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Although cloud migration is well underway among SAP and other ERP users, modernization is hard. Learn how Pillir’s EdgeReady Cloud rapid application development platform hosted on AWS helps enterprises advance their IT modernization plans. EdgeReady Cloud includes a diagnostic tool that allows development teams—and stakeholders throughout the organization—to visualize Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) customizations and discover technical debt.

Spatial data is a vital ingredient in today’s applications, enabling capabilities ranging from asset tracking and location-based marketing to monitoring deforestation and more. Learn about the most important areas that organizations need when working with spatial data in Amazon Redshift and how CARTO helps them unleash unique spatial visualization, analysis, and app development features right inside AWS’s cloud data warehouse.

Enterprise customers are modernizing existing workloads to cloud for various reasons. Cost optimization has always been a conversation starter, but that leads to application modernization and operational excellence, which brings agility to application development and enables faster GTM. Learn how Cognizant can help bridge the gap between the infrastructure-as-a-service and integration-platform-as-a-service platform models for modernizing batch processing applications on AWS.

Many applications are built to run on hybrid cloud environments, leveraging distributed services and data from multiple clouds, SaaS properties, on-premises infrastructure, and from the edge. Learn how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) delivers application resource optimization, providing a unified view of customer application environments in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. IWO’s real-time decision engine helps lower costs, automate workloads, and optimize application resources.

As a modernization service provider, Effectual is focused on a cloud-first approach that includes end-to-end managed and professional services for every stage of IT modernization. Effectual views managed services from a holistic perspective that prioritizes security and compliance. Learn how they were able to integrate AWS next-generation monitoring, as well as operational services like Amazon DevOps Guru, to enhance the company’s managed services offering.

Saint Louis University is at the cutting edge of research, studying human behavior and its economic impact. Learn how the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) uses MontyCloud DAY2, a no-code autonomous CloudOps platform, to run an environment that’s fully automated and self-managed. MontyCloud also helps SCAER automate mounting and unmounting Amazon EBS volumes on demand when Amazon EC2 instances are provisioned.

A key goal of modern data strategy, whether a data mesh, data fabric, data lake, or data warehouse, is to deliver access to data when and where it’s needed. Learn how AWS and Informatica can combine and automate data governance for access within a data marketplace. This solution combines Information’s data governance architecture and the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) which orchestrates and automates data access management with AWS Lake Formation.

Numerous legacy workloads, still hosted on premises, are mission-critical and hardly interruptible. Their migration to AWS must happen quasi-transparently for their users. This post details how the combination of AWS Outposts and CloudEndure can be used to solve for this issue. We demonstrate this by migrating a Solaris machine making use of the Charon SSP emulator by Stromasys, running on standard Amazon EC2 instances and using CloudEndure.

Exasol provides a high performance in-memory analytics database to give organizations the power to transform how they work with data. Working with AWS SaaS Factory, Exasol launched their analytics database through a SaaS model and navigated technical and business decisions for launch and beyond. In this Q&A, Peter Jackson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol, shares insights on their journey and advice for organizations who are in the process of building SaaS on AWS.

As organizations acquire more and more data, the need to effectively store and query the data has become very important. Canvas Glide from LTI is a tool for administering Amazon Redshift’s day-to-day routine tasks. It also helps organizations manage all financial aspects related to cost allocation, chargeback, monitoring, and planning of Amazon Redshift clusters. Learn how Canvas Glide assists administrators to successfully manage their clusters and guides them on common maintenance tasks.