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Copyright © 2011 Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Introducing LRS
Nigel Whitmore& Taras Ciuriak
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Introducing LRS
LRS® helps large organisations ‘keep loving your mainframe’ by reducing costs associated to output management, document archiving and document data transforms in both legacy and cross platform environments.
Our output management software helps the ‘love’ by:• Eliminating costs• Reducing risk• Improving business agility
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Introducing LRS
-In business since 1979-Offering software to IBM sites for over 30 years
- Sold to over 70% of Fortune 500 companies- IBM z/os sites 70% of our revenue stream- Local customers RBS, Aegon, Standard Life and HBoS
- Gartner and other analysts recognize LRS as a global IT leader
- Offering expertise in all areas of enterprise output management across all platforms
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Typical IT Portfolio Spending
14%20%
66%
TransformIntroduce new products
and services
GrowImprove existing products
and services
RunSustain existing products
and services
Source: Gartner 2011 IT Metrics Spending and Staffing Survey
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Improve Business Processes• Future proof business agility by creating an enterprise wide output
management service• Enhance delivery options to multiple destinations in multiple formats • Improve customer service through improved reliability and flexibility
Reduce Business Risks• When modernizing mainframe business applications • Manage and control all output – with assured document delivery • Unlock vendor dependency on specialist hardware for printed output• Remove constraints of using hard coded, application or o/s based output
True Enterprise Output Management • Manage ALL output from ALL platforms • Optimize / Reduce MIPS costs by moving output management,
document storage and data transformations to the most appropriate target platform
• z/Linux, Linux, AIX, Unix
Eliminate Costs
Benefits
Reduces Risk
ImproveBusiness
Agility
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Trusted Counsellor…
I love my mainframe… BUT…. LRS Solutions
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More…. With less
- 66% of budget spent on keeping ‘lights on’- Yet, need to deliver on new initiatives such as
cloud and mobile technologies - Application Portfolio Management seems to
be the ‘buzz’ word
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More…. With less
Solutions…- Identify the applications/processes that are
- creating the output, where is it going and what are the processes involved?
- Print intensive- MIPS intensive
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I love my mainframe… BUT…. Too Many Costly Processes and Products
• Too many mainframe archives• Output/document generation on the
mainframe is costly and consumes too many MIPS
• We have directives to print less• Printing internal reports is getting too
expensive – view not print
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Costly Mainframe Products
How LRS can help • Migrate/Replatform Mainframe Archives to
the most appropriate target platform– z/Linux - Linux– AIX – Open systems platform
• Send Printing off mainframe • Send internal reports via portal
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I love my mainframe… BUT…. Too Many Datastreams
- Our processes are restricted by datastreams - We are creating documents in AFP, text, Xerox
LCDS, EBCIDIC - As an example, we are transforming AFP to
PDF and LCDS to PDF- These are MIPS intensive processes
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Too Many Datastreams
How LRS can help - Perform transforms on the most appropriate
target platform- Offer overlays and transformations - Optimize workload- Chose most appropriate output destination
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I don’t love my mainframe... I want a divorce… and soon!
- Need to merge data centres- Cost reduction initiative to reduce mainframe
applications- Have to turn the mainframe off in 12 months
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Need to decommission… and soon!
- Moved 3 TB of legacy archive in 8 months - Fixed cost – delivered early and on-budget
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The New World
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DatabasesDocument Archiving
Document CompositionAdminJob Scheduler
Before LRS Software
Operating System
MainframeApplications
Data Transforms
Output Management
Library Utilities
BackUp
Sort
Security
Monitoring & Management
File Transfer
Z/os Mainframe
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The New Enterprise
Windows Print Server
Unix Print ServerUnix Print
ServerUnix Print Server
Linux Print Server
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End
Use
r Acc
ess
Tablet
Smart Phone
Mobile Laptop Worker
Desktop Computer
Thin Client
Z/OS
Windows Server
Linux Server
UNIX Servers
Cloud Servers
iSeries
Desktop MFD
Barcode Printer
Wristband Printer
Locally Attached Printer
Scanner
Label Printer
ProductionPrinter
Printer
Fax
MFD
Printer
Document Archiving
Data Transforms
Output Management
LRS Output Management Service Layer running off z/os
LRS Enterprise Environment