Subject: CM First Group September 2023 Newsletter

September 2023

In this issue...

  • Best Practices for a Successful Strangler Application Pattern Implementation

  • Watch: CA Communities Sept 6th Webcast

  • Robotic Process Automation: Is Your Job at Risk?

  • Video: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on transforming cybersecurity with AI and a comprehensive cloud stack

  • Video: Applying RPA to Software Testing


-CM First Team

Conferences

Come See Us at the COMMON Navigate Conference


If you're attending the October Common Navigate 2023 conference, be sure to look for us at our tabletop booth and have a chat. We'll be unveiling CM evolveIT 11.6 with brand-new automated COBOL to Java conversion functionality. This update adds brand-new code transformation powers, and we couldn't be more excited to show you what it can do.


Learn more about COMMON →

Heads Up

Best Practices for a Successful Strangler Pattern Implementation


The Strangler Pattern's strength lies in its incremental approach: identify specific components of your legacy application, break them down into manageable chunks, and rebuild them until you've modernized the system in its entirety.


If the Strangler Application approach is your chosen path to modernization, there are some best practices to consider that will help you along the way.


Read the article →

Community Webcast

Watch the CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex Community fall update


Expect a lively discussion with the CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex community in this webcast held Sept 6th, 2023. The Webcast theme was IBM i modernization stories and options.


Watch Community Webcast →


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


Look out for these enlightening lightning Talks:


Abram Darnutzer of the Laufer Group will speak to taking a Large 2E application to a pure Java application step-by-step and eliminating the green screen in the process. His talk will include converting 2E DDS Reports to modern JS reporting and simplifying the code base.


Kiyoshi Terasawa of CM First Group will demonstrate CM evolveIT's new capability to automatically translate both hand-coded and 2E-generated code directly to Java.


Alexandre Lévis of Barreau du Québec will recap their project to modernize a CA 2E RPG application to a rich, browser-based application.


Watch Community Webcast →


Heads Up

Robotic Process Automation: Is Your Job at Risk?


With generative AI making waves and upending jobs, a common question arises: what impact is this going to have on my job, and what do I do about it? John Edwards, a veteran business technology journalist, poses the question and provides some insightful answers.


Read the article at Information Week →

Watch

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on transforming cybersecurity with AI and a comprehensive cloud stack


Cybersecurity breaches can have a dire impact on your organization, and the threat is growing at an unprecedented pace. CrowdStrike has been on the front lines from the beginning, and CEO George Kurtz has some thoughts on the best way to meet security challenges in the age of the cloud.


Watch the video (17 minutes) →

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 →

 Broadcom Support 


Many enterprises struggle with obtaining Broadcom support for their CA 2E (Synon, COOL:2E) or CA Plex systems


If you're working with an older unsupported release, upgrading you IBM OS, or otherwise under the shadow of lapsed maintenance, we can get you back on Broadcom support based on your unique situtation. We specialize in all sizes of customers.


Fill out our 2 minute form and schedule a no-commitment fifteen minute conversation with a CM First Group technical rep.

Get rock solid Broadcom support

CM First Support

Current CM First Group customers can access tutorials and submit support tickets at support.cmfirstgroup.com.

Current Releases


CM WebClient 1.8.8 (with nightly builds) For details, go here.

CM Matchpoint ALM 7.0 Build 004. For details, go here.

CM evolveIT 11.6, last supported 10.6
CM M3 2023 Edition
CA Plex 7.2.1 SP005, last supported 7.2.1 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
CA 2E 8.7.3, last supported 8.7 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
Contact CM First to learn more: info@cmfirstgroup.com

Intelligence

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