MAINFRAME: CORE SYSTEM IN A HYPER CONNECTED WORLD

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1 MAINFRAME: CORE SYSTEM IN A HYPER CONNECTED WORLD

2 MAINFRAME: MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER? CONTEXT WHY A MAINFRAME? In today s hyper connected world consumers have instant access to and response from their social and personal networks. Your employees, customers and partners expect the same speed, interactivity and personalised services in a professional context. Speed / time to market are indeed more crucial than ever: your organisation needs not only to react quickly to market changes but also to proactively prepare to the challenges it is or will soon be facing. Mainframe technology has hugely advanced in recent years and although it never really lost its strategic position within the ICT landscape it is back into full attention as it can offer the fast, reliable, scalable, and secure environment your organisation needs to function within the new digital reality. Combined with the cloud, the connected mainframe can process massive data in record time, ensuring optimal security and instant cognitive analysis capability... The cloud era has come; your customers, your suppliers as well as your competitors have access to a nearly unlimited pool of IT-tools, services and capacities. Your organisation has to make sure not to miss the boat and to fully capitalise on these (cloud) resources to help make your company future proof. Your organisation is undoubtedly challenged to develop new services or business models to serve existing and new audiences or to create new revenue streams. Competitors and newcomers will disrupt your business if you do not occupy the territory first. Contemporary mainframe is open to the new development environments that will support the digital transformation of your organisation. The mainframe delivers true end-to-end encryption, nearly endless scalability and the flexibility to come up to fast changing IT needs and ambitions. Security threats and privacy regulations such as GDPR - oblige your organisation to assure full protection of its systems, applications and data.

3 WHY YOUR CEO SHOULD CONSIDER A MAINFRAME To capitalise on legacy applications while gradually modernising them by taking advantage of the opportunities offered by digital transformation. To ensure the continuity of his core business while being able to leverage the nearly endless technological possibilities of new development environments and cloud services. To enforce the digital transformation of his business by making the most of business opportunities that come along with the new digital reality. WHY YOUR CIO SHOULD CONSIDER A MAINFRAME To combine the best of both worlds: the security, speed and robustness of the mainframe together with the agility and cost efficiency of the contemporary development tools and/or cloud environments. To recruit and retain the best possible developers. Modern mainframes no longer rely on COBOL or PL/I only to operate. They can work with new popular languages and tools like Java, Node.js, Swift, Python, among others. The next generation of millennial developers will indeed love to work with or within the mainframe. To save money and avoid the risks of migration or re-development projects. To take advantage of the mainframe as a hyper converged environment offering important gains in productivity (as well in terms of system performance as in terms of required human resources), rationalising maintenance and assuring 24x7 availability. To rely on the most secure and protected environment available on the market as the z-systems automatically impose full encryption of all incoming and outgoing data. EIGHT MAINFRAME STATISTICS THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU 1-71 percent of Fortune 500 companies use mainframes. 2 - Mainframes handle 87 percent of all credit card transactions in the world. 3 - Mainframes handle 68 percent of the world s production IT workloads, yet they account for only 6 percent of IT costs. 4 - IBM s z13 system can support up to 10 terabytes of memory. 5 - A z13 mainframe can survive an earthquake having a magnitude of at least 8.0 on the Richter scale. 6 - Mainframes handle 30 billion business transactions each day. 7 - Revenue from z System sales increased 64 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year. 8 - As of 2017, 92 of the world s top 100 banks continued to use mainframes. Source: - Christopher Tozzi, June 28, 2018

4 WHAT ABOUT YOUR (LEGACY) MAINFRAME APPLICATIONS? Though some organisations mainly inspired by the decreasing availability of mainframe skills and by periodically returning gloomy predictions in the media on the end of the mainframe consider replacing their mainframe applications, which after all still is a costly and risky endeavor, whereas the simplest solution is to modernise on-platform. You can assure your legacy applications to keep pace with current technological evolutions: As the mainframe has become an open environment, you can enrich your mainframe application environment with Java, Node.js, Swift or other modern technologies. You can integrate your mainframe applications with existing cloud applications or applications in distributed environments. You can link the mainframe to modern mobile and web interfaces and to IOT or other external devices. Capitalize on the best of both worlds: modernise your mainframe application environment and open it up to the world of the cloud Moreover, you can fully capitalise on the content of your mainframe through state of the art analytical tools that provide access to the reservoir of highly valuable business information in your mainframe and extract the insights that can leverage your business functioning. Henri Arnold, Head of the mainframe center of The NRB Group.

5 WHY WORK WITH NRB NRB CAN TAKE CARE OF THE WHOLE LIFECYCLE OF YOUR MAINFRAME AND NON-MAINFRAME APPLICATIONS: Design, application development, implementation, running application management. MAINTAIN 6 PLAN 1 2 DESIGN NRB IS THE #1 MAINFRAME SERVICES PROVIDER IN BELGIUM! ALMOST 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON MAINFRAME NRB was created as a shared mainframe infrastructure and service center back in the 80 s. Since then, NRB has been providing Bull GCOS 8 mainframe services and its IBM mainframe capacity has grown from 2.7 MIPS in 1986 on a 4381/2 to more than MIPS on a z14 today. The mainframe service center turned into a leader of its kind. STATE-OF-THE-ART GEO-RESILIENT DATA CENTERS NRB disposes of an exceptional Tier 3+ infrastructure: two state-of-the-art geo-resilient data center sites connected with Dark Fiber. The main site in Herstal near Liege consists of 3 data centers in separate buildings. The secondary site is located 30 km apart in Villers-le-Bouillet. All devices are fully redundant with automatic switch-over. This configuration enables NRB to provide the highest level of disaster recovery capabilities in Belgium: 5 3 Recovery Point Objective (RPO) = 0 hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO) = 2 hours DEPLOY 4 DEVELOP 200 MAINFRAME SPECIALISTS With more than 200 mainframe specialists NRB is able to assure fully managed operations as well as application development and maintenance on the mainframe. TEST Their expertise relates to IBM mainframe environments as well as to the Bull mainframe: THE MAINFRAME APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE OF NRB IS SECTOR AND BUSINESS INDEPENDENT NRB applies best practices in architecture, development methodology, project management and application management. The NRB experts can while mastering these best practices be of great added value to any organisation or company regardless its specific activities. 40 mainframe infrastructure specialists take care of managed operations at different levels: exploitation, operations, engineering, service management mainframe applications specialists stand for application development and maintenance: developers (COBOL, PL1, Java), application managers, project managers or quality assurance managers. This makes NRB the leading mainframe services provider in Belgium.

6 NRB: A COMPLETE MAINFRAME SERVICES PORTFOLIO APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE NRB offers application development and maintenance services in order to maximise the added value of your application portfolio at all times. We of course provide support for classic languages such as COBOL or PL/I, and maintain your applications using our proven SDLC methodology and the best available tools. But our service offering goes far beyond this as we consider that the mainframe firmly remains one of the major actors of tomorrow s IT landscape. MODERNISATION NRB conceived a development framework designed to help you reuse existing applications while expanding towards new horizons. By fragmenting monolithic legacy code into independent services, we create an ecosystem of API s that can be individually called from inside or outside the z-environment. By externalising business rules, we make the code less likely to need reviewing when the rules change while improving time-to-market responsiveness. By deploying new languages and methods on the z-system we allow more agile development and reducing the maintenance costs. INNOVATION Our vision of innovation encompasses advanced concepts such as the deployment of machine learning, IDAA-assisted real-time analytics, fraud detection, and many more. THE CONNECTED MAINFRAME Integration is now the leading principle. By moving data closer to their consuming processes we reduce their transport time and greatly streamline the architecture. By connecting the mainframe to the outside world we finally achieve total efficiency. OPERATIONS In continuity with the development and maintenance of applications or as a standalone offering we provide operational services tailored to your needs. Our professional staff will ensure state-of-the-art application deployment, scheduling, and monitoring. Our multilingual Service Desk- available 24/7 - will route all your requests to the appropriate team. INFRASTRUCTURE & HOSTING We offer a wide range of infrastructure and hosting services covering the common IaaS and PaaS marketing models. From hardware resource allocation to database administration, we will provide you with commodities, support, and the guidance of highly skilled specialists in each field of application. We continually keep our mutualised mainframe infrastructure at the latest technological level, allowing you to take advantage of all improvements brought in by the new hardware. Capacity management is not our least concern. By providing you with adaptable resources, we will let you reduce your operating costs and leverage the exact power you need to fulfill your critical business requirements. SEAMLESS MIGRATIONS Our migration methodology relies on proven best practices that have passed the test of several major projects for our customers. Our specialised equipment and virtualisation methods enable us to realise faultless migrations of DASD and tapes while limiting the impact on your business, the total cost and the time required. On average our migration projects do not last for longer than three months.

7 L UNION F IT LA FORCE KEY FIGURES NRB MAINFRAME CENTER 1 Billion transactions per year active employee users at our customers and many more users at the customers of our customers zseries MIPS capacity installed THREE SERVICE MODELS OFFERED BY NRB RESPONSIBILITY IAAS PAAS PAAS+ PAAS+++ APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CUSTOMER CUSTOMER CUSTOMER NRB APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT & OPERATIONS CUSTOMER CUSTOMER NRB NRB SYSTEM MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS CUSTOMER NRB NRB NRB HARDWARE ALLOCATION & MANAGEMENT NRB NRB NRB NRB NRB COUNTS A NUMBER OF THE LARGEST BELGIAN CORPORATE USERS OF MAINFRAME AMONGST ITS CUSTOMERS We consider our customers as true partners. Our working together is based upon transparency and open mindedness in our common striving for cost effectiveness, innovation and resilience.

8 CONTACT (0) NRB S.A. / nv Parc Industriel des Hauts-Sarts - 2 e Avenue Herstal Rue d Arlon / Aarlenstraat Bruxelles / Brussel Designed at NRB 11/10/2018