Here is my presentation on aerospace application retirement from the Airline & Aerospace MRO & Operations IT conference held at London Heathrow on 10th June 2015

1. The Beast
taming
airline&aerospaceMRO& operationsITconference
JUNE2015-Heathrow

2. paulsaunders
@thesaundipaul.saunders@flatironssolutions.com
aww yeah
it’s a Game of Thrones deck

3. agameofcars

4. everycarmustdie
#FIXED

5. everycarmustdie
#FIXED
an aerospace IT metaphor

6. nextgenerationdataduplicationsystemdigitalnativeconfusionsystem
impressivesystemstack
dirtyfingerprintinsertionsystemwinterfell(oemsystems)
willitworkonmyiphone?
omgwtf?inexplicablefaxmachine
papercopiesforsomereason
kingslanding(lessorrequirements)
illegiblehandwritingrecognitionsystem
s1000D
ispec2200
lolz
MRO
ERP
BBQ?
Angry
Birds
yay!
windows
xp?
pointless
ahm
anempty
rectangle
cloud
casterleyrock!

7. bigdata
internetofthings
mobility2.0
wearables2.0
millennialfriendlycontent
diagnostics
prognostics
applewatch
hololens
augmentedreality
virtualreality
contentreuse
ubiquitousnetworks
everybodywantsnewstuff
occulusrift
crowdsourcedcontent
socialcontent
phablets

8. itshowwehavealwaysdoneit
youknownothingjonsnow

9. innovation
isbeingstifled
bylegacyapplications

10. warning
thenextslides
containsomestats

12. Support the business
Improve
Innovate
ITBUDGETCHALLENGES
• No competitive advantage to be gained
• Spend minimised to achieve
“acceptable” service levels
• Ever increasing spend

13. Support the business
Improve
Innovate
futurestateitbudget
• Make good investment decisions
• Can lead to competitive advantage
• Reduce & shift the spend

14. applicationdecommissioning
lowcost&lowrisk
simple&fasttoimplement
xmlarchivingisfuture
proof&selfdescribing
archivestructured&
unstructureddataina
singlesolution
notargetschema=
ultimateflexibility

15. determinethebusinessvalue&impact

16. planforthedata

17. considerthetechnology

18. isdecommissioningworthit?

19. You’REafunnyguy
that’swhyI’mgoingtokillyoulast

20. You’REafunnyguy
that’swhyI’mgoingtokillyoulast
whathappenednext?

21. You’REafunnyguy
that’swhyI’mgoingtokillyoulast
whathappenednext?
#newcar

22. thankyou
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expertise
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Europe
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