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Join us for Encore Day on May 11

At Micro Focus Universe, thousands registered to see the latest market trends, innovations, and customer stories. Although the premier Micro Focus event took place on (and April 5-7 for APJ), sessions are available to watch on-demand until early June.

With a track keynote session and dozens of breakout sessions, key leaders from the Application Modernization & Connectivity team at Micro Focus shared specific information that can help organizations run and transform—at the same time.

On May 11, the Application Modernization & Connectivity track will have a dedicated Encore Day, where viewers gain access to content aimed at leveraging the heart of your IT, whether it’s mainframe or COBOL, containers or cloud, to securely accelerate your digital transformation journey and create greater value from longstanding IT investments.

Here are some of the highlights from Universe that we’re excited for viewers to explore, whether revisiting Universe content or joining us for the first time.

Modernizing with Cloud

You have many options when modernizing your infrastructure:  move everything to cloud, hybrid cloud, multi cloud and even using cloud to access traditional mainframe applications.  Learn more about these options from Micro Focus experts, partners and customers by viewing the session “Build a Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Modernization Strategy.” In this session, Micro Focus’ Misty Decker and Stuart McGill are joined by Microsoft’s Erik van Enk and Accenture’s Mark Potts.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How mainframe applications and cloud infrastructure can work together.
• Specific customer examples of hybrid cloud deployment.
• Leveraging the strengths of our mainframe solutions and the flexibility of multiple cloud providers.

Taking your Applications on a Modernization Journey

Every journey begins with a single step.  For trusted business systems, written in COBOL and running on the mainframe, that journey begins with application knowledge and understanding. So, how does the enterprise build an adaptive and flexible modernization strategy, regardless of destination, while delivering immediate return for the business?

The session “Take your Applications on a Modernization Journey” with Micro Focus’ Guy Sofer and Scot Nielsen, and Thomas Backasch of Deutsche Rentenversicherung, explores the end-to-end journey of application modernization, including how the latest Micro Focus tools, methodologies and best practices can accelerate application transformation and knowledge transfer while building new developer skills.

Three main takeaways from this session include:

• Options for COBOL application modernization.
• How to API enable existing COBOL and mainframe applications.
• How to connect your mainframe applications to cloud services.

Learn more about API enablement and learn how the German Pension Fund modernized its mainframe applications using the Micro Focus Enterprise Suite.

Explainer - API Enablement Video:

www.youtube.com/watch

Customer Story - DSRV / German Pension Fund Video:

www.youtube.com/watch

Integrating the Mainframe into your Broader IT Strategy

The frequency and cost of security breaches continue to increase. So, organizations must identify secure, modern mainframe access and application-level security controls. Integrating the mainframe into a broader IT security strategy that includes Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) is key. View the session and the video for valuable insights and simple steps to help meet your security, privacy, and access objectives for your connected, digital mainframe. Learn about how MFA and integrated access control can protect your business-critical assets, including the mainframe.

The session “Integrating the Mainframe into your Broader IT Security Strategy” will show how to:

• Integrate the mainframe into your broader IT security strategy.
• Extend enterprise-level security to the mainframe.
• Ensure secure, modern mainframe access when moving to the cloud.

Securing Mainframe Access Video:

https://youtu.be/iEUgvqrGoGo

Provide Value at Each Step of the Journey

Universe 2022 took viewers on a journey to solve the key digital dilemma—how to balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s opportunities. We hope you’ll join us on May 11 and view the Application Modernization and Connectivity Universe content on-demand to see how you can achieve the outcomes needed to run and transform at the same time and boost your transformation journey.

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