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I wanted to share this informative video with the community - in under four minutes, you'll learn what's new in Layer7 API Gateway v10 and Layer7 API Developer Portal 4.5.

With the increased complexity of today’s modern applications and the growing need to deliver a near-flawless customer experience - traditional Application Performance Management (APM) solutions often fall short in delivering the visibility needed to fix problems before they impact the end-user. Instead, APM solutions must evolve to include AIOps capabilities to spot anomalies earlier, predict behavior, and enable informed automatic corrective actions. This new definitive guide aims to help stakeholders make sense of the rapidly changing world of APM and offers key considerations when selecting an APM tool. Download the Guide >

For those of you who were unable to make it today, the Layer7 Roadmap Session, exclusive to Communities, is now available for viewing  The Layer7 team covered the new Layer7 releases as well as the roadmap, and included a great demo of upcoming capabilities.  It's available now at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/699071182942142950

First there was code, then there were build tools, next came deployment automation and now enterprises are trying to make all of it easier, faster, more reliable and repeatable on a much larger scale. At every stage of that process users face the same issue - how to manage changes. If you have one person making changes then it is not a big deal. The problem arises when hundreds or thousands more come into play. Then how does one manage many changes to the same system at the same time? Source control management (SCM) systems provide the answer for the application code and by now Git has gotten pretty good at managing the mess. At the build stage, the trend has ...

Hi The Symantec IGA team are proud to announce the general availability of newest our Virtual Appliance (vApp) Time Zone Updates as Per 2020a Java Standard Hotfix . The Hotfix updates the Java time zone as per the 2020a Java standards to accommodate the latest time zone changes. The Hotfix can be downloaded from the following links: 14.3:  http://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/identity-suite/14-3/release-notes/virtual-appliance-release-notes/CA-VA-Hotfixes.html 14.2:  http://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/identity-suite/14-2/release-notes/virtual-appliance-release-notes/CA-VA-Hotfixes.html ...

Hi The Symantec IGA team are proud to announce the general availability of newest our Virtual Appliance (vApp) OS patches (May 2020 edition). Customers who are running our vApp solution on version 14.2 and 14.3. Customer are  strongly encouraged to apply these patches to mitigate any potential security risk related to the vApp OS Notes: These patches are intended for the VMware version of the vApp. AWS/Azure customers should use the "updateManager" alias to update their solution The patch can be downloaded from the following links:  14.3: http://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-identity-and-access-management/identity-suite/14-3/release-notes/virtual-appliance-release-notes/virtual-appliance-cumulative-patches.html#concept.dita_f166ffa1bce6f388779fd4f5a72fbe8dad4cc477_LatestOperatingSystemSecurityCumulativePatch ...

For a third consecutive year,   Gartner named Broadcom as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring . We believe this recognition validates our strong AIOps vision and our speed to deliver new innovations that help address the challenges of our customers. The majority of organizations today are beginning to embrace cloud-native applications - and with that shift comes a variety of benefits along with new sets of challenges and ever-increasing complexity.  We believe that we are uniquely positioned to help our customers on this journey because of our deep knowledge and expertise in this space. We ourselves have refactored ...

Helping Broadcom customers getting back to business quickly and safely, Clarity product manager, Brian Nathanson, shares his ideas on how to prepare for Day One of the post-Covid world in this  blog  and  webcast . Clarity solutions consultant, Lisamarie Manso, followed up with advice on using Clarity’s strategic roadmaps to re-plan 2020 and beyond in this  blog  and  webcast .  And this week, Brian dug deeper into adaptive planning , urging customers not to get back to normal. More blogs and webcast on getting back to business with Clarity will run all 2020 on our BrightTALK channel and company blog

A few weeks ago, the API Academy announced the API Academy certification program - the industry's first independent education and certification program for best practices in API strategy and design.  Personalized self-paced courses are available for API Designers (available now), API Security Architects (June), and API Product Managers (late summer), delivering proven best practices on demand.  Each course completed (and exam passed) delivers a certificate and badge.  We encourage you to share your certificate on LinkedIn to show your contacts your achievement!  Completion of all three courses delivers an API Academy Certified badge. Here's a brief overview ...

Date:  May 19, 2020 To:  Symantec IGA (Identity Suite, Identity Manager, Identity Governance and Identity Portal) Customers Subject: CA Business Intelligence (JasperSoft) version 6.x End of Service (EOS) notification On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high quality, innovative software and services. Broadcom is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. This notice is to inform you that the CA Business Intelligence (CABI) reporting solution, version 6.4.3, that shipped with our Symantec IGA solution has reached End-of-Service on 5/8/2020. ...

As artificial intelligence replaces a variety of business workers, we sat down with the last project manager to talk about the end of an (human) era and how AI is making businesses more people friendly. The following excerpt is edited for length and clarity. Question: Did you expect this day to come? The end of the project manager? Answer : I’ve been a project manager for a very long time. When I first started, colleagues would ask me why I wanted to be a PM? I mean, “no one likes them” and “they’re a waste of time.” Well, the last 30 years or so has probably shown that I made a good career choice. But now the time has come when project management, or at ...

The API Academy recently introduced the first independent education and certification program for API management, at no charge.  API Academy Certified API Designer is available now, with API Security Architect available in June and API Product Manager available in mid/late summer.  These are personalized self-paced courses, delivering proven best practices on demand.  Each course completion and successfully passing the exam delivers a digital certificate and badge.  We encourage you to add your certification to your LinkedIn profile, and by all means share your certificate to show off your accomplishment!! This short video gives an overview of the program.  ...

With the release of Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4  we are pleased to announce the availability of a trial version which can be downloaded here: Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Trial Download This serves as a standalone single user package with the Jetty server included. More details on deploying and using the Jetty package can be found in our documentation:  Install the Single-User Demonstration Package

The are pleased to announce that Layer7 Live API Creator v 5.4 is now available! Layer7 Live API Creator is a solution for creating APIs and Microservices to modernize application architectures, and to simplify an enterprise’s data and application integration tasks. Live API Creator’s API integration approach coupled with its low-code capabilities bring extreme speed and agility in the process of mediation/federation of data across disparate data sources.   The new v 5.4 release augments the existing product feature set with the following capabilities:   Java 11 Support : to run Layer7 Live API Creator using Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 11 Performance ...

REGISTER HERE: Next Session - Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Interested in finding out more about where Clarity is headed and the value we intend to deliver for your organization? Join Clarity Product Management for our monthly product roadmap sessions , held on the first Tuesday of every month at 11:05am ET .  During these sessions, we will present the industry trends underlying our overall product strategy, our approach to responding to those trends, and our currently scheduled book of work. We will also cover which topics we are actively researching for development in upcoming cycles. You will have an opportunity to present your questions throughout ...

Full Stack Provisioning Ever since the emergence of agile, there has been more and more pressure on IT teams to deliver working environments that can be used for all types of activities related to the application lifecycle. Starting from development environments used for building and testing all the way to multiple production environments to handle larger loads, distribution and disaster recovery requires lots of infrastructure. What started as a request for a new server and has now morphed into a request for multiple Kubernetes clusters is a daily activity for many teams in large enterprises and some of the common issues arising from those requests ...

Rapid development of Action Packs Actions are pre-defined tasks for executing single operations as part of the Workflow. They simplify constructing workflows by providing reusable, ready-to-use, and tested building blocks for frequently needed operations. Most actions are so-called CLI actions. Many of those already contain small Java programs that are delivered together with the action pack to accomplish more complex tasks. Although existing product capabilities already support an easier creation process, developing action packs still requires a lot of knowledge about Automic Automation objects as well as Automic Script. With the Action Pack Development ...

As you (the reader) well knows, full lifecycle API management has been the benchmark for API platforms for the last five years. With AI and ML moving to the forefront, full lifecycle API management is evolving to Continuous API management. This session will take a look at the advantages of continuous API management before examining how how realtime and synthetic API testing and API monitoring creates a better customer experience while reducing developer load. Please join us for this webinar Wednesday, May 6th, at 9am PST for this session and learn how to get more value out of your Layer7 platform.

In today's digitally-driven world, ensuring a positive customer experience is essential to success. As many organizations undergo digital transformation initiatives, the ability to understand how customer experience impacts the business has become increasingly important. Operations and business teams need a unified view of the health and performance of business-critical applications in order to establish a common understanding of how certain performance issues might impact the bottom line.  While traditional end-user monitoring and Application Performance Management (APM) solutions are able to provide some of this data, today's current methods for collecting ...