Virtual Education Forum: May 14 - June 18
Stonebranch Online 2020
An educational series presented by customer speakers and Stonebranch executives focusing on helping enterprises keep pace with the rapid rate of change that is occurring in IT to help you stay relevant and future-focused in this fast paced world.
About Stonebranch Online
Stonebranch Online Education Forum, hosted from May 14, 2020 to June 18, 2020, was a virtual event series designed for all customers, partners and analysts across the globe. This educational series focused on helping enterprises keep pace with the rapid rate of change that is occurring in IT, including hybrid cloud automation, DevOps, big data, and IoT.
In addition to a wonderful line-up of customer speakers, Stonebranch executives shared strategic plans, solution road maps, and product demos to help our customers, partners and prospects stay relevant and future-focused in this fast paced world. Sessions included live use case demonstrations, customer success stories, a product roadmap, a panel discussion with Stonebranch developers, and more.
Available On-Demand Sessions
Real-time Hybrid IT Automation
In this session of the series, Colin Cocksedge, Director of Product Management at Stonebranch, introduced Stonebranch’s real-time hybrid IT automation approach, and how it enables event-based automation across hybrid environments, including on-premise and cloud. He highlighted the software’s versatility using specific use cases, and shared some interesting insights based on customer statistics. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
The Reed Elsevier Technology Services Experience
Reed Elsevier is a long-time Stonebranch customer, and Doug Perseghetti and Scott Haas are frequent favorites at in-person Stonebranch user group events. The session was as entertaining as it was detailed, Doug and Scott took turns working through their most important lessons learned when it comes to migrating to and using Stonebranch’s UAC. Topics covered included: Workflow Management, Naming Conventions, Scripting Tips and Tricks, Integration with ServiceNow, Copying “Groups” and more. Contact us to request access to this on-demand session.
Available On-Demand Sessions
How to Integrate UAC with any IT System in Your Environment
In this on-demand session, Director of Solution Engineering Moritz Roos presents Stonebranch’s Universal Tasks, which allow for countless API integrations customized to the needs of each user. He introduces the UAC as a Universal Integration Platform, able to seamlessly integrate both for upstream and downstream systems. He also defines Universal Tasks and demonstrates how users can create their own, highlighting some of release 6.8’s out of the box integrations. In addition, he deliveres a live demo of the Stonebranch ServiceNow Universal Task and integration capabilities. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
Infrastructure-as-Code for Automated Self-Service Cloud Deployments
Solution Engineer Alex Sushko presented Infrastructure-as-code as a form of self-service resource provisioning in this informative session. Alex posited that as IT environments become more complex and IT teams require more tools for the management and provisioning of resources and systems, infrastructure-as-code expands operations’ control and visibility while empowering end users with self-service cloud provisioning via tools they natively work from. Alex also detailed the potential benefits and impact to business that adopt such a cloud provisioning strategy and performed a demonstration of the solution in action. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
Merge Robotic Process Automation with Workload Automation - And how it helps
In his session, Helmut Dahmen, Director of Product Management, shared the many benefits of combining robotic process automation (RPA) with workload automation (WLA) to achieve an entirely new scope of automation and orchestration across the enterprise. Helmut clarified the differences between RPA and WLA. He then shared a live demo of an integration between Universal Automation Center and UiPath, which illustrated the power of combining the solutions. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
Job-as-Code for DevOps. Move Workflows to Source Control Management Repositories
During this session, engineer Alex Sushko presented Job-as-Code for DevOps, which enables enterprises to seamlessly integrate automation into the native solutions they work in every day. Alex demonstrated how to use a jobs-as-code method to fuse the Universal Automation Center with your DevOps process and seamlessly transfer any UAC objects like tasks, triggers, and scripts to SCM repositories like Github. In addition, you will learn how to check out files to any IDE, such as Visual Studio, to modify or create new configurations, as well as propagate changes to the next environment, such as QA and Production. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
Enabling Self-Service Automation: United Fire Group on Roles and Permissions for Members
Michael Ohl, Team Lead IT of United Fire Group (UFG) insurance company highlighted several key ways to utilize member services in the UC environment. Michael discussed why UFG uses member services to reduce the complexity of enabling self-service across the organization. He also described how to apply specific security to enable use or prevent misuse both within the UC environment, as well as across multiple environments (Production, Test/QA, Dev, etc.). Following Michael’s tips and tricks for success, UC users will be able to take their environments to a higher level of security without losing the agility and functionality they enjoy. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Available On-Demand Sessions
11 Ways to Prepare for a Migration to a New Workload Automation Solution
In this session, Joe Carbonella, Director Professional Services at Stonebranch, walked through the Stonebranch Transition Methodology's key phases and provided a live demonstration of our automated tools supported by Mike Archambeault, who has also revealed useful tips and tricks for anyone considering converting to Stonebranch's Universal Automation Center, whether on a DIY basis or with assistance from Stonebranch's Professional Services team. Watch this on-demand session recording now.
Who participated?
Automation for What's Next — Staying Ahead in the Age of Digital Change.
This entire event focused on how organizations can keep pace with the rapid rate of change that is occurring in IT, including hybrid cloud orchestration, DevOps, big data, and IoT. Stonebranch shared its strategic plans for providing the solutions needed to keep our customers, partners and like-minded peers relevant and future-focused in this fast paced world.
Stonebranch Customers
- They have experienced their peers sharing live demos, quick wins, lessons learned, and ways to set their automation environment up for success.
Industry Experts
- Were able to discover how to take full advantage of Stonebranch's solution portfolio, and see what's coming in the near future.
Stonebranch Partners
- Gathered invaluable knowledge to better understand product capabilities and emerging technologies of the future.
Like-Minded Peers
- Whether an end-user or a vet, they have been able to sharpen their skills and gain expert knowledge, during this exclusive event.