Name: Part 2 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?
Start: 2022-03-31T14:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-31T14:00:39.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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For business leaders managing lots of complexity or disrupting the status quo, Ensono delivers complete hybrid IT solutions, from cloud to mainframe, tailored to each client’s journey. Whether you’re leveraging the power of the cloud or modernizing legacy technologies, you’ll be on track to operate for today and optimize for tomorrow. Some of the world’s most successful companies rely on us to help them be great at what they do. We have over 2,100 associates across North America and Europe and are headquartered in greater Chicago, Illinois. Visit us at www.ensono.com

In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, SQL Server has undergone a remarkable transformation, opening doors to new opportunities while introducing challenges that compel organisations to adapt and evolve.

In the webinar, we'll shed light on the critical journey of SQL Server migration and modernisation, helping you navigate the intricate steps and crucial considerations  necessary to shed outdated and unsupported technologies for modern data solutions.

What you will learn:
• How to balance innovation and legacy with minimal disruption
• How to rapidly expanding your SQL Data Warehouse capacity while keeping costs in check
• How to overcome the multifaceted challenges and intricacies of modernizing your SQL Server environment
• How to unlock the economic and energy efficiency gains that come with migration and modernisation

Speakers: 
− Gordon McKenna, VP, Cloud Evangelist & Alliances, Ensono
− Tristan Edwards, Principal Consultant, Ensono
Moderator: 
− Bryan Glick, Editor in Chief, Computer Weekly

Mastering SQL Server Modernisation Achieving Efficiency & Innovation with Azure

Cloud migration has become an indispensable strategy for businesses, especially during crises such as the pandemic, natural disasters, or economic downturns. According to a recent study by Gartner, "By 2025, 80% of enterprises will migrate entirely away from on-premises data centers, with the current trend of moving workloads to colocation, hosting, and the cloud leading them to shut down their traditional data center." 

The cloud offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness to keep operations running smoothly. But, how can you effectively migrate to the cloud during an economic crisis, and achieve more with less when budgets are tight, client expectations are rising, and the availability of cloud talent and skills remains a challenge?

Join Ensono cloud experts as they share their insights on how your Azure cloud migration can enable you to do more with less and meet increasing demands for innovation and customer satisfaction.

Discover how to optimise and modernise your cloud migration, reduce costs, improve agility, enhance security, and achieve better business outcomes with your cloud migration.

Cloud Migration In a Crisis: How Tech Leaders Can Do More, With Less, In Azure

Tech decision makers are under more pressure than ever before to drive better business outcomes on leaner technology budgets. Evolve your Azure cloud journey and make matter happen faster with Ensono

Navigating Cloud Challenges | Cost optimisation, modernisation, and resilience

Businesses are held back on their digital transformation journey lacking the ability to move business critical applications residing on legacy IBM Power systems like IBM i (AS/400) and AIX to Azure.  These applications can now be migrated as-is to Azure without costly or timely refactoring or rewriting, and once migrated, application life and value can be expanded with the use of cloud native services. Join us for this interactive discussion about how IT leaders can modernize legacy IBM midrange systems in the cloud, achieve transformation and drive key business outcomes that align to their strategic company goals.

Migrate and Modernize IBM Midrange in Azure

Watch this video to see Ensono Flex Cloud Engineering manages the skill gap between your current resources and your cloud project backlog. See how it provides access to advanced cloud capabilities through Ensono agile engineering teams that will collaborate seamlessly with your people.

Ensono Flex Cloud Engineering: Deliver Value Faster with a Team of Cloud Experts

Join Alex Hilton, CEO of Cloud Industry Forum and guests for episode 37 of Digital Transformation in Action, as they ask 'Legacy IT? Friend or Foe?'.

Topics of discussion will include:

- How businesses can grapple with legacy IT systems in the face of economic challenges, changes in regulation and shifting market conditions 
- If legacy IT can ever be an asset rather than a burden
- Security challenges legacy IT poses and how modernization can put business on the path to a more robust security posture
- The lost business opportunities legacy IT can lead to
- And more

Legacy IT: Friend or Foe?

The opportunity to engage customers digitally has never been greater — but so is the cost of failing to meet their expectations. Organisations are striving to create exceptional customer experiences, yet many fall short, even with solid customer analytics in place. Long gone are the days when you could simply rely on one-dimensional outputs from traditional customer analytics tools. 

To take customer experience to the next level organisations need to be ingesting signals across the entire customer journey and providing not just a recommendation but the right one. This requires internal alignment across teams, not just technology or data quality.

Ensono recently gathered experts and leaders from retail, hospitality, travel, IT, and manufacturing in Manchester to discuss the ever-increasing importance of using data to make better, faster decisions in all areas of business.

Watch this webinar with Michelle Beeson, a Senior Analyst at Forrester to explore:
• How customer needs, behaviours and expectations are evolving
• How organisations are building value with data-driven decisions
• How to get to the next best experience

Forrester: Building an Insights-Driven Business

Interview with Linda Carroll, Expert Capacity Management at Ensono. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Published by: Digitalisation World

Spotlight on Women in IT – Episode 30 – Ensono Interview

Making data work at every level of your business, and using insights to drive efficiency and productivity, experience, and growth, is not the exclusive domain of the IT function, and it can’t be delivered through technology alone.

Ensono recently gathered experts and leaders from retail, hospitality, travel, IT, and manufacturing in Manchester to discuss the ever-increasing importance of using data to make better, faster decisions in all areas of business.

Watch our webinar to explore how Village Hotels turned to Ensono to design a data platform that would enable their growth and efficiency plans. From forecasting visitor numbers and planning staffing levels, to driving efficiency in product ordering and understanding customer behaviours, Village Hotels are utilising data to become a truly advanced insights-driven business.

How Village Hotels Uses Data to Make Better, Faster Decisions

An efficient technology vendor portfolio can make a significant difference in supporting your organization’s prioritized projects and daily operations, not to mention achievement of your business goals and objectives. However, many organizations don’t have the expertise or resources to keep track of software and hardware vendors and negotiate contract renewals. Effective contract analysis and execution can eliminate redundant products, supply more business flexibility and control rising costs. We’re sharing real real-world advice on contract reviews, negotiation strategies, license consolidation and specific issue resolution to help improve your current technology spend, minimize future increases, prepare for audit defense, and issue RFPs.

4 Ways to Control Current & Future Spending with Technology Vendors

State and local governments have a tremendous opportunity to better serve their residents with technology. With an increase of cybersecurity threats and ransomware attacks, a modern IT infrastructure is critical for boosting reliability, performance, and efficiency. Join us, Dell Technologies and Ensono speakers, for an interactive conversation as we talk through deploying IT solutions that meet the ever-evolving needs of communities.

Data Center Modernization: The Tyranny of "OR"

When we speak of innovation we invariably default to conversations about technology and how and where it can change our organisations, but true innovation requires creative, original thinking to create the innovative ideas in the first place. It is said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process and expecting a different result. The same applies to how we think. We need a different approach to enable innovation.

Join us in this webinar to explore how different approaches to organisational thinking can unlock potential within your organisation and release the potential for greater innovation.

The Future of Innovation: Changing the Mindset

Find out how organisations uncover the multiple layers to understand what is driving mainframe utilisation and the applications that drive peak spikes. Understanding and predicting the application usage impact on your mainframe is a driving force. 
Using a forecasting model based on seasonality, organisational data, understanding the size of the applications running on the mainframe, and when it executes over a 24-hour day - the impact can be accurately predicted and verified with each application. 
The forecast model allows organisations running a mainframe to know specifically what week in the year they can expect to see the application re-platforming impact. These insights allow organisations to budget and plan well in advance of the strategic moves, achieve cost optimization, efficiencies and more. Watch the webinar to find out more on mainframe predictability with Linda Carroll from Ensono.

Bridging the Gap : Mainframe - Predicting Application Migration Workload Impact

IT departments continually seek ways to reduce costs, resolve performance issues and optimise their mainframe systems. A performance and capacity focused assessment is a valuable tool to identify application, database and system optimisation opportunities, find ways to reduce CPU utilisation peaks, address underperforming transactions, optimise batch, resolve service degradation issues, and even help reduce capacity needs ahead of upgrades. In our real-world experience, depending on your software stack, size of the system and other factors, a focused assessment can provide a wide range of performance improvements and cost-saving measures to help many organisations achieve consumption savings in the 8-25% range.

Insights from the Field: Optimising Mainframe Performance, Capacity and TCO

What makes the ideal modern retailer? For new retailers being created today, what do they look like in terms of tech stack, philosophy, and structure? And what do existing retailers need to do to modernise their IT, keep up with new consumer demands, and ensure they are providing a compelling CX 24-7 across multiple channels?

These are the questions this webinar looks to answer as we discuss how today’s best retailers think about strategy and use technology to scale, grow and accelerate their business  success and enhance CX experience. The event will look at the importance of continual evolution, because striving for incremental change is what drives better business outcomes.

Tune into the webinar to find out: 
• What the best retailers of the future will look like
• How to use technology to scale retail business ambitions
• Solutions to current seismic retail industry challenges
• How to be a more efficient business

How successful retailers think about strategy and technology

IT leaders at organizations across industries such as insurance, manufacturing, retail and state & local government face pressure to transform their operations and migrate to the cloud. According one report, 80 percent of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy and 59 percent of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration.  But how do organizations dependent on mainframe for their core business operations accelerate their cloud journey? Attend this webinar to see how you can manage the complexity of a mainframe migration, drive growth, efficiency and innovation with your cloud migration and  unlock the value of data across the organization.

Shift to the Future: Mainframe Migration to Microsoft Azure

Many IT leaders have embarked on a cloud strategy to increase agility, responsiveness to business needs and expand innovation to help drive digital transformation. But are you realizing all the benefits that the cloud has to offer? Has migration and new application rollouts gone as quickly as you would like? Is the cloud costing you more than you expected, and adding complexity to your environment? Attend this webinar to see how you can maximize control of your cloud, decrease your time to market, lower risk and optimize your investment.

Harnessing the Power of the Cloud

An increasing number of organizations are deciding to move their digital operations into the cloud, but this is only the first step in a long migration process. Today’s companies are presented with several options on how to get to the cloud and this choice carries seriously high stakes. Get it right and the business will see cost savings and improved performance. Get it wrong and join McKinsey’s estimated 70% of companies whose digital transformation efforts failed.
 
For some, the right choice is to embrace the simplest switchover method, known as “lift and shift.” This maps existing applications directly onto a cloud structure, removing the need to modify the applications themselves and shortening the migration process. Others will prefer a comprehensive cloud native-strategy that requires a lot more development and retraining, but may be a smarter long-term approach.
 
Tune into this episode of Digital Transformation in Action to work out what is the right choice for your organization. 

Specifically, we’ll look at:
- The migration options on the table, whether IaaS, PaaS or SaaS
- The limits, opportunities and best company fits of each approach
- Some of the more common pitfalls that organizations fall into
- And more

Managing Cloud Migration: Lift & Shift or Going Cloud Native?

Part 3 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

Part 1 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

With most organisations seeking a return to growth in 2022, there are lots of challenges to overcome and technology really becomes a significant factor in the success of enterprise business, especially your approach to the mainframe. In part 2 of this webinar series 'Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?' Our expert panel of speakers from Ensono, IBM and ISG delve into how your mainframe can help or hinder your growth goals in 2022, discussing mainframe modernisation, the evolution and commercial benefits it can deliver and how you can gain a competitive advantage.

Part 2 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

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