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Chris O’Malley, CEO

Jim Liebert, Product Expert

Dennis O’Flynn, VP Technology

Mainframe Development 2015: The Impossible Job

January 15, 2015

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Chris O’MalleyCEO

Jim LiebertProduct Expert

Dennis O’FlynnVP Technology

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Mainframe vs. Mobile

• Mainframe = steadfast performant computing platform

– Rightly overemphasizes reliability, scalability, security and performance

– Served Fortune 1000 companies well

• Mobile = similar to the Wild, Wild West

– Emphasizes speed, agility and ability to turn on dime

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• Explosion in mobile device usage, especially in commerce, requires leveraging mobile for success in digital economy

– Slow mainframe world collides with quick, agile mobile world

Mainframe World Meets Mobile World

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New World: Mobile and Mainframe

• Mainframe and mobile collide creating one world

• All while mainframe performance expectations increase and skillsets decrease

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Changes Required in IT

• Mega trends creating New Order within IT

• Need significant base of innovation to bring two counter cultures together

• IT departments must adapt to changing ecosphere or work simply won’t get done

• Impossible job for new developers surfacing unless changes occur in expectations, methods and approaches and new tools are introduced to enable faster and more agile development

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Help Wanted

Do you like working long, frustrating hours with unrealistic expectations? • Do you have current working knowledge of our thousands of internally-

developed mainframe applications with millions of lines of code and ever-increasing volumes of data that have been modified and enhanced on a weekly basis for over three decades?

• Can you reinvent those same mainframe applications to support mobile requirements while still maintaining their performant nature?

• Can you code in Java, COBOL, PL/I and understand JCL and Perl?• Are you experienced in relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 —

and also IMS and VSAM?• Can you do all the related development, testing and performance tasks faster

and with greater agility than the people you are replacing that invented these same mainframe applications and nurtured them through middle-age?

• If you answered “yes” to all these questions, have we got a job for you!

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Introducing

Empowering Millennial Developers and Data Architects

• Compuware’s newest and most innovative solution to date

• Strives to address changing IT landscape

• Enables developers at virtually any programming skill level create enterprise applications with greater agility, speed and confidence

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Demo

Visit: http://youtu.be/BFbNfM24SNUfor a demo.

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