As organizations make the move to cloud platforms to support modern analytics and applications, they often need to move more than their on-premises data warehouses and lakes. Organizations often have legacy mainframe data that runs their mission-critical and revenue-generating applications, and that needs to get to the cloud as well.,,Yet it can be difficult to replicate this data onto cloud platforms to make it a part of your data-driven initiatives. Mainframe data is often complex with old formats. When it is moved to the cloud, the data needs to maintain consistency and accuracy. At the same time, the data needs to be available in real time to cloud-based data management and analytics applications.,,Watch this webinar for a discussion with experts from Precisely and AWS about how to bring your data to applications and services on the cloud. Topics include:,The importance of mainframe data for organizationsHow to migrate/replicate mainframe data to cloud platformsHow to ensure trusted data on cloud platforms

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The Future of Mainframe Data Is in the
Cloud
July 20, 2023

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3. FERN HALPER
VP, Senior Research Director for
Advanced Analytics
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AGENDA
• Introduction: Cloud data/mainframe data
• Panel discussion:
• The importance of mainframe data
for organizations
• How to integrate/modernize
mainframe data to cloud platforms
• How to ensure trusted data on cloud
platforms
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Cloud
platforms
are
mainstream

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There are
issues getting
data to the
cloud/using it
in the cloud

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Some of this data is mission critical/mainframe data
• Mainframe data can be wide and varied
• Transactions, customer data, billing data, ERP data, supply chain data
• Vertical data such as insurance claims, healthcare records, financial data
• This data can be very useful to enrich data sets for analysis and for modern
applications
• Yet, it is complex to modernize to the cloud
• Complex, unique formats such as VSAM
• May use different encoding schemes such as EBCDIC rather than ASCII
• Written in older languages, such as COBOL
• Needs to be available in real-time/synchronized with the cloud
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An example
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EBCDIC –”A” ASCII – “A”
193 (decimal), C1 (hexadecimal) 65 (decimal), 41 (hexadecimal)

9. Ashwin Ramachandran
Senior Director of Product
Management – Data
Integration
Precisely

10. Maggie Li
Principal Engineer
AWS

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Panel
Discussion

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Panel discussion
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Question: What do you see as the importance of the mainframe for
organizations?

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Panel discussion
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Question: What challenges do you see organizations facing as they try
to modernize mainframe data to the cloud?

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Panel discussion
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Question: How do you integrate/modernize mainframe data to the
cloud?

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Panel discussion
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Question: How do you ensure that mainframe data is accurate, timely,
and trusted?

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Panel discussion
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Question: What other best practices do you recommend for
organizations modernizing mainframe data to the cloud?

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Questions?

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Fern Halper, TDWI
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