This document provides an overview of IBM Application Discovery, which helps clients understand their legacy application code on mainframe systems. It discusses how Application Discovery can help clients protect their investments in legacy applications by enabling digital transformation and API integration. Several customer examples are then presented that discuss how Application Discovery helped reduce risks, enable transformation, and increase productivity for clients in industries such as insurance, banking, retail, and energy. The document concludes with frequently asked questions about Application Discovery.
3. Why does this matter?
DevOps Hybrid Cloud API Economy
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4. Mainframe legacy systems have their own challenges
“I am being
isolated from the
newer
technologies”
“I cant find
resources for
legacy
technologies”
“My staff is
nearing or past
retirement age”
“I need to be
more responsive
to the market and
competition”
“I need to save
costs on running
my Legacy
System. ”
“Regulatory
changes are
getting faster
paced, I can’t
keep up”
“How do I Identify
quality & test
exposure for my
modified code”
5. How can you improve understanding of your
legacy code? 5
6. ADDI helps protect, extend and grow the investments made in legacy
applications
PROTECT
Regulation & Control
Management
ADDI allow clients to
expose new z based
services as APIs and
connect their existing
mainframe applications
to cloud apps as the
fastest & most cost
effective way to drive
new value and agility
ADDI combined with
IBM solutions for hybrid
cloud and API
management tools like
z/os connect help
accelerate the
transformation to cloud
and the enabling of new
revenue and service
models.
ADDI helps retrieve and
analyse mainframe
application components
to get an automated
view of the source code
to quickly identify
software quality and
complexity issues
EXTEND
Digital Transformation
API Economy
GROW
Cloud Adoption
New revenue models
9. Business Problem/Opportunity
• Cost and development effort to do source investigations was an issue
• 100 man months for the investigation ;10% of overall development workload.
• Efforts to modernize existing applications and deploy a new partner-enabled
application had stalled due to complexity of their application architecture
• Considerable business frustration led them to seek impact analysis tools for legacy
system source code investigations
Solution/Benefits
• IBM Application Discovery used across 900 plus developers
• Securely enabled the opening of existing mainframe systems to web services
• Enterprise rollout reduced analysis time by 30%
• Defined and implemented core coding standards to improve application quality
A Major Japanese Insurance Company
To: Securely open existing mainframe to web services and Improve quality/maintainability
10. Business Problem/Opportunity
• Modernization was a strategic direction for the client
• Client facing Strategic initiative to enable their clients and partners more access to self
service functions (improve service, lower costs, increase competitive capabilities)
• IT Data Services Manager was the key sponsor.
Solution/Benefits
• IBM Application Discovery used to enable development teams to better support initiative
• Existing staff resources in their mainframe development team could work at speed
• Business agility – differentiator was the entire Dev Ops platform value proposition
A Major US based Energy company
To: Drive customer modernization
11. Business Problem/Opportunity
• After a merger of 2 companies, the client had 2 mainframe core systems
• Client wanted to combine these into a single new system.
Solution/Benefits
• Client needed to understand their mainframe application landscape.
• IBM Application Discovery team took 5 source code stacks from a LOB sponsor and
presented a solution to the customer using their own source code.
• The client immediately saw the value add and the productivity gains that could be
derived
A Major US Retailer
To: Increase productivity and help understand core system mainframe apps after an
acquisition
13. Business Problem/Opportunity
• 10,000 hrs per year in lost productivity looking up application dependencies
• Lack of documentation of legacy application documentation
• New hires lack understanding of domain apps
• Other problems identified in their Application Development lifecycle
• Needed an Intuitive, lightweight, easy to use User Interface that met the
requirement for a wide range of development experience
Solution/Benefits
• Under 1 year payback and fast deployment to 600 developers with Agile process.
• Wider solution opportunities opened up covering Test, Documentation
• Place at the table with CIO agenda
A Major European Bank
To: Regain lost productivity and CIO Waste Reduction Project
14. Business Problem/Opportunity
• Company had a 5,000 people reduction in force with significant impact on developers
• Replacement hiring of junior developers but not able to deliver function at the speed
of the business with reduced Headcount and Skills
Solution/Benefits
• ADDI was bought to improve the productivity and efficiencies of the resources through
improvement of impact analysis and visualization.
• Company was able to speed up development of required modernization changes that
was centred on improvements in customer facing code
A US based Insurance Company
To: Drive increase productivity benefits
15. Business Problem/Opportunity
• All Development in the companies Insurance division is done in India
• The Insurance Division wanted to improve the productivity of their off shore
development team
• They started looking for automated software to help them with improving their Impact
Analysis and the ramp up time for productivity of their new hires
Solution/Benefits
• Demo of IBM Application Discovery
• Client concluded they could meet their productivity targets and drive faster time to
market with less resource using ADDI
• The client sponsor was the Director of Applications
A US based Global Financial Investment Management Leader
To: Improve productivity
17. Business Problem/Opportunity
Customer was doing a VSE to zOS migration using off shore contracted resources
They needed tools to help them understand the zOS version and to quickly trouble
shoot problems and assess who owns the resolution (them or contractor)
They needed a way of reducing the risks associated with the migrated code.
Solution/Benefits
Customer wanted the ability to understand what the contractor had given them and to
have confidence that they can analyze it when operational issues occur.
IBM Application Discovery was sold along with RDz and RTC to provide the client with
a complete tool set for their new zOS environment.
ADDI helps them understand the old code, the complexity, size the modernization
effort, and assist in debugging operational issues. environments well.
US based Financial Credit provider
To: Reduction of risk from migration
18. Business Problem/Opportunity
• Resiliency of core application
• 30yr old code for Cash and Custody Application
Solution/Benefits
• Application Resiliency Assessment
• Remediation recommendation engagement
• Leveraged IBM Application Discovery
A New York Based Bank
To: Reduction of risk from managing old code
19. Business Problem/Opportunity
• Customer had a Driver’s License Application that was very old and written in
assembler + Cobol.
• Business concern on the risks associated with being able to modernize and move to
an “Automated Driver’s License”
• their application Subject matter expert (SME) was retiring
• They used CAST but found it did not support the mainframe environments well.
Solution/Benefits
• The retiring SME participated in the demos and recommended ADDI
• Customer’s code used for the demo –immediate realization of risk reduction
• SME learned some things about his own code he no longer remembered.
US State Government
To: Reduction of risk from migration
20. Clients have
experienced
measurable
Benefits in
Productivity
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Assessment
Requirements
Project Management
Development
Documentation
Testing
Support, Problem…
70-80%
15-20%
30-50%
20-30%
60-90%
40-50%
30-40%
* Based on analyst’s validation of client surveys for typical activity improvement
21. Frequently asked Questions
How can I access the software?
• z-trial – 3 day access to AD/ADDI in the cloud
• Triahttps://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/resources/trials.html
• Evaluation software (100 program limit
How is the Software priced?
• Perpetual user license and monthly term options
Who do I talk with to get assistance if I have a customer project?
Suzanne at scrumb@us.ibm.com
Suman at suman.gopinath@in.ibm.com
22. Additional Information
A pan-African bank cuts through complexity to
identify efficiencies and save millions of dollars
Read the case study
A US insurer gives developers the tools to
innovate with greater freedom and lower risk
Read the case study
UK bank optimizes
visibility of internal
systems
See how bank
gained fresh insight
into its application
landscape to spot
opportunities and boost
performance.
Read the case study
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