This presentation was given by Ulrich Penzkofer (CEO of The NRB Group) to introduce NRB's Mainframe Day 2014 on the theme "Think out of the box - How Mainframe and Innovation Go Together"

1. The NRB Group & the Mainframe
How Mainframe & Innovation
go Together
Ulrich Penzkofer, CEO The NRB Group 22/05/2014
Mainframe Day
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Happy Birthday Mainframe!!!
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The theme of the day…
« 50 years old and still looking great! How do you do it? »
« … continuous innovation, my dear! »
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Mainframe & Innovation
Today we will try to give some answers to some key
questions, such as:
How can you keep your portfolio of mainframe applications up to date
(and sexy)?
How can you assure the right level of maintenance and development
skills, even on a long term?
How can you assure the introduction of innovation on your mainframe
environments?

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We will present 4 strong references of NRB that will bring
their answers to these questions:
… through re-engineeering of existing code with modern tools and
according to the latest best practices
… through combining the best of both worlds; i.e. the power of the
mainframe in a transactional world with a modern SOA architecture
and an ESB
… through the use of contemporary development environments
youngster love to work with… on a mainframe
… through the use of innovative tools such as in flash memory for
boosting performances of an Oracle environment on a mainframe
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Mainframe & Innovation

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Still, remain some tough ‘Challenges’:
How to deal with the mainframe knowledge gap (MF experts are
babyboomers)?
How to assure a unified view of the entire application delivery chain?
How to assure the ongoing management and optimisation of this
complete chain of mainframe and distributed systems and applications?
How to ensure ‘keeping up’ by carefully tuning mainframe applications
to the new workloads?
How to bridge both the alien worlds: your mainframe team and the rest
of IT?
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What are the challenges?
Mainframe & Innovation

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NRB is the #1 mainframe services provider in Belgium!
A track record of nearly 30 years of mainframe expertise
We have the infrastructure (+7000 MIPS), we have the people
(+200)
We can help you protect, support and strengthen your mainframe
investments
Our mainframe services can be the foundation of your successful
enterprise cloud computing
What makes NRB unique is the combination of its capacity for
mainframe hosting and managed operations + its mainframe
development center
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NRB loves the Mainframe!
HOSTING & MANAGED OPERATIONS DEVELOPMENT FACTORY
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Our Mainframe References
HOSTING & MANAGED OPERATIONS DEVELOPMENT FACTORY

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More about The NRB Group…
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10. Group Structure & key figures
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FTE: 542
TO: €131.4 M
FTE: 141
TO: €25 M
FTE: 183
TO: €25.5 M
FTE: 198
TO: €28.1 M
TO: €4.8 M
FTE: 10
Start Up
2013 - TO: 208 million € - EBIT : 7.7% - FTE : 1074 collaborators
Finance &
Insurance
Public & Social
(Reg. & Fed.)
Utilities
Industry
Health care Public & Social
(Prov. & Loc)
Brussels & South
Public & Social
(Prov. & Loc)
North
B2B
Mobile & Web
Development
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Revenues breakdowns
The NRB Group
Distribution of sales figures by region
Distribution of sales figures by sector Distribution of sales figures by services
33%
43%
9%
2%
12%
1%
Finance
Public
Utilities
Industry
Healthcare
Other
11%
26%
63%
0%
Bruxelles
Flandres
Wallonie
International
12%
28%
23%
35%
2% Hardware
Products & Solutions
Development &
Customisation
Infrastructure Services
Others
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A presence throughout Belgium
The NRB Group

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NRB’s organization chart
Member of the
Board of Directors

14. Finance &
Insurance
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Our main customers (NRB)
The NRB Group
Public & Social
Fed. & Reg.
Utilities Industry
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Our main customers (xperthis, Civadis, Cevi & logins)
The NRB Group
Public & Social
Loc. South
Health care
Public & Social
Loc. North
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The NRB Group takes the 3rd position in Belgium
The NRB Group in the Belgian market
IBM 11%
HP 9%
NRB 4%
Accenture 3%
Atos 3%
Capgemini 3%
SAP 3%
RealDolmen 2%
Microsoft 2%
Infosys 2%
Cegeka 2%Smals 2%CSC 2%Getronics 2%
Others 50%

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The four strategic axes
Our strategic horizon towards 2015
 Mainframe : consolidate our position as a major actor (applications and
infrastructure).
 Distributed Systems : Reinforce our presence and industrialise our
service portfolio, be the number one in cloud services.
 SAP, Mobile, BI and other Software Solutions: Reinforce and
develop our offering, according to the needs of our target customers
 Develop and propose new comprehensive and innovative solutions
for specific sectors , such as the sector of Health Care and the local
public sector in order to reinforce the leadership in those markets.
Customers
Service
Portfolio
Delivery Co-workers
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