Name: To Modernize or Not to Modernize
Start: 2021-09-16T09:00:00Z
End: 2021-09-16T09:45:38.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Rocket Software empowers organizations to create legendary impact in the world through innovation in legacy technologies. With deep expertise in IBM Z®, IBM Power®, and database and connectivity solutions, Rocket solutions power tens of thousands of global businesses, solving real problems and making real-world impact.

“My key stakeholders want me to expose functionality on IBM i/Z as APIs to cope with rapid business change and disruption and they want results yesterday.” Does this sound like you? In this presentation, we’ll define a strategy that leverages (digital-worker automation/screen-based APIs) to deliver the immediate results your stakeholders are asking for. This strategy will enable you to incrementally transform and renew the underlying implementation in order to get faster results and foster innovation—at your own pace.

Why Screen-Based APIs are Essential in Every Modernization Strategy

Over the last year, industries have seen drastic changes to their markets and how they do business, with many forced to reconsider their IBM® i on IBM® Power Systems™. Their applications often end up in a CIO’s crosshairs in a push for greater IT efficiency or competitive superiority, and it’s usually because he or she is unfamiliar with the platform’s benefits. Your IBM i has become so reliable and subtle in its job that it’s basically invisible, or both. In this presentation we will give you the tools you need to help you avert a crippling business decision by demonstrating how IBM i can remain an essential part of a competitive IT ecosystem.

How to Keep Your CIO from Ripping Out Your IBM i

While improving productivity across the organization is an ongoing pursuit, when it comes to IBM i and IBM Z applications, you often find it ends up out of scope for new projects. Seen as the impossible last mile of automation, legacy application automation feels too far out of reach with the limited RPG and COBOL development expertise you have in-house. But today new tools and approaches are opening the door to adding IBM i and IBM Z applications into your automation projects so you can achieve maximum business value.
 
Please join Andrew Simpson, Principal Solutions Specialist at Rocket Software, to learn IBM i and IBM Z automation best practices that you can use today to start targeting that last mile, including:
• How to build out a smart automation strategy
• Understanding the human component and how it influences your automation prioritization
• Automation management

Top 5 IBM i & IBM Z Automation Best Practices

Improving productivity across the organization is an ongoing pursuit. However, when it comes to IBM Z® applications, you often find it ends up out of scope for new projects.  Seen as the ‘impossible’ last mile, IBM Z automation might feel out of reach—especially with the limited COBOL development expertise you have in-house. But today, new tools and approaches are opening the door to adding IBM Z back into your automation projects so you can achieve maximum business value.

Watch this session to learn essential IBM Z automation best practices you can leverage today to start targeting that last mile, including:

+ How to build out a smart automation strategy
+ Understanding the human component and how it influences your automation prioritization
+ Automation management

IBM Z Master Class: Top 5 IBM Z Automation Best Practices

Learn why IT leaders can’t afford to disregard legacy security any longer—and what steps to take next.

IBM i and IBM Z systems need to be a central part of an organization’s IT security strategy. After all, they power many businesses’ core applications—and those core applications need protecting!

The primary obstacle to securing the IBM i/Z is that most legacy applications were built at a time when cybersecurity wasn’t even an issue. The transition to an internet-connected system has opened it up to new risks. Ensuring the security of your legacy systems is to start including them as a part of your security plans and policies.

That’s where your terminal emulation solution comes in. At most IBM i/Z-powered organizations, terminal emulators are still used to access core business applications running on IBM i or IBM Z.

In this webinar, we lay out the five steps your organization should take to secure your terminal emulator. Even if you’re confident that your terminal emulator is secure, consider this webinar to be a checkup—a confirmation that you’re doing everything right.

5 Steps to Securing Your Terminal Emulator

Since March 2020, the three most popular words in the business lexicon have been disruption, transformation, and modernization. Business is always in a state of flux, but the last two years have made the changes brought by more typical disruptors like recessions, geopolitical events, and security threats, seem like the calm before the storm.

Rocket Software commissioned Energize Marketing to conduct a detailed survey on modernizing IBM i/Z applications. The survey gauged respondent’s specific needs and challenges around application modernization and how the last 2 years have affected their modernization plans.

Join us for a conversation about:

How other organizations faced the disruption of the last few years and shifted their IT strategy to better align to new business targets
The top 5 takeaways from the survey
How you compare to your peers when it comes to modernization
Best practices you can take advantage of today

A Look Back - 2021 Modernization Survey: 5 Key Takeaways.

Your IBM i application is no longer exclusively isolated to IT. It interacts with many distributed systems applications, exchanging data and calling APIs. So development on IBM i shouldn’t be isolated either.
 
Join this session to learn how DevOps can harmonize development and release processes across platforms using integrations with open-source tools already in your company like Git, Jira, and Jenkins. Learn how to expedite development cycles, integrate teams, and how to retain top talent across the organization.

No IBM i is an Island: Integrating DevOps Across Platforms

Continuous integration and continuous delivery sounds interesting, but it’s not possible without agile, automated testing of your IBM i code. This is especially true if you’re working on a critical application with multiple code structures which need to be tested for security vulnerabilities. How do you enable continuous testing for IBM i development when most automated testing tools don’t understand IBM i code?

Join Andy Finley, Principal Sales Engineer at Rocket Software, for a conversation about how to introduce automated, continuous testing within your IBM i DevOps environment, including:

How to plan ahead for testing, including determining the best approach
Best practices on the what, where, why, and when of testing
How to incorporate DevSecOps into your testing to minimize vulnerabilities

TechChannel: How to Incorporate Continuous Testing Into Your IBM i Dev Cycles

The conversation around modernization is an old one: do you stay on your IBM® i or IBM® Z platform and enable modern technologies, or do you spend the resources to move to a distributed system? A recent whitepaper from IDC entitled “The Quantified Business Benefits of Modernizing IBM Z and IBM i to Spur Innovation,” sponsored by Rocket Software, looks behind the scenes at why companies decide to modernize their platforms or migrate away, and the business impact of those decisions.

Join Jeff Winter, SVP and CMO of Rocket Software, as he takes a deep dive into the IDC whitepaper, focusing on:

• The story of two businesses interviewed by IDC—one on IBM i, and one on IBM Z—and their journey to the decision of whether to modernize or replatform
•	Two key misconceptions in the market about modernization and the data that proves them wrong
•	Additional quantitative and qualitative business impacts of both modernization and replatforming

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