Stream: Systems Management
Time: 14:45 - 15:45
“71% of executives say mainframe-based applications are central to their business strategy”, source IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). Legacy application modernization means integrating and extending mainframe capabilities to support agility and new business innovation. The mainframe remains an important part of an organization's IT platform.
The usual challenge is how to adapt, accept this rapid digitization, and create an impactful team that can understand existing modernization tools for a quick ROI and not falls behind in this modernization journey. The mantra is, ‘Define modernization goals, Evaluate developer’s capabilities, Phase wise development strategy, Observe and Optimize the process’. Developers should be enabled with the tools and best practices.
Accelerating legacy application modernization using IBM HATS allows for the preservation of the core business value of the Mainframe applications and empowers developers to extract more value from this Mainframe investment. Learn from the experts who have helped their customers to onboard in the modernization journey, and understand the tools, skills, and best practices. Understand case studies, how our industry leaders are engaged, investing in the development cycle, and empower your team to prioritize their modernization goals
Avinash has over 20 years of experience in Products Development and Software Services across various industry verticals and he is the global leader for Professional Services for the Mainframe products in HCL Software, being specialized in finding innovative solutions to customer issues of strategic importance in Mainframe enterprise transformation, GTM solutions for specific and targeted results. He is assisting customers with IBM PCOMM, HOD, HATS, FA, FM, RBD, and IzSAM, and their HCL versions (ZIE win-web-Trans, ZAI, ZAO, ZDT) products across the globe with a strong team serving through various delivery models. A hands-on professional in managing IT transformation consultancy programs, Transition programs, Managed services, delivery engagements, and Solution architecture across geographic locations. Engineering leader, mentor, and coach executed complex projects, with a razor-sharp focus on providing innovative solutions/services for competitive advantage.
Giovanni Palumbo, HCL Software: Senior Regional Sales Director, responsible for the IBM branded products in the HCL Mainframe Portfolio. Giovanni joined IBM in 1991 as a software engineer, moving later to the managerial role in development and customer support areas where he was accountable for multiple products in the IBM/Tivoli Laboratory based in Rome. In 2016 he transitioned to HCL after the Intellectual Property Partnership agreement between IBM & HCL being responsible for IBM Workload Scheduler development & support, joining a few years later to the sales organization where he is currently in charge for software and services sales
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