October 10, 2006

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• October 10, 2006

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Agenda

• Introductions and History
• Objectives
• Renewal Business Case and Approach
• Techie Talk
• Outcomes

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Delaware History
Child Care Portal Statewide Oct 2004
Deloitte Arrives Jan 1996
EBT Statewide June 2003
1996 1998 2003 2004 2005 2006
Child Care Eligibility Medicaid Client
Notices ASSIST Employment and Training ARMS
(September 2005)
DCIS II Goes Live Oct 1998
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Objectives

• Present current trends regarding incremental
  renewal of legacy systems
• Discuss recent strategies used by the Division of
  Management Services ARMS unit
• Review high level technology concepts
• Present outcomes

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Current Trends

• Mainframe
• According to Gartner, large mainframe users have
  been increasing their mainframe environments for
  years. They say that installed MIPS will
  continue to grow of 15 to 20 percent through
  2009.
• Got Web?
• Easy to Learn
• Easy to Navigate
• Easy to Deploy
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Enables reuse of functionality
• Web resources do not need to understand Mainframe
  technology
• Compliance to standards

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In the beginning

• ARMS
• Use of 6 systems
• Duplicate data entry
• Legacy user interface
• Loss of data
• Manual Reporting
• Goal
• ARMS worker to use one system

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Renewal Approach

• ARMS Value Map
• Identifies business processes
• Shows dependencies
• Documents automated and manual functions
• Leveraging existing architecture and state
  purchases
• Existing Servers, Mainframe Databases, and
  existing resources
• New technology
• DataDirect z/Services and OPUS Elixir (Receipts,
  Forms, and Notices)

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Techie Talk

• Technology Challenges
• Selection Criteria and Process
• Model for ARMS
• How does it work?

Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created
this model to illustrate how a home computer
could look like in the year 2004. However the
needed technology will not be economically
feasible or the average home. Also the
scientists readily admit that the computer will
require not yet invented technology to actually
work, but 50 years from now scientific progress
is expected to solve these problems. With
teletype interface and the Fortran language, the
computer will be easy to use.
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Technology Challenges

• Needed an easy-to-use, industrial-strength
  mechanism to deliver access to mainframe data in
  a mission-critical application from a .NET
  environment
• Must integrate different systems including the
  existing DCIS II eligibility application
• Direct access to Mainframe Database (DB2) was not
  allowed from an intranet application
• Reuse of existing programs was encouraged and
  preferred

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Selecting an SOA

• Supports .NET web architecture Single-step
  configuration accelerates development of
  mainframe Web services by eliminating additional
  programming typically required
• Leveraged existing relationship with vendors
  State uses other database connectivity software
• Proven performance in industry technology
  solution was documented with several successful
  industry installations
• Leverage Existing Resources Mainframe
  application developers do not need any
  familiarity with SOAP or WSDL and can continue
  to operate within a traditional application
  development frame-work with one key difference
  -- the easy availability of external Web
  services functionality.

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Model for ARMS
ARMS Web Application
DB2 Mainframe Database
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How does it work?

• Microsoft .NET web service integration

Add a Web Service
Include in application code
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How does it work?

• Web Service Management, Configuration, and
  Migration

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How does it work?

• Link to the CICS Remote Procedure Call

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Mainframe A Closer Look

• Communications Protocol TCP and Web Services
  Definition Language (WSDL) integration

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Mainframe A Closer Look

• z/Service Address Space Director
• What do you want to do?

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Mainframe A Closer Look

• CICS Address Space ZSRU Listener
• What do you want to run and btw give me the
  data

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Outcomes

• Significant performance gains
• Advanced Security using Enterprise Security
  Manager
• Reduced development time
• Transition to the State
• Road Map for future development

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Questions?

• For more information
• www.Deloitte.com