Micro Focus Service Management Automation Suite Software 2019.02 has been released

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Micro Focus is announcing the release of

Product: Micro Focus Service Management Automation Suite Software
Version: 2019.02
Languages: English

The following key new features are available with this version:

SERVICE MANAGER

The SMA Service Portal for Service Manager (SM) customers, also referred to as ‘mixed mode’, has been significantly enhanced in this release. A simplified architecture eliminates data duplication and data persistence in the Portal, reducing complexity and improving data consistency between the Portal and SM backend. Identity management (IDM/SSO) across the portal and SM has also been improved. The new approach unifies deployment with the rest of the SMA Suite, meaning SMAX and Mixed Mode for SM share the same deployment model.  An added benefit of this approach for SM Manager customers with the SMA Suite license is the ability to also deploy SMAX tenants from the same installation. 

Also starting with Service Manager 9.62, SM will have a comprehensive collection of native built-in release control functionality and provide extended change management support without the need to integrate with the former product known as Release Control (RC). Capabilities include:

• Risk analysis
• CI visualization and impact analysis
• Time period management
• Service Manager calendar
• Unplanned change management
• Alerting

No extra license is required for this native release control, and the existing RC versions support period does not change.

As well, a new Information Retrieval (IR) solution is available in this release. The new IR Expert solution leverages the native Full-Text Searching feature in DBMS, which enables rapid searching based on preprocessed documents in DBMS. The new solution dramatically enhances search performance and reduces configuration effort by Service Manager administrators. The new IR Expert supports the Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgresSQL databases.

SERVICE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION X (SMAX)
Updates in this release include:

• Default authentication enhancement
• Enable the IDOL based smart suggestions in Entity Pickers
• Improved RabbitMQ stability and SLT SQL tuning
• Addition of Swedish language support

CMS
Updates in this release include:

• The ability to create policies on CIs to meet specific business requirements, and then report on the enterprise’s compliance to those policies.  This capability allows customers to quickly generate business value from CMS data
• Expanded Universal Discovery’s Cloud & Container discovery capabilities by introducing the Oracle Cloud discovery and extending AWS, Azure and Google Cloud discovery capabilities.

For other improvements and support matrix updates introduced in SMA 2019.02 for Service Manager 9.62, SMAX or CMS, please refer to release notes (https://docs.microfocus.com) and attend the Service Manager or SMAX Release Readiness webinar/recording playback (details in the Learn forum; subscribe for updates)

• SM customers see Learn forum here 
  • https://community.softwaregrp.com/t5/SMA-Service-Manager-Learn/tkb-p/SMA-ServiceManagerLearn
• SMAX customers see Learn forum here
  • https://community.softwaregrp.com/t5/SMAX-Learn/tkb-p/ITSMA-X_Learn

For more information, please check the Release Notes for this version (available from MySupport).

If you have an active support subscription for these products, please plan for downloading this version from the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal. You will need your Software Passport login and password to access the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal.

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