Keith Mante

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WEVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF COBOL AND IT WORKS.
Keith Mante (USE Hands)
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KEITH MANTE COUNTRY MANAGER MICRO FOCUS AUSTRALIA
WEVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF COBOL AND IT WORKS.

• Keith Mante
• (USE Hands)

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Your Legacy is an ASSET and it can move
forwardinto the new world
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Micro Focus the company

• A 27 year old start-up!
• with strong financials
• The market leader in COBOL
• with a commitment to innovation
• Partners are strategic

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Micro Focus the vision

• Defining the future of legacy
• across platforms
• across architectures
• with our partners
• Unlocking the business value in legacy

Protecting and extending your investment
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Micro Focus Microsoft

• Twin focus on reducing costs
• and driving agility
• With minimal risk
• Exploiting the power of the Windows platform
• and delivering legacy into .NET

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Agenda

• 830 - 840 Introduction Keith Mante
• 840 - 910 Constant Change - Peter Hind
• 910 - 930 Micro Focus commitment to COBOL
  - John Billman
• 930 - 945 Break
• 945 - 1015 Microsoft .NET and COBOL Bill
  Karagounis
• 1015 - 1030 FNS Case Story Matthew Marks
• 1030 - 1045 Coffee Break
• 1045 - 1115 Dept Industry Resources Case
  Story John West
• 1115 - 1145 Introducing Net Express with .NET
  - John Billman
• 1145 - 1150 Close

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Peter Hind

• One of Australias leading IT commentators
• IT Managers Survival Guide
• Manages the inTEP executive forum for IDC
• Columnist for

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Constant change(the major business challenges
facing the CIO)

• November 2003

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Forces driving change

• Consolidation MA activity
• Regulation
• Competition
• Cost pressures

• Labour shortage
• Mobile remote workers
• Restructuring
• Governance post Enron, HIH etc

• eBusiness
• Technology pace
• Video/text/voice

Technology

• Globalisation
• 24 by 7 world
• Impact of 9/11

Source IDC The evolving IT Organisation (1999)
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IT Departments under stress(Greatest IT staffing
concerns among CIOs)
Source US CIO Magazine January 2003
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The Australian economic position (Primary source
The Economist January 2003 NZSE)
Stock market indicators - change on record high
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CEO concerns and challenges
Source The Conference Board The CEO Challenge(
2002)
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Management tactics(Important steps in overcoming
problems faced in recession)
Source The Economist 9/3/2002
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Volume of announced MAs
The number of announced mergers and acquisitions
in the USA
Source Mergerstat.com
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Will an IT project succeed
In 2003 the average cost overrun is 43, down
from 180 per cent in 1994
Source The Standish Group The Chaos Report
(13,522 IT case studies)
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How CIOs believe their executives view IT
Source IDC Australia Forecast for Management
(1996-2003)
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The CIO cliché challenges
Turn on a sixpence
Make a silk purse out of a cows ear
Overcoming the doubting Thomass
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The hype cycle
Source Gartner
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Top 10 challenges on the CIO menu
Source IDC Australia Forecast for Management
(1996-2003)
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IT spending patterns (1986-2002)
Percentage spend on IT
Source IDC Australia Forecast for
Management(1987-2003)
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How much flexibility is there in the IS budget(
of respondents who have no discretionary spend)
Source IDC Australia Forecast for
Management2003)
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Future implementation plans
Source The Conference Board Survey of Sales
Marketing Executives ( 2002)
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Technology issues for year ahead
Source The Conference Board The CEO Challenge(
2002)
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Agility will be paramount in IT dept
Source IDC The evolving IT Organisation (1999)
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Constant change(the major business challenges
facing the CIO)

• Micro Focus presentation
• Peter Hind
• November 2003

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John Billman

• Product Director
• Micro Focus UK

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Micro Focus Commitment to COBOL

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Business Imperatives in 2003

• Driving down costs
• while managing risk
• and increasing agility

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Application Development Costs

• 10 25 of IT budgets go to value-enabling
  projects
• The remainder goes to support ongoing operations
• IT expenditures on new development has been
  decreasing
• IT capital budgets are likely to continue to
  decline or at best remain static in real terms

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Lack of Agility

• Unable to deliver systems quickly enough
• Little resource left after maintenance and
  integration for delivering new systems
• Existing systems are not well structured for the
  new world order

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Legacy Liability or Asset?
Two men look through prison bars one sees mud,
the other stars (Frederick Langbridge)
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Architectural and Investment Partitioning
Cost Risk Reduction
Innovation
Increased Agility

Utility Services
New Product Offerings
New Delivery Channels
Existing Systems
New Product Development
The Internet
Re-used in
Delivered to
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Windows is an enterprise platform

• Application providers have led the way
• FNS, Alnova
• Fortune 1000 now engaged
• Large US insurance organisation,
• Dept of Industry Resources, WA
• Windows is ready now!

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The .NET framework is feature-rich

• Superior productivity over J2EE
• Unrivalled connectivity
• Enterprise dependability
• A powerful and committed supporting ecosystem
• .NET is ready now!

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Micro Focus delivers legacy into .NET

• Migrate from the mainframe
• or Unix and burning platforms
• to run with lower TCO on Windows
• .NET is a multi-language framework
• now with COBOL as a first-class citizen

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through deep integration

• Micro Focus is a Visual Studio Industry Partner
• Strong relationship with Redmond developers
• Shared commitment to customer success
• Cross language debugging (e.g. COBOL C)
• Innovative and powerful data access (ADO.NET)

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and our partnerships

• OEMs Application Providers
• With EDS CSC we provide
• .People, Process Technology
• to deliver reduced cost of ownership
• and increased business efficiency

Unlocking the value of legacy
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A new chapter in the future of legacy

• Migrate from anywhere to Windows
• to deliver lower TCO
• Exploit legacy with .NET
• to drive agility
• Via a broad and committed partner community

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Micro Focus commitment to COBOL

• John Billman
• Product Director

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SHORT BREAKBack _at_ 945am