Name: Part 3 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?
Start: 2022-05-13T12:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-13T12:00:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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For business leaders managing lots of complexity or disrupting the status quo, Ensono is an expert technology advisor, innovation partner, and managed service provider. Our team excels in managing over 1 million MIPS, reflecting our leadership in mainframe services. Ensono is one of only eight providers globally with the coveted AWS mainframe modernization competency, showcasing our expertise in seamlessly integrating legacy systems with modern cloud environments. Recognized as the Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, we maintain a strong global presence with over 3,400 associates and are headquartered in greater Chicago. To learn more, please visit www.ensono.com.

Unlock the Full Potential of Cloud Desktops for Your Organisation

Shifts in work and employee expectations has necessitated significant technological and cultural changes. Traditional tools and systems are being reimagined to meet the growing demand for flexibility and security.

In this session, we discuss how transitioning to cloud desktops with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can transform your organizational capabilities and secure your digital workspace.

Watch to:

· Understand the Importance of Virtual Desktops: Learn why cloud-based virtual desktops are becoming a cornerstone of modern IT strategies, especially in light of the increasing shift toward remote work.

· Explore the Core Benefits of AVD: Understand into how AVD can serve as your platform for growth, from enhancing security to improving regulatory compliance and boosting productivity,

· Cost-Effective Solutions: Discover how to reduce your IT overhead while maximising efficiency through Azure Virtual Desktop.

· Real-Life Implementations: Hear about a company that successfully integrated AVD into their operations, illustrating the practical benefits and transformative potential of AVD.

· Interactive Workshop: Learn about Ensono’s exclusive workshop designed to help you visualise and implement AVD tailored to your unique organisational needs.

Watch now to start your journey towards a more flexible and empowered workforce with Azure Virtual Desktop.

Empowering Your Workforce with Azure Virtual Desktop

In an era where delivering modern, efficient, and secure services to citizens quickly is paramount, states, local governments, and higher education institutions face a pivotal challenge: modernizing mainframe-dependent applications to harness the cloud's scalability, advanced AI capabilities, transactional performance, and rapid innovation. The journey from legacy systems to the cloud, however, is fraught with barriers, from integration challenges to ensuring data security in the cloud environment.

Join us for an enlightening webinar hosted by Ensono and Microsoft, pioneers in bridging the gap between traditional mainframes and the public cloud's dynamic capabilities. This session is not just a learning opportunity—it's a gateway to transformation, offering you the strategies, technologies, and insights needed to:

-Overcome Integration Hurdles: Navigate the complexities of merging legacy systems with cloud infrastructure, ensuring a seamless, secure transition.
-Unlock Mainframe Data: Leverage cutting-edge techniques to bring your mainframe data to the cloud, unlocking its potential and ensuring it contributes to your organization's intelligence and decision-making processes.
-Drive Innovation with AI: Discover how advanced AI and cloud services can revitalize your data estate, creating compelling digital experiences, accelerating development timelines, and transforming data into actionable insights.
-Optimize Costs While Enhancing Services: Learn how to not only reduce expenses but also improve service delivery, ensuring your digital transformation initiative is both economically and operationally efficient.

Hear firsthand from leaders who have successfully navigated the mainframe-to-cloud journey, benefit from their insights, and learn how your agency can replicate this success. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge to transform challenges into opportunities, turning legacy systems into engines of innovation and service excellence.

Unlocking Mainframe Data for AI Cloud Innovation

For organisations well positioned to leverage it, AI holds infinite potential to drive innovation, propel growth, and redefine outcomes. In this session, we’ll explore practical, actionable steps that will enable you to immediately extract business value from the latest AI advancements, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for long-term adaptability and success in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

You’ll discover:

· Short-term AI wins to gain buy-in and build momentum with minimal risk
· How to ensure your data is optimised to unleash the full power of AI and ML
· The keys to building a strategic framework for nimble, ongoing AI readiness

Speakers: 
Moderator: Bryan Glick, Editor in chief, Computer Weekly
Ensono speaker: Ian Cowley, Principal Consultant - Data Engineer
Microsoft speaker: Tina Diamond, Director Azure Data & AI Specialists

AI Prioritisation & Practicality: Unveiling trends, approaches & future pathways

Ensono’s Director of Consulting, Steven Jones, and ForgeRock’s Director of Solution Marketing, Adam Preis, presented a thought-provoking session at the Insurance Innovators Summit on the role of digital identity in reshaping the insurer-policyholder relationship like never before.

Watch now to explore how the interplay between customer trust, transformation, and identity paves the way for a revolutionary shift in the industry, providing you with a distinctive competitive edge.

Elevating Trust and Policyholder Experiences with Digital Identity

Watch this video to explore practical, actionable steps you can take to prepare your organization for AI-driven success, giving you a competitive edge in this rapidly evolving digital era.

Head of Data, Ian Cowley, and Senior Data Consultant, Sam Deeble, present an eye-opening talk at the “Thinking Differently” UK IT Leaders Community Day asking the big question on IT leaders minds, “Are you ready for AI?”

Are you ready for AI?

The complex realm of nurturing customer satisfaction and loyalty is proving to be an ambitious undertaking for the most seasoned CTO. Businesses are under pressure to deliver frictionless experiences and build deeper connections, which translates to the enormous challenge of to unify and manage customer, citizen and departmental data across physical and digital channels in a safe and appropriate way. All of which is possible through ubiquitous identity technologies.

At the intersection of security, accessibility, and user experience, industry experts Steven Jones, Bryony Berry, alongside moderator Bryan Glick shine a spotlight on Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), and the transformative benefits of getting it right.

Beyond Security: CIAM's Role in Seamless Customer Experiences

In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, SQL Server has undergone a remarkable transformation, opening doors to new opportunities while introducing challenges that compel organisations to adapt and evolve.

In the webinar, we'll shed light on the critical journey of SQL Server migration and modernisation, helping you navigate the intricate steps and crucial considerations  necessary to shed outdated and unsupported technologies for modern data solutions.

What you will learn:
• How to balance innovation and legacy with minimal disruption
• How to rapidly expanding your SQL Data Warehouse capacity while keeping costs in check
• How to overcome the multifaceted challenges and intricacies of modernizing your SQL Server environment
• How to unlock the economic and energy efficiency gains that come with migration and modernisation

Speakers: 
− Gordon McKenna, VP, Cloud Evangelist & Alliances, Ensono
− Tristan Edwards, Principal Consultant, Ensono
Moderator: 
− Bryan Glick, Editor in Chief, Computer Weekly

Mastering SQL Server Modernisation Achieving Efficiency & Innovation with Azure

Cloud migration has become an indispensable strategy for businesses, especially during crises such as the pandemic, natural disasters, or economic downturns. According to a recent study by Gartner, "By 2025, 80% of enterprises will migrate entirely away from on-premises data centers, with the current trend of moving workloads to colocation, hosting, and the cloud leading them to shut down their traditional data center." 

The cloud offers flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness to keep operations running smoothly. But, how can you effectively migrate to the cloud during an economic crisis, and achieve more with less when budgets are tight, client expectations are rising, and the availability of cloud talent and skills remains a challenge?

Join Ensono cloud experts as they share their insights on how your Azure cloud migration can enable you to do more with less and meet increasing demands for innovation and customer satisfaction.

Discover how to optimise and modernise your cloud migration, reduce costs, improve agility, enhance security, and achieve better business outcomes with your cloud migration.

Cloud Migration In a Crisis: How Tech Leaders Can Do More, With Less, In Azure

Tech decision makers are under more pressure than ever before to drive better business outcomes on leaner technology budgets. Evolve your Azure cloud journey and make matter happen faster with Ensono

Navigating Cloud Challenges | Cost optimisation, modernisation, and resilience

Businesses are held back on their digital transformation journey lacking the ability to move business critical applications residing on legacy IBM Power systems like IBM i (AS/400) and AIX to Azure.  These applications can now be migrated as-is to Azure without costly or timely refactoring or rewriting, and once migrated, application life and value can be expanded with the use of cloud native services. Join us for this interactive discussion about how IT leaders can modernize legacy IBM midrange systems in the cloud, achieve transformation and drive key business outcomes that align to their strategic company goals.

Migrate and Modernize IBM Midrange in Azure

Watch this video to see Ensono Flex Cloud Engineering manages the skill gap between your current resources and your cloud project backlog. See how it provides access to advanced cloud capabilities through Ensono agile engineering teams that will collaborate seamlessly with your people.

Ensono Flex Cloud Engineering: Deliver Value Faster with a Team of Cloud Experts

Join Alex Hilton, CEO of Cloud Industry Forum and guests for episode 37 of Digital Transformation in Action, as they ask 'Legacy IT? Friend or Foe?'.

Topics of discussion will include:

- How businesses can grapple with legacy IT systems in the face of economic challenges, changes in regulation and shifting market conditions 
- If legacy IT can ever be an asset rather than a burden
- Security challenges legacy IT poses and how modernization can put business on the path to a more robust security posture
- The lost business opportunities legacy IT can lead to
- And more

Legacy IT: Friend or Foe?

Interview with Linda Carroll, Expert Capacity Management at Ensono. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Published by: Digitalisation World

Spotlight on Women in IT – Episode 30 – Ensono Interview

Making data work at every level of your business, and using insights to drive efficiency and productivity, experience, and growth, is not the exclusive domain of the IT function, and it can’t be delivered through technology alone.

Ensono recently gathered experts and leaders from retail, hospitality, travel, IT, and manufacturing in Manchester to discuss the ever-increasing importance of using data to make better, faster decisions in all areas of business.

Watch our webinar to explore how Village Hotels turned to Ensono to design a data platform that would enable their growth and efficiency plans. From forecasting visitor numbers and planning staffing levels, to driving efficiency in product ordering and understanding customer behaviours, Village Hotels are utilising data to become a truly advanced insights-driven business.

How Village Hotels Uses Data to Make Better, Faster Decisions

An efficient technology vendor portfolio can make a significant difference in supporting your organization’s prioritized projects and daily operations, not to mention achievement of your business goals and objectives. However, many organizations don’t have the expertise or resources to keep track of software and hardware vendors and negotiate contract renewals. Effective contract analysis and execution can eliminate redundant products, supply more business flexibility and control rising costs. We’re sharing real real-world advice on contract reviews, negotiation strategies, license consolidation and specific issue resolution to help improve your current technology spend, minimize future increases, prepare for audit defense, and issue RFPs.

4 Ways to Control Current & Future Spending with Technology Vendors

State and local governments have a tremendous opportunity to better serve their residents with technology. With an increase of cybersecurity threats and ransomware attacks, a modern IT infrastructure is critical for boosting reliability, performance, and efficiency. Join us, Dell Technologies and Ensono speakers, for an interactive conversation as we talk through deploying IT solutions that meet the ever-evolving needs of communities.

Data Center Modernization: The Tyranny of "OR"

When we speak of innovation we invariably default to conversations about technology and how and where it can change our organisations, but true innovation requires creative, original thinking to create the innovative ideas in the first place. It is said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process and expecting a different result. The same applies to how we think. We need a different approach to enable innovation.

Join us in this webinar to explore how different approaches to organisational thinking can unlock potential within your organisation and release the potential for greater innovation.

The Future of Innovation: Changing the Mindset

Find out how organisations uncover the multiple layers to understand what is driving mainframe utilisation and the applications that drive peak spikes. Understanding and predicting the application usage impact on your mainframe is a driving force. 
Using a forecasting model based on seasonality, organisational data, understanding the size of the applications running on the mainframe, and when it executes over a 24-hour day - the impact can be accurately predicted and verified with each application. 
The forecast model allows organisations running a mainframe to know specifically what week in the year they can expect to see the application re-platforming impact. These insights allow organisations to budget and plan well in advance of the strategic moves, achieve cost optimization, efficiencies and more. Watch the webinar to find out more on mainframe predictability with Linda Carroll from Ensono.

Bridging the Gap : Mainframe - Predicting Application Migration Workload Impact

Part 2 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

Part 1 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

Ensuring critical business operations and applications run effectively and efficiently both now and in the long term requires investment. When these run on the mainframe there needs to be a long-term investment strategy for the mainframe that includes innovation and transformation. In the third instalment of the 'Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?' series we discuss mainframe modernisation and optimisation and the importance of a mainframe strategy.  During the discussions we address the risk factors organisations have highlighted as key concerns through our research paper with Computing IT and when making decisions about modernising their mainframe and the critical role of security. In this panel discussion Ensono are joined by two clients from CSG; Steve Barr, VP Applications, and Bob Rion, Chief Architect, Enterprise Architecture & Data Centers and IBM’s CTO Marcel Mitram, tune in for an informative discussion.

Part 3 | Competitive advantage: What’s the mainframe got to do with it?

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