Pascal Laffineur, CEO of the NRB Group, presents the NRB Group, its portfolio, its strategy and the position of the Mainframe in it.

1. MAINFRAME
DAY
EDITION 2021
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2. Pascal Laffineur, CEO The NRB Group

3. + 413 million EUR
TURNOVER
K E Y F I G U R E S 2 0 2 0
+ 3200
COLLABORATORS
44,9 million EUR
EBIT
57,2 million EUR
EBITDA
TOP 3
O F T H E I C T S E C TO R I N
B E L G I U M
O R G A N I S AT I O N A N D K E Y F I G U R E S 2 0 2 0

4. GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENCE OF THE NRB GROUP:
O R G A N I S A T I O N A N D K E Y F I G U R E S 2 0 2 0

5. OUR SERVICES
T H E N R B S E R V I C E P O R T F O L I O
CONSULTING & COACHING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION MANAGED STAFFING
MAINFRAME
DISTRIBUTED
INFRASTRUCTURE & CLOUD
CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT
& IMPLEMENTATION
SOFTWARE SUITES
SECURITY OF
OPERATIONS

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OUR ASSETS
O U R C O M M I T M E N T S , O U R O F F E R , O U R A S S E T S
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Knowledgeable
• Business expertise: +200 consultants
- business experts in the public &
social sectors, utilities, finance,
industry and international
organisations
• ICT expertise: + 2000 qualified and
certified experts in ICT technologies
Unburdening
• Outsource your burden to us: we
can take care of all layers of your
ICT solutions & their complete
lifecycle
• At predictable cost: we offer clear
commitments in terms of quality
levels & pricing
Close to you
• State of the art Infrastructure at
hand: 2 georedundant data
centres Tier3+ in Belgium
• Know where your data is: access
and visibility at all times on your
data
• Direct communication: top
management, sales and services at
close range
Empathic & Agnostic
• A strong local partner with +30
year experience in the local
markets
• Technology agnostic: we choose
the best (technological) solution
and make it fit your business
context & ambitions

7. Trigone
7,1 millions EUR
TURNOVER
71
COLLABORATORS
The z/OS specialist in France
B u t a l s o . . . a n i n n o v a t i v e e c o s y s t e m p r o v i d i n g a l l t h e s e r v i c e s r e q u i r e d f o r
m u l t i - p l a t f o r m I T p r o d u c t i o n a n d f o r y o u r d i g i t a l t r a n s f o r m a t i o n
MULTI PLATFORM
Production management STEERING OF GOVERNANCE CONSULTING & EXPERTISE
SW DEVELOPMENT SAP-as-a-SERVICE SUPPORT & ADMINISTRATION

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NRB
MAINFRAME
CENTRE
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M A I N F R A M E A C T I V I T Y A T N R B
→ State-of-the-art Mainframe infrastructure (N/N-1), with a current capacity
exceeding 30000+ Mips
→ 16 Mainframe customers, and as many successful migrations over the past
10 years
→ 250+ local Mainframe experts
→ Partnership with IBM BeLux and IBM France
→ « Mainframe Modernisation » roadmap, DevOps and Mainframe Software Factory
→ Mainframe DNA: organizer of the yearly « NRB Mainframe Day » and facilitator
of « Mainframe User Groups »
→ Geo-resilient data centres, meeting and exceeding, Tier III+ qualification
→ ISO-9001 and ISO-27001 certifications
→ ISAE 3402 et ISAE 3000 Type II audit reports

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NRB MAINFRAME ENVIRONMENT – GROWTH AND REFERENCES
M A I N F R A M E A C T I V I T Y A T N R B
Customers MIPS
1987
2001
2010
2011
2013
2014
2015
2017
2018
2020
2021
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5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
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M A I N F R A M E A C T I V I T Y A T N R B
NRB MAINFRAME ENVIRONMENT – GROWTH AND REFERENCES
M O D E R N I Z A T I O N
Technology
Intelligence
POC
Service deployment
Refactoring
65
Digital integration
D E V E L O P M E N T
Analysis
Data modeling
Quality Assurance
Maintenance
Development
110
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Solution design
Legacy transformation
Innovation
Security
10
E N G I N E E R I N G
Monitoring
Storage
TP & databases
OS & HW
configuration
Network & security
70
P R O D U C T I O N
Operations &
monitoring
Batch operations
management
Scheduling
25
P R O C E S S
Reporting
Capacity planning
Documentation
Cost
Performance
5

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M A I N F R A M E A C T I V I T Y A T N R B
NRB MAINFRAME: BUILDING FUTURE -PROOF MAINFRAME EXPERTISE
→ Continuous education
→ Senior/junior pairs: internal coaching by senior staff
→ Constant attention for SPOF tracking for balanced expertise distribution
→ Academic partnership with ULiege since 2017
→ Mainframe Course in the Business Computing Bachelor degree
→ Yearly Mainframe internship programs for graduates @NRB
→ Continuous recruitment
→ 25+ junior hires and 35+ senior hires since 2020
→ Active management of the age pyramid

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M A I N F R A M E A C T I V I T Y A T N R B
Service models
SERVICE IAAS PAAS PAAS+ PAAS+++
Application Development & Modernization Customer Customer Customer NRB
Applicative Exploitation Customer Customer NRB NRB
Operations Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Performance Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Middleware and Database Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Sources and Executable Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Document Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Storage Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Security Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Operating System Management Customer NRB NRB NRB
Disaster Recovery NRB NRB NRB NRB
Storage Allocation NRB NRB NRB NRB
Virtualization NRB NRB NRB NRB
Network NRB NRB NRB NRB
Physical Infrastructure Management NRB NRB NRB NRB
NRB MAINFRAME SERVICES

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