Are you ahead or behind? Research findings on Application Security in DevOps

Brought to you by the Vivit Performance Engineering Special Interest Group (SIG).

Most of you may have heard about or experienced Micro Focus Service Virtualization (SV) by now. This webinar is not about explaining what it is or what value it brings to an IT organization. Instead, it is about sharing one team's collective experience with implementing Service Virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) practices at a major pharmacy retail chain company located in Chicago, Illinois.

For insight into this webinar, you may view this three minute video to get a preview of what's coming. Some key take-aways from this webinar include:

• Making the SV business case to leadership
• PoC Guidelines
• Choosing a SV Tool
• SV Beyond the Tools
• SV methodology for Waterfall / Agile models
• SV impact on Microservices, multi-tiered architectures
• SV in Dev Ops
• SV Housekeeping. What's involved?
• ROI samples

Join our panel of experienced Vivit Local User Group (LUG) leaders discussing real world use cases of how to bring Micro Focus customers, partners and field marketing teams together to network, work through software issues, share best practices, and advance your career opportunities.

Why you should attend:

• Hear from four seasoned LUG leaders about their Vivit experience
• Learn how to gain access to Micro Focus software, business leaders, product engineers and developers - all while leading valuable presentations to help your LUG members exchange information about new products and services
• Tips and Tricks on how to expand your visibility into Micro Focus and your network base to further advance your career

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Software Lifecycle Integration Special Interest Group (SIG).

Anyone who has ever attempted to enforce alignment across many domains/projects/teams in order to allow for global reporting will be well aware of its drawbacks and problems.

The list of issues includes:

•Changing processes and tools
•Having to retrain a large number of people
•Delays and disruption
•Resistance from the users and leads who are busy trying to get on with their day-to-day work

In this webinar, we will explore another way of achieving global reporting across different domains by well thought through synchronization.

•Real time reporting with virtually no lead-times
•Teams can keep their own customizations, definitions and processes with no need for change
•No input and hence no time required from team leads/end users
•No disruption, no delays
•No expensive re-training, restructuring, systems changes

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series.

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK and Bob Crews, Co-Founder and CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, as they discuss the ins and outs of founding a tech company.

Topics include:

- Juggling the challenges of being a practitioner, sales rep, marketer and CEO simultaneously
- What to look for in a great vendor partnership
- Application security validation, its trends, and what to look out for

Easily Get 3rd Party Metric, Event, Topology, and Log Data into Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite (OMi) … in 3 minutes (for real)!

StreamWeaver liberates ‘operations data’ (metric, event, topology, and log) to help IT achieve high availability and optimizing the performance of critical business services. To do this, we automate the distribution of the data from all domains and all clouds to the applications (including Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite – OMi) and teams best positioned to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus

Speakers: Gary Brandt, Saumya Upadhyaya and Carol Park
Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus: Today’s reality is that Hybrid IT demands more from IT Operations. 88% of organizations are sharing data between cloud and on premise applications, and 64% are finding that problem resolution takes longer and is more difficult in these environments. IT Operations teams must be able to visualize, monitor, and remediate issues across virtually any environment before end users are impacted. Please join us to learn how Micro Focus can optimize your Hybrid IT operations.

Here’s what our agenda looks like:

•Learn about how Hybrid IT is changing the demands of IT Operations
•Hear about what’s new in OpsBridge 2018.08
•See an executive demo of automated hybrid IT monitoring with OpsBridge
•Learn how to utilize BVD-in-3 to create business value dashboards in a flash

SIG Talk: IT Operations - Optimize Hybrid Cloud Environments with OpsBridge and get 3rd Party Metric, Event, Topology, and Log Data into OpsBridge [Complete Edition]

Speakers: Gary Brandt, Saumya Upadhyaya and Carol Park
Visualize, Monitor, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Environments with Operations Bridge – A Look At The Next Generation From Micro Focus: Today’s reality is that Hybrid IT demands more from IT Operations. 88% of organizations are sharing data between cloud and on premise applications, and 64% are finding that problem resolution takes longer and is more difficult in these environments. IT Operations teams must be able to visualize, monitor, and remediate issues across virtually any environment before end users are impacted. Please join us to learn how Micro Focus can optimize your Hybrid IT operations.

Here’s what our agenda looks like:

•Learn about how Hybrid IT is changing the demands of IT Operations
•Hear about what’s new in OpsBridge 2018.08
•See an executive demo of automated hybrid IT monitoring with OpsBridge
•Learn how to utilize BVD-in-3 to create business value dashboards in a flash

Speakers: Nate Rich and Bob Johnson
Easily Get 3rd Party Metric, Event, Topology, and Log Data into Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite (OMi) … in 3 minutes (for real)!: StreamWeaver liberates ‘operations data’ (metric, event, topology, and log) to help IT achieve high availability and optimizing the performance of critical business services. To do this, we automate the distribution of the data from all domains and all clouds to the applications (including Micro Focus OpsBridge Suite – OMi) and teams best positioned to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Performance Testing - Powered by Voice

Voice shopping is estimated to be $40 billion across US and UK. IoT device is ubiquitous and can be found in every (almost) household. IoT ecosystems help in home automation, smart speakers, home security, productivity, and streaming etc. Digital assistants save time and effort.

Why not bring voice intelligence to performance testing? How about starting your morning coffee by triggering smoke load test from your mobile, or from IoT device, or from your wearable. How about getting smart alerts of your load test straight to your inbox. Performance Testing - Powered by Voice also helps your enterprise performance testing pipeline seamlessly.

Why DevOps Tools Can't Deliver Value

DevOps tools are cool and are needed for an effective Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. But to achieve the ultimate DevOps win for your company, you need to focus on the people. In this talk, we will cover approaches taken at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to enable a DevOps culture.

SIG Talk: Quality & Testing - DevOps and Performance Testing Powered by Voice [Complete Edition]

Join us for our next exciting Quality and Testing SIG Talk. Listen to expert speakers, who are fellow Vivit members, on important approaches that you can take with DevOps tools and Performance Testing powered by voice.

Speaker: Joe Friedrichsen
Why DevOps Tools Can't Deliver Value: DevOps tools are cool and are needed for an effective Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline. But to achieve the ultimate DevOps win for your company, you need to focus on the people. In this talk, we will cover approaches taken at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to enable a DevOps culture.

Speaker: NaveenKumar Namachivayam
Performance Testing - Powered by Voice: Voice shopping is estimated to be $40 billion across US and UK. IoT device is ubiquitous and can be found in every (almost) household. IoT ecosystems help in home automation, smart speakers, home security, productivity, and streaming etc. Digital assistants save time and effort.

Why not bring voice intelligence to performance testing? How about starting your morning coffee by triggering smoke load test from your mobile, or from IoT device, or from your wearable. How about getting smart alerts of your load test straight to your inbox. Performance Testing - Powered by Voice also helps your enterprise performance testing pipeline seamlessly.

In 2014, the founders of VerticalRent (www.verticalrent.com) were featured by Microsoft BizSpark for their early achievements with launching the industry leading rental property management and tenant screening software platform for property managers and landlords. In that article, Microsoft wrote: Matt Angerer is an IT professional by day and a landlord by night. At all times, he has an entrepreneur’s heart and mindset.

A lot has changed since 2014. VerticalRent has more than quadrupled in the sheer number of landlords using the platform from every corner of the United States. The one thing that has not changed is that VerticalRent remains a small operation without employees that epitomizes the concept of a Lean Startup. If you're an IT professional by day who has been toiling with the idea of launching your own "side-gig", you'll want to tune into this BrightTalk webinar to learn how Matt Angerer, Founder of VerticalRent, started with a simple idea and scaled it into a platform that services over 25,000 landlords and nearly 50,000 renters across the United States in 5 short-years -- all while keeping his day job, running his rental properties, and financially supporting a family of 4.

Matt will share with you the techniques he learned that allowed him to balance his personal and professional life to create a software as a service business. In this Webinar, he'll cover:
- The Learn Start Up Mentality - What it Means and How to Live it Day by Day
- Why a Slow-Growth Approach is Better for Certain Personality Types
- How Anyone Can Create a SaaS Platform to Create Side Revenue
- Why SaaS is More Lucrative in the Long-Term than Consulting
- The Darkside of Entrepreneurship and Why Its Necessary

Join us on Wednesday, October 3rd at 9am PT / 12pm ET for this live interview!

In the ever-changing world of Software Testing, the ability to complete more than one task at a time is King. Let me show you how to create enablement content to train employees up or walk them through the next test case or software release, without actually doing anything extra, using a content creation tool called Micro Focus ART.

What you will learn:

•How to record a testing process with minimal additional work
•How to use this testing process to create videos, practice lessons and documentation
•How to use the content to facilitate testing after a new release

Building a Hybrid IT Blueprint – Discover the right mix of public vs. private providers and services for your application portfolio

Many decision makers will say they need more information. The reality is that most leaders are actually drowning in information. What they really need is to move from information to clarity to insight. Attend our talk on building a hybrid it blueprint to see how CloudGenera can quickly take large amounts of data about your applications and provide data-driven analysis on best execution venue. We believe these sorts of insights should happen in minutes not months.

Attendees will learn the following:

•Elements that must be part of Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
•How to analyze public vs. private execution venues
•How to quickly revisit decisions when inputs or market factors change

Work with OpsBridge API’s

In this session, Amr will give a small introduction of OpsBridge and then will start with a basic introduction about OpsBridge API. Next, he will give a simple example on how we can call the OpsBridge API’s and start creating custom Attributes in the events. Finally, Amr will do some modifications on Events Custom Scripts.

What you can expect to take away from this session:

•Basic information on how API’s works and the difference between them
•How to integrate third party applications with OpsBridge using API
•Basic Bash Scripts or Python Script depending on the Operation system we will use

SIG Talk: IT Operations - Operations Bridge API’s and Hybrid IT Blueprint for Application Portfolio [Complete Edition]

Join us for the next IT Operations SIG Talk to hear from Vivit member experts about working with OpsBridge API's and building a Hybrid IT Blueprint for your application portfolio. These two presentations will give in depth insight and takeaways.

Speaker: Amr Fahmy
Work with OpsBridge API’s: In this session, Amr will give a small introduction of OpsBridge and then will start with a basic introduction about OpsBridge API. Next, he will give a simple example on how we can call the OpsBridge API’s and start creating custom Attributes in the events. Finally, Amr will do some modifications on Events Custom Scripts.

What you can expect to take away from this session:

•Basic information on how API’s works and the difference between them
•How to integrate third party applications with OpsBridge using API
•Basic Bash Scripts or Python Script depending on the Operation system we will use

Speaker: Bobby Allen
Building a Hybrid IT Blueprint – Discover the right mix of public vs. private providers and services for your application portfolio: Many decision makers will say they need more information. The reality is that most leaders are actually drowning in information. What they really need is to move from information to clarity to insight. Attend our talk on building a hybrid it blueprint to see how CloudGenera can quickly take large amounts of data about your applications and provide data-driven analysis on best execution venue. We believe these sorts of insights should happen in minutes not months.

Attendees will learn the following:

•Elements that must be part of Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
•How to analyze public vs. private execution venues
•How to quickly revisit decisions when inputs or market factors change

Becoming data-driven means leveraging data as a strategic asset. In a data-driven culture, decisions are made based on timely facts instead of opinion or guesswork. Micro Focus ALM contains invaluable data that should be leveraged in a DevOps transformation and overall metrics framework to provide insight into delivery, planning and trend analysis.
However, this transformation does not happen overnight, but is achieved through a 4 step process,

What you will learn in this webinar:

• Assess your current organizational needs to determine required metrics
• Transform your environment to support cross-project and release wide
reporting
• Automate and manage data collection
• Visualize ALM data to provide real time insights for decision making

Over the past 8 years Assure has been at the forefront of business intelligence with our TotalView platform, empowering customers with insights from their ALM data. We are excited to share with you the key practical steps required to unleash the power of Micro Focus ALM data with a demonstration of the benefits of ALM analytics.

Enterprise AIOps – Augmented Intelligence – Leveraging Micro Focus LeanFT to enable Intelligent Automation (IA)

The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is upon us. Is your favorite test harness up to the job of testing AI platforms like Graph-based ML or Computer Vision? How can you practically start your journey towards Enterprise AIOps? Leveraging Micro Focus LeanFT to enable Intelligent Automation across Functional API, along with Security and Performance testing utilizing microcontainerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, will help you achieve enterprise grade cognitive adaptive testing.

Combining Micro Focus LeanFT with your Existing Selenium Test Automation

Based on current market disruptors, we want to give an Introduction into Micro Focus LeanFT. Starting with a short Comparison of LeanFT and Selenium, the main topic will be the integration of LeanFT into existing Selenium solutions. At the end, we will give a few guidelines and ideas for using LeanFT in your projects.

SIG Talk: Quality & Testing - LeanFT: How to Combine with Existing Selenium & How It Enables Intelligent Automation (Complete Edition)

Another exciting Quality and Testing SIG Talk focused around Micro Focus LeanFT will feature speakers from Germany and the United Kingdom. Both of these experts will share their knowledge and experience with Micro Focus LeanFT and how it can be combined with your existing Selenium test automation as well as how it can enable Intelligent Automation (IA).

Speaker: Daniel Horn
Combining Micro Focus LeanFT with your Existing Selenium Test Automation: Based on current market disruptors, we want to give an Introduction into Micro Focus LeanFT. Starting with a short Comparison of LeanFT and Selenium, the main topic will be the integration of LeanFT into existing Selenium solutions. At the end, we will give a few guidelines and ideas for using LeanFT in your projects.

Speaker: Jonathon Wright
Enterprise AIOps – Augmented Intelligence – Leveraging Micro Focus LeanFT to enable Intelligent Automation (IA): The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is upon us. Is your favorite test harness up to the job of testing AI platforms like Graph-based ML or Computer Vision? How can you practically start your journey towards Enterprise AIOps? Leveraging Micro Focus LeanFT to enable Intelligent Automation across Functional API, along with Security and Performance testing utilizing microcontainerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, will help you achieve enterprise grade cognitive adaptive testing.