HPE PPM Avoids the Pitfalls when Managing Project Time, Cost and Resources

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit Service Management Special Interest Group (SIG).

Join us to hear about a company's journey to retire multiple Service Management tools with the rapid deployment of Micro Focus SMAX, and how they drove its adoption. Duplicate software capabilities are expensive to maintain and deny organizations a single source of truth. In this webinar, you will learn:

• About the SMAX transformation journey that became a swift success that saved millions of dollars
• About a successful deployment of SMAX across multiple countries

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

After merging monitoring teams for consolidation and cost reduction opportunities, a larger retailer was faced with the challenge of merging the tools into one unified platform. We had two APM instances, both underutilized, that were good candidates to start with. The environments consisted of BSM 9.26 w/Oracle database and APM 9.40 w/SQL server.

This webinar will walk through the deployment plan, problems, and successes we had along the way.

Agenda:

•BSM9.2x to APM Comparison
•Deciding on a Migration Path
•Path of least resistance and down time
•Prep work
•Executing Plan
•Checklist
•Moving things over
•Shutting down decomd instance
•Things you should know
•Integrations
•Q and A session

Containers are a big trend in application deployment. The landscape of containers is moving fast and constantly changing, with new standards emerging every few months. Learn what’s new, what to pay attention to, and how to make sense of the ever-shifting container landscape.

This live webcast will cover:
•Container storage types and Container Frameworks
•An overview of the various storage APIs for the container landscape
•How to identify the most important projects to follow in the container world
•The Container Storage Interface spec and Kubernetes 1.13
•How to get involved in the container community

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2GPkFET

The VR/AR Association Enterprise industry committee will present the latest case studies, best practices, and ROI

Brought to you by the Vivit Testing Quality and ALM Special Interest Group (SIG).

In this webinar, you will learn about how Southern Company approaches automating testing, the automated testing framework we created, why we created it, and how it has been used. There will also be a demonstration of UFT being used to run tests using the framework.

Some key take-aways from this webinar will include ideas the following:

• Approaches to automated testing
• How to create a framework that most anyone can understand how to use
• How to create a framework with very readable instructions that can be used for manual testing and automated testing
• How to start building tests in advance of the application or new application elements (buttons, links, input boxes, etc.) being available
• Ways to create automated test result reports

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

Kick off the new year with a new SNIA Persistent Memory and NVDIMM Special Interest Group webcast on how applications can take advantage of Persistent Memory today with NVDIMM - the go-to Persistent Memory technology for boosting performance for next generation storage platforms. NVDIMM standards have paved the way to simple, plug-n-play solutions. If you're a developer or integrator who hasn't yet realized the benefits of NVDIMMs in your products, you will want to attend to learn about NVDIMM functionality, applications, and benefits. You'll come away with an understanding of how NVDIMMs fit into the persistent memory landscape.

If you’re a storage equipment vendor, management software vendor or end-user of the ISO approved SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), you won’t want to miss this presentation. Enterprise storage industry expert Mike Walker will provide an overview of new indications, methods, properties and profiles of SMI-S 1.7 and the newly introduced version, SMI-S 1.8. If you haven’t yet made the jump to SMI-S 1.7, Walker will explain why it’s important to go directly to SMI-S 1.8.

Today's demand for high-speed everything brings potential unforeseen challenges to your infrastructure environments. A single rogue failure or a noisy neighbor can result in a loss in customer satisfaction or confidence. Plus, when your virtualized applications delivery infrastructure are siloed, small problems can turn into big situations. This all quickly leads to the all too familiar IT war room scenarios.

Does your enterprise experience application outages and/or application slowdowns? For those who have experienced these problems, you also have experienced the IT war room, which conjures memories of extreme inefficiencies - from tedious conference calls, to blame storms, with each person ready to be the first to prove their innocence, rather than contribute to solving the problem at hand. How did we get here?

Join 451 Research and Virtual Instruments as we discuss:

- Technology trends that led to the nightmare war room scenario
- Siloed monitoring tools and organizational models that exacerbate the problem
- Options for improving – or even eliminating – the war room
- Benefits you can expect to realize by solving inefficient war rooms

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

All the rage these days is about AI, or artificial intelligence. Enterprise and business leaders do not rate AI as the most transformative technology for their Digital Customer Experience (DCX) strategies, but it's near the top. In this webinar, you'll learn:
*What is the top transformative technology and why?
*What are the adoption plans for AI in companies' DCX strategies?
*How are companies using AI in the contact center, to measure customer success, and to engage customers?
*What are the key benefits--and they key problems--with AI?
*Which AI technologies do companies plan to use?

We look forward to sharing this information with you!

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.

Blockchain in the Enterprise

The secure, distributed ledger technology that forms the foundation for Blockchain is breaking out as a new foundation for building enterprise applications. The goal of this presentation is to highlight leading Blockchain solutions, the risks and rewards of leveraging Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and how your company can start to leverage Blockchain today.

Hundreds of companies, both old and new, are providing technology designed to improve customer engagement, ultimately raising customer experience scores. Everything from contact center to CRM to user sentiment to in-app contextual communications to many more areas are part of the customer engagement movement.

This first episode of our Digital Customer Experience series serves as a tutorial of technology categories and providers assisting in any customer interaction and analytics to evaluate success.

In this presentation, we break down 7 key reasons why VSI will inherently improve the effectiveness of your QA and Testing practice. Inspired by Matt Angerer’s trials and tribulations as a Program Testing Consultant for over 8 vertical markets and 10 end-to-end SAP implementations, this presentation is a no-nonsense action-packed roadmap to understanding VSI, but to also apply it immediately for lasting results.