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Addressing the Forces of Change
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Addressing the Forces of Change

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We Are All Agents of Change!

…so why is implementing change so difficult?

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Current Perspectives

Slow US Economic Growth: +1.7% GDP

Record US Debt: 16.7T

Job-less Recovery: Unemployment at 7.6%

Downgraded S&P Credit Rating: AA+

Sequestration: 85B in Budget Cuts

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Current Perspectives

Slow US Economic Growth: +1.7% GDP

Record US Debt: 16.7T

Job-less Recovery: Unemployment at 7.6%

Downgraded S&P Credit Rating: AA+

Sequestration: 85B in Budget Cuts

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Industry Pressures

FINED $1.5B FOR LIBOR RIGGING

NEWS

NEWS

IS TO CUT 2,500 JOBS FROM ITS FINANCIAL AND RISK DIVISION

NEWS

IS TO CUT 4,000 JOBS IN 2013, SAVING $1B IN COSTS

NEWS

ANNOUNCES IT WILL CUT 30% OF ITS IT MANAGEMENT WITHIN

ITS DEFENCE SPACE & SECURITY UNIT

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Industry Pressures

FINED $1.5B FOR LIBOR RIGGING

NEWS NEWS

IS TO CUT 2,500 JOBS FROM ITS FINANCIAL AND RISK DIVISION

NEWS

IS TO CUT 4,000 JOBS IN 2013, SAVING $1B IN COSTS

NEWS

ANNOUNCES IT WILL CUT 30% OF IT’S IT MANAGEMENT WITHIN IT’S DEFENCE SPACE & SECURITY UNIT

NEWS

EVEN HOSTESS FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY.ASSET ACQUIRED BY PRIVATE INVESTORS

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The IT Scorecard

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2013 IT budgets to increase spending by only

1.4%

2013 IT spending facing challenges Expected 2.09T global spend. US to show 7.5% increase

Measured as a percentage of revenues, financial services firms spend more on IT than any other industry. Ranging from $270B to 460B

Financial services IT budgets equal 7.3% of their revenues, well above the industry average of 3.7%

Scorecard Results

‘Keeping the Lights On’

70-80%of IT budget -

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IT Perceptions

57%

Significant differences in perception between IT and non-IT employees:

of IT leaders agreed that their organization was "distributed, agile, and flexible”

of business people outside IT agree

29%

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Barriers to Innovation

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Barriers to Innovation: IT Debt….the backlog

46% did not know the value of their IT debt

44% have no structured process for measuring and managing IT Debt

45% without a process are not planning to implement one

57% say they have an unclear picture of their application portfolio

Source:

$1 trillionGlobal IT debt will rise to by 2015

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Barriers to Innovation: the Skills Challenge

Data gathered from a global survey of Academic leaders

1 in 4 Universities surveyed teach COBOL today

65% COBOL is uncool

65% state that COBOL is considered (by students) ‘uncool’ or is unheard of completely

5% of new graduates have COBOL language skills

10,000 US workers reaching retirement age (65) every day - Occurring over next 19 years. Representing 26% of US workforce

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Barriers to Innovation: the Skills Challenge

Data gathered from a global survey of Academic leaders

5% of new graduates have COBOL language skills

10,000 US workers reaching retirement age (65) every day - Occurring over next 19 years. Representing 26% of US workforce

1 in 4 Universities surveyed teach COBOL today

65% COBOL is uncool

65% state that COBOL is considered (by students) ‘uncool’ or is unheard of completely

Amid this, 70% of all business Data Processing is still driven by COBOL

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Disruptive Forces

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Cloud computing

Mobile

Social Media & Collaboration

Analytics & Big Data

Innovations to Change the Face of Business

Digital Disruption – CIOs, are you disruptive enough?

Gartner and Forrester agree

New Generation technology is taking up a lot of mindshare

new budget

new skills

new technology

new processes

Requiring

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Disruptive Forces

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Cloud computing

Mobile

Social Media & Collaboration

Analytics & Big Data

Innovations to Change the Face of Business

Digital Disruption – CIOs, are you disruptive enough?

Gartner and Forrester agree

New Generation technology is taking up a lot of mindshare

new budget

new skills

new technology

new processes

Requiring

It’s Time to Think Differently.

To Think Smarter.

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The Road Ahead

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Forces of Change

REDUCTION OF BACKLOG / IT DEBT

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

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Understanding Your Options

Modernization: Clearing a Pathway to Success

53%Success with Application Modernization

30%Success with replacing application with a COTS package

4%Success when re-writing application from scratch

42%Chance of project failure or excessive delays

Package:

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A Customer Perspective: Application Modernization

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

COST

RISK

TIME TO VALUE

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (0 – 10)

Lowest cost

High risk

Medium risk

Low risk

2-3 years

3-5 years

4 months

4x cost

10x cost

1x cost

0/10 competitive advantage

6/10 competitive advantage

10/10 competitive advantage

Lowest risk

Shortest time

Greatest advantage

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

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Smart Thinking

REDUCTION OF BACKLOG / IT DEBT

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INNOVATION

New Architecture

Mobile

Cloud

Development Efficiency

Skills and Organization

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Introducing Visual COBOL

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Embracing Innovation with Visual COBOL

REDUCTION OF BACKLOG / IT DEBT

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INNOVATION

New Architecture

Mobile

Cloud

Development Efficiency

Skills and Organization

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Embracing Innovation with Visual COBOL

Cloud

Mobile

New Architecture

Skills and Organization

Development Efficiency

INNOVATION

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Efficiencyhighly effective development results with Visual COBOL

• Faster code compile, edit and debug process

• 30% improvement in developer productivity

• Greater development team collaboration

• Advanced COBOL development tooling – background parsing, autocomplete, smart editing, etc.

• Unified development environment supporting efficient cross-team development

• Developer collaboration across all languages

Benefits Capability

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Industry standard development tools

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Skills & the OrganizationBridge the Skills Gap with Visual COBOL

• Address the skills challenge issue

• Attract a new talent pool

• Protect the value & importance of your core apps

• Works with industry standard IDEs - Visual Studio and Eclipse

• Consistent development experience for C/C++, .NET, Java and COBOL developers

• Smart editing tools make cutting “new” COBOL code easier to learn than ever

Benefits

Capability

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Cloud ComputingScalable, cost-effective application deployment to the Cloud

• Up to 70% reduction in IT costs

• Increased application reliability, availability and serviceability

• Rapid service delivery

Benefits

Capability

• Deploy existing on-premise COBOL applications into the Cloud

• Access data from SQL Azure, Amazon S3 and other Cloud data storage

• Supports Amazon and Azure Cloud models

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Mobile ComputingEnhance the User Experience with Visual COBOL

• Build vibrant user interfaces. Deliver a better user experience

• Respond to consumer service demands

• Get ahead of the competition.

• Access COBOL applications and data from IPhone, Android, Windows 8, and Blackberry devices

• Create Web 2.0 & HTML 5 applications

• Build SOA-enabled systems

Benefits

Capability

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ArchitecturePortable, agile, application deployment with Visual COBOL

• Reduce your Time to Delivery by up to 50%

• Flexible application deployment & greater choice

• Build once. Deploy anywhere!

• Enterprise-wide portability of COBOL business apps

• Application deployment across 50+ platforms including Windows, Unix, Linux, z/Linux, .NET, and JVM.

• Integration with modern technologies such as XML, SOA, Web Services, and Relational Databases

Benefits

Capability

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Next Steps

Summary Points• Addressing the Forces of Change

requires a different approach: Innovative Thinking

• For the Enterprise application developer, the solution is:

The Value Profile Day• Understand your existing

application portfolio• Identify suitable candidates• Develop an application

roadmap • A ‘Free of Charge’ Service

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Your Next Step

Book a Value Profile Day!


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