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ALM Octane: Enterprise lifecycle management made easy. Well, easier.

Changing the enterprise one application at a time is not a simple task. Instead, it is a growing task list of increasing complexity. Modern tools can help.

Micro Focus ALM Octane provides a new approach where applications are designed from scratch and delivered at speed, with quality, and to scale.

Join our Senior Solution Architects Rob Stock and Ray Tomany.

They will explain how ALM Octane is the glue between disparate delivery systems and methodologies, linking disparate delivery tools and teams, regardless of their methodology.

Your IT run budget is shrinking and you need a more agile way to deliver application services to the business. You could move to software-as-a-service. You could redesign your apps to leverage container or platform-as-a-service technologies. Or, you could opt for the fastest, least risky transformation option of all—re-hosting.

This webinar is all about re-hosting. More specifically, it’s all about the Micro Focus PlateSpin re-hosting solution and what it can do for you. Here’s what you can look forward to learning:

• How PlateSpin stands apart from other re-hosting approaches, including data centre consolidation, (re)virtualisation, the adoption of or switching between managed service providers, and the adoption of public or private cloud services.

• How PlateSpin re-hosts entire server workloads between physical, virtual, and cloud platforms with minimal risk, downtime, and effort.

• How PlateSpin helps enterprises and service providers deliver large-scale transformation projects on time and within budget.

Many enterprises are looking at scaling up to DevOps. But what does that transition mean for their release management strategies? What part will orchestration and governance play in complex multi-modal Enterprises?

Join this webinar that covers all the issues around release control and deployment automation.

They include a look at release management and its role in DevOps, and defining what ‘good’ release management looks like – and how the Micro Focus solution can help achieve it.

Many larger organizations aspire to scale their Agile processes beyond team level. So Micro Focus created ALM Octane to enable them to meet the needs of the enterprise.

Our webinar, Scaled Agile for the Modern Enterprise looks at how this methodology-agnostic solution delivers the Agile delivery functionality that enables corporate level visibility.

So join Rob Stock and Ray Tomany to see how the enterprise can unite multiple individual teams and scale up application delivery.

With GDPR requirements in effect for almost a year, most organisations are examining their business processes to ensure personal data is handled lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. But beyond simple compliance, there are much greater benefits and opportunities to be realised from a well-governed information ecosystem.

With strict timelines and reporting requirements, managing requests for information using manual processes are often resource intensive and lack consistency, transparency and visibility. Automating these processes and extending the reach of information governance can provide a springboard for enhancing productivity and performance more widely.

Join the live webinar on Monday 4 March at 10:00am, where we’ll discuss:

•The impact of GDPR on the public sector to date - the highs and lows
•How you can automate manual tasks to simplify the process of responding to information requests
•Why delivering transparency and accountability can lead to savings in time, effort and cost
•How you can protect sensitive content and collaborate with external agencies securely in the digital environment
•Why process monitoring and real-time dashboard reports are a critical success factor for organisational change
•Discover simple steps to take control of your growing information ecosystem.

Speakers:

- David Kemp, Business Strategist for Secure Content Management in the Security Risk & Governance Division, Micro Focus
- Scott McIntyre, Managing Director EMEA, Objective Corporation UK Limited
- Nigel Smith, Principal Consultant, Objective Corporation UK Limited

The threat landscape continues to evolve and the needs of the Security Operations Centre, along with their budget and available resources are getting squeezed ever more tightly.

Micro Focus is evolving its security portfolio to meet these changing needs, leveraging our mature and best-of-breed technologies along with our industry expertise to enhance and convergence our offerings in the monitoring and analytics space to place the power of our solutions right back in the hands of those who operate, maintain and manage your organisation’s security posture.

In this webinar, we will highlight our latest solution roadmap and vision.

This webinar will be of interest to all those responsible for protecting their organisation’s data and reputation, from the Security practitioners through to the SOC Manager as well as your Security Partners.

Your IT operation is in a constant state of change. Deployment models are multiplying. Application architectures are evolving. Pressures to innovate are rising. And you’re expected to manage it all with a shrinking budget.

It is a constant challenge, but it doesn’t need to be.

In this webinar, you’ll discover how Micro Focus solutions help you master hybrid IT with new enterprise-wide agility. More specifically, you’ll learn how you can:

•Accelerate delivery of IT resources by bridging traditional and
transformational IT.
•Increase IT efficiency by automating routine tasks and processes.
•Support innovation by employing flexible technologies that evolve
with your needs.

Micro Focus Universe is our largest European based event in 2019. Its theme is Powering Digital Transformation.

Join this Webinar to hear more about the event and why you and your customers should attend Micro Focus Universe.

For the enterprise, the code journey from conception to production is not easy. How do you deliver the goodness – all those rich features and functionality – to your customers as a high quality, secure application?

The new ALM solution from Micro Focus uses best-of-breed tools to help keep application delivery for both Agile and non-Agile projects, whatever the methodology, on course.

In this webinar, you will hear Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architect, describe an exciting new direction for enterprise application delivery.

This 25-minute webinar explores what AIOps (Gartner) is all about and why monitoring business process over IT Infrastructure is so valuable to the enterprise.

This webinar covers:

•The story so far–Limitation of traditional Infrastructure monitoring?
•Agentless Discovery–IT Infrastructure mapping to Business
Process.
•Recommendations–Using Operations Bridge to enable an enterprise
to discover, visualise and reduce mean time to repair on business
process, not just infrastructure.
•Demonstration of the Micro Focus solution.

Watch this webinar to find out what Continuous Delivery is all about and how multi-application deployment pipelines can be implemented across both new and existing applications.

You’ll hear from Micro Focus product experts and find answers to these key questions:

•What are some of the implementation challenges?
•Why is the IT industry transitioning to it?
•What is Continuous Delivery?
•What are some recommendations for implementing Continuous
Delivery in complex, multi-modal organizations?

You’ll also see a Demonstration of the Micro Focus Continuous Delivery solution.

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an exciting new business process automation technology, based on the notion of software robots or artificial intelligence workers.

Watch this 30-minute webinar to find out what RPA is all about and how multi-vendor solutions can be implemented and supported across both new and existing automation tools.

•The story so far – Just as industrial robots are remaking the manufacturing industry by creating higher production rates and improved quality, RPA “robots” are revolutionizing the way we think about and administer business processes, IT support processes, workflow processes, remote infrastructure, and back-office work. RPA provides dramatic improvements in accuracy and cycle time and increased productivity in transaction processing, while it elevates the nature of work by relieving workers of dull, repetitive tasks.

•RPA and AIOps – Where Big Data AI is driving RPA and where it fits in IT Operations.

•Recommendations – As RPA brings more technologically-advanced solutions to businesses around the world, operating models that adopt automation (whether in-house or offshored) will cut costs, drive efficiency, and improve quality.

•Demo – See the Micro Focus solution in action.

Because the application and software delivery has changed, our testing tools for software performance engineers have evolved to meet new challenges.

Watch this webinar, to hear more about the Micro Focus performance testing portfolio.

Jonathan Sprake, Senior Solutions Architect, will explain how to incorporate StormRunner Load, our Agile, cloud-based solution testing solutions into your CI/CD pipelines.

Codeless configuration is commonly accepted as the only way to ensure that process modifications can be seamlessly incorporated into software upgrades without requiring teams of programmers to make the changes.

Join this webinar to discover how Micro Focus Service Management Automation X (SMAX) Studio takes codeless configuration to the next level by enabling new process-based applications to be created in minutes. Designed for IT and line of business personnel, SMAX offers fast and risk-free configuration and extension of service management applications.

With SMAX, Enterprise Service Management is delivered out of the box and is based on content such as HR workflow management, ideation and proposal management, and portfolio optimization—all of which can be easily extended or complemented with brand new content using SMAX Studio.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

How SMAX Studio offers faster Time to Value and Lower TCO
How our modern user interface enables the instant creation of new applications
How the required data model, business rules, forms, notifications, reports, and user-defined actions can be created without coding

In the past, IT operations teams tended to focus on using either big data analytics or machine learning to grow business intelligence. But the big data landscape has evolved, and emerging platforms now combine both types of solutions. The question is, how do you choose the one that’s right for you?

This 35-minute webinar tells you how. You’ll learn:

What big data is and where it fits in your IT operation.
How to ensure comprehensive insight into past, present, and future states of IT systems. (Hint: Employ AIOps platforms that can ingest and access log data, text data, wire data, metrics, and API data.)
How multivendor solutions can be deployed and supported across both new and existing applications.
How the Micro Focus solution works (you’ll see a demo) and why it’s worth your consideration.

The latest edition of the World Quality Report 2018-19 analyses responses from 1700 CIOs and other IT Professionals in 32 countries, across ten different sectors, and discussed the trends shaping QA and testing today, along with recommendation for addressing tomorrow’s challenges.

In this webinar, we will explore the findings for the UK and the capabilities required for:
-Complex integration testing
-Test automation across decentralized teams
-Virtualization and the rise of containerized test environments

Put your questions to our experts during the live Q&A and leave with a better understanding of what is top of mind for QA and testing professionals in the UK.

Join this webinar to learn why automation of tasks, processes, workflows, and change deployments across the service desk is essential for simplifying the end user experience and enabling more effective service management. We’ll show you how Micro Focus Service Management Automation X (SMAX) helps organizations achieve this. Senior solutions architect Neville Ward covers:

1. How automation ties into the process workflows of the service desk

2. The value of utilising a comprehensive library of out-of-the-box
runbook orchestrations

3. How Big Data analytics and machine learning drive automation
further into service management processes by mining unstructured
data.