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Agile Business Suite Experiences in Europe UTF, Queenstown, May 2008

Agile Business Suite Experiences in Europe UTF, Queenstown, May 2008. Maarten Schneider Marketing Manager, AB Suite EMEA maarten.schneider@unisys.com. Some General Information. Netherlands: Population: 16.5 million Capital: Amsterdam Country almost flat Two hours drive max to users

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Agile Business Suite Experiences in Europe UTF, Queenstown, May 2008

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  1. Agile Business SuiteExperiences in EuropeUTF, Queenstown, May 2008 Maarten Schneider Marketing Manager, AB Suite EMEA maarten.schneider@unisys.com

  2. Some General Information • Netherlands: • Population: 16.5 million • Capital: Amsterdam • Country almost flat • Two hours drive max to users • Europe: • 47 countries and 750 million • European Union: 27 countries and 500 million • Three hours flight max from Amsterdam • Languages: English, French, Germany and many more

  3. Agenda • EAE user base and EAE specialists • Our start with AB Suite • Customer projects • Centre of Excellence and additional tools • Conclusions

  4. EAE User Base and EAE Specialists • Over 100 active EAE users • Main EAE countries in Europe: • UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium • In each of these countries: • Team of EAE consultants, total Europe: over 15 • Team of EAE product support specialists, total Europe: over 10 • In the Netherlands, over 30 developers trained in AB Suite • Customers, Software Houses, Unisys

  5. Our Start with AB Suite • In the Netherlands we always like new stuff • End 90’s we started to present and discuss OOLINC • From 2003: we participated in the Early Adopter Program • We introduced the product to some users • They gave very good feedback, like C# and more OO • They saw the value of the product strategy

  6. Working Together • We worked together with users • Hans Kuppens (CZ/OZ) to Sydney, 2004 • Hans Kuppens (CZ/OZ) to India, 2005 • Jan Piet Slot (Post & Co) two weeks Sydney, 2006 • We trained many other Unisys employees in Europe • Andre Paridaens, Unisys Belgium went to Sydney • Several test sessions within Unisys Netherlands, Pizza sessions • Many training sessions in Amsterdam for the Europe team

  7. Customer Projects • Xella • CZ/OZ • Post & Co • SNS REAAL • Customer in Ireland • UFSS team in the UK • Customers in France • Partner in the UK • Partner in Latvia • Many others

  8. Customer Example 1 Xella • Long time EAE user • Company strategy: Standard SAP for basic solutions and AB Suite for all special applications • New application developed in AB Suite for Windows • In production: beginning of 2007 • New project will start 2H 2008

  9. Customer Example 2 CZ • Formed by merger of CZ and OZ (OZ was an EAE user) • Health care insurance company in the Netherlands • Three EAE applications on Windows, total 30,000 function points • Did pilot project with AB Suite • Did major test activities, in house, Sydney, India, in house • Plan: June this year

  10. Customer Example 3 Post & Co • Did you see his presentation? • If not: please talk to Jan Piet • Early Adopter Program user • MCP user • Did tests in Sydney • In production with AB Suite-based application since May 2007

  11. Customer Example 4: SNS REAAL

  12. ASSENALKMAAR UTRECHT ZOETERMEER LIFEGENERAL BRANCHESMORTGAGESBANKING TURNOVER 2,7 BILLION PROFITS140 MILLION 500IT-EMPLOYEES 2000EMPLOYEES Fact sheet REAAL Insurance.

  13. 50+ EAE Developers Metering ClearPath Libra for MCP Six EA Runtime applications Largest application 3,150,000 lines of LDL+; 750,000 online transactions a day EAD release and generate of objects done automatically

  14. Customer Example 4 Partnership in AB Suite Migration • Roadmap was defined in an eight-phase approach • Each phase is a separate project ( 1-n phases ) • Each phase starts with a Statement Of Work and ends with a Statement Of Work for the next phase • Every phase has a go / no go decision • Results of each phase are presented to the management

  15. Customer Example 4 Eight-Phase Approach • Phases 1,2 and 3 • Show Safe Passage • First pick standalone application, work done at Unisys Center of Excellence Schiphol-Rijk • Repeat steps previous phase but on customer’s infrastructure • Repeat steps but then with the largest application • Phase 4 • Mitigate risk for the migration • During migration business as usual, the shop must stay open • Install/configure AB Suite infrastructure • Adjust the in-house developed change management tooling • Train developers (coaches) and administrator staff

  16. Customer Example 4 Eight-Phase Approach • Phase 4, continued • Developers (coaches) will test working with the new LDL+ code in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 • Import and Build in AB Suite 1.2 for Runtime MCP • Test performance Online and Batch to see the impact on their development and production ClearPath MCP servers • Test performance in AB Suite building of elements and doing exports and imports of those elements between Microsoft Visual Studio solutions like dev/tst/acc/prd • Test performance AB Suite Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE

  17. Customer Example 4 Eight-Phase Approach • Phase 5 • Migrate one of the six application from EAE 3R3 to AB Suite 1.2 • See if lessons learned in phase 4 are still valid • Phase 6 • When the AB Suite application in previous stage runs ok then start migrating other five applications • Phase 7 • Investigate building new application with AB Suite • Phase 8 • Move AB Suite from MCP to Windows platform

  18. Customer Example 5 • Large major financial institute in Ireland • Large EAE application on MCP • Project conducted in 2006 • Purpose to prove Safe Passage • To prove good performance in Runtime • Conclusion: AB Suite is a valid future product

  19. Customer Example 6 UFSS (Unisys Financial Services System) • An integrated mortgage and investment application comprising: • 2.1m lines of code • 1595 Ispecs • 858 Profiles • 1079 Reports • 1209 Global Logics

  20. Current Client Base UFSS • Four major UK banking clients • Two largest on ClearPath/DMSII • One on W2K/SQL Server • One on W2K/Oracle • Largest client has around 1.2M accounts running on UFSS • Clients have a variety of batch input and output extract file based interfaces • Clients have a range of real time interfaces over NOF/CE • Plan: to have UFSS in AB Suite by end June

  21. Customer Example 7 Several AB Suite projects and a good Unisys team in France • Active EAE user group, includes both Windows and MCP customers • Unisys team works closely with their users • A number of training sessions conducted • Two users almost finished their migration efforts • One user with applications on Windows and MCP • AB Suite on Windows 1H 2008 • Two other users will start AB Suite projects in September

  22. Customer Example 8

  23. Customer Example 9

  24. Customer Example 10 • Many more users in Europe active with AB Suite • UK, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Denmark I want to thank all these users for their contribution.Together we make the best product ever

  25. Centre of Excellence and Additional Tools • AB Suite Centre of Excellence in Amsterdam • Same location as Windows CoE • Group of Top Consultants for AB Suite • Same for Windows / SQL Server • Our Microsoft friends next door • We extended a production re-run test tool • We developed an AB Suite Developer load and performance tool

  26. Conclusions • AB Suite in Europe: lots of activities together with users • Many product issues reported, which are fixed by Acus • Many new migration projects lined up to start in September • You benefit from all these activities: the product is ready to GOThe European team is committed to make a success of AB Suite

  27. Questions? Thank you very much 13:00: AB Suite marketing activities in Europe; Boardroom 14:45: AB Suite “Birds of o Feather”; discussion and questions; Boardroom

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