Subject: Intelligent Automation October 2023 Newsletter

October 2023

In This Issue of Intelligent Automation

  • Webinar: Automated Refactoring from Legacy Code to Maintainable Java

  • Article: Transform the Decision-Making Process with Intelligent Automation - CM First Group

  • Article: ‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization - Wired

  • Watch: Godfather of AI II: Geoffrey Hinton Interview - 60 Minutes

  • Listen: Looking Into Our GenAI Future Across Industries - AI in Business Podcast

  • Watch: "Applying RPA to Software Testing" CM First Group Lunch & Learn - CM First Streamable Webinar

  • Intelligence

-CM First Group

Webinar

Register now for "Automated Refactoring from Legacy Code to Maintainable Java"


Frightened about the prospect of your legacy IBM i and z application developers leaving due to retirement?


We have a solution that can put your fears to rest.


In this webinar, we explore the 5th "R" in Amazon's Cloud Migration Strategy in detail. With this strategy, you can "refactor" your legacy app developed in COBOL, RPG, or CA 2E (Synon) directly to maintainable runtime-free Java and JS.


We will start with an overview of the refactoring process:

  • What is needed in upfront analysis

  • How to choose the right technology stack

  • Why AI is not currently the answer

  • Solutions to common challenges such as...

  • Avoiding vendor lock-in

  • Performance

We will follow up with the goods: a technical demonstration of moving COBOL/DB2 code to a modern maintainable Java/React/Postgres application running on Azure cloud.


Automated Refactoring from Legacy Code to Maintainable Java

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023


Speakers: 

John Rhodes (CTO) and Kiyoshi Terasawa (Principal Architect)


Register now →

Heads Up

Transform the Decision Making Process With Intelligent Automation


Intelligent Automation can work wonders transforming the life of a knowledge worker who has repetitive tasks to grind through. As many organizations are learning, IA can also help management make better decisions by streamlining the data collection process, analyzing the data, and reporting on it.


Learn more in our recent article "Transform the Decision-Making Process with Intelligent Automation.


Read the article →

Heads Up

‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization


Pioneers of the technologies that brought us AI and ChatGPT have equal measures of hope and concern now that we've entered the boom phase.

One of those pioneers, Yoshua Bengio, thinks we should be talking about creating a 'humanity defense organization' to deal with the downside.


Read the article →

Watch

Godfather of AI II: Geoffrey Hinton - The 60 Minutes Interview


There’s no guaranteed path to safety as artificial intelligence advances, Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer, warns. He shares his thoughts on AI’s benefits and dangers with Scott Pelley.


Watch (13:11) →

Podcast

Looking Into Our GenAI Future Across Industries


Carm Taglienti, Chief Data Officer and Data/AI Portfolio Director for Insight

returns to the AI in Business podcast to talk about the future of generative AI capabilities, offering predictions that the technology will be characterized by more complex and efficient models, faster training, and inference.


Listen (22:06) →

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.

CM First Support

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

Current Releases


CM WebClient 1.8.7 (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

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