED CORE SYSTEM DELIVERY

Accelerate Time to Market

Reduce IT costs

Improve Business Agility

Taking core business applications into the future

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Thank you.

Learn more at microfocus.com/SUSEcon

Derek Britton

Strategy Director | Micro Focus

@DerekBrittonUK

Ed Airey

Solutions Marketing Director | Micro Focus

@EdAirey

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