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Eri Bancaire's Olympic Banking Package and MDCMS
Description
- Around 100 employees
- 7 employees responsible for IT, IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) programming and administration
- "Sample Bank xxx" AG has an architecture with a standard third-party software package ( Eri Bancaire's Olympic Banking Package) and its own specific development
- 3 distinct Olympic environments
(Development, User Acceptance, and Production) spread across a combination of 3 logical partitions or physical machines:
- 500 GB of Production Data spread across 200 critical files and 400 minor files
- 800 critical Olympic programs
- 50 Olympic user menus
- In-house interfaces to Olympic data consisting of 2000 queries and 250 programs
- Average 2 ERI deliveries per week containing an average of 10 objects per deliver
Quantitative benefits
- 1 hour savings per ERI delivery for the technical movement of objects from environment to environment
- 0.5 hour savings per delivery for pre-install validation of objects
- 0.5 hour savings for administrative and audit reporting of each delivery
- 1 hour savings per rollback of a delivery in the case of detected errors (average 40 rollbacks per year)
- 10 to 30 minutes savings per programmer per day for application navigation
- 15 to 20 minutes savings per in-house object modification.
In a typical Olympic bank, MDCMS is paid for in 1 year based solely on quantitative benefits
Qualitative benefits
- Complete integrity check of ERI and internal objects before migration occurs
- Rollback ERI deliveries or internal objects at any time
- Source and object archiving
- Assists with the building of test environments, powerful comparison tools for data analysis
- Project management functionality (central online tool for project or issue management, request tracking by status, date, programmer, etc.)
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliant
- Audit report generator included
- Embedded security to protect the powerful features of MDCMS
MDCMS improves quality throughout the entire application lifecycle
MDCMS saves time
- Powerful, easy-to-use application analysis function
- Automatic compilation and migration of objects
- Installation scheduler
- Automatic distribution of changes to unlimited IBM i systems simultaneously
MDCMS reduces risk
- Ensures functional integrity of the system before and after changes occur
- Archives replaced objects
- Provides full rollback functionality
- Generates detailed audit trail for each change: who, what, why, when
- Object reservation system
- Assigns correct ownership and authorization levels to objects automatically
- Places objects in the correct location with all necessary parameter settings
- Ensures secure use of the powerful features of MDCMS through an embedded security system
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