Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 3 Highlights

Müller, Thorsten

Blog Post Stonebranch Online 2021: Week 3 Highlights

Catch up on what you missed from week three of the Stonebranch Online educational forum. Plus, get a sneak peak into what’s coming in week four.

Week three of Stonebranch Online 2021, our annual virtual education forum, was filled with customer stories. In fact, the live audience had a chance to hear from two industry powerhouses and how they are currently using Universal Automation Center to solve both automated IT and business processes. Read on to capture some of the knowledge they shared during their respective sessions.

Session 1: A CIO’s POV: Automating Operations at Makedonski Telekom

Miroslav Jovanović, the Chief Technology Information Officer of Makedonski Telekom, which is part of Deutsche Telekom Group, kicked off the first event for the week. He shared why he made the strategic decision to leverage Stonebranch to run and automate IT operations via a mix of Universal Automation Center (UAC) and managed services.

This tweet summarizes his point of view:

Miroslav Jovanovic shares his vision for using @Stonebranch to managed @TelekomMK IT operations as a managed service. The big bullet: They were looking or a transformation catalyst! #StonebranchOnline #Telecom #ITautomation pic.twitter.com/bOH9wFhMEj
— Stonebranch (@Stonebranch) October 12, 2021

Sebastiano Mion, VP of Technology Enabled Services at Stonebranch, joined Mr. Jovanović to further outline some examples of how UAC is being used to automate and orchestrate telecom billing workflows.

CIO at @TelekomMK, Miroslav Jovanović, shares that Stonebranch's automation approach, which is connected to #DevOps principles, is a crucial part of IT operations optimization. "They automated many manual processes that historically cost overtime hours." #stonebranchonline
— Stonebranch (@Stonebranch) October 12, 2021

Watch On-Demand

Session 2: BPs Cloud-First Approach with SaaS-Based Workload Automation

The second session of the week saw Massimo Leoni, IT&S Integration and Automation Portfolio Owner at BP, discussed how BP made a strategic decision to transform form an international oil company into an integrated energy company. In order to do that, they decided to go through a digital transformation, which included a cloud-first approach. Mr. Leoni went on to share the benefits of using a SaaS-based workload automation solution:

Massimo Leoni, IT&S Integration and Automation Portfolio Manager at @bp_plc, shares the benefits of a SaaS-based #WorkloadAutomation solution during #StonebranchOnline. pic.twitter.com/6xH7JqvAaU
— Stonebranch (@Stonebranch) October 14, 2021

To further the discussion, Mr. Leoni explained how the UAC helps BP manage enterprise scheduling.

Live during #StonebranchOnline: Massimo Leoni, IT&S Integration and Automation Portfolio Manager at @bp_plc, discusses how Stonebranch's SaaS-based Workload Automation solution helps BP to automate and orchestrate business processes. His four key points are below. #ITautomation pic.twitter.com/RQOjq7Xjlq
— Stonebranch (@Stonebranch) October 14, 2021

Nils Buer, Director of Product Management at Stonebranch, then joined Mr. Leoni to talk about some of the solutions that BP is orchestrating with Universal Automation Center.

During this week's #StonebranchOnline session, Nils Buer, Director of Product Management at Stonebranch, shared a small excerpt of what BP is automating and orchestrating with the Universal Automation Center (UAC). #SAP #Informatica pic.twitter.com/XGPrJol21D
— Stonebranch (@Stonebranch) October 14, 2021

Watch On-Demand