Name: Optimizing AI-Driven Applications in the Cloud
Start: 2025-03-18T15:32:00Z
End: 2025-03-18T15:32:47.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Dynatrace and Microsoft enable dynamic organizations to accelerate their digital transformation powered by cloud observability and security, and enhanced by AI. By leveraging our advanced cloud analytics and automation platform, organizations increase efficiency, unlock new business value, optimize cost, and enhance productivity. This enables innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely -  overall creating competitive advantage and empowering each organization to achieve more.

Building an effective observability strategy is essential for optimizing your cloud operations and gaining a comprehensive understanding of your environment. This webinar will provide the blueprint on how to progress from basic monitoring to a strategic practice that drives real business value. 

Join us to learn how to: 
· Elevate from Foundational to Strategic: Move past a basic setup and adopt the strategic disciplines of observability, automation, and incident management. 
· Leverage AI-driven Observability: Implement advanced tools that go beyond simple dashboards, using AI-AIOps to automate insights and streamline your cloud strategy. 
Develop a Comprehensive Approach: Learn proven best practices for developing a cloud observability strategy to drive greater operational efficiency across your Azure workloads.

How to Develop an Observability Blueprint to Transform Your Cloud and AI Strategy

Enterprise Strategy Group research reveals that tool sprawl is the key barrier to business alignment, with companies using an average of 8-12 observability tools. The resulting data silos prevent AI-driven platforms and IT admins alike from gaining the context necessary to make business-aligned decisions, resulting in manual task overload and a cloudy overview of one’s hybrid environment.

This webinar brings together Torsten Volk, Enterprise Strategy Group Principal Analyst, with experts from Dynatrace and Microsoft to explore strategies for simplifying observability across hybrid cloud environments. 

Register now to transform your observability from siloed to unified and to discover how:
• Unified observability becomes a competitive advantage 
• The Azure-Dynatrace integration accelerates digital transformation 
• AI-driven automation benefits IT Operations in 3 areas
• To implement observability strategies that scale with business demand

Simplifying Hybrid and Cloud Management with Dynatrace and Microsoft: Strategies for Modern Businesses

It’s critically important to understand the health, behavior, and performance of applications that are hosted in the cloud. But as workloads shift, new services and capabilities are introduced, and emerging technologies come to the forefront, establishing effective observability becomes increasingly difficult.

During this session led by Jim Frey, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, you’ll gain expert insights into these topics and discover the critical role of observability in cloud environments. Tune in now to find out how your organization can embrace observability and increase visibility across both cloud-native and traditional applications.

The Critical Role of Observability in Cloud Environments

Cloud has long been established as a mature production approach to application and data hosting, but two things are certain: it is anything but simple and anything but static. New applications are constantly being developed, deployed and updated, and AI has become a major agent of change. Now more than ever, keeping your environment running and secure requires tireless focus.

But while all this change brings new challenges, it also presents opportunities to bring together operational security objectives and practices. During this discussion led by Jim Frey, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, you’ll discover which technical outcomes are generating the most excitement and how you can overcome key challenges in delivering effective observability.

Watch the webcast now to learn how you can integrate observability, AI and security to reduce risk and improve your end user experience.

Next-Gen Cloud Management: Integrating Observability, AI and Security

Hear from industry experts from Accenture, Microsoft, and Dynatrace on the role of unified observability  in today’s dynamic cloud environments. Get real-world examples of how an integrated cloud observability strategy ensures resilience, protecting assets,  and driving better business outcomes has never been more critical. Walk away with a future-proof cloud strategy that empowers your team to innovate and maintain agility in an ever-evolving landscape.

Key Takeaways:
• The importance of  observability in achieving business resiliency
• Strategies to maximize cloud investments with a proactive, AI-driven approach
• How to embrace innovation to deliver real-world business outcomes

Achieve Business Resiliency in the Modern Cloud Era

Hear from industry  experts at Accenture, Microsoft, and Dynatrace who explore the emerging trends surrounding application modernization and generative AI. Get real-world examples of how to implement these technologies in your business. 
This webinar is designed to equip you with knowledge and tools to successfully navigate the digital transformation journey. 

Key Takeaways: 
1. Learn how to leverage modernization strategies to enhance agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency in your organization's applications.
2. Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing industries by enabling innovation, automation, and personalized customer experiences.
3. Gain insights into how application modernization and generative AI can drive tangible business outcomes, such as increased revenue, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Best Practices for Implementing AI in your Business

OneStream provides the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-based platform to modernize the Office of the CFO. Their vision is to become the operating system for modern Finance. By migrating to a flexible Kubernetes architecture on Microsoft Azure, OneStream continues to grow efficiently. 

In this video, Ryan Berry, Senior VP of Architecture, will share how OneStream's engineering team uses Dynatrace to proactively enhance platform performance, optimize Azure resource allocation, and address issues. This proactive approach not only improves customer experiences but also significantly reduces incidents. 

“When we saw what Dynatrace could do, our entire engineering organization realized that this thing is really powerful.”

OneStream drives continued growth of market-leading financial planning software with Dynatrace

Anomaly detection is indispensable in security to detect threats early or identify unusual behavior. For anomaly detection, our Dynatrace Davis® AI provides different anomaly detection analyzers, which can be simulated in the notebook for better understanding.

In this Observability Lab we begin with David Bründl who recaps when to apply the various anomaly detection strategies such as static, auto-adaptive and seasonal baselining.

We then hear from Gerhard Bryne on how Anomaly Detection applied to Security Use Cases makes security engineers more efficient when analyzing scenarios such as abnormal authentication requests.

Elevating Security with Dynatrace Davis Anomaly Detection

It's been a while, but we're excited to welcome you back for a new season of Get to Know Dynatrace with your host, David "Jonesy" Jones. 

It may be a new season, but we're sticking to our script—wait—there isn't one! That's because your questions drive this stream. We'll spend the next hour discussing what you want to see and answering your questions as they come in live. 

Helping Jonesy on this adventure is Senior Solutions Engineer Omar Zaal.

Get to know Dynatrace

In this Observability Lab, Alistair Emslie dives into how log management can bridge gaps in your business process management (BPM) and analytics. He will demonstrate how to leverage Business Flow and OpenPipeline for effective business process optimization, process improvement, and real-time business monitoring. Learn how to quickly analyze and resolve issues in your business processes using cutting-edge analytics and cloud observability techniques.

Optimizing Business Processes with Log-Driven Analytics

Generative AI will be part of every market leading application in the next years. The opportunities for productivity and new use cases seem almost unlimited. However, there is also a whole new technology stack to master. Many projects will not result in the business success that was originally anticipated. Learn from Eve Psalti – Senior Director AI at Microsoft – what is essential to make an AI project successful and get-real world insight into how Dynatrace used AI Observability in the development of Davis CoPilot.

How to make your Gen AI project a technical and business success

Struggling to prioritize digital transformation amid the noise? Explore how Dynatrace platform and Microsoft’s unified approach propels your enterprise into the next evolutionary wave, ensuring greater efficiency, resilience, and growth. This isn’t an exploration; it’s a blueprint.

Join us as we delve into the digital landscape and learn how Dynatrace and Microsoft are helping enterprises solve the complexities introduced by modernization and ways you can leverage the tools, like Microsoft OpenAI and Davis Co-Pilot and innovations to unlock the true potential of your digital ecosystem. We’ll dive into leveraging AI for real-time business decisions and real-world applications to showcase the potential within your own enterprise.

Navigating the next wave: Elevating your Digital Transformation Journey with Dynatrace & Microsoft Azure OpenAI

You have a plethora of customers that are relying on you for critical data. But if you can’t provide it to them consistently, they won’t be your customers for long.
 
During this session, you’ll hear how OneStream, a leading enterprise finance management platform provider serving over 1,400 organizations globally, went from reactive to proactive in their incident response and SLA monitoring strategy. In doing so, they enhanced the customer experience while unlocking significant annual savings by migrating to a Kubernetes architecture on Microsoft Azure powered by Dynatrace.
 
Tune in now to learn how the powerful synergy between Microsoft Azure and Dynatrace can help your organization drive operational efficiency.

How to Unlock Significant Cost Savings with Cloud Observability and Kubernetes

Dive into an exclusive panel discussion featuring experts from Coretek, Dynatrace, and Microsoft who guide us through the dynamic landscape of AI innovation, as well as discuss the paradoxical landscape where technology moves at an astounding pace, yet practical, scalable solutions remain elusive.

Exploring the Power of Generative AI in Cloud-Native Observability featuring Coretek, Microsoft and Dynatrace

There’s an old saying that “no technology ever goes away in the enterprise” – and this exactly describes today’s core challenge in IT operations. In fact, according to recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), the majority (56%) of organizations have more than 10 separate observability tools. Meanwhile, 57% do not have full stack monitoring – further highlighting the need for a strategic shift.

In this webcast, a panel of experts led by Torsten Volk, Principal Analyst at ESG, will discuss how organizations can maintain continuous operations and quickly recover from disruptions by leveraging cloud-based observability. During the session, you’ll also find out how casual AI can help your business move its applications to their optimal locations in terms of cost, performance, regulatory requirements.

Tune in now to learn how you can establish unified observability across your complex business environment and ensure resilience at the application level.

The Power of Cloud Observability

Join us for an interactive webinar to learn about the latest product innovations with Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure. Learn how we’re helping organizations get more value from their Azure data faster, unlocking greater scalability, speed, and efficiency for your observability practice.

Experience firsthand how Dynatrace’s platform innovations like Dynatrace’s GrailTM on Azure enable organizations to modernize cloud operations, expedite releases of high-quality and secure software, and ensure flawless digital experiences for their users.

In this webinar, you'll learn:
•              The latest Dynatrace platform innovations now available on Azure
•              How Dynatrace customers use logs in context of other observability data in Grail to troubleshoot and head off incidents
•              How Davis AI helps make sense of all this data and disparate events
•              Guidance to help ensure your Azure cloud operations are optimized to scale to keep up with your increasing business demand

Dynatrace and Microsoft extend leading observability and log analytics

Enterprise Strategy Group research tells us that 54% of organizations recently surveyed expect to advance generative AI (GenAI) into production this year. Despite this widespread GenAI prioritization, concerns over security and compliance, monitoring, and data quality continue to hinder GenAI actualization. After all, efficiently governing your burgeoning AI workloads is easier said than done. 

Join ESG Practice Director Scott Sinclair, Dynatrace Product Marketing Director Amit Shah, and Microsoft Senior Director of AI Strategy Christian Thilmany as they explain:
• How to operationalize your GenAI initiatives and unlock the full potential of cloud-native applications with AI observability 
• The core benefits of AI observability 
• How Microsoft and Dynatrace partner to help organizations like yours deliver AI-powered services at scale.

Sinclair, Thilmany, and Shah bring their extensive AI observability experience to the discussion and cover these crucial agenda items.

Optimizing AI-Driven Applications in the Cloud

Observability

Cloud Applications

Cloud Native

Application Monitoring

IT Monitoring

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI

AIOps

Microsoft

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