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New Age Enterprise IT

New Age Enterprise IT. The Opportunities and Challenges for Industry and Academia in this brave new world! Arunn Ramadoss. Who is the COBOL developer?. Over 200bn Lines of Code, Estimated 5bn added every year Worth over $2 trillion! Running over 70% of world’s business

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New Age Enterprise IT

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  1. New Age Enterprise IT The Opportunities and Challenges for Industry and Academia in this brave new world! Arunn Ramadoss

  2. Who is the COBOL developer?

  3. Over 200bn Lines of Code, Estimated 5bn added every year Worth over $2 trillion! Running over 70% of world’s business Running over 90% of world’s financial transactions 30 times more COBOL transactions than GOOGLE search daily! 2009: 50th Anniversary of COBOL

  4. C O B O L

  5. COBOL, COBOL everywhere! J2EE z/OS Linux Amazon COBOL Windows / Unix .NET

  6. The Modern CIO • Existing Challenges • 70% of resources spent on maintaining current position • Fragmentation and proliferation of systems • New Challenges • Agile exploitation of Enterprise Applications • Management of outsourcing partners • Future-proofing • Rationalization IT Organizations urgently require real-time management and development systems to meet the business demands of 21st Century

  7. Micro Focus • The Leading Enterprise Application Management and Modernization Company • Innovative solutions that evolve IT assets to: • Reduce cost • Increase productivity • Enable innovation • Improve time-to-market Leading the Evolution … - Up To 90% - Up To 50%

  8. Over 60% respondents said Core IT skills more Business Critical Over 60% respondents said Core IT skills more Valuable in Recession But, less than 40% focus on focusing recruitment on Core IT skills! Only 13% respondents very confident skills exist in their organization to maintain their core IT assets in future! INSEAD & Micro Focus Research

  9. Wake up call to Industry • Up-skill your current workforce they can be program in COBOL, proficiently, in less than 3 weeks! • Speak to your local University/College to help them understand your needs. • Work with Skills initiatives like the ACTION Program and IBM Academic initiative. Up-skill your current workforce and have them programming COBOL proficiently in less than 3 weeks!

  10. Call to Academia • Provide your local businesses with a framework to communicate their requirements • Speak to the industry directly to know what is really needed! • Take advantage of the support provided by initiatives like the ACTION Program and IBMs Academic Initiative Speak to Businesses and Business leaders directly to know what the true requirements of the industry are!

  11. Micro Focus Training lifecycle 96 Partners Training 8000+ Graduates 15 Countries Up-skill Certify Your Workforce

  12. ‘Wasted’ Years Ticking ‘Timebomb’ Recession is a reality Skills shock Famine to Feast – no quick fixes

  13. Thank you!

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