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Broadcom Yet Again a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM!

By Ashley George
For a third consecutive year,   Gartner named Broadcom as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring . We believe this recognition validates our strong AIOps vision and our speed to deliver new innovations that help address the challenges of our customers. The majority of organizations today are beginning to embrace cloud-native applications - and with that shift comes a variety of benefits along with new sets of challenges and ever-increasing complexity.  We believe that we are uniquely positioned to help our customers on this journey because of our deep knowledge and expertise in this space. We ourselves have refactored ...
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Supporting Your Business Comeback with Clarity

By Alf Abuhajleh
Helping Broadcom customers getting back to business quickly and safely, Clarity product manager, Brian Nathanson, shares his ideas on how to prepare for Day One of the post-Covid world in this  blog  and  webcast . Clarity solutions consultant, Lisamarie Manso, followed up with advice on using Clarity’s strategic roadmaps to re-plan 2020 and beyond in this  blog  and  webcast .  And this week, Brian dug deeper into adaptive planning , urging customers not to get back to normal. More blogs and webcast on getting back to business with Clarity will run all 2020 on our BrightTALK channel and company blog
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API Academy Certification Program

By Bill Oakes, CISSP
A few weeks ago, the API Academy announced the API Academy certification program - the industry's first independent education and certification program for best practices in API strategy and design.  Personalized self-paced courses are available for API Designers (available now), API Security Architects (June), and API Product Managers (late summer), delivering proven best practices on demand.  Each course completed (and exam passed) delivers a certificate and badge.  We encourage you to share your certificate on LinkedIn to show your contacts your achievement!  Completion of all three courses delivers an API Academy Certified badge. Here's a brief overview ...
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Announcing the end of service (EOS) of CA Business Intelligence (JasperSoft) version 6.4.3

By Itamar Budin
Date:  May 19, 2020 To:  Symantec IGA (Identity Suite, Identity Manager, Identity Governance and Identity Portal) Customers Subject: CA Business Intelligence (JasperSoft) version 6.x End of Service (EOS) notification On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high quality, innovative software and services. Broadcom is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. This notice is to inform you that the CA Business Intelligence (CABI) reporting solution, version 6.4.3, that shipped with our Symantec IGA solution has reached End-of-Service on 5/8/2020. ...
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AI in PPM: Conversation with the Last Project Manager

By Alf Abuhajleh
As artificial intelligence replaces a variety of business workers, we sat down with the last project manager to talk about the end of an (human) era and how AI is making businesses more people friendly. The following excerpt is edited for length and clarity. Question: Did you expect this day to come? The end of the project manager? Answer : I’ve been a project manager for a very long time. When I first started, colleagues would ask me why I wanted to be a PM? I mean, “no one likes them” and “they’re a waste of time.” Well, the last 30 years or so has probably shown that I made a good career choice. But now the time has come when project management, or at ...
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Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Trial Version

By Joe Dascole
With the release of Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4  we are pleased to announce the availability of a trial version which can be downloaded here: Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Trial Download This serves as a standalone single user package with the Jetty server included. More details on deploying and using the Jetty package can be found in our documentation:  Install the Single-User Demonstration Package
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Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Released!

By Bill Oakes, CISSP
The are pleased to announce that Layer7 Live API Creator v 5.4 is now available! Layer7 Live API Creator is a solution for creating APIs and Microservices to modernize application architectures, and to simplify an enterprise’s data and application integration tasks. Live API Creator’s API integration approach coupled with its low-code capabilities bring extreme speed and agility in the process of mediation/federation of data across disparate data sources.   The new v 5.4 release augments the existing product feature set with the following capabilities:   Java 11 Support : to run Layer7 Live API Creator using Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 11 Performance ...
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Clarity Roadmap Sessions

By Brian Nathanson
REGISTER HERE: Next Session - Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Interested in finding out more about where Clarity is headed and the value we intend to deliver for your organization? Join Clarity Product Management for our monthly product roadmap sessions , held on the first Tuesday of every month at 11:05am ET .  During these sessions, we will present the industry trends underlying our overall product strategy, our approach to responding to those trends, and our currently scheduled book of work. We will also cover which topics we are actively researching for development in upcoming cycles. You will have an opportunity to present your questions throughout ...
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Full Stack Provisioning with Infrastructure Manager

By Varban Vasilev
Full Stack Provisioning Ever since the emergence of agile, there has been more and more pressure on IT teams to deliver working environments that can be used for all types of activities related to the application lifecycle. Starting from development environments used for building and testing all the way to multiple production environments to handle larger loads, distribution and disaster recovery requires lots of infrastructure. What started as a request for a new server and has now morphed into a request for multiple Kubernetes clusters is a daily activity for many teams in large enterprises and some of the common issues arising from those requests ...
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Rapid Action Pack Development for CDA and Automic Automation

By Michael Grath
Rapid development of Action Packs Actions are pre-defined tasks for executing single operations as part of the Workflow. They simplify constructing workflows by providing reusable, ready-to-use, and tested building blocks for frequently needed operations. Most actions are so-called CLI actions. Many of those already contain small Java programs that are delivered together with the action pack to accomplish more complex tasks. Although existing product capabilities already support an easier creation process, developing action packs still requires a lot of knowledge about Automic Automation objects as well as Automic Script. With the Action Pack Development ...
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Upcoming webinar for API Testing/Monitoring with Layer7

By Bill Oakes, CISSP
As you (the reader) well knows, full lifecycle API management has been the benchmark for API platforms for the last five years. With AI and ML moving to the forefront, full lifecycle API management is evolving to Continuous API management. This session will take a look at the advantages of continuous API management before examining how how realtime and synthetic API testing and API monitoring creates a better customer experience while reducing developer load. Please join us for this webinar Wednesday, May 6th, at 9am PST for this session and learn how to get more value out of your Layer7 platform.
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Introducing Business Payload Analyzer: A New Approach for Insights into Business and Customer Experience

By Ashley George
In today's digitally-driven world, ensuring a positive customer experience is essential to success. As many organizations undergo digital transformation initiatives, the ability to understand how customer experience impacts the business has become increasingly important. Operations and business teams need a unified view of the health and performance of business-critical applications in order to establish a common understanding of how certain performance issues might impact the bottom line.  While traditional end-user monitoring and Application Performance Management (APM) solutions are able to provide some of this data, today's current methods for collecting ...
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Welcome to the CA Client Automation “Patch Me” Validation Program.

By Steve Parker
The pre-release of “ CA - Patch Me BETA - Security IntelliRollup v2004.00 ” is now available in Patch Manager for download and hands-on-testing. The availability of the “ CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup” , once GA, will be part of each Patch Tuesday publication from the Client Automation Content team. This IntelliRollup includes the following new features: Single rollup to deploy on multiple platforms starting from Windows Server 2012 and above. Enhanced patch applicability logic by utilizing Windows Update Agent API. Patch Deployment Analysis as part of the rollup configure software delivery job. Ability to fall back to rollup ...
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Digital Product Management 101 – Planning in uncertain times

By Alf Abuhajleh
Marla Schimke , head of product marketing for ValueOps , Broadcom's industry-leading Digital Business and Agile Management solution, recently wrote a blog on using Digital Product Management to better plan in uncertain times. Nowhere is the impact of digital product management , or DPM, felt more than when it comes to planning. The very foundation of planning for most organizations is the selection of the projects, initiatives, and investments that will drive most business value. With DPM, the focus shifts away from projects to the management of digital assets for their entire duration. And as that focus shifts to a longer timeline, so too must planning ...
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Preparing for Day One in New Digital Business World

By Alf Abuhajleh
It’s inspiring to watch businesses coming to grips with the impact of COVID-19. In every industry, the more forward-thinking companies have stopped reacting to the current situation and instead are planning for a future after COVID-19. And they aren’t looking at it as a return to the old normal, but as an opportunity to create something new and exciting. Those are words you’ve probably not heard much lately – opportunity, exciting – but they are part of your future. Make no mistake, there will be significant challenges ahead, and if you are currently in crisis response mode, struggling with difficult furlough decisions, then exciting opportunities may seem ...
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Guest Blog: From Chaos to Clarity - How to accelerate your investment re-planning

By Alf Abuhajleh
Great perspective on how Clarity can help you get back to business after the  Covid-19 disruption by Broadcom solutions consultant Lisamarie Manso . From Chaos to Clarity - How to accelerate your investment re-planning By: Lisamarie Manso | Clarity Consultant at Broadcom | Posted: April 23, 2020 What’s the most important thing you have to do on your first day back from the COVID-19 disruption? Regardless of your industry or location, size or long-term goals the answer is: start planning your future. But real planning – none of this develop business cases that are more sales pitch than objective analysis and then pick the ones that sound good. You ...
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Shell scription: handling program execution dependencies/semaphore?

By Jörg Mertin
Shell scription: handling program execution dependencies/semaphore? The main issue in shell-scripts is to execute several programs, and make sure one program runs before spawning the next one. Usually one takes external programs to handle these (the SystemV Init/systemD subsystem does this very nicely under Linux, in Docker containers one would use the supervisor application). But one use case where these other solutions won't help is during the deployment of an application, and one needs to make sure the database is installed and usable. The use case Imagine one wants to deploy a web-application requiring a database. The database will be taken from the ...
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Webcast: Preparing for Day One in New Digital Business World

By Alf Abuhajleh
RSVP Here Because COVID-19 disrupted every aspect of our lives, we need to reassess the fundamentals of our business. There is a need to press the restart button, to create a Day One of the post COVID-19 world. But like a corporate merger, the first day back brings both opportunity and dread. Recovery isn’t about resumption, it’s not about restarting what was stopped, it is about embracing new opportunities, prioritizing investments, embracing innovation and delivering rapid success. Come learn how Broadcom’s ValueOps Digital Business and Agile Management solution, combining industry-leading Clarity and Rally Software, can help you with: - Adaptive ...
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Gaining Insights from Application to Mainframe with DX Dashboards

By Ashley George
Unlocking the value of DX dashboards with Broadcom's AIOps solution This post will help you to learn how to gain insights into modern application environments by leveraging the value inside your data lake with DX Dashboards. The main goal of having a common data lake is to eliminate the “fragmented” view of the IT landscape where each domain manager has a view of what is happening within their domain (e.g. APM monitoring tools has no visibility about what is happening on the network domain). So how can AIOps and DX Dashboards help us to mitigate this siloed view? Click Here to Read the
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General Availability of The Symantec IGA Virtual Appliance OS patches - April 2020

By Itamar Budin
Hi The Symantec IGA team are proud to announce the general availability of newest our Virtual Appliance (vApp) OS patches (April 2020 edition). Customers who are running our vApp solution on version 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3. Customer are  strongly encouraged to apply these patches to mitigate any potential security risk related to the vApp OS Notes: These patches are intended for the VMware version of the vApp. AWS/Azure customers should use the "updateManager" alias to update their solution The patch can be downloaded from the following links:  14.3: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/identity-suite/14-3/release-notes/virtual-appliance-release-notes/virtual-appliance-cumulative-patches.html#concept.dita_f166ffa1bce6f388779fd4f5a72fbe8dad4cc477_LatestOperatingSystemSecurityCumulativePatch ...
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