Name: #COBOL60 – Shaping the Future of Core Business Applications
Start: 2020-02-12T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-02-12T16:59:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

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. 704% 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.

Automation, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a key initiative with many organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs. With so much important business data housed on the mainframe, it is logical to leverage the mainframe in RPA initiatives. But accessing mainframe data can be more complicated. Since this data is business critical, utilizing RPA with the mainframe must be done right.

This webinar will give you information on a range of options for enabling the integration of host data into these RPA initiatives. Whether RPA developers prefer to integrate via web services or more traditional application programming interfaces, like HLLAPI or .NET, Micro Focus supports a programmatic interface that will optimally support the developer’s integration project.

Join a guest speaker from IDC for valuable insights and information on automation and the mainframe and hear from Micro Focus for simple technology steps you can adopt today to meet your RPA objectives.

Automation and the Mainframe

If you’re on this page, chances are you are working in Financial Services. And if you are, you already know the unique challenges your sector faces.  Working with increasingly stringent compliance legislation, meeting consumer expectations driven by the domestic technology market, and managing a sprawling estate of legacy IT are just a few. 

Modernization has never felt more necessary, or difficult to achieve.   

We can help.
This dedicated session, hosted by Micro Focus and Microsoft experts, explains how transformation innovation can specifically help those working in FinServ meet their strategic and operational goals. 

Attend this webinar 
Our FinServ tech gurus understand the key trends. They recognize where evolving application modernization features on the path to Azure transformation, and how the flexibility and scalability of cloud services can give any FinServ enterprise a market advantage.

Register today. Benefit tomorrow.

Strategic Modernization for Financial Services on Microsoft Azure

Marianne Bellotti, senior software engineer and relapsed anthropologist, recently published "Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (And Future Proof Modern Ones)". Misty Decker, Product Marketing Director at Micro Focus, has been a mainframer for 30 years. Jennifer Osborne, recent addition to the Micro Focus Technical Sales team, is just beginning her modernization career.  What happens when these three women, with very different perspectives, get together to talk about modernization? 

Come listen in as they answer your questions about modernization starting with:
• What does “modernization” actually mean and why should you care? 
• Do you need to have a single modernization strategy across the enterprise?
• How do you determine what’s right for your organization?

An Author, Mainframer & Newcomer Walk into a Bar: A Broad View of Modernization

Your mainframe systems are the core of your business and manage your most critical applications. As we are in the midst of an economic recovery and Digital Transformation is at the center of debates, one question arises: are your mainframe systems agile enough to meet your changing needs ?

Join us and find out how:

• The "move to Cloud" allows you to modernize your assets while reducing your costs and without giving up the core business applications that contribute to your success
• Set up best practices for a reliable and scalable modernization strategy towards an agile Cloud Platform
• Discover SD Worx's customer testimonial on its first steps with the Azure Cloud Platform and how Microsoft and Micro Focus are supporting their customers in this process

Modernizing your Mainframe Applications with the Azure Cloud Platform

As organizations modernize, it is essential to understand software deployment and user configurations across the organization. In this webinar you will see the latest in host access analysis and inventory. You will learn how Micro Focus can help you:

• Assess exposure to risk and vulnerabilities
• Determine compliance with regulations
• Gain insights into how well internal policies are followed

You will also learn how to retrieve real-time usage information to understand how end-users utilize software, allowing you to plan infrastructure changes or monitor for non-standard end user configuration activity. Join this webinar to learn more and to see the new release of Host Access Analyzer.

Analysis and Inventory for Mainframe Systems

New Application Modernization Opportunity

The results are in! Join Micro Focus and Vanson Bourne for a closer look at the latest COBOL research and learn why COBOL creates a tremendous opportunity for future business innovation.

This webinar will seek to answer the longstanding question: ‘How much COBOL is really out there and why does it matter? As IT organizations accelerate efforts to support new digital transformation priorities, core business applications—written in COBOL—sit at the center of this strategy.

Join us on January 19, 2022, for an in-depth look at the results from our recent COBOL survey. During this webinar, we will cover:

• Top research highlights and themes
• COBOL application modernization priorities 
• Understanding the volume of COBOL application code
• The future of COBOL innovation 
• Next steps and resources

How much COBOL is really out there?

Join us for the “Modern Mainframe Access and Security Forum” session on December 14. Hear the latest information on mainframe security and ask our subject matter experts your questions during the open Q&A at the end of the session.       

Agenda highlights include:    
• Neil Fowler, of the Micro Focus AMC Business Group, shares the company strategy and vision for core business application access and security.   
• An IDC analyst shares review insights for your protected and connected mainframe.   
• Reliance Steel discuss their mainframe security best practices.    
• Mainframe modernization experts host a security-focused round table discussion.        

Join us at this virtual session to drive your journey towards the protected and connected digital mainframe.   Micro Focus experts have the simple technology steps you can adopt today to meet your future security, privacy, and mainframe access objectives.

Modern Mainframe Access and Security Forum

As organizations migrate to the cloud, decision makers need to realize mainframes can be accessed from any computing platform. This allows the development and deployment of next-generation applications while retaining heritage investments, resulting in a far more cost-effective way to implement new initiatives and improve the customer, supply chain and employee experience. Join this webinar to see how you can securely access your host from the cloud.

Can Mainframes be Accessed Securely from the Cloud

How much COBOL is really out there? Revisiting this popular IT community question is perhaps more relevant now than ever - as many IT organizations seek to transform their core business systems to support new modernization initiatives.

Join Micro Focus and industry research experts, Vanson Bourne on October 13, 2021, for an early look at the results from our recent Capturing COBOL survey. During our 30-minute webinar, you’ll discover:

· Why measuring COBOL matters today
· Key questions considered within this COBOL research project
· Early results and emerging themes
· A closer look at community engagement
· Next steps and coverage of final results

Join this webinar for an early view into the Capturing COBOL survey.

Capturing COBOL: A closer look at early research results from the COBOL Survey

Join us for a live replay of this session on September 29 as Micro Focus takes a closer look at innovative COBOL and mainframe technology supporting a smarter digital transformation journey. Explore why today’s IT digital transformation strategy requires a new approach to modernization across application, process, and infrastructure domains. 

View this on-demand recording to understand how the Micro Focus modernization methodology supports a faster path to transformation over re-write or replacement alternatives. See the latest technology supporting COBOL and mainframe modernization using Visual COBOL and Enterprise Developer portfolios.

In this session, you will explore: 
• A proven modernization strategy that delivers increased flexibility and choice. 
• The latest COBOL and mainframe technologies supporting new API development, code refactoring, and deployment to Azure and AWS.
• How to leverage the Micro Focus Modernization Maturity Model to fast track your digital transformation journey.
• A variety of product demonstrations.

Your Digital Transformation Journey – COBOL and Mainframe Technology in Action

Billions of lines of COBOL are still running the core IT of thousands of companies but those applications have largely been left out of modern advances in IT.  In partnership with the Open Mainframe Project, we asked a student intern to demonstrate the options for modernizing an existing COBOL application to address the business needs and prove the future possibilities. 
 
Join student intern Sudhanshu Dubey as he demonstrates how he:
• Ran analysis tools on a monolithic banking core application
• Identified key services that could be externalized
• Modernized the user experience 

If a university student can do it, certainly you can too.  Join us to hear how.

Modernizing Code Older Than You Are: One Student’s Journey

COBOL was created in large part due to the efforts of women such as Grace Hopper, Jean Sammet and Mary Hawes.  Today, women continue to have a large share in the future of COBOL and COBOL applications.  Join our panel of women leading the charge to learn how they are modernizing COBOL applications, building the next generation of COBOL programmers and countering misinformation about COBOL.

Meet the Women of COBOL

Join us for the replay of this live session on August 17 as we explore the digital transformation journey of a major financial services provider, including ongoing efforts to modernize its business operations and enhance the customer experience. As digital and competitive pressures continue, organizations must find new ways to optimize core business applications, process, and infrastructure while refining operations, reducing cost, and reinvesting for the future. 

View this on-demand recording to hear how IT and business are growing more tightly aligned to support new market opportunities and transform core business applications. We’ll take a closer look at how this organization and other industry leaders conquered these digital challenges with a strategic vision, flexible IT strategy, and technology partnership—all supporting their transformation journey. 

In this session, you will learn:
• How new digital pressures have created new opportunity and challenge within the financial services industry. 
• How Micro Focus technology sets a new blueprint for modernization success. 
• Modernization lessons learned and a look at what’s ahead.

Innovative Modernization – How a Finance Provider Enabled Digital Transformation

Attend the Micro Focus on demand recording from the Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series.  In this session learn how application modernization enables an organization to adapt to a changing landscape, seize new opportunities and deliver greater business value. Rethinking mainframe/COBOL access, development, and integration enables business agility at enterprise scale.

Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series: Application Modernization

Attend the Micro Focus on demand recording from the Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series.  In this session learn how infrastructure modernization enables portability of business process and integration with Java and .NET frameworks. New scalable architectures support fit for purpose deployment of dev, test, and production workloads to any platform--mainframe, distributed or cloud.

Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series: Infrastructure Modernization

Attend the Micro Focus on demand recording from the Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series.  In this session learn how process modernization enables a better customer experience through fast feedback and a continual commitment to quality and collaboration. Faster and more frequent delivery across COBOL and mainframe systems requires a new approach to software development enabled through the adoption modern IDEs and practices such as Agile and DevOps.

Virtual #DevDay 2021 Series: Process Modernization

For mainframe organizations, modernization and security are top priorities. Moving desktop applications to browser-based products is a key opportunity for modernization – both to provide a modern user experience and to meet security concerns. 

This webinar will give you valuable information on how you can deliver centrally managed, zero-footprint host access, with a modern browser-based interface – all while ensuring that your mainframe access is secure.

Attend this webinar to see how to extend the value of host systems, and stop the cycle of managing desktop emulators, by delivering secure zero-footprint host access with Micro Focus Host Access for the Cloud.

Tech Tip: Secure, Zero-footprint Host Access

Digital transformation has changed the game—again.  The new pace of rapid change now requires every IT leader to re-think their strategy.  Recent research shows that building on what works, while bridging to the latest technology is the new proven recipe for success in this digital age. Achieving that outcome requires the right balance of modernization planning, partnership and technology.   
 
Join us for this exciting product launch webinar to discuss the next chapter of innovation supporting today’s core business applications, as Micro Focus unveils its latest release of the Enterprise Suite —version 7.0.  Explore how these cutting-edge capabilities supporting application, process and infrastructure modernization, enable a continuous modernization strategy and customer success.

During this webinar you will explore:
• How the Enterprise Suite supports mainframe modernization and DX
• The latest 7.0 tools to support application, process and infrastructure modernization
• Brand new development tools for delivering contemporary mainframe-based systems
• Deep dive demos and best practices

Don’t miss an opportunity to pose your questions to our expert product panel. Register now.

And for more exciting news on innovative modernization, join us for the Visual COBOL 7.0 product launch on 23 June 2021.

Enterprise Suite 7.0 Product Launch – Innovation in Modernization

Join Micro Focus along with industry research experts, Vanson Bourne, for a closer look at the data, insights and commentary surrounding its 2020 COBOL market survey.  See how the community will continue to shape the future of COBOL and core business applications for the next 60 years.  Don’t miss this opportunity to be one of the first to see the survey results revealed and pose your questions to our expert panel.

#COBOL60 – Shaping the Future of Core Business Applications

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