Subject: CM First Group July 2023 Newsletter -TEST

July 2023

Decision Time

In the long run, your organization's digital transformation results will be the product of a few really big and consequential decisions, along with thousands of much smaller choices that add up over time in the form of technical debt.


For organizations that have been around for a while, that can add up to lots of consequential decisions. Each month, we try to bring you some insight that will inform you along that journey.


This month, we share our most recent article "Maximizing Efficiencies with Robotic Process Automation", plus links to articles on splitting workloads on monolithic systems, the potential of AI, and satellite cybersecurity.


-CM First Team

Heads Up

Maximizing Efficiency with Robotic Process Automation (RPA)


The market for RPA software and services is stronger than ever, with many predicting the global RPA market will reach nearly $7 billion by 2025 – a compound annual growth rate of over 25%.


Whether the predictions prove accurate is anyone's guess with the emergence of improved AI and no code solutions, but it's safe to say the market is here to stay for the foreseeable future and therefore a safe investment for your business unit.


If you haven't taken the plunge into RPA, take a look at our recent article introducing this potentially transformative technology.


Read the article →

CA Communities Webcast

Register now for the CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex Community fall update


Expect a lively discussion with the CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex community in the next webcast scheduled for Sept 6th. The Webcast Theme is IBM i modernization stories and options.


First, Community President Roger Griffith and team will report on the recently concluded Spring 2023 Conference survey results, along with new information and some discussion about the next planned conference:


  • Survey results from the conference

  • Best Session Speaker winners

  • Discussion re: the next conference (Fall 2024)


This will be followed by modernization technical discussions by customers that have successfully modernized their CA generated IBM i apps to modern architectures.


  • Automatically Transforming 2E and Plex green screen and client-server to Java/Javascript

  • Automatically Transforming hand-coded RPG and COBOL to Java


Register now for the Community Webcast →

Webinar

Watch: "Applying RPA to Software Testing" Lunch & Learn


Robotic Process Automation’s (RPA) versatility allows it to be applied to a wide range of processes, enabling organizations to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve accuracy by automating repetitive tasks using software “Bots”. Use cases range from data entry and report generation to HR and finance and admin automation.


In this technical session, we give you an overview of RPA, and dive into the ability of RPA to create a modern, data-driven automated testing environment that can be plugged into your CI/CD pipeline.


This webinar is relevant to you whether you use CA Plex, CA 2E, or other software development tools.


Watch the recorded webinar →

Heads Up

Keep the Monolith, but Split the Workloads


While writing code in a microservice environment can be complex and requires significant resources, there is a point where the challenges of maintaining a monolithic architecture outweigh its benefits.


In this article, dive in for a look at a technique – splitting your workloads – that can significantly reduce that pain, costs little, and can be applied early.


Read the article at DZone →

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