The document discusses how organizations can harness traditional IT investments to foster innovation in the application economy through enhanced management strategies and analytics. It emphasizes the need for a unified view of IT infrastructure and highlights advancements in mainframe management to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Key focus areas include operational efficiency, risk management, and leveraging real-time data for better decision-making.

1. Transformational IT Management
in the Application Economy
Shannon Dolan
MFT10S #CAWorld
CA Technologies
SVP, Product Management & Strategy
Mainframe
David Wade
Primerica
Chief Information Officer

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Abstract
To thrive in the application economy organizations need to drive
value and innovation from traditional IT investments into exciting
new opportunities. Discover how you can gain a holistic view of
your IT infrastructure with new innovative analytics that can help
you predict the future, quickly resolve problems and optimize
business results. Preview new System z innovation that will
improve operational efficiency and deliver real and actionable
insight into your business by streamlining mainframe management
through mobile devices using the power of your existing security,
performance and database management solutions. Don’t miss this
opportunity to learn how you can transform IT management for
greater productivity in the application economy.
David Wade
Primerica
CIO
Shannon Dolan
CA Technologies
SVP, Product
Management

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The Impact of Application Economy on System z
Governance
Analytics
Cloud
Security
Internet
of Things
Mobility
Big Data
DevOps

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GENERATION Z:
CONNECTED FROM BIRTH
Born mid-1990’s to 2010

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Evolution: Belief is Optional, Participation is Not...

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Empowering
those who will
manage the
data center of
the future

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Unifying Infrastructure Management
Platform Omniscience
Holistic View of IT Infrastructure
User
Network
Systems of Engagement Systems of Operations
3rd Party Apps
Databases
Web Services/SAAS
APP SERVER
Systems of Record
MQ
CICS IMS
Datacom DB2
MIDDLEWARE
TRANSACTIONSDATA

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Large independent financial
services organization in North
America, providing term life
insurance, mutual funds and
other investment vehicles.

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• Approximately 100,000 licensed sales reps
• Over $670 billion of life insurance in force
• Insured more than 4.3 million lives*
• Delivered $1 billion in death claims*
• Approximately 1.9 million investment accounts*
• Over $37 billion in asset values in their Primerica
investment client accounts*
• Greater than 87% of Primerica’s Life Insurance
applications are submitted electronically
* At 2012 year-end

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Real-Time Data is Key to Primerica
Saliva and blood tests
using real-time data:
• Medical Information
Bureau (MIB)
• Motor Vehicle
Registration (MVR)
• Prescription databases
Accelerated business
responsiveness
Wait-period for
underwriting decisions
reduced from
30-90 days to 3 minutes
or less
Development for field
agent applications is
focused on mobile,
adaptive and
responsive design

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Risk Management
Disaster
Recovery
High Availability
Information
Security
Governance
Skills
Continuity
Productivity
Key Elements of Mitigating Risk and Enabling Business Continuity

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Primerica Data Center Requirements
To sustain critical skills and reduce complexity of managing data center
 Enable ongoing access to real-
time data from field agent
applications
 Improve data center
operational efficiency
 Modernize mainframe
management as part of next-
generation data center
infrastructure
 Shorten on-ramp for new
mainframe DBAs and
developers
CHALLENGES: How CA Software Helps:
 Accelerate detection and troubleshooting of
performance bottlenecks
 Optimize data center efficiency with intuitive, modern
user interface for DB2 database management
 Visualize performance problems, receive alerts, tune
database performance and track historical trends
from a single location
 Increase productivity of DBA experts and reduce
training time for novice staff through collaboration,
knowledge sharing and instant access to decades of
experience

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Transforming IT Management
Silo-Oriented Service-Enabled
Isolated
Interoperable
Integrated

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For More Information
To learn more about Mainframe, please visit:
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