Speaker: Ray Ffrench - Senior DevOps Technical Consultant, Application Delivery Management

LoadRunner update and the role of Performance Engineering in a world of chaos

In our digital world, it is critical to prepare for the unexpected. That means you must design resiliency into your applications. But how do you start?

Join Ray French from Micro Focus to understand the importance of performance engineering and chaos testing. Ray will define what it is and how it can help you prepare for potential issues.

You’ll find out:

  • The importance of chaos testing.
  • The benefits to your business.
  • How LoadRunner Professional and Gremlin can help.
  • LoadRunner family recent innovations and new features and capabilities coming your way soon.

Speaker:
Julian Fish, Director of Product Management, Micro Focus & Ramanandh Sankaralingam, Chief Technologist, Application Delivery Management

Value Stream Management / Value Edge

Digital transformation demands that organisations move faster without breaking things. It’s no wonder that your software delivery teams feel the pressure to deliver high-quality applications quickly.

So, what’s the solution? Many are turning to value stream management (VSM), which focuses on the value of software as it moves through the development lifecycle. This customer-centric approach helps teams quickly catch issues, eliminate wasteful activity, and create room for innovation.

Join the conversation with our subject experts for a fireside chat and Q&A. Together, we’ll discuss:

  • What VSM is and why more teams are doing it.
  • How to maximize value delivery to boost business growth.
  • How to gain a competitive edge with VSM.

We can’t wait to hear your questions and thoughts on this trending topic

Speaker:
Matthew Bertram, APJ SaaS Sales and Business Development, Micro Focus

Building Your Business Case for Micro Focus Cloud

Moving your current Micro Focus solutions to the cloud has many benefits, from access to the latest innovations through to lower costs and hassle-free upgrades.

You may see the clear value of Software as a Service (SaaS), and your organisation may have a cloud first strategy, but how do you get your proposal prioritised and across the line?

Join us for an update on Micro Focus cloud solutions for Application Delivery, and learn a straight-forward approach to evaluating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of SaaS compared to your current implementation.

We’ll discuss a few relevant topics, including:

  • Value Drivers for a move to Cloud or SaaS
  • Simple steps to help you build a TCO analysis
  • Key Considerations for moving your Micro Focus solutions to the Cloud

Speakers:
Priyank Sharma, DevOps Solutions Consultant, Application Delivery Management & Ramanandh Sankaralingam, Chief Technologist, Application Delivery Management

Modernising Test Automation with Value Stream & Model based testing

Research indicates that testing is the #1 barrier to faster software delivery and test automation has become an essential component to deliver quality software.

In this webinar, our experts will talk about modernizing and accelerating test automation with three key focus areas:

  • Identify and reduce waste in your software delivery lifecycle using Value Stream
  • Optimize Software testing time & cost with Model Based Testing
  • Accelerate delivery with Codeless test automation

Speakers:
Ray Ffrench, Micro Focus ADM Senior DevOps Technical Consultant & Stefano Doni, Co-Founder & CTO, Akamas

AI-Driven Performance Optimisation—A Real-World Example

Modern applications sit atop of many layers, such as Java Virtual Machines, container, database, cloud and more, each providing hundreds of settings all interacting in complex and counterintuitive ways. Manual and trial-and-error performance tuning cannot cope with this complexity with today’s fast release cycles and business speed.

As a result, incorrect configurations may cause poor application performance, low reliability, and resource (cost) inefficiency. This webinar explores how an AI-driven Performance Optimisation solution can allow performance engineers to automate testing, automatically identify optimal full-stack configurations to enable their companies to deliver unprecedented application performance and cost saving, while also improving operational resiliency.

Please join Ray Ffrench, Micro Focus ADM Senior DevOps Technical Consultant together with Stefano Doni, Akamas Founder & CTO, in our ANZ Monster-sized Meetup series as they discuss this modern approach to performance optimisation and how to get the most out of your performance engineering solution.

What will I learn?

  • The fundamental problem with performance optimisation
  • Addressing the challenges with an AI-driven performance optimisation
  • How performance optimisation and performance engineering work together

Speakers:
Bharath Benoit, Micro Focus ADM Senior Technical Consultant

How AI is Revolutionising Software Test Automation

Test Automation is key to delivering a fast, reliable continuous delivery pipeline, and yet, on average, only 20-30% of organisations are fully automating their testing. But a skillset shortage, and the cost of building and maintaining automation assets, are major barriers to increasing automation coverage.

Bharath Benoit, Micro Focus ADM Senior Technical Consultant shares how Micro Focus leverages Artificial Intelligence to deliver major advances in functional testing.

What will I learn?
Insights include how testers can easily keep up with the speed of application changes across multiple devices and platforms, while reducing the cost of building and maintaining automation assets.

Speakers:
Matthew Bertram, APJ Business Consultant SaaS, Micro Focus
Bharath Benoit, ADM & DevOps Solution Consultant ANZ Micro Focus

Upgrading to latest version of ALM & QC + Understanding your SaaS Options

The pyramids in Egypt and the Great Wall of China were built to last forever. Enterprise software? Not so much.

It’s tempting to try and save time and money by waiting to upgrade. In reality, this approach increases support and security risks—not to mention the productivity-boosting features you miss out on.

As a valued customer, we’re inviting you to put your upgrade woes behind you by joining our community of experts and fellow users. Join Bharath Benoit, as he highlights the value and enhancements of the current software releases.

Also In this meetup, Matthew Bertram, demystifies how Micro Focus cloud solutions work and how they can provide a great deal of scary good benefits.

We’re confident that you’ll find this meetup rewarding—the benefits from upgrading may even surprise you.

Speakers:
Matthew Bertram, APJ Business Consultant SaaS, Micro Focus
Ram Sankaralingam, ANZ DevOps Chief Technologist, Micro Focus

Introducing ALM Octane + Understanding your SaaS Options
 

The next meetup exposes the monsters lurking over your efforts to transform software delivery practices and reshape toolchains. It’s time to bring them into the light and have a friendly conversation. As it turns out, they aren’t so scary once you get to know them.

If you’re transitioning to Agile or DevOps, integrating new tools into the mix, or iterating with what you have, don’t miss this open conversation. Our in-house guru, Ram Sankaralingam will highlight the components you need for the next stage of your internal growth.

We don’t stop there. Many organisations have specific requirements in how they consume software and services. Matthew Bertram will discuss a few trending topics:

  • Specific rules, policies, and procedures.
  • Differences in deployment and management between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and newer paradigms like functions as a service.
  • Additional layers of complexity when combining applications that must coexist both on premises and in the cloud.

A little knowledge can go a long way—and we’re here to help.

If you have any questions, please contact Micro Focus Events.

*Terms & Conditions for Micro Focus Monster-sized Meetup series prize

Entry is open to all Australian and New Zealand residents aged 18 years and over, who work in or are employed as an information technology professional. All Micro Focus employees and competitors are excluded from entering.