Linux on IBM Z Systems Here Client Success Stories Jerry Hosch [email protected] Jun 2016

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Cases ordered by Industry (publication and validation dates)

Banking & Financial Market Government . Mizuho Bank (Japan, Oct 2015, val. Apr„16) . Dundee City Council (UK, Jul 2014, val. Jan„16) . EFiS AG (Germany, 2012, val. Apr‟16) . National Registration Dept. of Malaysia (Malaysia, Dec 2010, val. Jan‟16) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . A city in China (GCG, Apr 2013, val. Nov‟15) . Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) (Japan, Mar 2013, val Mar‟16) . German Pension Fund (Germany, Sep 2013, val. Jul‟15) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014, val. Mar„16) . New York Municipal (USA, Apr 2014) . South American Bank (LA, Jun 2011, val. Mar‟16) . Met Office (UK, Apr 2014) . Siccob (Brazil, Jan 2016) . Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2013) . Sicoob (Brazil, Jul 2013, val. Jan‟16) . eThekwini Municipality (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (Germany, Dec 2014, val. Dec‟15) . City and County of Honolulu (USA, 2012) . Zions Bancorporation (USA, Dec 2013, val.Dev„15) . Miami-Dade County (USA, 2012) . Salt River Project (USA, 2008, Red Hat) . America First Credit Union (USA, Mar 2014, val. Nov‟15) Industrial Products . Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (Philippines, Jul 2013, val. May‟15) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014) . Manufacturing company (USA, Apr 2016) . Halkbank (Turkey, Mar 2014) . China Steel Corp (China, Dec 2015) . Traxpay (Germany, 2013) . Třinecké Železárny (Czech Republic, Mar 2014) . Bankia (Spain, 2012) . Baldor (USA, 2013) . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) Insurance . Banco Pastor (Spain, 2009, Red Hat) . Austrian insurance company (Austria, Mar 2012, val. Jan‟16) Computer Services . Nationwide (USA, 2013) . gkd-el (Germany, Jan 2009, val. Mar„16) . Allianz (Australia, 2009, Red Hat) . IBM (USA, Nov 2015) Retail . EVERTEC (Puerto Rico, Aug 2014, val Nov„15) . Department store retailer (USA, Nov 2015) . IT services provider (EU, Oct 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Vitec AutoData AS (Norway, Jul 2015, SUSE) . EVRY (Norway, Sep 2013, val. May‟15) Telecommunication . VISSENSA (UK, Apr 2015) . Vodafone (Spain, Feb 2016) . L3C LLP (UK, Aug 2014) . Telecommunications Provider (NA, Mar 2010, val. Oct‟15) . Business Connexion (South Africa, Apr 2014) Travel & Transportation . IBM – Social Environment (USA, 2013) . Radixx International (USA, Mar 2015) . Allone IT Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, 2011, SUSE) . Travelport (USA, Jan 2015) Education . European Railway Operator (Europe, Aug 2014) . Marist College (USA, Oct 2012, val. Apr„16) . RENFE (Spain, Sep 2006) . University of Arkansas (USA, Jul 2009, val. Dec‟15) Other . University of Arizona College of Pharmacy (USA, Feb 2014) . SinfoniaRx (USA, Nov 2014) . University of North Carolina (USA, 2009) . White Cube (UK, 2013) Energy & Utilities . NWK (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . Major utility organization (Brazil, Jun 2015, val. Feb‟16) . Fratelli Carli S.p.a. (Italy, 2011) . Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. (Kenya, Nov2014, val. Feb‟16) . Gruppo API (Italy, 2010, SUSE) . Embasa (Brazil, Jul 2011, val. Jan‟16)

Cases ordered by IOTs (publication and validation dates) North America Europe . Manufacturing company (USA, Apr 2016) . EFiS AG (Germany, 2012, val. Apr‟16) . Marist College (USA, Oct 2012, val. Apr„16) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . University of Arkansas (USA, Jul 2009, val. Dec‟15) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014, val. Mar„16) . Zions Bancorporation (USA, Dec 2013, val.Dev„15) . gkd-el (Germany, Jan 2009, val. Mar„16) . IBM (USA, Nov 2015) . Vodafone (Spain, Feb 2016) . Department store retailer (USA, Nov 2015) . Dundee City Council (UK, Jul 2014, val. Jan„16) . EVERTEC (Puerto Rico, Aug 2014, val Nov„15) . Austrian insurance company (Austria, Mar 2012, val. Jan‟16) . America First Credit Union (USA, Mar 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (Germany, Dec 2014, val. Dec‟15) . Telecommunications Provider (NA, Mar 2010, val. Oct‟15) . IT services provider (EU, Oct 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Radixx International (USA, Mar 2015) . Vitec AutoData AS (Norway, Jul 2015, SUSE) . Travelport (USA, Jan 2015) . German Pension Fund (Germany, Sep 2013, val. Jul‟15) . SinfoniaRx (USA, Nov 2014) . EVRY (Norway, Sep 2013, val. May‟15) . New York Municipal (USA, Apr 2014) . University of Arizona College of Pharmacy (USA, Feb 2014) . VISSENSA (UK, Apr 2015) . Nationwide (USA, 2013) . European Railway Operator (Europe, Aug 2014) . IBM – Social Environment (USA, 2013) . L3C LLP (UK, Aug 2014) . Baldor (USA, 2013) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014) . City and County of Honolulu (USA, 2012) . Met Office (UK, Apr 2014) . Miami-Dade County (USA, 2012) . Třinecké Železárny (Czech Republic, Mar 2014) . University of North Carolina (USA, 2009) . White Cube (UK, 2013) . Salt River Project (USA, 2008, Red Hat) . Traxpay (Germany, 2013) . Bankia (Spain, 2012) Latin America . Fratelli Carli S.p.a. (Italy, 2011) . Gruppo API (Italy, 2010, SUSE) . South American Bank (LA, Jun 2011, val. Mar‟16) . Banco Pastor (Spain, 2009, Red Hat) . Major utility organization (Brazil, Jun 2015, val. Feb‟16) . RENFE (Spain, Sep 2006) . Siccob (Brazil, Jan 2016) . Sicoob (Brazil, Jul 2013, val. Jan‟16) . Embasa (Brazil, Jul 2011, val. Jan‟16) . Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2013) Greater China Group . China Steel Corp (China, Dec 2015) Middle East & Africa . A city in China (GCG, Apr 2013, val. Nov‟15) . Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. (Kenya, Nov2014, val. Feb‟16) . Allone IT Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, 2011, SUSE) . Business Connexion (South Africa, Apr 2014) . Halkbank (Turkey, Mar 2014) . eThekwini Municipality (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) Asia Pacific . NWK (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . National Registration Dept. of Malaysia (Malaysia, Dec 2010, val. Jan‟16) . Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (Philippines, Jul 2013, val. May‟15) Japan . Allianz (Australia, 2009, Red Hat) . Mizuho Bank (Japan, Oct 2015, val. Apr„16) . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) . Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) (Japan, Mar 2013, val Mar‟16)

Cases ordered by Major Workloads ( publication or validation ) DB2 LUW WebSphere Application Server . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . EFiS AG (Germany, 2012, val. Apr‟16) . Mizuho Bank (Japan, Oct 2015, val. Apr„16) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014, val. Mar„16) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014, val. Mar„16) . Siccob (Brazil, Jan 2016) . Austrian insurance company (Austria, val. Jan‟16) . Austrian insurance company (Austria, val. Jan‟16) . Department store retailer (USA, Nov 2015) . Department store retailer (USA, Nov 2015) . Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (Germany, Dec 2014, val Dec‟15) . America First Credit Union (USA, Mar 2014, val Nov‟15) . IT services provider (EU, Oct 2014, val. Nov‟15) . German Pension Fund (Germany, Sep 2013, val. Jul‟15) . German Pension Fund (Germany, Sep 2013, val. Jul‟15) . SinfoniaRx (USA, Nov 2014) . European Railway Operator (Europe, Aug 2014) . University of Arizona College of Pharmacy (USA, Feb 2014) . South American Bank (LA, val. Jul 2014) . Nationwide (USA, Sep 2008, val. Feb 2014) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014) . Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2013) . Halkbank (Turkey, Mar 2014) . eThekwini Municipality (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . Nationwide (USA, Sep 2008, val. Feb 2014) . Traxpay (Germany, 2013) . Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2013) . Marist College (USA, Oct 2012) . Traxpay (Germany, 2013) . Fratelli Carli S.p.a. (Italy, 2011) . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) . University of North Carolina (USA, 2009) Oracel DB WebSphere Portal, MQ, Message Broker, Enterprise Service Bus . Dundee City Council (UK, Jul 2014, val Jan„16) . EFiS AG (Germany, 2012, val. Apr‟16) . Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (Germany, Dec 2014, val Dec‟15) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . EVERTEC (Puerto Rico, Aug 2014, val Nov„15) . Radixx International (USA, Mar 2015) . Telecommunications Provider (NA, Mar 2010, val Oct‟15) . RENFE (Spain, Sep 2006, val. Jan‟16) . L3C LLP (UK, Aug 2014) . Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) (Japan, Mar 2013, val Oct‟15) . Met Office (UK, Apr 2014) . South American Bank (LA, val. Jul 2014) . Business Connexion (South Africa, Apr 2014) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014) . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) . SinfoniaRx (USA, Nov 2014) . IBM – Social Environment (USA, 2013) Cognos, SPSS, InfoSphere . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) . Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. (Kenya, Nov2014, val Feb‟16) . Sicoob (Brazil, May 2013, val Nov‟15) SAP Application Server . IT services provider (EU, Oct 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Manufacturing company (USA, Apr 2016) . Marist College (USA, Oct 2012, val Oct„15) . gkd-el (Germany, Jan 2009, val. Mar„16) . Major utility organization (Brazil, Jun 2015, val Feb‟16) . Radixx International (USA, Mar 2015) . Embasa (Brazil, Jul 2013, val. Jan‟16) . White Cube (UK, 2013) . University of Arkansas (USA, Jul 2009, val. Dec‟15) . Bankia (Spain, 2012) . Třinecké Železárny (Czech Republic, Mar 2014) . Miami-Dade County (USA, 2012) . Baldor (USA, 2013) . University of North Carolina (USA, 2009) . Banco Pastor (Spain, 2009, Red Hat) MobileFirst . Vodafone (Spain, Feb 2016) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014, val Oct„15) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014)

Cases ordered by Date (publication and validation dates)

. Manufacturing company (USA, Apr 2016) . EVRY (Norway, Sep 2013, val. May‟15) . Mizuho Bank (Japan, Oct 2015, val. Apr„16) . Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (Philippines, Jul 2013, val. May‟15) . Marist College (USA, Oct 2012, val. Apr„16) . VISSENSA (UK, Apr 2015) . EFiS AG (Germany, 2012, val. Apr‟16) . Radixx International (USA, Mar 2015) . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Mar 2016) . Travelport (USA, Jan 2015) . Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) (Japan, Mar 2013, val Mar‟16) . SinfoniaRx (USA, Nov 2014) . European Railway Operator (Europe, Aug 2014) , val. Mar„16 . ABK-Systeme GmbH (Germany, Sep 2014 ) . L3C LLP (UK, Aug 2014) . South American Bank (LA, Jun 2011, val. Mar‟16) . Banca Carige (Italy, Apr 2014) . gkd-el (Germany, Jan 2009, val. Mar„16) . New York Municipal (USA, Apr 2014) . Vodafone (Spain, Feb 2016) . Met Office (UK, Apr 2014) . Major utility organization (Brazil, Jun 2015, val. Feb‟16) . Business Connexion (South Africa, Apr 2014) . Halkbank (Turkey, Mar 2014) . Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. (Kenya, Nov2014, val. Feb‟16) . Třinecké Železárny (Czech Republic, Mar 2014) . Siccob (Brazil, Jan 2016) . University of Arizona College of Pharmacy (USA, Feb 2014) . Dundee City Council (UK, Jul 2014, val. Jan„16) . Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2013) . Sicoob (Brazil, Jul 2013, val. Jan‟16) . eThekwini Municipality (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . Austrian insurance company (Austria, Mar 2012, val. Jan‟16) . Nationwide (USA, 2013) . White Cube (UK, 2013) . Embasa (Brazil, Jul 2011, val. Jan‟16) . IBM – Social Environment (USA, 2013) . National Registration Dept. of Malaysia (Malaysia, Dec 2010, val. Jan‟16) . Traxpay (Germany, 2013) . China Steel Corp (China, Dec 2015) . NWK (South Africa, 2013, SUSE) . Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (Germany, Dec 2014, val. Dec‟15) . Baldor (USA, 2013) . University of Arkansas (USA, Jul 2009, val. Dec‟15) . Bankia (Spain, 2012) . City and County of Honolulu (USA, 2012) . Zions Bancorporation (USA, Dec 2013, val.Dev„15) . Miami-Dade County (USA, 2012) . IBM (USA, Nov 2015) . Allone IT Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, 2011, SUSE) . Department store retailer (USA, Nov 2015) . Fratelli Carli S.p.a. (Italy, 2011) . A city in China (GCG, Apr 2013, val. Nov‟15) . Gruppo API (Italy, 2010, SUSE) . EVERTEC (Puerto Rico, Aug 2014, val Nov„15) . Allianz (Australia, 2009, Red Hat) . University of North Carolina (USA, 2009) . America First Credit Union (USA, Mar 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand, 2009, Red Hat) . IT services provider (EU, Oct 2014, val. Nov‟15) . Banco Pastor (Spain, 2009, Red Hat) . Telecommunications Provider (NA, Mar 2010, val. Oct‟15) . Salt River Project (USA, 2008, Red Hat) . Vitec AutoData AS (Norway, Jul 2015, SUSE) . RENFE (Spain, Sep 2006) . German Pension Fund (Germany, Sep 2013, val. Jul‟15)

6 © 2016 IBM Corporation Business challenge To keep its US manufacturing business growing in a competitive market, this company must deliver top-quality products, super-fast. How could it meet those high expectations without breaking the bank?

Transformation With SAP applications running on the IBM mainframe, this manufacturer can ―SAP and IBM z Systems™ allows us to deliver high-quality products and responsive service, keeping customers operate an incredibly streamlined and happy and keeping the business on track for profitable growth. seamless manufacturing process.‖

Spokesperson, manufacturing company

Business benefits Manufacturing company Solution components Improves • IBM® DB2® for z/OS® agility with lightning-fast performance Focusing on quality and • IBM System Storage® DS8870 and deep insight into operations • IBM z/OS Sharpens service excellence to • IBM z/VM® competitiveness, helping maintain • IBM z13™ market-leading edge outperform low-cost • IBM zEnterprise® EC12 (zEC12) Boosts offshoring • SAP Business Suite profitability by driving tight control over operating costs This company designs, manufactures and markets industrial electric motors, drives, and mechanical power transmission products. The company sells its products to distributors and original equipment manufacturers in more than 70 countries worldwide.

7 © 2016 IBM Corporation Business challenge ABK wanted to meet customer demand for faster transfers and maintain excellent service levels while growing rapidly. How could it become ready for real-time mobile-payment processing?

Transformation ABK Systeme deployed IBM Financial Transaction Manager on IBM z Systems running Linux®, increasing performance and flexibility, and also ―We have improved our capabilities and can take on simplifying system architecture and new customers quicker, supporting rapid growth.‖ consolidating workloads.

—Armin Gerhardt, CEO, ABK Systeme

Business benefits: Solution components Supports ABK Systeme GmbH • IBM Financial Transaction the company‘s strategy to Manager enable instant payments • IBM Financial Transaction Scaling up transaction Manager for SWIFT Services • IBM MQ Unlocks performance and getting • IBM DB2 for Linux UNIX®, and potential to serve new Windows customer segments and • IBM WebSphere® Application increase revenue ready for instant Server mobile payments • IBM zEnterprise BC12 Reduces • IBM XIV® administration and • IBM Lab Services management workload ™ Headquartered in Dreieich, Germany, ABK Systeme GmbH is a leading • IBM MobileFirst Platform provider of electronic payments in Europe. The company develops solutions • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that enable exceptionally secure and rapid payments transfers. ABK Systeme for z Systems is part of the Paymentgroup and is growing at an average rate of 10 percent per year.

8 © 2016 IBM Corporation Vodafone Spain brings innovation-driven economic development and efficiency to smaller cities with a new cloud-based service >90% cost reduction for small cities to implement connected-city programs through a cloud-based delivery model Creates new revenue for the provider based on a repeatable managed service provider model

Promotes innovation Business challenge: Attracting and harnessing the energy of innovation—especially in leading to accelerated economic cities—is imperative for economic growth and development. Building the connected ecosystems required to jump-start digital innovation can mean major up-front costs, which development and more efficient is why smaller cities have had a harder time making the business case. Vodafone Spain municipal services sought to rewrite that formula by creating a new line of business offering smarter cities services to smaller cities. Solution components • IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server The smarter solution: Vodafone Spain created a low-cost, cloud-based service offering • IBM Intelligent Operations Center that empowers cities to gather real-time data from remote sensors, make efficient, fact- ™ • IBM MobileFirst Platform based decisions and engage citizens at a deeper and more personal level through mobile ® • IBM Maximo for Transportation technology. By creating a repeatable, pay-as-you-go service model that cities can deploy • IBM Cloud Orchestrator incrementally, Vodafone Spain is helping lay the foundation for big-time efficiency and • IBM Infrastructure Suite for z/VM® and Linux • IBM zEnterprise® BC12 innovation in Spain‘s smaller cities. • IBM Storwize® V7000 • IBM TS3100 Tape Library Express® “Working with IBM will allow us to jointly create new innovations that will enable smaller • IBM Systems Lab Services and Training cities to break through and enhance their economic competitiveness.” • IBM Software Services —Antonio Fernández, regional Andalusia director

Unleashing new growth and operational efficiency with an infrastructure transformation Selecting IBM z Systems™ as its strategic platform, Sicoob migrated and consolidated member databases to IBM DB2 LUW with BLU Acceleration® running in a Linux environment on the mainframe.

. Supports business growth at a larger “The key benefits in adopting Linux scale to respond to market changes on IBM z Systems are availability, scalability, performance, security, . Up to 20x faster analytics leads to real- lower licensing costs, easier time actions management, less use of space in the data center, and in particular . 35% database compression reduces reduced energy consumption.” - Gustavo Maia Aguiar, storage costs Leader of Information Technology, Sicoob

Prompted by generation replacement in . 15% reduction in expenses personnel, CSC’s IT reengineering project by limiting software licensing accelerated the company’s overall costs, which helps reduce the transformation. company‘s total cost of ownership . 40x increase in system By deploying an open systems platform on the Linux speed reducing to 10 seconds operating system, CSC can now carry out real-time operations that previously took as analytics. long as 10 minutes to complete For example, using decades of production and transaction data to simulate steel prices, the solution can create a pricing . 60% increase in efficiency model for production based on fuzzy analytics. of hardware through increased data size, allowing the solution to By comparing current and historical conditions, CSC process five million records daily can optimize pricing, better manage supply chain and grow revenue.

Combining modern web development with . Delivers excellent the security, reliability and performance of performance, especially for apps that hook back into the IBM mainframe enterprise systems The IBM Systems team ported Node.js to IBM z Systems . Enables co-location of servers featuring Integrated Facility for Linux processors Node.js server apps with (IFL), which are dedicated to running Linux workloads. data on z/OS, cutting Many companies are already developing and running access latency Node.js on z Systems servers, and believe that this will . Leverages trusted save them money compared to deploying distributed landscape to maximize systems. security and uptime for critical Node.js apps ―By deploying Node.js on z Systems, clients can provide new benefits that build on the mainframe Solution components: . IBM DB2 for z/OS platform’s core strengths of security, availability . IBM SDK for Node.js and scalability.‖ - Marcel Mitran, Distinguished Engineer, . IBM z Systems CTO z Systems Software Performance and Linux Ecosystem at IBM . IBM Integrated Facility for Linux processors

12 © 2016 IBM Corporation Business challenge With the explosion of online shopping, mobile devices and social media, the boundaries between retail sales channels are starting to blur. To set itself apart from competitors and win customer loyalty, this retailer in the US wanted to provide a seamless omni-channel customer experience. To do so, it needed central visibility into sales and supply chain data so that it could make sweeping improvements from purchasing to merchandising. Transformation Department stores need headlights into what consumers and the The retailer uses predictive analytics and propensity-to-buy models to fashion industry will do next so that anticipate what customers will buy at what price, helping to keep its product lines fresh and relevant while minimizing inventory. Using the insights, the they can stay relevant and draw in company can optimize pricing and merchandising in each local market, with customers. consistent, targeted digital marketing and in-store advertising that allow customers to hop between channels with ease and encourage greater loyalty.

Business benefits Department store retailer Solution components 15% • IBM® Global in the US Technology Services® lower advertising costs – Infrastructure Services by replacing mass marketing with • IBM PureData® System for targeted marketing Using predictive analytics to Analytics (powered by Netezza® technology) 26% anticipate demand and deliver • IBM System Storage® boost in digital sales an omni-channel experience DS8800 as a result of expanding online • IBM SPSS® product offerings This department store retailer operates more than 250 stores in 23 states. • IBM z Systems™ running The company has several private-label brands and employs 25,000 people. Linux 11% higher conversion rates through more fine-tuned digital marketing techniques

13 © 2016 IBM Corporation Mizuho Bank, Ltd. IBM z Systems technology running a Linux operating system helps bank reduce operating costs Designed for continuity and scalability, the solution IBM z Systems technology provided the foundation Mizuho needed for its Linux running a Linux and an IBM DB2 environment to develop and deploy new services data server helps Mizuho provide faster and more reliably. reliable and visionary services. IBM z Systems technology provides the scalability and stability Mizuho needs to run an active-active ―We now deliver system for its Linux environment at half the cost and innovative financial deliver business continuity for its customers. services and avoid, or Mizuho updated online and mobile applications, instantly recover from, keeping user satisfaction high and expanding its system failures, online presence by gaining scalability and promoting business sustainability. continuity and

Solution components increasing customer • IBM DB2 for Linux satisfaction.” • IBM DB2 High-Availability Disaster Recovery • IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (Q Replication) - Masahiko Kato, division head of IT and system • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems general division 1 at Mizuho

AutoData followed IBM‘s recommendation to add a new partition for Linux on its existing mainframe. On the strength of outstanding long-term cooperation between IBM and SUSE, IBM also recommended the SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution above other supported distributions, and AutoData validated this option by visiting several reference sites in Sweden. AutoData has been running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems for approximately five years now. The company has an IBM z Systems server to run both z/VSE (natively) and SUSE Linux Enterprise www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pwYrWMPbRQ Server (virtualized on IBM z/VM).

―The mainframe has relatively high acquisition costs. However—thanks in part to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems - it is highly cost-effective in terms of the long-term TCO, because it enables us to serve a large and varied customer base with just a small internal team.‖ - Stein Sandvold, Chief Operating Officer AutoData Norge AS

―Having a vendor such as IBM, who provide us with both, platform and software, is really key not only to me as an MSP, but also to how your systems will grow in the future.‖ - Steve Groom, CEO Vissensa

Steve Groom, CEO Vissensa outlines how the inclusion of IBM z System with Linux within their cloud services infrastructure, means they can best place their clients workloads according to security, performance or scalability, and how the use of IBM Cloud Orchestration then allows them to deploy also into public cloud environments with hybrid cloud capabilities.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bveteVLxeyc

Radixx Overview • SaaS Hosting of Core Airline Reservations System – All airline business models – Optimized for developing world • Mission critical application – One hour down = $ 1,000,000 loss

“We are moving from a server farm to z. We are going from 172 x86 cores down to 10 z Systems cores.‖ —Ron Peri, CEO, Radixx International

• Systems of Record move to z Systems – Database – Big Data Apps / Cognos / Data Warehouse – MQ Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylBy6aNTqhQ – APIs – Payment processing

In 2014, Travelport processed transactions in the order of 900 billion system messages. Generating: . 120 million air line tickets . 16 million hotel room night reservations . 76 million car rental days More and more activities are coming from mobile devices ―We haven’t found anything that can do it with the same of reliability, From the beginning Travelport is security and speed than the relying on IBM mainframes as a core element of the services they provide, mainframe.‖ —Gordon Wilson, CEO, Travelport and they will do for the future as well. Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Uj6dLqeQI

―As a digital company you have to move a lot faster, you have to be open for more change, you have to ready for evolutions in the market place.‖ —Michael Diliberto, CIO, PRICELINE.COM - a parter of Travelcom

Business need: EFiS EDI Finance Service AG (EFiS) needs computing systems ―In taking advantage of that are powerful and stable enough to support 24/7 availability, and technology that is flexible enough to support fluctuating capacity the IBM z Systems we demands. are able to fulfil our Solution: clients’ expectations Company replaced approximately 200 x86-architecture servers, and our vision of that were not fully meeting its performance or scalability quality of service.‖ requirements. - Armin Gerhardt, CEO at EFiS EDI EFiS implemented an Linux on IBM z Systems solution, it also uses Finance Service AG IBM WebSphere software to manage its application environment.

Benefits: . Doubled processing speeds by replacing obsolete and underperforming hardware . Delivered more than 30% savings in energy consumption . Improved processor utilization levels and reduced investment in costly software licence fees, delivering instant cost savings.

Business need: Marist College needed to provide business analytics capabilities and "The advantage for us on the supporting computing resources to students, faculty, businesses the management side is that and other institutions while reducing administration time and costs. we can virtually provision different types of servers Solution: without having to go The IBM SmartCloud solution at Marist College is based on the IBM z through the previous Systems with Integrated Facility for Linux engines running a hassles of putting in a new combination of IBM z/OS, IBM z/VM and SUSE Linux. system.― For its analytics software, the college uses IBM Cognos Business - Bill Thirsk, vice president for Intelligence for Linux on IBM z Systems and IBM SPSS Modeler. The information technology and chief college primarily uses IBM DB2 for Linux and also IBM DB2 for z/OS information officer, Marist College to provide database support for college courses.

Benefits: . Solution reduced administration time and expenses to support business analytics, provided analytics capabilities to students, faculty, businesses and other institutions. . Solution saved USD350,000 by using its cloud infrastructure to support its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Capitalizing on the mobile To create an efficient environment for mobile opportunity application development, ABK-Systeme deployed IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, on SUSE Finding ways to move Linux Enterprise Server, running on its existing IBM quickly and securely zEnterprise BC12 server.

Maximizing productivity of "The combination of IBM MobileFirst, z Systems, the development process WebSphere Application Server and DB2 software has provided the ideal platform for our move into Ensuring rock-solid security the mobile applications space. The solution has made deploying cross- Solution components platform applications much easier, giving us a Hardware • IBM zEnterprise BC12 head start against the competition in bringing Software secure, reliable mobile applications to our • DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows • IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation customers.― —Ulrich Buch, CTO, ABK-Systeme • IBM WebSphere Application Server • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Need: 18% increase of re-utilization rate of Satisfy customer demand for access to financial services services (As of March/2012) anytime, anywhere, through any device, using only its existing IT assets. Zero impact on existing systems Solution: IBM z Systems with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the Single query work operating system, divided by IBM logical partitioning. An MQ-based, high throughput messaging backbone was then process vs. original nine step built using IBM WebSphere Message Broker process

―Without the SOA platform, it would be difficult to build systems to support new services at the speed demanded by management. We have really benefited from developing the SOA platform as a way of resolving management issues.‖ - Mr. Yoshikazu Sato, Systems Infrastructure No.1, Systems Division, Chief Manager, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

24 © 2016 IBM Corporation South American Bank By automating and standardizing its loan process across branches, this large South American Bank gains insight into the details of its loans so that it can implement policies and processes to improve profitability

What if your loan disbursement process could improve your bank’s customer service and profitability?

The Opportunity What Makes it Smarter In the past, this bank has been able to maintain its When banks disburse loans, they need to track key information to know where their cost and profitability targets with manual process money is going, and whether the loans are profitable to the bank; without a well-defined improvements. It became apparent—with the loan origination process, gaining insight about loans is impossible. This bank simulated its need for changing products and services ―as is‖ and ―to be‖ loan processes and discovered that it could gain at least an 82 percent combined with growth in the local economy—that reduction in time needed to disburse loans by automating and standardizing loan the bank would need both technology and processes across the bank and its branches. This unified loan process gives the bank business process improvements to maintain insight into the metrics about loan disbursement, such as number of loans in process, the government mandated profitability and efficiency value of these loans and the time taken to open the loan, so that it can put in place targets. For example, loans took nine hours to policies that will ultimately improve the profitability and service of the bank. Improvements process, which required customers to make two in customer service are already in place – whereas it used to take days to open a loan, trips to the bank. Different branches had different with the customer making two trips to the bank, loans can now be opened while the procedures and inconsistent document handling, customer waits. making it difficult for the bank to gain insight into Real Business Results key metrics surrounding its loan policies and . Reduces loan origination time by up to 93% procedures. . Increases by 460% the average throughput of the number of loans that can be processed Solution Components . Provides insight into volume of loans in process, average disbursements, time for completion and other key business metrics that can be used to manage loan . IBM WebSphere® . IBM z Systems policies . IBM System Storage® DS8300 . IBM Industry Solutions: FSS . IBM Global Business Services® ―The streamlined loan process reduces manual tasks, . IBM Global Technology Services . IBM Linux improving efficiency. The ultimate result is that the bank . IBM Rational® Software . IBM Tivoli® can issue more loans that will produce a higher rate of return.‖

Business need: ―By migrating to z Systems Cope with rapid workload growth while maintaining guaranteed response times according to SLAs. Ensure continuous availability of key systems. Decrease and conducting associated costs through use of zIIP and IFL specialty engines. Enable provisioning of new streamlining work, we were Linux on z Systems application servers within minutes. Comply to highest security standards imposed by legal obligations to observe client and data able to reduce our monthly confidentiality. Simplify administration. operational costs for the Solution: mainframe environment by Deployed IBM z Systems with IBM z Systems Integrated Information 30%. Processors (zIIP), IBM z Systems Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors, IBM z/VM to enable clients to run hundreds or even thousands of Linux servers In this way, urgently on a single mainframe, IBM z/OS, and IBM System Storage DS8100 for data needed capital became storage. available for other necessary investments.‖ Benefits: — Willi Lohmann, CEO of gkd-el . End-user satisfaction has increased, thanks to reduction in average SAP dialog response time . Significant reduction in downtime during SAP release upgrades . Total cost of ownership has been reduced by 30 per cent . z Systems and System Storage technologies help to maintain a flexible yet easy-to-manage infrastructure, provision new Linux servers within minutes, and balance workload efficiently

Rock-solid reliability from IBM z Systems Reduced response times for After a thorough review of offerings from multiple key SAP applications by an solution vendors, the utility organization selected average of 50% IBM z Systems servers virtualized with IBM z/VM®, Faster management of key and running the IBM z/OS® and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems. processes up to eight-times faster Fast-growing enterprises must react quickly to ensure that Maximized the value of the they can continue to deliver high-quality customer services. ―With IBM solutions supporting our mission- investment in the platform critical applications, we can keep the business running and deliver assured business continuity smoothly – even as the number of customers and suppliers increases.‖ Solution components Software “Without a doubt, our SAP and IBM • IBM z/OS® • IBM z/VM® solutions provide the headroom we • Red Hat Enterprise Linux • IBM DB2® for z/OS® need to accommodate significant • SAP applications Services business growth.” • IBM Lab Services - Spokesperson, major utility organization • IBM Migration Services

Consolidates its IT assets to better support business operation

Achieves better control of business performance

Meets the requirements Business challenge: With scattered data in disparate systems, Kenya Power established by the government and Lighting Co. Ltd. lacked an efficient data-warehousing and reporting solution, which caused poor data quality and a high incidence of fraudulent energy use. Solution components Services Solution: Kenya Power implemented IBM zEnterprise Analytics System 9710 IBM® Global Business Services® – Business solution, IBM Information Management and IBM Business Analytics software to Consulting Services build an integrated data-warehousing and analytics solution. IBM Global Hardware Business Services – Business Consulting Services delivered KPI replacement. IBM zEnterprise® BC12 (zBC12) IBM System Storage® DS8870 Software “Thanks to IBM, we enhanced our ability to IBM InfoSphere® DataStage® IBM InfoSphere QualityStage® measure and monitor business performance IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence against set targets using reliable KPIs.” IBM SPSS® Modeler — Kenya Power IBM DB2® for z/OS®

The need ―We were facing major problems. We had an . Linux on z Systems cost less than overflowing data center, so we could not physically replacing existing servers get any more power into the building without spending significant sums of money, and the air . Recovery in just 20 minutes in the conditioning was grossly overloaded.‖ event of a disaster The solution IBM z Systems Linux server is dedicated to running . Consolidation has alleviated the council‘s business-critical Oracle Database concerns around data center

environment on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, space and cooling

supporting a range of critical services. You can sum up moving to z Systems in one ― sentence: ― it’s easy and cost-effective, so go ahead.

— Tim Simpson, IT Infrastructure Manager, Dundee City Council

Need: Flexible, secure and scalable IT infrastructure to Enabled growth of support reliable 24/7 service and mobile access to reach its goal of being the primary provider of 600% in mobile, financial services to its members. 200% in internet, and Solution: Created a virtualized Linux landscape running in in-branch transactions; more than 300 production environments on two 60% IBM z Systems servers, and deployed IBM DB2, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and IBM Cognos avoiding USD 1.5 million software. in electricity costs annually

The key benefits in adopting IBM z Systems are availability, scalability, performance, security, lower licensing costs, easier management, less use of space in the data center, and in particular reduced energy consumption.

31 © 2016 IBM Corporation An Austrian insurance company This Austrian insurance company creates a telemedicine solution that captures key patient data via cell phone, allowing ongoing compliance monitoring, and alerting physicians in real time if patients‘ in-home test results are not within parameters

What if patients with type 2 diabetes could have better care, and improved outcomes, without more doctors’ visits?

The Opportunity What Makes it Smarter Currently about 800,000 people, or about eight To successfully treat type 2 diabetes, patients‘ compliance with diet, exercise and medication percent of the population, in Austria has been regimens must be closely monitored so that adjustments and improvements can be made, and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. A single diabetic medication (such as insulin) overdoses can be avoided. Rather than requiring patients to visit patient can cost an insurance company their doctors‘ offices more often, this major Austrian insurer developed an in-home diabetes €150,000, and complications of the disease can monitoring program that uses telemedicine to allow physicians to closely follow their patients‘ at- be painful and debilitating for patients. This home compliance. Medical devices, such as blood pressure and blood glucose monitors and insurer wanted to find a way to help physicians scales, are linked to a cell phone, which automatically sends the patient‘s data to a diabetes better treat, and prevent the complications of, diary database. There, an algorithm compares expected results with actual values, and sends an this disease without adding further costs to the immediate notification to the physician if the value exceeds a critical limit. This allows the system, or risking non-compliance of patients by physician to react quickly to modify the patient‘s treatment, helping improve patient treatment requiring too many doctors‘ visits. and avoid the many complications that accompany this disease.

Solution Components Real Business Results . IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated – Expected to achieve a 20,000 member participation in a ―health dialog‖ program, with Technology Services IBM Global Services - resulting healthcare cost savings in the tens of millions by 2015 Application Services (GBS-AIS and AMS – Enables the insurance company to identify at-risk patients and plug them into the Services) program, improving care and helping further reduce insurance costs . IBM Sensors & Actuators: Remote Health – Helps to transform the treatment paradigm for widespread diseases like diabetes from Monitoring traditional care to prevention-based care without adding costs . IBM Industry Solutions: Healthcare . IBM Linux - Red Hat . IBM Rational Software The solution fundamentally changes the treatment of type diabetes by . IBM z Systems Software improving patient outcomes compared to traditional treatment. . IBM WebSphere Application Server . IBM System x® Telemonitoring allows the continuous monitoring and analysis of key . IBM z Systems parameters, allowing more reality-based and effective treatment.

The Need: The ability to run the Linux The company needed to find a high-performance, cost-effective way operating system alongside to introduce new software while continuing with the tried and trusted database solution. Its proposed operational software package, SAP, IBM z/OS made the platform runs on the Linux operating system, and Embasa was keen to avoid a strong candidate for the introducing additional server platforms and a complex IT landscape. new applications. The Solution: This commercially attractive To support the new workload, Embasa upgraded its IT environment solution gave Embasa the to an IBM z Systems server with seven central processors to run confidence to go ahead with z/OS workload, … to run specific DB2 transactions, and six IFL the implementation of SAP processors to support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server hosted on applications on Linux on z/VM. the IBM z Systems platform. The Benefit: . Consolidating multiple workloads to z Systems has avoided the need to add smaller systems to the data center, making space available while cutting energy and cooling requirements . Internal connections between applications and database eliminate external cabling, network switches and power supplies, further simplifying the system landscape, which is now easier to understand and maintain

Boosting employee Supporting super-reliable access to business- productivity by an critical applications with Linux on IBM z Systems

estimated 50%, Business challenge: The National Registration Department of Malaysia dramatically improved response custom-built an innovative application – Statistics and Data Extraction Request times, increasing utilization of the Management System (SAL) – to automatically manage requests for statistics SAL application to 100% and data extraction, but found its existing infrastructure lacked the power to reliably support it. Access issues, slow response times and crashes led to high Gained a highly reliable, numbers of user complaints, leading to some employees refusing to use the system. This prevented critical information being distributed, uploaded and stable platform making it downloaded for those who needed it urgently. possible to offer the SAL application 24/7 (previously it was Solution: By selecting an IBM z Systems server running the z/OS operating available only during working hours) system to handle existing workload, an IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engine was activated to provide a highly available environment for new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server workloads. The entire project was completed on time, Significant cost savings within four months, and with the technical implementation conducted in just two by moving to open source weeks. technology

“Whereas previously much of their time was taken up with dealing with user complaints and crashes to the SAL application, now we can focus on other more productive work and simply trust the IBM solution to consistently perform.” - Laila Binti Abdul Majid, Chief Assistant Director at National Registration Department of Malaysia

Leveraging a world-class enterprise computing Offers excellent availability system to ensure 24x7 customer service by providing automated failover within seconds Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (SDV) is the IT service provider for the Sparda-Bank Group in Germany. SDV develops secure Reduces total cost of and innovative IT solutions for retail banking, payment, ownership by about 50%, cuts distribution and financing to improve the products and services administration effort and enables a of Sparda-Bank Group. team of three to manage 120 servers The group‘s 12 banks employ over 7,300 people and operate Accelerates deployment more than 400 branches, serving 3.5 million customers and a of new systems total of 23 million accounts.

Solution components "The great thing about IBM Geographically • IBM z/OS® Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) in combination • IBM z/VM® • DB2 for Linux with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems • WebSphere Application Server and all Linux workloads including Oracle Database • Tivoli Storage Manager • Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms software is that it just works reliably." • Tivoli System Automation for z/OS —Oliver Röthinger, System Programmer and Administrator • Oracle Database z/VM and Linux on z Systems, Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems

Business need: "The emphasis is on business Ensuring students gain access to commercial-scale databases, intelligence, which requires enterprise software and high-performance infrastructure can strain high-performance the resources of even the most progressive institutions. infrastructure such as Linux Solution: on z Systems. A typical The University of Arkansas, supported by local businesses, and example would be finance ® by SAP and IBM, has implemented a complete SAP NetWeaver students accessing the SAP Business Warehouse application landscape on an IBM z Systems Controlling and Profitability server running Linux. Businesses have contributed copies of anonymized commercial databases, which run on IBM DB2 for Analysis application.― z/OS, to provide a real-world education environment. - Christine Davis, Executive in Residence at Walton College Benefits: . Students have access to a world-class enterprise-scale server, complete with commercial data and the latest software and applications . Free licenses for the entire SAP application suite for z Systems and IBM software components allow students to learn the latest techniques on the most current software.

―Though we have not started moving The solution these new Linux workloads to the IBM z Zions is currently looking at using the IBM z Systems Systems platform yet, our roadmap for as its core platform for a wide range of customer- next year includes a proof of concept to facing applications using cloud computing concepts. demonstrate the capabilities to the Zions will create virtual Linux servers on the IBM z/VM business users. on the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines of its IBM z Systems server. This kind of flexibility shows that z Systems positions us to provide anything This will allow new Linux servers to be available within the business needs both now and in the minutes of a business request, calling off computing resources as required in a private cloud computing future. We would probably not be in environment. business without z Systems supporting our core processes.‖

―In many IT areas, staff numbers have increased, but we have not increased our technical staffing for the IBM z Systems platform for five years, even though we have more than doubled the processing capacity—additionally, we have not increased operating costs in the past five years.‖ — Toby C. Wolf, Vice President and Group Manager for Mainframe Operations Services at Zions Bancorporation

Aggregates traffic and transit data providing citywide views of traffic conditions

Analyzes bus data against KPIs, uncovering scheduling and routing shortfalls The Smarter Solution: The city built an intelligent traffic system Reveals areas prone to congestion, that collects, aggregates and analyzes static and near-real-time facilitating future transit planning traffic and transit data, providing a city-wide view of conditions that helps planners predict traffic jams and optimize public transit routes and assets. In addition, transit origin-destination estimation Solution Components algorithms and traffic key performance indicator (KPI) analysis • IBM® Intelligent Operations Center provide insight into popular travel patterns and passenger bus • IBM SPSS® Modeler loads, helping authorities adjust the number of buses in service • IBM InfoSphere® DataStage® • IBM DB2® according to commuter demand. • IBM WebSphere® Application Server • IBM z Systems® • IBM China Research Lab With the rollout of its intelligent traffic system, the city takes a giant • IBM Business Partner Jiangsu Posts and Telecomm. step toward achieving its goal of becoming one of the world‟s Planning and Designing Institute Co. Ltd. • IBM Business Partner Esri smartest cities. • Government: Intelligent Transportation Systems

Offers high performance and near-total availability to support The transformation: transaction processing EVERTEC migrated core Reduces costs, Oracle databases supporting space, and energy use by its transaction processing consolidating from multiple physical systems to a virtualized servers to a virtualized environment SUSE Linux Enterprise Takes hours, not days Server environment, running on an IBM z Systems server. The company has currently migrated to provision new workloads, improving responsiveness to approximately 40 databases to the z Systems, with business demands plans to make IBM z System the strategic platform for all Oracle databases. Solution components Hardware • IBM® zEnterprise® EC12 "IBM z Systems offers the lowest cost for Software • IBM z/OS® processing large amounts of data, • IBM z/VM® hands-down." • IBM z/VSE® • Oracle Database —Eduardo Camargo, Executive Vice-President and CIO, • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for EVERTEC Inc. z Systems

The need Increasing member numbers and new services at . The greater processing-power America First Credit Union (AFCU) resulted in annual growth of transaction volumes of 15% – leading the density of the IBM zEC12 has organization to seek greater processing power to avoid yielded unexpected cost limiting growth. savings

The solution . Consolidation of the Linux Upgraded to IBM zEnterprise EC12 servers running core environment by 25%, banking workload on IBM z/VSE® alongside applications translating into a similar on Linux with IBM DB2® database, with IBM Tivoli® software to protect data against loss. reduction in licensing costs

―We are investigating moving to a private cloud model on the zEC12 platform. The ability that IBM technology gives us to provision virtual servers on-the-fly is central to such an approach.‖

— Kent Swenson, Enterprise Systems Manager, America First Credit Union

41 © 2016 IBM Corporation An IT services provider develops a solution to help companies manage electricity supply and demand 14.7% increase in the net income of the largest electricity supplier in Slovenia after using a core set of applications Analyzes changes in electric company grid metering data to determine if new investments are necessary Business challenge: The primary focus of electricity suppliers is to have just Provides precise enough electrical capacity distributed to customers. But because electricity cannot buy and sell insights based on be stored in the same manner as oil or gas, excessive surplus or deficit can cause problems for electrical grid and supply companies. Accurate calculations based on customer electricity usage data analysis of customer usage are the baseline for providing the right amount of electricity to customers, minimizing the potential for both deficits and surpluses. Solution components • IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence V10.2 The smarter solution: This IT services provider helps electricity companies better • IBM Content Manager on Demand for z/OS® perform such calculations with a multi-faceted solution that facilitates compliance • IBM DB2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS with EU regulations. The solution collects information in real time from meters, • IBM Maximo® Asset Management sensors and other intelligent devices then analyzes that data to provide electricity • IBM PureData™ System for Analytics, powered by IBM Netezza® companies with up-to-the-minute insights on customer power usage so that they • IBM WebSphere® can better optimize the amount of electricity needed to satisfy demand. It also aids • IBM Cognos Lab Services them in making key decisions and formulating plans to address electrical grid • IBM Advanced Business Partner Noema capacity, maintenance, pricing and investments, and weather events. Cooperating d.o.o

The Need: This telephone service provider operates in a very competitive and dynamic market. The solution gives the The company hoped that updated technology would help it reduce costs and drive client a single view of innovation, as well as maintain its leadership position in the industry and continuously the customer, helping find ways to serve its customers better. improve customer The Solution: service, reduce churn, The carrier is working closely with IBM to implement several technology solutions that and capture new markets. will enable the company to maintain and improve its competitive position. An IBM Solution components: Smart Analytics System can help create an enterprise data warehouse with a single . IBM GBS BAO: Business version of the truth and advanced analytics to help the telco be more competitive in its Intelligence and Performance marketplace. IBM Global Business Services was brought in to translate the vision and Management technology into business results. A Telecommunication Data Warehouse (TDW) will enable the company to maximize performance by identifying and measuring sales, . IBM Information Management: campaign and operational effectiveness. Cognos 8 BI, InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse, What Makes it Smarter: Telecommunications Data Warehouse (TDW) . The Cognos analytics engine allows in-depth customer segmentation and analysis, improving the company’s ability to cross-sell and up-sell . Linux - SUSE Linux . Improves time-to-market of new service offerings by helping the carrier . IBM z Systems be more agile in responding to market conditions . IBM Global Financing . Enables cost reductions driven by improved virtualization capabilities, ease of management, license maintenance and improved power utilization

Business need: ―Relying on a manual approach was expensive and time- . Substantially improved consuming, and we sought a faster, more efficient way to efficiency across all offices access and analyze pension records that would enable us to provide better service to our customers.‖ . Search indexed data in seconds, Solution: reducing the access time by The new content management solution is built on IBM more than 99% Content Manager Enterprise Edition, IBM DB2 for LUW and IBM WebSphere Application Server technology. . Considerably reduces To provide reliable, secure management of its customers‘ pension information, an extensive pension management environmental impact, system is operated on an IBM z Systems server, running eliminating the need for costly the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. print-outs

―With its virtualization technology, automation capabilities and management features, IBM z Systems is the ideal Linux cloud platform for us. The server is extremely reliable and provides unmatched availability compared to other solutions.‖ - Falk-Oliver Bischoff, IT Director, German Pension Fund Baden-Württemberg

Business need: ―We are seeing a trend using the mainframe as a data warehouse for their in-house analytics applications. With the popularity of analytics and ―Typically, we now process around online banking both increasing rapidly, we estimated 100 million transactions each day, that our existing solution would only be able to but during this year’s Easter accommodate the growth in MIPS requirements holiday, online shopping events without upgrading.‖ pushed our daily transactions to a peak of 128 million—an increase of more than 10 percent. Solution: The z Systems server handled this EVRY deployed two IBM z Systems servers peak in transaction volumes configured with Linux, z/OS®, IBM DB2 for z/OS, without breaking a sweat.‖ IBM CICS® and IBM IMS™ for its clients‘ production landscapes, and a third as a disaster recovery - Jan Brandvold, VP Nordic Operations, Sales, Communication and Mainframe, EVRY environment. Enabling a broad range of cost- effective support for Linux, DB2 and Java™ workloads.

Business need: RCBC needed an IT infrastructure to support a core- ―The combination of banking system, called Finacle, from IBM Business Finacle and IBM gives us Partner Infosys Ltd. that would help the bank improve the functionality we want efficiency, launch products faster and attain 10 million customers. on a high-performance platform that is robust Solution: and resilient enough to Finacle would provide all core-banking functionality and flexibility the bank needed to adapt its products and handle the bank’s services to different customers‘ needs. RCBC elected to requirements moving run the Finacle solution on the IBM z Systems server and forward.‖ use Linux with IBM DB2® for z/OS data server. — Dennis Bancod, senior executive vice president and head for IT and operations, Benefits: Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. RCBC reduced new product launch times by 50% and increased its readiness to effectively compete in the marketplace, moving two to three years ahead of its competition.

The need . Helps save patients and health SinfoníaRx sought a highly available, scalable and plans over USD65 million in reliable solution to support growing data volumes and alleviate processing bottlenecks that were delaying medical costs patient medical profile updates. . Reduce data load times by 33% The solution The company worked with IBM and IBM Premier . Process medical claims 60% faster Business Partner Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. to implement the IBM Linux server offering, based on IBM® z Systems technology, providing the flexibility SinfoníaRx can now facilitate growth to run its RxCompanion software faster and more and focus on improving healthcare accurately. quality with a stable platform.

―The IBM z Systems based Linux server allows us to focus on the applications and service we deliver to our patients and not on the constant maintenance of our hardware and software technology.‖

— Kevin Barber, SinfoniaRx CIO

The payment transactions are pushed to Sleek, modern customer IBM WebSphere® Application Server on interfaces offer a wider range Linux for z Systems®, which handles all of travel options the necessary security checks and Strengthening profitability brokers the transactions with external payment processor companies. Boosted ticket sales by a double-digit percentage The company has built a robust IT landscape to support top performance and round-the-clock Revenue win back from availability for its ticketing application. At the core of the solution, the company stores its business- competitors critical information, including ticket sales data, on IBM DB2® databases on the z Systems server.

"Real-time price, offer and journey updates from the mainframe are key to beating rivals.‖ —Spokesperson, European railway operator

Creates revenue pportunities The transformation: by making z Systems capabilities more Using an Infrastructure-as-a- widely available Service (IaaS) model, IBM Saves customers money by Business Partner L3C LLP eliminating hardware acquisition and provides the robust reliability, licensing costs security and affordability of a IBM z Systems server running Linux for its cloud Reduces customers’ economic customers. Now, midsized companies can benefit risk through an innovative ―proof of from mainframe-caliber services at a cost that‘s concept‖ engagement sized for their business.

Solution components ―IBM z Systems hosting a virtualized • IBM® zEnterprise® BC12 Linux environment differentiates L3C in • IBM z/VM® virtualization • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/ level and quality of service.‖ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server —Lubo Cheynatov, founder and co-owner, • IBM Storwize® V7000 virtual storage L3C LLP

The need To thrive despite intense competition, Banca Carige . Launching new services meets wanted to develop a customer-centric approach to changing customer demands service delivery, but it first needed to gain a deeper understanding of customer needs and desires. . Proven underlying technology accelerates deployment and The solution reduces risk Banca Carige built an analytics environment and a new mobile banking service using IBM software on IBM® z . Consolidation to a single platform

Systems mainframes, which provide round-the-clock cuts cost and complexity availability and high security. The key value for our business is that the most important ― services can ― be managed together on a consistent, stable and highly secure platform that offers enormous scalability and performance.

— Daniele Cericola, ICT Governance Manager, Banca Carige

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W2b1QFopOc Through the cloud, New York municipalities plan to attract new development and growth across the state while cutting costs, saving time and reducing waste. And the IBM mainframe is the only platform New York trusts to host that cloud.

In addition to its time-tested scalability, reliability and security, it offers the lowest total cost of ownership — supporting the state as it strives for reduced spending and a smarter, future-ready IT infrastructure.

"Change starts by asking the difficult questions and finding innovative solutions. Cloud isn't just for IT anymore; it's for the business.‖ – Wil LaBossier, President, Software Consulting Associates

The Met Office, United Kingdom's national weather service, is depended upon the world over for reliable weather predictions, especially when people are being threatened by severe weather conditions. And there's little room for error. So while people depend on Met Office for reliable weather forecasts, Met Office depends on the mainframe, processing www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A0gqWKrK0c and outputting forecast reports quickly and without error.

"It's incredibly important that the customers trust what they've been given - trust the accuracy, trust the reliability..." – Phil Evans, Director of Government Services, Met Office

Business Connexion, Africa‘s largest IT service provider has set out to achieve the impossible through technology. And that's why it turned to the mainframe, enabling it to build and deploy end-to-end cloud offerings for customers across all of Africa. With the aid of the mainframe, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqN1_6gviGg&feature=youtu.be Business Connexion can give access to services like Internet, banking and telemedicine -- and ―Scalability is probably the most empower prosperity across a important [for our customers] – to disconnected continent. actually grow as the business grows.‖ – Jacques Loubser, General Mananger, Business Connexion

The need Halkbank in Turkey wanted to reach out through new . Single consolidated platform web and mobile channels, and simultaneously satisfy for core banking, risk analytics new banking regulations. How could the bank grow and new multi-channel rapidly, cost-effectively and without disruption? offerings, reducing hardware The solution and operational costs. Building on more than 25 years of success, Halkbank is deploying new environments on the IBM mainframe to . Zero unplanned downtime in support multi-channel banking and to accelerate internal more than 25 years. risk reporting and analytics.

―This platform gives us a great degree of flexibility and scalability, with lower infrastructure costs than for the equivalent distributed environment. Also, we can include Linux-based systems in the mainframe disaster recovery solution, which reduces complexity and cost.‖

— Ayhan Yalkut, z Systems Manager, Halkbank

Just-in-time manufacture of specialty steel helps TZ compete better on quality and speed Reliable 24/7 production and logistics Low operational costs The transformation: Rising competitive pressure made it vital for TZ to keep its advanced planning systems from SAP and rapid data access running optimally at all times. Enhanced data storage solutions have improved speed and reliability of access to production, scheduling and logistics production data, leading Solution components to better planning, lower costs and improved customer service. Hardware • IBM® DS8870 • IBM z Systems™ “In all our years working with IBM z Systems and storage Software solutions, we have never experienced an unplanned • IBM DB2® for z/OS® outage.” Applications • SAP ERP on Linux on z Systems — Petr Popelář, CFO, Třinecké Železárny and IBM Power Systems™

The need Executives at the Medical Management Center (MMC) at University of Arizona knew that its innovative pharmacy program had outgrown its current platform. It needed an infrastructure that could scale, but without the administrative burden and costs of starting over.

The solution University infrastructure running on z Systems and DB2 software. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7ztD5hpjw

The benefits . Infrastructure enhancements on z Systems . DB2 software translated into more than $65 million in savings for MMC customers

The need . Accelerates essential Porto Alegre wanted to improve quality of life for maintenance work, reducing citizens by keeping its growing population moving. To road closures reduce road closures, the city needed to increase the efficiency of its maintenance processes. . Projected to achieve a 50% reduction in response times, The solution and a 30% reduction in The city implemented an asset management solution based on IBM Maximo® software on Linux for z backlogs Systems. Data on maintenance activities is displayed in near-real time on a digital map of the city. . Estimated to deliver a 60% reduction in TCO

―By consolidating our distributed asset management systems into a private cloud, we benefit from reduced IT operational costs as well as increased security.‖ — Walfrido Goulart, Data center manager, Procempa

Business need: Aiming to modernize its user interfaces, the Municipality wanted an open platform backed by enterprise-class support, and offering very high availability and performance. Solution: Five IFLs running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for z Systems on an IBM z Systems server, with one further processor for z/OS®. Both operating systems run as virtualized instances on the z/VM hypervisor, in four logical partitions (LPARs). The Municipality uses IBM DB2 databases and IBM WebSphere Application Server on SLES for z Systems. www.suse.com/success/stories/ethekwini-municipality.html

―Equally, if we put the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server workload on Windows instead, we would need at least 30 production servers and 30 servers for Disaster Recovery, each with OS and software licenses. Instead, we need to license just five IFLs for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems. Naturally, there are also significant energy savings in consolidating to our z Systems server rather than running a distributed Windows landscape.‖ - Roney Moodley, Deputy Head, Service Delivery at eThekwini Municipality

Jim Tussing Infrastructure CTO Nationwide Insurance

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―For a financial services company we make promises, in order for us to make and keep them our information systems have to be available and secure, they have to be cost-effective and agile. We need that so that we can fulfill our promise to be on your side.― – Jim Tussing

IT needs have changed and grew “Creating a superior dramatically. As White Cube expanded customer experience internationally, they need to support a truly requires excellence in all 24x7 global business. aspects of our business, including IT.” Following a detailed research and analysis of - James Meara, various server platforms, they made the decision IT Executive at White Cube to buy their first z System based Linux server. Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuz4LSH__Pk . Dramatically simplified IT environment. . Linux is easily recognizeable to anyone familiar to it elsewhere. . Expanded capabilities, providing an efficient, secure and available foundation – unmatched on distributed platforms.

Business need: With more than 400,000 employees generating vast Robust and flexible IBM amounts of information, IBM‘s competitive edge in the knowledge economy depends on its ability to capture, mainframe enables rapid and non- share and generate value from all of this information. disruptive deployment of new Solution: social tools and functionality. IBM created an employee-facing digital experience using IBM Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal software, Using the mainframe for social running on Linux on z Systems servers. The integrated software environment enables employees to build business saves an estimated communities around common interests and topics, share to and find information, and locate the right internal 60% 75% on the cost of a resources to tackle any challenge. distributed solution.

―Given the size and rapid growth of our social business environment, and given the frequent need to introduce new functionality, the mainframe is the perfect platform. We are constantly changing and updating the portal in a way that causes no disruption to our users.―

Need: Solution components: Traxpay saw an opportunity to create a new super-fast financial Software transaction service for midsize and enterprise corporations. Would it be . IBM WebSphere Application Server possible to start small and grow fast to meet global demands? . IBM MQ ―We needed a very elastic, scalable and highly reliable infrastructure to . IBM DB2 ( for Linux) operate this innovative transaction platform.‖ . SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM z Systems with SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Solution: Extension Traxpay worked with IBM Business Partner EFiS EDI Finance Service to IBM Business Partner build and deploy an innovative transaction platform, based fully on cloud . EFiS EDI Finance Service AG services that scale up and out at the touch of a button. The cloud solution is built on solid IBM z Systems technology, taking advantage of its advanced virtualization features.

"With reliable IBM z Systems technology, powerful IBM WebSphere software and our trusted hosting partner EFiS EDI Finance Service, we have created a new and innovative payment solution.― - David Desharnais, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Product Management, Traxpay

After evaluating, NWK chose to deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM z Systems—a decision that was strongly guided by the platform‘s reliability and the close collaboration between SUSE and IBM. ―We have been running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the IBM z Systems for a few months now and everything has been operating very smoothly. We support around 450 users on one IFL with an average CPU usage of 60-70%, and so far performance has been excellent, even when running at 100% utilization,‖ says Eddie Leighton. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides NWK with solid performance, and a reliable platform for running its most important workloads. www.suse.com/success/stories/nwk.html

―The IBM z Systems is a fantastic server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems really helps us to get the most out of it. The solution has met all of our requirements in terms of performance and stability.‖ - EDDIE LEIGHTON, Technology Manager, NWK

Solution: Baldor runs its core SAP landscape on IBM z Systems. Its IBM DB2 for z/OS databases run in IBM z/OS partitions, while 70 virtual servers under z/VM provide Linux environments that act as SAP application servers. Baldor migrated data to the IBM System Storage DS8800 platform.

Benefits: . Lowered costs and cut complexity by eliminating 200 servers . Cut energy costs by more than 60% . Reduced time taken to generate sales reports from five hours to 13 seconds . Cut IT administration costs as a proportion of sales revenue by 50%

―We saw that our z Systems platform had never suffered a hardware outage. Our Linux environments, on z Systems and on other servers, were similarly robust from an operating system perspective.―

- Mark Shackelford, Vice President of Information Services, Baldor Electric

The need: Bankia wants to become one of the most competitive and trusted financial groups in Spain. Bankia‘s strategy is to win the information ―Deploying Linux on war to improve business operational decisions and provide superior virtualized z Systems customer service. servers represents an enormous advantage for The solution: us: in fact, it allowed us to To analyze huge quantities of business, market and customer data in near-real time, Bankia chose to implement IBM InfoSphere carry out an extremely software to collect and integrate data from multiple sources, running rapid deployment, saving on a highly scalable IBM z Systems platform. The ability to host us a considerable amount multiple virtual Linux servers on the z Systems server has helped of money, time and Bankia to maximize resource utilization and reduce data center resources‖ complexity. —Maria José Álvarez Tapias, Director of the Quality Management Systems The Benefit: Department, Bankia . Boosts productivity by an estimated 400% . Facilitates monitoring and mitigates risk . Enables the real-time integration of data seamlessly and securely to provide trusted information for crucial analysis

Business challenge: ―Working with IBM enabled us The City and County of Honolulu needed to increase to take an innovative government transparency by providing useful, timely data to its citizens. approach. Instead of following Solution: the long processes of other Working with IBM and IBM Business Partner Sirius Computer governments or even the Solutions, Honolulu deployed a custom cloud using an IFL private sector, we were able to engine running Linux on the city‘s IBM z Systems. Honolulu get things up and running also implemented an IBM XIV® Storage System and IBM quickly.― Maximo Asset Management, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, Tivoli - Gordon J. Bruce, Director and CIO of the Workload Scheduler and Tivoli Storage Manager software. Department of Information Technology, City and County of Honolulu Benefits: . Linux on IBM z Systems helped reduce application deployment time . Reduced database licensing costs from USD$250,000 to USD$80,000 . Cloud provides a scalable self-service platform on which city employees could develop open source applications . Using Maximo Asset Management, a new system was created that helped to increase tax revenue by USD$1.4 million in just 3 months

70 © 2016 IBM Corporation Miami-Dade County builds a highly scalable private cloud analytics platform Business challenge: The Miami Dade county administration provides a wide range of „IBM z Systems public services, including police, fire, water and sewers, garbage provides such huge collection, hospitals and many others. They saw an opportunity to advantages over a open up government with a large-scale analytics platform for accessing a wealth of public information via the web. distributed server landscape." Solution: - Jose Eskert, Senior System The county deployed IBM Cognos Business Intelligence in a Linux Programmer at Miami-Dade County environment on its existing IBM z Systems platform. Employees and citizens can access reports using a standard web browser. Videos: The needs , The solution Benefits: . Solution provides 24/7 access . z Systems enables to operate a private cloud infrastructure . Create a new Linux system very quickly – no need to continually purchase new servers, configure and install them . Giving people more insight into where their tax money is going

Challenge Many of Allone‘s clients and prospects are major financial institutions. For these companies, just a few seconds of downtime at a critical point in the transaction cycle could mean millions of dollars in lost revenues.

Solution Allone chose to adopt SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM z Systems as a new platform for its software offerings, working with both IBM and SUSE to gain the necessary experience to successfully port its applications to the mainframe. www.suse.com/success/stories/allone.html

―With our trading applications running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM z Systems, we can offer our clients an extremely stable platform that is also highly scalable. Where a client already has a mainframe server, it is typically both easy and cost- effective to set up a Linux partition capable of running our trading systems.‖ - Marco Mak, Sales Manager, Allone IT Co., Ltd.

Business need: Carli customers mainly want quality from us. We strive to achieve that level of quality from the moment customers place their orders. In the ―We integrated the event customers have any questions or concerns after delivery, we pricing web service, and want to be there to assist and solve any issues they might have. installed a new version Solution: of the accounting and All the core functions within Fratelli Carli are managed by the IBM inventory software on ® mainframe, in particular through the z/VSE . „We integrated the the Linux mainframe.‖ pricing web service, and installed a new version of the accounting and inventory software on the Linux mainframe.― - Marco Guardini. - Marco Gardini, Operations IT We‘re talking about managing the customer database, orders, and Manager, Fratelli Carli shipments. Everything revolves around this.

Benefits: . Ability to increase power, memory, and number of processors without requiring any changes . Big breakthrough compared to other systems and protects investments

Business challenge: A long-term user of IBM mainframes for core processing, API had more recently built up a distributed environment with numerous servers—a mixture of Intel-architecture disparate set of resources was becoming increasingly difficult and costly to machines running Linux and proprietary hardware running UNIX. Solution: The Linux production environments run natively on the mainframe, while the test and development environments run as virtual guests on z/VM. The entire migration project took seven months to complete, and delivered immediate results: for example, moving SAP NetWeaver® BW to Linux on z Systems cut processing time by 35 percent. www.suse.com/success/stories/gruppoapi.html

"The landscape was difficult to manage, and we also had concerns around reliability and scalability. Consolidating to Linux on z Systems meant that we could simplify our infrastructure and take advantage of the high reliability of the mainframe." — Gaetano Scebba, Chief Technology Officer, Gruppo API

Significant reduction in oftware and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

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―The mainframe offered us the best option for consolidation – Our business took the view that the mainframe was essentially another commodotised piece of hardware and for us, the value really lies in the interface between the server and the applications. Our target was to employ a Red Hat Enterprise Linux based platform that could combine agility with low support costs.‖ - Peter Rowe Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Allianz Australia Limited

Need: The University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care • Delivers complex search results System needed to create a consolidated view of spanning multiple information patient information that could better serve the diverse repositories in minutes instead of needs of varied user groups. the weeks or even months required for manual searches Solution: UNC worked with IBM to create a robust, closely • Provides a single view of data governed data warehouse solution that unifies multiple across the organization data stores, making it possible to quickly and easily • Breaks down information silos to access data and transform it into useful information. enable new lines of inquiry

• Enables governance of user

IBM brought us a structure that we didn’t have. groups, storage and access to ― The ready availability of― information changes the way optimize user benefits and ROI people ask questions and think about the problem on a fundamental level. • Establishes procedures to — Dr. Donald Spencer, associate director of medical informatics, disseminate information UNC Health Care System throughout the organization

The combination of z/VM and Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled BNZ to virtualize and consolidate a largely distributed SUN environment, which incorporates all of its frontend systems, down to just one box and run it in a manner that didn‘t present a significant change for administration staff.

To date, the bank has consolidated 131 SUN SPARC systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM z Systems.

In fact, since migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM mainframes, BNZ has recorded a 33 percent reduction in heat output and a 39 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, for its front-end systems. The new virtualized platform has also boosted the speed and simplicity of new deployments. www.redhat.com/de/about/press-releases/bnz

―Deploying IBM mainframes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to address our carbon footprint and cost saving concerns was a very big deal, especially at the senior management level. It provided us with the opportunity to take a very serious leap into Linux, and that was exciting for everyone in IT and beyond.‖ - Lyle Johnston, infrastructure architect for BNZ

Business need: Banco Pastor was using heavily customized and modular software for its HR "The employee portal functions including its payroll, benefits administration, HR management information system, recruitment, career and training systems and employee Self-Service allows employees to systems.This highly tailored system required a significant maintenance effort, manage their representing a substantial cost in upkeep. Banco Pastor wanted to reduce operational costs and cut the time taken to respond to new business regulations. vacations more easily, reducing bureaucratic Solution: processes by between Banco Pastor implemented SAP ERP Human Capital Management, with SAP NetWeaver Portal. The system runs on two IBM z Systems servers, supporting 30 to 70 %.― Linux operating system partitions and IBM DB2 running natively on z/OS. - Montserrat Torres Torres, The z Systems servers also host IBM Lotus® Domino® and IBM Lotus Notes® Computer Systems Manager, services in additional logical partitions. Banco Pastor

Benefits: . A hugely complex and modular HR system has been consolidated and simplified . Solution cut administrative processes, reduced complexities and minimized the workload by 30% respectively, translating to significant savings and labor efficiencies . Solution enables staff to process personnel issues through a web portal quickly and easily, reducing bureaucratic processes by between 30 to 70%

Business need: "A key success for us is Searched for a replacement for proprietary software for its IBM the ability to consolidate mainframe servers that could provide greater flexibility, multiple workloads into manageability, and utilization opportunities. Migration Path: HP– one instance of Red Hat UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux as Solution: opposed to running in our SRP decided it would prefer to use one reliable Linux distribution traditional environment, in both its mainframe and distributed environments. where each workload would have to run on a Benefits: separate server; that’s a . Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM z Systems mainframe huge benefit for us.‖ servers has provided SRP with a very stable and - Kevin Masaryk, Senior predictable solution that can be easily managed via Linux/UNIX Administrator at SRP Red Hat Network Satellite

. Enabled cost savings through the elimination of licensing costs, and has also provided boosted performance for its servers

. ―The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our IBM z Systems mainframe was straightforward and didn’t take long at all.―

Business need: With 18 different business units, each with its own intranet solution ―As we migrate in a distributed environment, RENFE had difficulty in presenting services to Linux on information consistently. IT administration costs were high and the IBM z Systems, we architecture had limited scalability. anticipate that we will Solution: require fewer people Working with IBM Global Services, RENFE deployed IBM to manage them, and WebSphere Portal running under SUSE Linux Enterprise server on the IBM z Systems platform, to create a single, consistent source our long-term costs of corporate information can be reduced.‖ - Carlos Varela, Director of IT Systems, Benefits: Renfe Operadora . Fast access to information on a unified platform . Reduced operational costs through IT consolidation . Ability to create new virtualized servers rapidly and easily, without the expense and delay of procuring new hardware