Cloud Computing: Fluff or Lightening?

Most IT organizations are currently working on transforming their existing IT delivery processes, with increasing use of Agile development methods (such as SCRUM), Continuous Delivery and DevOps. As a result of this transformation, traditional ITIL service management processes are being challenged for their relevance. ITIL processes are considered to be bureaucratic, slow and not relevant for the new digital ecosystem consisting. ITIL v3 also have some significant gaps as it didn’t cover the actual design and development of IT services (or products).

But now in the beginning of 2019, Axelos introduced ITIL 4.

Does this new version fill in these gaps?
How to combine ITIL and DevOps?
Does the digital enterprise still need ITIL 4?
Or will your DevOps journey fail without a solid service management practice?

This presentation will show how DevOps and ITIL should be combined in order to optimally manage the new digital ecosystem while at the same time being able to meet the increasingly stringent requirements imposed on IT service delivery.

As a term, Dev/Ops isn’t a new concept. The struggle to make development and infrastructure operations. Join this webcast to understand the interdependencies with each other has been a main issue for decades.

In this webinar practical strategies are explored to implement or improve Dev/Ops practices.

Traditional ITSM practices such as ITIL are being challenged by DevOps teams. Does a DevOps team still need an ITSM system? Can we not just use one single backlog to manage all our work including incidents and requests? Do we still need a CAB for change approvals? Is the traditional CMDB suitable for the dynamic cloud environment?

Join this webinar to learn all about how ITSM needs be transformed to leverage the DevOps way of working.

This is not going to be a normal BrightTalk event of sharing slides but instead an open conversation with Daniel Blander, well-known author of technology security practices and how to best blend them into DevOps, ITSM or general organisational practices. Daniel and I will spend 15-20 minutes discussing some basics, but we are looking for your questions on how to use security to help your staff, processes, suppliers and customers benefit from a safer technology product and services provider.

Daniel Blander leads the Security Portfolio for Virtual Clarity. He is a highly experienced and recognized expert in the fields of information security, risk management, compliance, operations, and organizational change. He has over 20 years of global experience as CTO, CSO, as well as an advisor to Fortune 100 and startups alike in the fields of Banking, Healthcare, Retail, Technology, Airline, Hospitality, Government, and Entertainment. His work resulted in his nomination in 2008 as Information Security of the Year for the West by the Executive Alliance and is a frequent lecturer at security conferences around the world. Daniel has also been recognised for his contributions to DevOps and the publications many view as the main books of knowledge such as The DevOps Handbook.

This session will be facilitated by Daniel Breston, a long-time technology professional in Banking and Utilities. Constantly involved in service management practices and events, Daniel has learned how to blend lean and agile to help leaders and teams make the best use of technology to serve their customers. Now Daniel is using this knowledge to look at cloud and other virtualisation practices to create the paradigm of technology and people.

Ever thought about an AI-driven service desk solution that can provide conversational workflow automation to deliver self-service and exceptional experience through an IT Cloud? Wait no more.

In this webinar, Muddu Sudhakar will showcase how cloud-native Conversational RPA is driving end-to-end automation for ITSM and operations within the enterprise to improve the service experience for all users while cutting costs up to 90%. Sudhakar tells all, as he shares the anatomy of conversational intelligence and Experience as a Service (XaaS). He’ll share how these transformational AI solutions are changing the way enterprises deliver improved collaborative employee and customer experiences while achieving business growth.

2019 has seen much of the ITSM industry focus on automation and its impact. From self-service, to AIOps and problem and incident management, the influence of automation has been far-reaching.

Join this panel to hear ITSM experts take a look back at where automation has taken us, and look forward to where it’ll lead us next.

Speakers:
Wai Wong, CEO, Serviceaide
Pierre-André Aeschlimann - Solution / Sales Strategist & Evangelist, Cherwell Software
Moderated by Harriet Jamieson, Global Content Manager, BrightTALK

Is 2020 the year that organizations realize that ITSM is about the business and not about IT? In this webinar, Doug Tedder discusses four hot business trends that will significantly impact how IT thinks about service management.

At AXELOS we are passionate about co-creation of value: developing our products & services to truly meet the needs of end users, and bring value to both parties. That means collaboration; early testing; iterative development; listening to your stories… ITIL 4 is no exception. Find out about all the goodies in ITIL 4; what went on behind (and in front of!) the scenes during development, and how we are continuing to keep our Guiding Principles at the heart of what we do.

I’ll talk about how the components of ITIL 4 address common challenges and opportunities at the heart of organisations, and how it leverages agile and lean concepts to deliver added value. I’ll give some insight on the reception from the market so far, and how YOU can help with further developments.

About the speaker:
Margo Leach is Chief Product Officer at AXELOS, and responsible for leading an amazing team of subject experts, market experts and development experts, to ensure our portfolios continue to deliver value to our customers and end users, and resonate in the market. Our purpose as an organisation is to help individuals and organisations achieve better outcomes, through the tailoring and application of best practice.

Margo first fell in love with ITIL when she didn’t even know it was called that… back when she was developing and launching digital products and was very happy there were people reminding her she needed to think about ongoing service… and also make sure she didn’t break stuff.

Continual improvement is a key practice in both implementing and maintaining the management of your services. But it is not realistic to jump from no continual improvement to an excellent continual improvement discipline. Using a maturity model helps to motivate, to direct and to measure the continual improvement of your continual improvement.

As AI-enabled tools continue to make a mark on IT operations, the face of proactive problem and incident management in the enterprise is starting to change.

From making IT staff roles’ easier to encouraging self-service, there is a broad range of AI-powered solutions on offer. Join leading ITSM experts as they debate the complexities, functionalities, benefits and considerations of next-generation cloud and hybrid problem and incident management tools.

Moderator: Elisabeth Thomas, Launch Product Marketing
Panellists: Christoph Goldenstern - VP, Kepner Tregoe; Mohan Kompella - VP, BigPanda and Beverly Weed-Shertzer - ITSM Author

How does ITIL 4 contribute to the digital enterprise?
What is a digital enterprise, for that matter, and which digital capabilities are required?
How does the digital operating model contribute to transforming the enterprise?
What’s the importance of planned and emergent continual improvement in keeping up with dynamic digital demand?
How is the role of management changing?
Which resources and practices do ITSM practitioners have at their disposal to co-create value from digital investments?

This talk will explore these questions and more.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.6]: Next-Generation Cybersecurity: Policy Process and Organization

Resources are finite. So deploying them wisely is what differentiates successful cybersecurity organizations from those that are less successful. Find out how these successful cybersecurity organizations are structured, what policies they have in place, and what strategies they do—and don’t—follow to protect their enterprise organizations.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.5]: Application Security Meets Multicloud

Enterprises are developing and buying applications to run everywhere: across multiple clouds, multiple data centers, desktops, mobile devices, and IoT devices. In a multicloud environment, IT needs to take a multipronged approach to securing applications.

We'll how organizations approach securing their applications for the multicloud, ranging from changes in the development process to the embrace of security technologies including IAMaaS, microservice authentication, and enterprise secure cloud access and policy enforcement (ESCAPE).

This webinar presents data from Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.6]: Setting Budgets, Finding Stakeholders for AI-Enabled DCX Projects

As IT and business leaders evaluate their how to use AI to improve customer experience, one of the biggest roadblocks is funding.

This webinar provides step-by-step guidance on finding stakeholders to fund the projects, with specific data on how much companies are spending today on their AI-enabled initiatives.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.5]: CX Success Stories Require Technology, Leadership, Data

A great story requires more than a compelling narrative. Marketing teams can significantly elevate their success with the right combination of leadership, technology, and data derived from well-planned customer interviews.

Crafting that perfect story requires an expanded mindset about what comprises “marketing.”

In this webinar, join Nemertes Research President Robin Gareiss, who recently completed detailed research with 518 companies on how they use advanced technologies and reshape their organizational structure to improve customer experience. Based on this research and her experience as a journalist, marketing content developer, and CX advisor, she will cover:

1. Organizational overhaul: Why a Chief Customer Officer is vital, and how the CMO and CCO work together for joint success.
2. Technology leverage: What are the key technologies and contact-center initiatives that result in measurable CX success—ultimately delivering crucial data to marketing teams that support their success stories?
3. The perfect story: How to conduct interviews that get real-world data to support your mission.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.4] Next-Generation Cybersecurity - Technology Foundations

The bad news? Threats evolve. Bad actors continue to improve their games.
The good news? Cybersecurity technology is also evolving and improving. This webinar drills down into the emerging technologies that successful cybersecurity organizations are deploying to protect their firms. Find out what works, what's a waste of resources--and how to deploy the technologies that work.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.4]: Analytics' Role in Improving DCX

Information is king, and without both real-time and historical data, it's nearly impossible to deliver the experience customers are expecting.

Analytics tools are providing incredible insight to companies about customer sentiment, agent performance, and predictive actions.

In this webinar, learn how successful organizations are using analytics to drive more revenue, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.3]: Succeeding in the Multicloud

With most IT work being done in the cloud, what does it mean to be successful and what are the characteristics of highly successful cloud enterprises?

We'll dig into the what it means to be successful in the cloud and what successful organizations do more of (and less of) than their less successful peers. We'll look across technologies adopted, organizational and operational practices, and vendors embraced.

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries. Later episodes will discuss security topics as well as focusing in on application development and security.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep. 2]: Mastering Multicloud - Architectures, Organizations, Building Blocks

In 2019 the balance tipped, and for the first time the majority of enterprise IT workloads are running in the cloud, not in a data center.

Enterprise IT staff need to stop thinking of cloud solutions as islands of function and special cases and begin to think of pulling it all together into a cohesive multicloud. We'll lay out the major categories of tools and systems and how they fit together, and at the organizational structures and operational practices needed to support multicloud operations.

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries. Later episodes will discuss cloud organizations and operational practices, and success metrics and best practices for cloud organizations.