FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
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TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO
BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM WHILE
OPTIMISING YOUR BUSINESS – YOU
CAN’T CHOOSE ONE OR THE OTHER.
enable customers to continue at speed
while bridging existing and emerging
technologies all while securing identities,
applications and data. To be successful at
Digital Transformation, you have to be able
to transform while optimising your business
– you can’t choose one or the other.”
as well. Internally, the company supports
employee resource groups that encourage all
different types of diversity.
“We hold events throughout the year. For
example, every time we have a Micro Focus
event, we have a Women in Technology
luncheon,” Murphy explains.
“We are now trying to amplify these
activities out to our customers.” To that
end, Murphy is heading up a webinar series
Data Protection Regulation) now in play,
companies need to ensure that their data is
both safe and legally compliant.
“We are focused on securing content,
giving the customer the right governance
frameworks, and giving them secure access
to their own data,” said Murphy.
Intelligent security
Micro Focus customers looking to leverage
emerging technologies to update their
security have been looking to AI and Machine
Learning. Rather than expanding or changing
their threat surface, Murphy suggests that AI
can give key insights into potential threats
that may have been missed.
“AI can be a great tool for understanding
threats to your data and infrastructure,”
explains Murphy. Micro Focus’ acquisition
of Interset earlier this year has proven that
point. Interset uses user and entity behavioral
analytics to provide highly intelligent and
accurate cyber-threat protection through AI
and Machine Learning.
“With tools such as Interset that leverage
AI, customers can gain a deeper
understanding of their data, as well as
potential cracks in their security that they
may have missed,” explains Murphy. “We
need to protect data at rest, in transit and
in use – AI and Machine Learning helps us
to protect data in all of its states.”
International regulations
Another potential pain point that Micro
Focus aims to alleviate in its customer base is
the recent implementation and enforcement
of data and privacy protection regulations
across regions. With governance laws such
as the European Union’s GDPR (General
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“We understand first-hand that implementing
something like GDPR is a matter of updating
technology, people and processes. We had to
implement GDPR for our own data sets, and
it isn’t just a matter of protecting the data –
you have to upskill your people and update
your processes as well.”
As the company has been tasked with major
scaling projects internally, Micro Focus is
in a unique position to understand the
importance of empowering their partner and
customer bases. To that end the company
has put renewed emphasis on training its
partner ecosystem.
“We’ve now brought our partners programmes
together, allowing us to have consistency with
how we train and reward our partners. We’ve
started certification training this year, so our
partners can feel more empowered around our
solutions,” said Murphy.
Further, to empower the end-users and
partners of Micro Focus solutions, Micro Focus
has launched a digital badging programme
for its customers and has plans to expand
digital badging to its partners soon.
Empowering the ecosystem
With its extended reach into the partner
ecosystem and access to nearly 40,000
customers, Micro Focus does its best to
enable positive change in the IT industry
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