Universe2018

Experience the power of a portfolio designed to address your toughest problems in this hybrid IT world.

The Application Delivery Management (ADM) customer forum features the latest in industry trends and product innovations across our ADM portfolio. Our breakout sessions and hands-on demos are designed to help delegates address customer expectations for constant innovation with high quality, while also meeting the business demand for fast and predictable application delivery.

Join our product management and customers as they share best practices and solution roadmaps on the following topics:

Customer speakers include

BMW, Croatian Telekom, Deloitte, Haufe-Lexware GmbH, IQVIA, Lloyds Banking Group, Orange, Sogeti, Telecom Serbia, Tieto

Solutions featured in sessions and demos

ALM Octane, AppPulse, LoadRunner MC, MF Connect, NV, Performance Center, PPM, Quality Center, Secure DevOps, Serena® Application Release Automation, Silk®, SRL, SRF, SV, NV UFT/UFT Pro

Lifecycle Management Track:

• Learn how to release quality software faster, with Lean, Agile and DevOps optimized Application Lifecycle Management software
• See how you can scale and manage your Agile projects and enterprise portfolios to make the right decision at the right time

Test Automation Track:

• Create a unified user experience with simplified functional testing
• Ensure high performance with end-to-end performance testing and intelligent monitoring solutions
• Deliver five-star user experiences with mobile cloud testing, app monitoring, and mobile test lab management solutions

Unlock the value of your mainframe and host systems to enable digital transformation.

Digital transformation is powering significant change, and your core systems of record are at the heart of delivering this new competitive advantage.

84% of customers report that their COBOL applications and mainframe systems of record are strategic to their business. 74% are planning for application growth. 55% are in the process of modernizing.

Customer speakers include

SAGE, SYSPRO, Astadia, Banco Guayaquil, BSQ Sparkasse, SunCorp

What are your plans?

• With an average reported COBOL application lifespan of 7–10+ years, how will you balance innovation while managing risk and reducing operations costs?
• How will you take advantage of cloud and mobility? Implement JAVA or .Net with the introduction of Agile and DevOps practices?
• With GDPR and PCI-DSS looming, what is your plan for implementing new levels of access security within your application infrastructure that was not originally designed with data privacy in mind?

Learn from experiences and gain strategies in three key areas:

• Application Modernization
  • Simplification, reuse and integration to move faster and deliver greater business value
  • Rethinking mainframe app access and integration from desktop to web and mobile
  • Redefining what’s required for secure app, data access and privacy from anywhere
• Process Modernization
  • Accelerating application release cycles with Agile and DevOps methods
  • Integrating new capabilities and practices within your tool chain
  • Standardizing, managing and making app and data access infrastructure more secure
• Infrastructure Modernization
  • Integration of new JAVA or .Net development platforms and tooling
  • Fit for purpose deployment of dev/test and production workloads across mainframe, distributed or the cloud
  • Leveraging scale-out and high availability architectures where needed

Achieve new levels of productivity, cost savings, and collaboration across your entire organization.

Work is not only a place, but an activity that needs to happen securely from anyplace and at any time. Your employees need to effectively share files, access storage, communicate, and collaborate on projects while you control costs and ensure compliance.

However, 96% of executives say lack of collaboration and ineffective communication is the source of workplace failure! You need better ways to collaborate and keep your employees productive.

How can you effectively collaborate in your business?

• With an average employee spending over three hours each day using email, how will you balance innovation while protecting against ransomware and controlling operational costs?
• How will you take advantage of cloud and mobility? Can all your files and email remain safe, compliant, and easily accessible?
• What does GDPR and other regulations mean for your email and files? How can you store communications and determine file contents to maintain privacy and still meet other compliance mandates?

See what’s new and exciting in these key areas:

Collaboration

• Explore Enterprise Messaging for secure, compliant, and more social collaboration
• Archive, secure, and recover your GroupWise email easily and effectively

File and Print Services

• Learn how Open Enterprise Server reduces storage costs and ensures easier access
• Deliver cloud-like file sharing while keeping your data on-premises and secure
• Stop IT headaches with user-centric self-service printing

File Management and Unified Endpoint Management

• See File Dynamics provide easy file system security remediation and deep file inspection and analysis
• Securely configure and manage your endpoints for greater compliance

Experience the power of a portfolio designed to address your toughest problems in this hybrid IT world.

The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will transform the way organizations process and manage data, giving more control to citizens and customers as a result. However, the regulation could offer the opportunity to build better customer relationships, streamline IT and improve data management.

Customer speakers include

Astellas Pharma, easyJet, BMW, International Criminal Court

Solutions featured in sessions and demos

Secure Content Management Suite (ControlPoint, Structured Data Manager, Content Manager, Social Media Governance, Global Policy Management), Digital Safe Suite, ArcSight, Fortify, NetIQ, Voltage

Join the GDPR & Beyond customer forum at Micro Focus Universe to learn how to:

• Control the business impact of GDPR by using analytics to manage risk and gain useful insights
• Take a risk-management approach to GDPR compliance and build your technology roadmap
• Intelligently use technology to classify, protect and take action on sensitive customer information

Experience the power of a portfolio designed to address your toughest problems in this hybrid IT world.

The IT Operations Management (ITOM) customer forum within Micro Focus Universe 2018 will feature presentations by key customers showcasing their IT transformations, successes and best practices.

Presentations will include real-world stories about managing the performance of networks with Network Operations Management, deploying applications to hybrid cloud with Hybrid Cloud Automation, leveraging the Service Management Automation suite to support end-users, ensuring compliance with Data Center Automation or doing anything and everything with Operations Bridge.

In addition, Micro Focus product managers will lead deep-dives, roadmap, and breakout sessions and provide product demonstrations to further educate you on the value of the Micro Focus ITOM suite.

The ITOM customer forum will be a great opportunity to leverage how your peers are utilizing Micro Focus solutions to succeessfully reach their technology and business objectives.

• Customer forum keynote presented by ITOM executives
• Customer speakers from 30 top companies
• Deep-dive roadmap sessions on our whole ITOM portfolio
• Hands-on demos of all our ITOM suites

Customer speakers include

Accenture, AfroCentric Group, Alpha Bank, Anadolu Sigorta, Atcore, Atos, Autostrade, Bosch, Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, DXC, Ericsson, Evonik, Godyo, Helse Nord IKT, Intesa Sanpaolo, James Hutton Institute, Kredi Kayıt Bürosu (KKB), Projixi, Rabobank, Raiffeisenbank Russia, SAP, Sberbank, Schlumberger, Société Générale, Sopra Steria, SUSE, Tele2, Telenor, Telekom Serbia, Türk Telekom, Vivacom, Vodafone

Solutions featured in sessions and demos

Service Management Automation, Operations Bridge, Hybrid Cloud Management (incl. PlateSpin®), Data Center Automation, Network Operations Management, Data Protection

Experience the power of a portfolio designed to address your toughest problems in this hybrid IT world.

The shift to hybrid IT and DevOps has made it imperative for organizations to move beyond securing the periphery, and take a holistic approach to securing their users, apps, data and the interactions between them.

Customer speakers include

Gruner Group Switzerland, MTRIX, Tieto, RTA Dubai, easyJet

Solutions featured in sessions and demos

Micro Focus ArcSight, Micro Focus Fortify, Micro Focus NetIQ®, Micro Focus Voltage, ZENworks Endpoint Management

Join Protect at Micro Focus Universe to learn 
how to:

• Secure your users, applications and data by building security into the fabric of your IT infrastructure
• Enable the continuous deployment and delivery of software without security being the roadblock
• Neutralize breach impacts by securing sensitive data-at-rest, in-motion and in-use
• Provide an integrated approach to identity access and security