Legacy Decommissioning

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Contents

Syntel & LMCoE

Profile

Service

Overview

Service

Methodology

Case

Studies

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Syntel Overview Small Enough to Listen, Big Enough to DeliverTM

100 Best Small Companies (#20, 2013) NMSDC Certified MBE

Chennai, India

(27-acres campus, Capacity:5000+)

Pune, India

(77-acres campus, Capacity:7000+)

Mumbai, India

(8.05-acres, Capacity:4000+)

Differentiators

Ranked among the top performing

344 public companies by Harvard

Business Review

World-Class Infrastructure

- DNA: Delivery & operational excellence

- Philosophy: 'Customer For Life'

- Culture: Entrepreneurial with 5 core values

- Mindset: Investment; ahead of the curve in

new technologies & automation

• Revenue

$911.4 M (2014)$235.3 M (Q4 2014)

• Revenue Growth

12% (Y-o-Y)

• Market Cap

~$4.2 Billion

• Headcount

24,553

• Headquarters

Troy, Michigan

(Founded 1980)

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Services Tools & Accelerators Benefits Support and Development (Incident, User

request Mgmt., Change & Release Mgmt.,

Preventive Maintenance, Prod Assurance,

Performance tuning , Product life cycle Mgmt. …)

Migrations / Consolidation (Virtualization,

Migration to cloud, Rationalization, Re-hosting,

Transcoding)

Modernization Service Suite (Mobility &

Social Media, Analytics, Decommissioning, Re-

engineering, Reference Architecture)

IDENTEON, IntelliTransfer &

KARP

Agile for Dev & Support

CBEAT, CCAT and MACH

Portfolio Rationalization

Framework

Virtualization & Migration

Accelerators

Quick wins & early cost

recovery

Continuous Optimizations

Performance based pricing

Predictive Maintenance

Improved Business IT

Alignment

StayAhead

Roadmap

Unified Service

Catalogue

Outcome

aligned Pricing

Future State

Architecture

Syntel IPs &

Platform

Integrated Transformation – M-III

Migrate Manage Modernize

Legacy Modernization – Centre Of Excellence

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• 60,000 + person years

of legacy experience

• More than 65% of

revenue from legacy

engagements.

• Engagement size from

20 FTEs to 3500

FTEs

• Average SLA

adherence of more

than 99%

• Technologies

Supported: Legacy to

Advanced Technology

platforms

Leveraging Experience Service Catalogue

LanguagesCOBOL, Assembler, PL/I, JCL, RPG, Natural,

Easytrieve, Netron, REXX, C-List, MANTIS

CASE Tools Cool-Gen, Telon, VA-Gen, Ad-Gen

Utilities &

Tools

ICETOOL, SORT, JOBSCAN/TRAC,SMF,

NWOMC, OPENPGP, …

Transaction

Mgmt.CICS, IMS-DC

Security RACF, ACF2

Data StoresDB2, VSAM, IMS-DB, IDMS/ADSO, ADABAS,

SUPRA

PlatformsIBM Mainframe, AS 400, Micro focus, GT

software

Technology Stack

Manage

Migrate

Modernize

• BRMS

• Transformation Consulting

• Infrastructure Management

• Re-Hosting

• Product Migration

• Platform Migration

• Legacy to COTS

• UI Modernization

• Re-Architecture

• Re-Engineering

• SOA Enablement

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Leveraging Partnerships

Legacy Exit Solution Options

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Syntel Solution Accelerators - Exit Legacy

One Stop Shop for all Legacy Migration and

Modernization Initiatives

Subscription based service

Role based access

Project Based approach

Controlled Access to Projects

Exit Legacy Classification

Code Level

Analysis

Decommissioning

Suite

Portfolio

Consolidation

Reverse

Engineering

Migration

Accelerators

Service

Orientation

Enablers

Homepage – Portal

Dashboard – Portal

Legacy Decommissioning Overview

Top 3 Benefits

Of Decommission

Lean and efficient portfolio

Cost Savings by retiring applications

IT asset cleanup to comply with auditing and

statutory norms

Top 3 Reasons

for Decommission

Applications having redundant functionality

Unsupported and unused products

Non compliance of audit and IT

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Legacy Decommissioning involves retirement

of older and outdated business applications

that are partially or no longer in use.

The benefit of carrying out decommissioning

exercise is to make the portfolio lean and

efficient and while generating some cost

savings by removing unused or non-

performing applications from the portfolio.

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DiscoveryDiscoveryDiscovery

Program Management Framework

Tips and Guidelines , Checklists & Templates

Technology Frameworks and Tools

• Effort Estimation

• Decommission

Schedule

• HW Decommission plan

• Resourcing

• Acceptance Criteria

Finalization

• Licensed software

decommissioning plan

• Data Center retirement

plan

• Communication plan for

stakeholders

• Disable jobs,

• Disable online

transactions

• Disable interfaces,

• Disable data feeds,

• Disable messaging

services

• Deactivate users,

accesses

• Application inventory

collection

• Interview with

stakeholders

• Analysis of

Modernization plans

• Impact Analysis

• Portability, Dependency

and Risk Analysis

• Validation of findings

• Roadmap Creation

• Build backup scripts

• Build restore scripts

• Archive Data to

backups

• Archive Source Code

to backups

• Archive System

Entries

• Subsystems

decommission

• Regions

decommission

• Software

decommission

• Environment

decommission

• Hardware

decommission

Assessment Planning----------------------------------Execution--------------------------------

Application Retire Data Archival Infra Decommission

Legacy Decommissioning Framework

• Communication to stakeholders

• Training and Documentation

• Support application till its fully decommissioned

Decommissioning Assessment

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Applic

ation

Gro

upin

gs

Data Collection on

Applications in

scope

• Portability Analysis

• Dependency Analysis

Decommission Analysis

• Criticality Analysis

• Biz. Impact Analysis

• Target Readiness

• Custom built / NFR

Analysis

• Early Mainframe Elimination

• Cost & Benefit Analysis

Roadmap

Based o

n B

usin

ess

Str

eam

s

Lo

wH

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Fe

as

ibil

ity

&

Ben

efi

ts

Low Risk & Critical High

Optimal Flow

Aggressive Flow

Optimal Flow: Approach with

demystified risk, controlled

elimination with predictable

benefits

Aggressive Flow: Approach

with high risk to reap more

benefits

Revitalize Renovate

Retire Replatform

Application Disposition

TOOLS & ACCELERATORS Proven questionnaire to capture all possible scenarios to ensure risk-free and controlled elimination

Decommission Analyzer – for Portability Analysis, Risk & Criticality Analysis, Cost & Benefit Analysis

Tools which help to automate the data conversion and manual efforts

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Legacy Decommissioning Methodology

• Backup & archive source code

• Data back-up from the cut-off date

• Data – archival & retrieval

strategy & plan

• Source code back up

• Release resource

Identify phases of decommission and prepare portfolio sunset

schedule

Existing Old

Application

New Re-written

Application

Release Alfa version to

limited group of users

Offline Old

Application

Data & Report

Reconciliation

Release Beta version

to more # of users

Step 1

Step 2

Pre- Go LiveStep 3

Go Live

Data

sync

Archive App & Data

Infra Decommission

Identify stakeholders of application to be notified

Determine Cut-Off date for data migrated from old to new

Identify: Internal & External Stakeholders, Purpose of Access,

Tables/Data Elements /Reports accessed, Periodicity for retained data

Identify statutory / regulatory requirements for data retention

Assess cost (licensing, MIPS, Hardware, Support etc.) of maintaining

legacy system for retained data

Set up data synchronization mechanism

Tips and Guidelines Checklists Templates Metrics Tools

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• Identifying right candidates for

decommissioning

• Cost Benefit Analysis

• Decommission Sequencing

• Automation using Syntel’s IPs

• In-house & 3rd party ETL tools

for data archival process

• Process Automation

• AMO 2.0, an Integrated

application management

platform for run-off support

• Proven Decommissioning Methodology

• 2500+ Person Years of

decommissioning experience

• Dedicated Team of Architects,

Programmer, technical leads to

support decommissioning

• Lean and efficient portfolio

• Cost savings by retiring applications

• Stable and scalable environment

Strategy &

Approach

Best Practices

Technology

Excellence

Value Adds

Syntel’s Value Proposition

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Case Study 1 – Mainframe Decommissioning

Customer Business

Function

• One of the largest Blue Players

Business Drivers

• Client wants to sunset the

geographical based system which

serves for GA state customers once

their distinct functionalities have

been moved to a consolidated

system to reduce their IT spending.

Engagement Details

• Duration: 12 Months

• Application Size:

• 500K users

• Handling 60 – 80 K claims per day

• 40 external and 35 internal interfaces

• 4 plex regions & 8 testing regions

• Locations: Columbus, GA and

Chennai (India)

• Technologies: COBOL, VSAM, JCL,

EASYTRIEVE, CICS.

Challenges Faced

• Interdependencies Analysis

• Multiple interfaces with internal

systems within the organization

• Vendor component Analysis

• Supporting application Analysis

Syntel Solution

• Provided end to end solution and phase wise approach for sun setting the application, data migration &

archival

• Analyze the dependency to sunset applications effectively with zero impact

• Domain expertise and technical skills in implementing the decommissioning & run off support

• Utilized custom built proprietary tool, Identeon, to understand the dependencies along with Relativity’s

Modernization Workbench for COBOL based systems

• Involved utilities like ARDS SU for critical applications and jobs

Customer Benefits

• Zero impact on other interfaces

• Daily Claims report helps business to clean up the pending

claims

• Application archival was later used to restore the system

when required.

• The team leveraged to provide daily dashboards and

status reports that provided management with a clear and

accurate picture on the projects status

Customer Appreciation

• “Please share a big 'thank you' to your team for being able

to retrieve and calculate this information for the customer.

This just validates the excellent job of 'properly sun setting

an application' and having the necessary information/ skill

sets available to do the manual portion. Thanks again for

coming to our rescue.”

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Case Study 2 – Legacy Decommission Sequencing

Customer Business

Function

• World-leading financial services

company

Business Drivers

• Define the legacy elimination

roadmap for 320 legacy applications

from their cash securities portfolio for

controlled elimination of legacy

applications and create self-funding

model for legacy elimination

execution

Engagement Details

• Duration: 3 Months

• Size: 320+ Applications

• 3 (onsite) ( 2 in the US & 1 in UK)

• Locations: London, New York, APAC

• Technologies: COBOL, VSAM,

CICS, DB2, IMS DB, JAVA, VB.

.NET & Proprietary

Challenges Faced

• Understand 320 complex

applications which evolved for more

than thirty years with four different

technology platforms

• Collecting the information on Legal

entities being supported by

applications and analyze the same

with the planned legal entities of the

target platforms to get the legal entity

coverage

• Calculating the effort required and

get the Returns on Investment on

quick wins

Syntel Solution

• Started with information gathering on 320 applications, through questionnaires, one-on-one discussion

with Application owners, Infrastructure owners and Subject Matter Experts

• Perform Technical Feasibility Analysis, Risk & Criticality Analysis for each application to identify

candidates for near term and long term

• Perform detailed Legal Entity Analysis for analyzing the legal entity coverage by each application

identified for decommissioning and their target application

• Analyze the Benefit & Cost Savings from decommissioning legacy applications

• Validate the findings with stakeholders thru validation workshops to align the approach and strategy with

Business priorities

Customer Benefits

The key benefits of this exercise were manifold, including:

• Predictive benefits

• Reduced risk

• Self funding model

• Analyzing the legal and regulatory compliance

supported by the applications and handle those

applications with precautionary measures

Customer Appreciation

• “Good job in a short time frame. Appreciate all your

effort.” - AVP

• “We are already looking to make some

recommendations to SCG and the business on

additional areas of focus on the basis of the legacy

elimination findings” - VP

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Case Study 3 – AS400 Decommissioning

Customer Business

Function

• A leading global payments,

network and travel company

Business Drivers

• Improve Scalability of the Legacy

applications used for stored value

card products like Gift Cards and

Store cards

• System needed to run parallel with

its existing application and

synchronize data and information on

real time basis and decommission

the older one

Engagement Details

• Duration: 18 Months

• Size: 40+ applications

• 64 – Onsite & 143 – Offshore

• Locations: Columbus, GA and

Chennai (India)

• Technologies: POD: RPG 400, VC++

(Coolplex generated)

• POA: J2EE, Ent. COBOL with DB2 &

MQ Series

Challenges Faced

• Niche technologies

• Unavailability of SMEs

• High dependency with other systems

with multiple interfaces and a variety

of technologies and platforms made

the system not portable.

Syntel Solution

• Trained the team on COOLPLEX, a niche technology within a month and ramped up 64 resources at

onsite and 143 at offshore.

• Factory Model based business rules extraction phase to understand the system

• Gather new requirements from the business stakeholders and from the backlog of change requests from

Business

• Develop the system in the scalable architecture and migrate part of the data

• Integrate with various middleware products like data warehouses and industry specific vendor

applications by using Model Driven Architecture and Web Services.

• Utilized homegrown tools for dependency analysis in RPG systems

• Run the system in parallel for 3 months before archiving the data and decommission the AS 400 System

Customer Benefits

• This initiative is expected to yield $19 billion annual

revenues for the customer and enhances its ability to meet

peak demands

• System scaled up to meet ten times of its previous capacity

• Decommissioned the older system, once the target system

becomes stable brought more cost savings

• Informative documentation with quality & concise was the

key to value add to the client

Thank You