Delivering Enterprise Applications: Faster. Cheaper. Better

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Faster, Cheaper, Better and more…

Mike Hastie

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CIN-2797: Delivering Enterprise Applications: Faster, Cheaper, Better.

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About Prolifics

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Our Vision, Mission, and Value

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To be one of the most

admired global technology

consulting companies,

delivering competitive

advantage to our clients.

Vision

To be a trusted advisor and

provider of high-business

value, business and

technology solutions

Mission

Prolifics creates competitive

advantage for organizations

around the world by

implementing customized,

end-to-end IT solutions that

achieve business success

leveraging IBM, Microsoft

and Open Source

technologies in a global

delivery model.

Value

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Industry Expertise

Banking & Financial Services

Energy & Utilities

Government & Education

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Manufacturing Media &

Entertainment Mortgage Legal Retail

Insurance Technology Telecommunications Travel &

Transportation

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How Prolifics Can Help You


Adapt faster than the competition with continuous process improvement

Transform your applications to increase business agility

Create best-in-class web experiences. Become more social and collaborative

Gain actionable insight with an intelligent approach to security

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

SOA INTEGRATION USER EXPERIENCE SECURITY

Drive business growth with proactive IT management

Maximize IT investments with end-to-end testing

Optimize business performance with smarter, faster decisions

Increase efficiency within your organization and achieve “straight through processing”

APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

TEST ADVISORY, APPLICATION TESTING & TEST AUTOMATION

BUSINESS ANALYTICS OPERATIONAL DECISION

MANAGEMENT (ODM)

Simplify employee and customer access to the documents they need when they need them

Get the most out of your IT to create competitive advantage.

Leverage global expertise to support your IT environment

Optimize your software spend to achieve business value

ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

ADVISORY SERVICES MANAGED SERVICES SOFTWARE

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Prolifics Services & Solutions


IBM, Microsoft & Open Source

FIXED PRICE

T & M

HYBRID

MANAGED SERVICES

Prolifics Service Offerings

BPM / CONNECTIVITY APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

ECM USER EXPERIENCE COLLABORATION

SECURITY

Flexible Engagement & Pricing

Models ADVISORY

ADOPTION

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & INTEGRATION

UPGRADE & RE-ENGINEERING

APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

MANAGED SERVICES

ADOPTION

IV&V TESTING

Assessment Strategy & Roadmap Definition Technology Blueprint Simulation & Prototyping

Quick Starts Centers of Excellence

Architecture & Design

Solution Implementation

Application Integration

Application Transformation

Content Management

Platform Migration

Product Technology Migrations

Product Version Upgrades

Application Migration

Content Migration

Solution Re-Engineering

Health Checks Architecture Reviews

Performance Tuning

Set Up & Configuration Information Management

Application Maintenance

Application Infrastructure Maintenance

Bug Fixing & Patch Administration

Production Support Help Desk &

Problem Resolution

Test Advisory Services

Application Lifecycle Testing

Test Automation

Packaged Application Testing

Middleware & SOA Testing

Performance Testing

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What Makes Prolifics Different


Global Delivery Advantage From offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, we deliver

solutions across the world.

Commitment To Our Core Values Thought Leadership & Innovation: We invest in industry-specific expertise

Customer Centric: The value received by the client is the core focus of every project Accountability: We follow through on our commitments

Trust & Teamwork: We establish long term partnerships with our clients Ethical Behavior & Integrity: Our reputation and employees are our most important

assets

Industry Focus Prolifics utilizes its wealth of expertise to provide

comprehensive business solutions to all major industries.

Technical Excellence Combining business flexibility and cost

competitiveness with excellence in technical skill, Prolifics drives success.

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IBM Pure Application System and Service

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The Problem Statement

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App App

App

App App

App App

App

App

App App App

App App

App

Tribal knowledge, do we cut the red or the green wire first ?

A large support team with a diverse skill set

Forcing high value key personnel onto low value tasks

Frustration at how long IT takes to get things done.

Frustration at how unstable applications are.

Frustration that skilled personnel can’t help with innovation and revenue generating initiatives.

Frustration how much IT really costs.

Systems, versions, configurations = complexity

Frustration on how to hit dates.





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Customer Success Study

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• By establishing standard patterns for their deployments, and removing the diversity and complexity of systems they were able to shorten production delivery times from 6 months down to 2 months, and most recently down to 2 weeks and in some cases 2 days.

• They have been able to drive out hard and soft costs, and have experienced improved application performance and stability.

• They have also been able to realize a 12 month ROI that has allowed them to get additional funding and take this IT change initiative to the next level.





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Why so much … and what can we do about it ?

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General Purpose Components

Custom Built System

Design / Deploy Manage / Maintain

What to do… ?

Simplify - reduce variety and complexity

Automate - hands free repeatable installation and configuration

Adapt - change the culture

Time, resource capacity, and costs at every stage of the process designing, building, testing, deploying, verifying, managing and maintaining





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Pure Application Patterns = Automation Automation = Simplification

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Cloud

Infrastructure Patterns

Monitoring

Log agents

Security agents

Cloud

in a box

System Infrastructure

Application Platform

Integrated Server, Storage, Network

Power Management Storage & VM Optimization Virtualization Integrated System Mgmt

Provisioning Security Monitoring IT Lifecycle Management System design

Application Optimization System wide Management Automation & Scaling Caching & Elasticity Application Centric

Provisioning Usage Metering

Security Monitoring App. Lifecycle Mgmt License Management Self-service Data management

A large number of ISV business applications Business intelligence Business process management Web experience (Portal)

Patterns of Expertise





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Service on

Pure Application System and Service

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System

On premise private cloud, or secure public cloud but the patterns are the same





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Prolifics – Pattern Offerings and Types

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Base Patterns

We have patterns available at no cost to customers when because we can leverage IBM incentives when we help fulfill or support the your buying decision. We believe by enhancing the patterns with your organizational best practices and simplifying the operational procedures you will increase the value you can get from this solution. Prolifics can build patterns for you as well as show you the best ways to utilize them to realize increased stability through automation, more resilience through better validation, and at lower risk. Not only do we want to help you get started and successful but our patterns can be managed and maintained by Prolifics under Managed Services contract.

Advanced Patterns

Custom Patterns





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Prolifics Patterns in the IBM Cloud Marketplace

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IBM eXtremeScale Object Cache

IBM Liberty Server for Developers

IBM UrbanCode Deploy Splunk Centralized Log

Management Apache JMeter

Load/Testing IBM Enterprise Content

Management – FileNet IBM Algorithmics(Algo)

– Risk and Compliance Management

Prolifics builds custom patterns for IBM, 3rd parties, and for customers.





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Prolifics ECM Patterns

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Testing and auto scaling – Elasticity

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Why should I care about AutoScaling ?

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Traditional Sizing

Elastic Sizing

Size for sustained load and allow the elastic auto-scaling to deal with the spikes





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What else ? DevOps

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1. DevOps means breaking down the barriers between development and operations

2. Provide tools to automate and drive efficiency 3. Establish measurement and reporting for continuous improvement 4. Open information drives visibility and trust with the line of business

General Purpose Components

Custom Built System

Design / Deploy Manage / Maintain





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Automation and environmental visibility

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Visibility into the systems and version, automation, and simplification of the set up.





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… and more

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Bringing all the parts together to drive step change. These tools can be a catalyst for change but only if the entire organization gets behind them not just IT. Initiatives such as Continuous Delivery/Integration, Shift Left, and DevOps, etc. are trying to improve the entire lifecycle.





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Summary Faster

Infrastructure set up takes hours not weeks

Used automation and process can drive out manual steps and dependence on tribal knowledge

Better

Increased stability through validation

Lowered risk and got our nights and weekend back with Phoenix and Red/Green Servers

Free up key personnel to work on revenue producing initiatives

Cheaper

Driving out complexity and reducing delays can help lower or optimize IT costs

…and more

We can use all of these as a way to drive step change and form a closer working relationship between IT and the lines of business

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Call to Action - How to get started

Prolifics is offering a no charge

one day working session with

your team to go over the

usage, benefits, and details of

Pure Applications System or

Service on Softlayer to

qualified prospects and clients.

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Please reach out to Mike Hastie on 610-636-1749 or go to our web site

and register at http://www.prolifics.com/resources/ibm/pureapplications





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Questions, Answers, Next Steps


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