Name: Tech Tips: Automated testing for mainframe application development
Start: 2020-02-27T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-02-27T17:02:19.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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.

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

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

New releases of Host Access for the Cloud and Host Access Management and Security Server are coming soon (estimated for delivery is the spring of 2023)! These releases are going to include architectural changes that we want customers to be aware of and to preview. The changes will help make deployment easier, whether on-prem and in the cloud. This meeting will discuss why the changes are being made, and what the changes are both short term and in the longer term.

Upcoming architectural changes - Host Access for the Cloud, RWeb & MSS

As mainframe modernization becomes one of the industry's hottest topics, and significant investments by cloud providers are being made, it is the perfect time to talk about “the holy grail” of mainframe modernization – re-architecting a monolithic application into microservices.

In this webinar, we’ll explore different strategies and best practices to achieve this goal.

We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of microservices architecture and provide practical advice, tips and tricks and additional resources based on Micro Focus and Zensar experience in this space.

Monolith to Microservices – The holy grail of mainframe modernization

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

Cloud is the #1 driver for digital transformation (DX) according to recent research. So, if you’re not planning for at least some usage of Cloud as part of your larger IT strategy, you may quickly find yourself a step or two behind the competition. No need to worry.  After decades of experience modernizing COBOL and mainframe applications on and off the Cloud, we have the technology and experience to help you navigate this journey. 
 
Join the Micro Focus product team for an exciting product launch event—the v8.0 release of Enterprise Suite.  
This webinar has 2 parts:

Moving to Cloud with Enterprise Suite (first 30 minutes)
Join the Mainframe Solutions team for a closer look at Enterprise Suite 8.0,  including how this release supports the latest innovation for mainframe modernization to the cloud.  We’ll explore how to move up to this latest Micro Focus technology, including customer stories of mainframe modernization using Enterprise Suite.

What’s New in Enterprise Suite (second 30 minutes)
For Micro Focus customers already using Enterprise Suite technology, we’ll examine the latest modernization tools, IDE updates and deployment platforms. You’ll also hear from existing mainframe customers as they share their modernization success stories leveraging Enterprise Suite.

Take this opportunity to pose your questions to our expert panel as you plan your next move or upgrade to Mainframe technology.  We’ll see you there!

Enterprise Suite 8.0: Modernizing Mainframe Applications for the Cloud

Join us for an exciting product launch event—the v8.0 release of Visual COBOL.  Our experts will discuss how these new capabilities support modernization, and enable a continuous journey to the Cloud.  

This webinar has 2 parts:

Upgrading to Visual COBOL (first 30 minutes)
For Micro Focus customers already using Visual COBOL technology, we’ll examine how this latest release delivers new modernization tools for cloud, plus additional coverage of the latest 8.0 features. You’ll also hear from existing Micro Focus customers as they share their modernization success stories leveraging Visual COBOL.

What’s New in Visual COBOL  (second 30 minutes)
Join the COBOL team for a closer look at Visual COBOL 8.0,  including how this release supports the latest development tools and deployment platforms for COBOL application modernization.  We’ll explore how to move up to this latest COBOL technology, including a review of latest resources for COBOL developers. 

Take this opportunity to plan your next move, prepare for your future upgrade and pose your questions to our expert panel.

Visual COBOL 8.0: Modernizing COBOL Applications for the Cloud

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

Automated testing of mainframe applications enables application teams to respond to user and line of business demands quickly and efficiently by streamlining the testing needed to support continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices for host-based applications. Organizations can comply with regulations and deliver tested applications on time, with minimal bugs, through automated, scalable and robust testing of mainframe applications.
 
Micro Focus Verastream Host Integrator allows organizations to encapsulate application business logic, in reusable services, for use with existing testing solutions and infrastructure.
 
Join us for this webinar to see the use cases for Verastream Host Integrator for automated testing of mainframe applications.

Tech Tips: Automated testing for mainframe application development

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