Name: COBOL – Here’s to the Next 60 Years
Start: 2019-09-10T15:00:00Z
End: 2019-09-10T15:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Micro Focus is now part of OpenText. Digital transformation is powering significant change, and your core systems of record are at the heart of delivering this new competitive advantage. 92% of customers report that their COBOL applications and mainframe systems of record are strategic to their business. 74% view application modernization is the most viable option, while 63% are planning modernization projects right now. Join this channel for insights on maximizing the value of these systems.

According to IDC, traditional host systems can play a pivotal role in digital transformation, as the applications that run on these platforms are of high business value. While integrating the host with modern systems provides maximum value from mainframe systems and data, it comes with challenges around security and automation. 

Secure application access, the ability to manage access to a host in a way that lives up to modern security standards, is critical. And robotic process automation (RPA)—when used with the mainframe and coupled with AI—reduces errors, decreases costs, increases productivity, improves customer service, and makes better use of human resources. 

Join this webinar to learn more and to receive a copy of the IDC position paper, The Modern Mainframe Is Automated, Protected, and Connected.

Security and automation – keys for a modern host system

Modernizing core business systems is now mainstream. Over 70% of organizations plan to modernize their existing COBOL and mainframe applications. Cloud continues to drive IT transformation; but increased agility is also important for many IT leaders. Now is the time to start that DX journey with a proven partner in modernization. 

Join the Open Text product team for an exciting application modernization and product launch event—the release of Visual COBOL 9.0 and Enterprise Suite 9.0. Join the COBOL and mainframe community for a closer look at these latest innovations supporting COBOL development and mainframe migration. 

During this product launch event, we’ll also explore how you can move up to this latest version of Open Text technology and take full advantage of these latest capabilities. We’ll also share the latest customer success news including how IT leaders are modernizing core business systems using Micro Focus™ Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite.

Building for the Future. Visual COBOL and Enterprise Suite 9.0

Host Access for the Cloud 3.0 and Host Access Management and Security Server 14.0 and Reflection for the Web 13.3 are here! These releases feature architectural changes that make deployment easier, whether on-prem or in the cloud. This webinar will review all of the changes and discuss how they can benefit you. Join us to learn more!

New Virtual Appliance for Host Access for the Cloud, MSS, RWeb

Moving COBOL and mainframe applications into the cloud means taking steps to make development teams more agile in how they develop, test and deploy COBOL code. Get these steps right, and the move to cloud will be fuss-free and low drama. And more importantly, you’ll already be enjoying the benefits of this new found agility before you even get to cloud.

In this webinar, we’ll give you a checklist for engineering readiness and layout the steps to cloud and the path to engineering agility. Automation, application assessment, source code management, unit testing, continuous integration, deployment platforms and more are all on the agenda in this quick technical overview that will prepare you for your own journey to cloud.

Destination Cloud: Getting Ready

Most organizations include cloud computing as a key part of their IT strategy. What does this mean for your existing mainframe applications? Perhaps there’s a hint to the future by looking at past IT evolution. Our keynote speaker Neil Fowler, Senior VP Application Modernization & Connectivity at OpenText, will delve into the history and the future of mainframe applications and explore the many possible journeys to modernization in today’s multi-cloud world.

How Mainframe Modernization Powers Your Cloud Journey

There are a lot of choices when it comes to choosing a modernization strategy. This panel of technical experts will discuss the factors you should consider when deciding between modernizing in place, hybrid, or moving applications to cloud.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Technical Panel

In this round of short lightning talks, we’ll explore the range of options for mainframe data when modernizing with cloud. How can you efficiently access data hosted on the mainframe from your cloud applications? What are the benefits of moving your data to the cloud?

What About the Data? - Lightning Talks

In this session, we’ll delve into two different approaches to modernizing operations—modernizing with cloud versus modernizing with open source. Hear the pros and cons of each approach before deciding your own path.

Both Sides: Modernizing Operations

There are always two sides to every story. Don’t miss this session where we explore two very different perspectives on mainframe and cloud security. Which is more secure? Listen to both sides—then decide for yourself.

Both Sides: Comparing Application Security on the Mainframe and the Cloud

In this lightning-fast session, you’ll hear several short talks presenting different perspectives on modernizing DevOps process for your mainframe. How can you make use of DevOps capabilities in the cloud? What about open source projects? Explore these questions and more.

DevOps for Mainframe Applications (On or Off the Mainframe)

What is mainframe modernization and why has it been getting so much attention in recent years?  Hear industry thought leaders explore the answers to these questions and much more in this strategic panel.

Understanding the Mainframe Modernization Movement

The mainframe and the cloud co-exist. You can keep the mainframe and have secure, cloud-based access to it. That means that mainframe organizations should be looking at moving terminal emulation to the cloud. This is a business-critical application, moving it to the cloud has great upside. 

By using terminal emulation from the cloud, you can:
• Reduce TCO
• Increase flexibility and scalability
• Meet regulatory compliance
• Reduce risk, and increase security
• Centralize control and management
• Eliminate workstation dependencies
• Modernize the user interface

Micro Focus (now OpenText) has 40 years of experience helping mainframe organizations with secure access. Join this webinar to learn about how you can have the mainframe on premises while accessing it from the cloud.

Yes! You can access your mainframe from the cloud

Expansion, growth, survival, competition, cost reduction – whatever the reason, whatever the industry, whatever the technology - moving the mainframe to the cloud is a top IT priority. 

CIOs are on the front line of evaluating and integrating new cloud technologies while most mainframe users are already assessing what workloads should be there and at what time.  

Key drivers for moving include: 

•Hardware upgrades 
•Rising maintenance costs. 
•Outsource/managed-service contract renewal. 
•Product/feature time-to-market. 
•Access to key data needed for business decisions. 
•Standardizing on one platform. 

With multiple options and strategies for moving from the mainframe to the cloud come multiple questions and decisions: 

•Is being cloud-ready enough?    
•Should it be a phased vs big-bang approach? 
•Does the type of application or technology matter?  

During this session, we’ll explore these questions and provide insight into what’s the industry doing, who’s already doing it, what are the cloud providers offering, what can you expect – and how to get started!

Survival or Strategy? Business Drivers That Motivate Cloud Migrations

This International Women's Day, join the women behind TechChannel's “Women of COBOL”, including host Misty Decker, producer Marcela Marrugo, and TechChannel editor Emma Pitzl for a behind-the-scenes look at this popular series. They'll share some of their favorite insights from past Women of COBOL episodes, what they've learned about women in tech and the future of the series.

Watch the entire Women of COBOL series:  https://techchannel.com/Enterprise/women-of-cobol-video-series

The Hidden Story of the Women of COBOL

In a recent Vanson-Bourne market study, Cloud was reported as the #1 digital driver for respondents working with COBOL and mainframe applications. Most agree that Cloud is the future, but how do you get there quickly and without compromising your core business systems and data? 

In this webinar you’ll hear about how Micro Focus is enabling a new journey to cloud for all enterprise organizations invested in COBOL and mainframe applications. You’ll discover three key steps to begin your personal cloud journey as well as how to leverage cloud as part of your larger modernization strategy.

Highlights include: 
• Destination Cloud – what is it and why now?
• Three key steps to enabling cloud success
• Customer Success: A cloud modernization story

So, if Cloud is on your future application roadmap or perhaps, you’re already on that journey, register for the webinar. Let’s explore how Cloud, together with the right plan and partnership, can accelerate your digital transformation strategy.

Destination Cloud. Your journey to application modernization.

Reflection Desktop and InfoConnect Desktop are families of best-in-class terminal emulators that provide secure, reliable access from Windows desktops to a wide range of host systems. This latest release, 18.0, includes new features to benefit you! These new features include printer emulation in the Workspace, Modern UX, locking down Trusted Locations by default, and more. 

Join us to see how this latest release can help you get the most out of your Micro Focus terminal emulation solutions.

Reflection Desktop and InfoConnect Desktop 18.0 Release

Depending on who you ask, you’ll get very different definitions of the word “Modernization” and those different definitions are causing unnecessary confusion. The Open Mainframe Project is working with the broader mainframe and cloud ecosystems to create a shared understanding of modernization options, from modernizing in place to moving to the cloud. 

Come learn about the new Modernization Working Group of the Open Mainframe Project, where we will create “open-source thought leadership” and a repository of vendor-agnostic modernization information. We’ll also describe where you can find free modernization education, adding to your own modernization knowledge and credentials.

Move from Modernization Confusion to Modernization Clarity

The mainframe has traditionally been seen as secure because it was obscure. This just isn’t the case anymore – the mainframe lives in our connected world! This means that the mainframe needs to be part of your overall IT security strategy - you need to ensure that the security controls that are used across the enterprise can also be used with the mainframe. This includes integrating the mainframe into the broader IT security strategy that includes Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) – as this is key to ensuring that only authorized individuals access your critical assets.

How to Integrate the Mainframe with your IT Security Strategy

The application development language, COBOL, turns 60 this year. September 1959 saw the first mention of the technical acronym “COBOL”, which was then adopted as the name for the 
language being specified and developed. 

The session will explore, and celebrate, the language’s continued relevance, use cases and prevalence. A number of defining characteristics have ensured COBOL remains in widespread usage, and we will ask ourselves the question—why not another 60 years? Join the COBOL community to celebrate, and look forward!

COBOL – Here’s to the Next 60 Years

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