IBM Rational software podcast series: Recent Episodes
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The IBM Rational podcast series is focused on driving skills to help govern the business process of software and systems delivery. The series features video and audio interviews with IBM thought leaders and technical experts, talking to you about adapting the unique needs of business and IT for delivering software and software-based systems, whether on a distributed or mainframe platform. Tune in regularly as Rational Talks to You!
Collaborative development enables teams to work together across tools to deliver quality software faster. Speakers, David C. Myers and Kimberly Gist
Poor requirements management is among the significant contributing factors in the failure of a project. Improper requirements management can lead to disconnected teams, wasted time, out-of-control costs and unsatisfied customers. If you use documents, spreadsheets, emails, wikis and other conventional office and productivity tools to keep track of your business, customer or product requirements, you could be putting your project at risk. With proper requirements management solution implementation, development costs can be reduced by up to 57%, time to market accelerated by up to 20%, and cost of quality lowered by up to 69%. Speaker, Morgan Brown, Global Enablement Leader for requirements management solutions at IBM Rational.
Defects are many times less expensive to rectify the earlier they are caught in development cycle. In this podcast you will learn about an IDE that provides automated tools to quickly create high quality code during the implementation of software that addresses this issue by moving defect resolution and prevention into the development activities of a software project. This results not just in development efficiency but also improved time to market and reduced development cost. Speakers, Kathy Chan, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist
Companies are realizing that they must become more productive to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications faster, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend IBM i systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the application development and delivery challenges when the IBM i development is still 5250 based and others work in other places. We will talk about using Rational Team Concert with the ARCAD Pack for Rational to manage legacy and modern development environments. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Floyd Del Muro and Kimberly Gist
Continuous Engineering is an enterprise capability that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisticated and connected products by helping businesses to evolve their engineering practices to adapt to the accelerating pace of business change. Continuous engineering isn’t “continuous” in the sense that it is never ending. Rather, it addresses the ever present need to rethink, redesign, reintegrate and reinnovate products and systems. It is about helping engineers work in the ways that they want to work—with easy access to all the tools, data and expertise they need to do their jobs better.One of the key practice areas within Continuous Engineering is focused on unlocking access to and understanding of engineering knowledge and information, regardless of source, to enable the right decisions at the right times. The ability to unlock engineering knowledge helps engineers and product developers turn insight into outcomes. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist
RDz V9.1 can help you upgrade to COBOL v5.1 to increase application performance and reduce operating cost. Speakers, Roland Koo, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist
Join Steve Shoaf as he discusses how continuous engineering can help manufacturers prosper in the age of the “Internet of Things.” Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist
In this fourth and final discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss how IBM has transformed their own software engineering approach with new devops processes, tools and culture. This is a topic that will interest our Government clients as they learn about and adopt devops in their their departments and agencies, but really clients in all industries will enjoy and use the information in this last podcast. Joining Laurel and Paul are David Leigh, Jeanette Deupree, Xavier Segovia and Irene Penney from IBM who share their stories of DevOps adoption and important lessons learned.
In this third discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss the process improvements DevOps brings to a government organization, how to assess readiness through a free self assessment tool and also how to foster a cultural change that supports a DevOps adoption. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software
In this second discussion, Laurel and Paul bring home the value of DevOps with more examples of success in government agencies. DevOps capabilities can help government deliver software faster and more predicatively and with less risk. The primary capabilities discussed are in four major areas: 1) Plan and Measure or Steer, 2) Develop and Test, 3) Release and Deploy, 4) Monitor and Optimize. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software
DevOps is an exciting topic in the software delivery industry today including the Government sector. IBM sees DevOps as an enterprise capability for continuous software delivery, enabling organizations to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback. This capability unites the people, practices, technologies, and the information across organizations that support the software delivery process. For Government, this means by applying this DevOps approach the associated best practices, agencies and departments can respond faster and with higher quality to citizen expectations. Listen to Paul and Laurel discuss why Government should pay attention to DevOps. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software
Developers have a lot to worry about when developing an app. They need a physical place to run on, they need to configure it plus they need the middleware and software to run on it. Now some of these things can be found on the cloud so a developer can jump right into their coding. SoftLayer provides the infrastructure and a virtual system. BlueMix takes care of everything from virtualizing a system to providing a database service. And, IBM DevOps Services can help by providing development and test teams an open, integrated DevOps solution in the cloud for building mobile and cloud apps and deploying them in IBM BlueMix. With DevOps Services, developers can just jump right into the coding and not worry about setting up the infrastructure or framework for planning, tracking, source control, build, and deployment -- everything is right there! Including complementary IBM Mobile Quality Assurance to help you capture tester and live-user experience for building great mobile apps. At innovate you learn all about it in several sessions in the cloud and mobile tracks. You can also stop by our hands-on kiosk in the Solution EXPO and try it out for yourself -- play with sample apps, create a project, or check out trending public projects. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist
Agile is maturing. In fact, 81% of teams surveyed have over a year of experience with Agile, according to a recent Agile Maturity benchmark report commissioned by IBM and the Scrum Alliance. So teams are focusing on bigger challenges than getting started. To gain a competitive edge, teams must accelerate software innovation and delivery while reducing time to customer feedback by applying Lean and Agile principles across the entire software delivery lifecycle – not just team by team. Sessions in this track will cover how to scale Agile to the enterprise including real world tips for successful Agile adoption, extending Agile practices to large and distributed teams, and practical guidance on how to effectively adapt Agile, leveraging market -leading frameworks, and addressing issues such as regulatory compliance, outsourcing, and complex development across platforms. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist
This podcast will feature Bret Greenstein, VP Continuous Engineering, and Brian Dalgetty, Director Continuous Engineering Marketing, as they discuss key capabilities of continuous engineering, including: Unlocking Engineering Knowledge--“Turn Insight into Outcomes”, Continuous Verification--“Measure twice, cut once”, Strategic Reuse--“Don’t reinvent the wheel”. They will also highlight the many activities at the upcoming Innovate conference featuring continuous engineering. Speakers, Bret Greenstein, Brian Dalgetty and Kimberly Gist
From device to cloud to mobile new development challenges are being created as manufacturers and enterprises are learning how to build and integrate connected products into their offerings and solutions. IBM and Rational are helping our customers make the Internet of Things real. Speakers, Michael Rowe and Kimberly Gist
As the industry moves to the cloud era, millions of developers are looking to access tools and services that will enable them to leverage this fast-emerging opportunity. With a broad cloud portfolio and deep expertise, IBM can help you innovate and realize the benefits of cloud fast by developing cloud and mobile applications on a leading-edge cloud platform, being agile using self-service infrastructure with instant deployment, and by providing business users with the innovative applications they need. Sessions in the cloud track at Innovate will focus on IBM solutions, including DevOps Services, that leverage public, private and hybrid clouds to deliver an open, integrated development experience that scales. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist
Today’s successful companies are recognizing that software is increasingly a competitive advantage for their business. An enterprise capability for continuous software delivery can enable organizations to seize market opportunities, respond more rapidly to customer feedback, and balance speed, cost, quality and risk. By applying lean and agile principles across the software delivery lifecycle, DevOps helps successful teams deliver a differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve quicker time to value, and gain increased capacity to innovate. Come and learn how DevOps can accelerate your organization's software delivery capability as IBM executives, renowned subject matter experts and distinguished customers share best practices, solutions and real-world examples. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist
Interested in transforming business via mobile? You are not alone. As mobile usage continues to grow worldwide, delivering high quality mobile applications is becoming increasingly important for businesses motivated to interact with their customers and employees via mobile. While aspects of mobile application development align with traditional software, the definition of quality and velocity of mobile app delivery are very different. It is clear that adopting a comprehensive DevOps approach to mobile app development is helping organizations, like yours, to rapidly respond to feedback from users and deliver highly engaging, quality mobile apps. Explore with us through this podcast, the exciting lineup of sessions and speakers this track will offer and how DevOps capabilities are being applied successfully to build successful MobileFirst organizations. Speakers, Neil Patterson and Kimberly Gist
On June 3, 2014, IBM Rational will host the first Energy Day at Innovate. This Energy Forum will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. This energy form will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. The Forum will include a view into energy innovations emerging from ingenuity amongst local organizations, a panel exploring nuclear energy and systems engineering, and an expert panel presenting perspectives on the future of clean energy. Speakers Tammy Kulesa and Kimberly Gist
Get a first look into the Release and Deploy track at Innovate 2014, which will feature IBM UrbanCode Deploy and IBM UrbanCode Release, and the technical roadmap for these solutions within IBM DevOps. The track will highlight Release and Deploy integrations with IBM Cloud and IBM Mobile, and third party products, including OpenSource offerings. It will also cover best practices for managers, ROI as realized by IBM UrbanCode customers, and in-depth technical discussion and demonstrations of the products and features. Speakers, Claudia Ring, Robert Cuddy and Kimberly Gist
Highlights of the three Enterprise Modernization tracks supporting DevOps for the Enterprise, including mainframe, AIX, IBM i and Linux environments. Our three track chairs discuss the main topics that will be explored to help you plan your Innovate experience. Speakers, Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskin, Dwayne Moore and Kimberly Gist
Delivering quality software on-time, on-budget and on-target isn't easy: costly, error-prone manual processes; slow deployment to development and test; upgrade risks due to multiple applications platforms - all of these cause delays and bottlenecks in software delivery. For organizations using mobile, social, big data and cloud technologies for competitive advantage, they need a smarter, more flexible foundation for software delivery. Businesses are benefiting from continuous aligning releases with business strategies and goals and balancing those priorities with user feedback. Speakers, Roger LeBlanc and Kimberly Gist
Hear what’s new and exciting about Innovate 2014, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2014 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on at the event, and how you can Innovate@Speed with IBM. Speakers, Brian Bryson and Kimberly Gist
BlueMix is IBM's recently announced $1B investment into the cloud—it is IBM's cloud platform. Let's take a minute to understand what BlueMix is, how developers can leverage it today, and why it matters to business. Speakers, Chris "Spence" Spencer and Kimberly Gist
Service outages and system downtimes have a direct adverse effect on consumer satisfaction. That's why for telecommunication companies, developing and building resilient services is especially important. In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the importance of resilient services and what to keep in mind as companies aim to develop resilient services. Speakers, Tolla Cherwanka and Jiani Zhang
With development time and cost constantly being squeeze, how can companies become more efficient and capture the most from their development investments? In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the concept of strategic reuse, its connection to continuous engineering and its application to product development. Speakers, Joanne Scouler and Jiani Zhang
Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments -- from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail. When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty. In this podcast, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist.
Your business depends on software. So it's critical that enhancements be meaningful and timely – but you are confronted with legacy applications managed through disparate processes, tools and siloed teams that take too long to deliver the software changes needed to support your business. In today's podcast, Tim Hahn, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Enterprise Modernization joins us to discuss IBM's point of view on DevOps and solutions available to accelerate integration of emerging systems of engagement applications such as mobile with existing systems of record spanning distributed, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Speakers, Timothy Hahn and Kimberly Gist
Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? How can your team deliver software faster and improve quality? How do you balance speed, cost, quality and risk, that seems like a tall order? Speakers, Sanjeev Sharma and Kimberly Gist.
Global organizations developing complex systems are facing increasing pressure to innovate, to develop more features at a lower cost with higher quality than ever before; staying ahead of the curve is essential to remain competitive. In this podcast we will talk about how to create processes that people accept and embrace and how to select the right technologies to run them. Participants will learn how to transform the development environment from isolated engineering silos to a collaborative learning organization. In short, to ensure harmony between People, Process and Practices. Speakers, Erich Meier, Brett Hillhouse, and Kimberly Gist.
Faced with the pressures of empowered consumers and fierce competition, communication service providers (CSPs) need to constantly optimize the services they deliver to their customers. CSPs are forced to continuously update customer-facing applications and internal IT applications that improve performance. By capturing the benefits of continuous deployment, CSPs can not only streamline their deployment of applications, increasing efficiency and speed, but also improve coordination and integration across both internal and external application environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist
The role of a business analyst is changing day by day and is getting exciting with the increased business value that a BA can deliver to the organization. Do you have what it takes to be a successful business analyst? Join us for a podcast where George DeCandio, Distinguished Engineer discusses about the top competencies needed to become a successful business analyst. Speakers, George DeCandio and Kimberly Gist.
In current development processes, various methodologies and supporting software suites are used for system level analysis and multi-physics simulation analysis. These analysis are two critical parts of a Continues Engineering methodology, which have not been married in the past and have been carried out in silos by separate teams with minimal interactions. For an effective Continues Engineering methodology, it is imperative to close this gap. This podcast describes the successful joint effort by IBM and its business partners to develop a hybrid simulation platform with the goal of connecting system level analysis and multi physics simulation. Speakers, Amit Fisher, Jens Schindler, Sayyidul Arafat and Kimberly Gist.
DevOps processes and tools are helping Retailers compete in their fast paced mobile, digital and physical markets. Hear what key retailers are doing to deliver innovation faster. Learn how they can collaborate with customers and stakeholders during development to ensure success. Test virtualization and deployment automation are improving front end mobile to back end mainframe lifecycle development processes. DevOps processes and tools can enable your company to quickly respond to market shifts with greater agility, quality and success. Speakers, Sue Green and Kimberly Gist.
Recent advances in the energy sector are prompting a transformation in development practices. Energy organizations must be lean, agile, and focused on maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems. Join this podcast to hear IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass discuss how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while increasing their focus on safety. Speakers, Bruce Douglass and Kimberly Gist.
From 4k TVs to healthcare wearables, the consumer electronics industry is not only diverse in the types of products but also expansive in covering multiple aspects of the consumer's life. These electronic products are innovating at lightning speeds and are facing challenges that are new to this industry. Factors such as certification, safety, and extensive connectivity are essential to modern day consumer electronics. In this podcast, listen as we explore these new challenges of consumer electronics and discuss how to turn these challenges into opportunities. Speakers, Jiani Zhang, Michael Rowe and Keith Collyer
Businesses are working to address the challenges of today's complexities and demand that has shifted delivery time lines from months down to weeks and even days. The key to a successful DevOps program is bringing together environment delivery, tooling, automation, governance and organizational collaboration. The PureApplication system can act as a catalyst to launch a successful DevOps program. Speakers Don Thomas and Kimberly Gist
In the current Electronics market with the pressures of fierce competition and empowered consumers, having the right products at the right time is pivotal to success. In this podcast, we will discuss the two distinct types of speed: innovation speed versus development speed. Speakers: Jiani Zhang and Martin Bakal
Equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-readable identifiers could be transformative of daily life. According to ABI Research more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things (Internet of Everything) by 2020. Along with this latent potential comes inevitable complexity. When your architecture has to scale from hundreds to millions to billions of things rigorous methods and tools would be required to manage the exploding complexity. Join this podcast to understand how Rational is gearing to contain complexity. Speakers, Michael Rowe, Manprit Singh, and Kimberly Gist.
From changing business environments and technology trends to ever-increasing customer expectations, there are many factors forcing you to rethink the product and systems development and delivery lifecycle. In this podcast Jon Chard, marketing manager for IBM Rational Smarter Product Development discusses the key challenges and how Rational is continuing to deliver on its strategy of an open, connected, systems approach to Smarter Product Development. Speakers, Jon Chard and Kimberly Gist.
Transforming your organization can be a daunting endeavor and bring up a lot of tough questions. How do we organize our large teams most effectively? How do I test before an application is ready? How can I align business priorities to software innovation? What approach will help me manage compliance mandates? How do I remove the deployment bottlenecks to improve time to market? Join Elizabeth Woodward, IBM Rational Agile Consultant and Ken France, Managing Partner, Blue Agility to find out how the Scaled Agile Framework paired with IBM Devops capabilities delivers the answers for the Agile Enterprise of the future, and becomes the path to better business outcomes. Speakers, Elizabeth Woodward, Ken France, and Kimberly Gist.
Historically, product development has been very engineering-centric, starting with concept design and ending with release to manufacturing. Leading manufacturers, however, are questioning whether this is where product development should really start and end. While the engineering activity has typically focused on optimizing product functionality according to a given set of requirements, the question remains as to the origin of these requirements. In fact, if you can learn more about the specific requirements by better understanding customer sentiment and market trends, you can build a better product. If you can learn more about how your product actually behaves while in service, you know specifically about how it can be improved. And if you know more about how all the systems within your product work together, you can design it better. This podcast outlines how knowledge about customers, operations, and your development process can help you achieve smarter product development. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist.
There is wide-spread adoption of agile practices throughout the development lifecycle, including building and maintaining critical applications on the mainframe. Achieving agility here is helped through the use of automated testing and techniques like Service Virtualization which can shorten the delivery cycle, and improve application quality. IBM Rational Test Automation Solution now enables service virtualization and automated integration testing for CICS applications, scaling down and simplifying the required CICS test region configuration and MIPS requirements. Speakers, John Chewter and Kimberly Gist.
Both IMS and Enterprise COBOL had new and exciting announcements this year. COBOL and IMS continue to deliver leading edge technologies to facilitate application integration, modernization, as well as improving application performance. Roland Koo, Product Manager for Rational Compilers, and Haley Fung, IMS Senior Developer, identify why it is important to upgrade to the latest versions of IMS and COBOL together. Speakers, Haley Fung, Roland Koo, and Kimberly Gist.
Come join us as we discuss how the objectives of becoming a DevOps Enterprise -including reducing time-to-value, enhancing business agility, and being more Lean –can be furthered by using the right tools for the creative tasks of software development Speakers, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist.
Companies are realizing that they must up their game to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend Power Systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the integrated Rational application lifecycle management solution for IBM i, including the new ARCAD Pack for Rational, for greater programmer productivity and rapid application release. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Philippe Magne, and Kimberly Gist.
Come join us as we discuss the Rational multiplatform IDEs v9.0.1, and introduce the new integrated debugger that is now in Rational Developer for System z. Speakers, Cindy Krauss, Bill Smith, and Kimberly Gist.
Communication Service Providers face many challenges in defining, building, and deploying complex software-based systems. IBM Rational telecom solutions and tools are used successfully by various organizations within communications service providers to address their unique challenges in the definition of their products and in the construction and delivery of the software required by such systems. Speakers, Glenn Hughes and Kimberly Gist.
Obtaining feedback from users of Mobile apps is critical to determining the quality of the apps. But what do you do with the feedback? The most successful organizations leverage automation to rapidly respond to that feedback and deliver mobile apps that are truly engaging. This podcast explores the value of new IBM capabilities to continuously integrate, test, deploy and release mobile apps, reducing cycle times to respond faster to feedback. Speakers, Derek D. Baron and Kimberly Gist.
As development support tools become better integrated, the similarities and, perhaps more importantly, differences between terminology and process are brought to light. With agile and other recent development paradigms, often one get confused with the importance of requirements and a tool to manage them. In this webcast, we examine the similarities and differences between requirements and the artifacts most commonly called Work Items; when a CM tool would be sufficient and when to use a RM tool in your project? Speakers, Jared Pulham and Kimberly Gist.
In this podcast, we discuss about how organizations can expand the value of requirements when they collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines. As the systems become complex, collaboration and a communication platform becomes very critical. Requirements, being the foundation stone, Systems Engineering organizations need to consider requirements driven development and quality management. Speakers, Morgan Brown, Vijay P Sankar, and Kimberly Gist.
The pressure to quickly deliver differentiated customer value through innovative software is driving IT to explore fundamental transformations in software delivery. IBM's Integrated Solution for System z Development can help you optimize your System z development processes and reduce costs. Join us to hear about the latest capabilities, which include automated code review, unit test and code coverage for mainframe applications. Speakers, Alisa Morse, Tim Feeney, and Kimberly Gist.
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a history of adopting agile methods in their development of software-intensive products. However, the adoption of these methods, especially when continuous integration is involved, are impeded with old approaches to the deployment of these solutions to test labs and, finally, to the running system. In addition, test labs are expensive to setup and run and their preparation and usage can be restricted and time consuming. As well, the ability to respond in a timely manner to requests from the operations group can be impacted. This can lead to issues with customer satisfaction and reduced ARPU. In this podcast, we will discuss some approaches that help with this situation. Speakers, Neil LeBlanc, Steven J. Weaver, and Kimberly Gist.
Manual processes and efforts to deliver software changes across an enterprise are notoriously risky, costly, and error-prone. New deployment models and tools have come into play that helps streamline collaboration between teams, standardize and automate repeatable tasks, thereby increasing deployment quality and repeatability while reducing risk and cost. Discover how this new generation of release, deployment, and provisioning tools helps you improve your processes today, while positioning you for an easy jump to next-generation systems management in the future, saving days or even weeks of effort for every deployment. Speakers, Francis Dumont, Maneesh Goyal, and Kimberly Gist.
The make-up of products and systems has changed -- Today's products are much smarter, due to an large increase in embedded electronics and software.This has led to a commensurate increase in product and system complexity. To meet the demands of today’s savvy consumers -- smart companies are seeking new ways to gain a competitive advantage. Speakers, Steve Shoaf, and Kimberly Gist.
The current economic scenario poses significant challenges for companies operating in the Aerospace & Defense Industry. Join Karla Duchame, Market Manager for Aerospace & Defense and Automotive, Rational and Deepak Nair, Go To Market Manager for Aerospace & Defense, Rational as they discuss how Rational tools can help you address risk in A&D programs and improve business agility with improved governance. Speakers, Karla Ducharme, Deepak Nair, and Kimberly Gist.
"Our Mobile Apps aren’t engaging customers". This reflection points squarely at the accepted principle that the measure of quality is different for mobile. User experience and quality falls short of user expectations, resulting in negative reviews and poor rating. Insightful and streamlined feedback is essential to making a mobile app successful in the marketplace. This podcast discusses feedback and quality metrics as key enablers for dramatically reduced response and delivery of high valued mobile apps with engaging user experiences. Speakers, Yan (Tina) Zhuo, and Kimberly Gist.
IBM STG (Systems and Technology Group) discusses how they have a small internal IT team that supports a diverse set of projects using IBM Rational development tools. The integrations between these tools allow them to leverage scarce resources and still get the job done in a very efficient manner. Please listen to Wayne Carrigan STG Rational Deployment architect as he discusses how this is all possible. Speakers, Paridhi Verma, Wayne Carrigan, and Kimberly Gist.
Banking, Insurance and Financial Market clients are decreasing app release time, increasing their ability to test more often, and reducing risk while delivering apps faster. Join this Podcast to hear how automating app release and deployment is cutting unnecessary costs and getting apps out faster in Financial Services Sector (FSS) clients. Speakers, Sue Green, Eric Minick, and Kimberly Gist.
In seeking out an agile tool, there are many choices. Take a few minutes to learn about IBM’s approach to Agile ALM. With coaching, best practices and tooling that support a team’s core agile need while also providing integrated best-in-class source code management and build automation. These integrated capabilities allow agile developers to focus on delivery great code by automating the busy work that slows them down. Speakers, Matt Holitza, Richard Knaster, and Kimberly Gist.
The network equipment industry is being driven towards Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a technology transition that threatens to commoditize network equipment. With a cast of established networking giants, hot start-up companies, and other formidable players, there is a dynamic and complex competitive landscape, with billions of dollars at stake. Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMS) will need to effectively execute their product strategies to either protect or seize market share and margins. This means establishing close alignment and responsiveness to customer needs and requirements, and then having the agility to deliver the corresponding software capabilities and products. Paridhi Verma and Harvey Wong, speakers.
Companies are increasingly looking to agile methods to cut risk, improve quality and increase flexibility in complex product development. But what approaches really work and what benefits can adopters expect to obtain? In this podcast, analyst Bola Rotibi of analysts Creative Intellect Consulting discusses the applicability of Agile approaches to embedded software and complex systems development, drawing upon the results of an in-depth cross-industry study conducted at the end of 2012. Bola Rotibi, Jonathan Chard and Kimberly Gist, speakers.
Many agencies are adopting, or want to adopt Agile practices to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and improved collaboration. An iterative approach to software delivery allows for a constant evolution of requirements, driving refinements more frequently in the development process, ensuring timely delivery of critical software. Despite the benefits, agencies have adoption challenges unique to the government environment. Join this podcast to learn a few strategies your organization can leverage for successful agile adoption. Alan Brown, Richard Knaster and Kimberly Gist, speakers.
Dr. McCoy and the medical tricorder device from Star Trek is becoming reality. Entrepreneurs, start-ups, and traditional medical device manufacturers are leveraging the compute power, portability, and connectivity of Smartphones to create a new class of medical diagnostic devices. There's even an X Prize competition adding fuel to the market interest. This podcast discusses the regulatory compliance considerations and the key product development lifecycle practices that are needed to build Smartphone-based medical devices. Paridhi Verma, Harvey Wong and Martin Bakal, speakers.
Software development outsourcing efforts by Communications Service Providers can lead to difficulties in collaborating with their software supply chain to ensure requirements are well understood causing potential delays in product offering. IBM Rational's GADO offering can help govern the collaboration across this supply chain. Kimberly Gist and Charles Rivet, speakers.
Join us to hear about the new 9.0 versions of Rational Developer for i and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Hear about the ADTS trade up program to save you money. Kimberly Gist and William T. (Bill) Smith, speakers.
For scrum teams to be productive, they need stories that are specified well enough that they can actually be implemented. Millard Ellingsworth describes an increasingly popular practice called "backlog grooming" and explains Rational Team Concert customizations that can help identify user stories that need grooming. This article requires Rational Team Concert version 4.0 or higher. Kimberly Gist and Millard Ellingsworth, speakers.
Requirements come in many shapes and sizes. They have demonstrated time and time again to improve the development time, quality and overall cost of a project. Projects that lack requirements quickly fall into many of the typical traps of common project failure. Listen to the podcast in where Bernard Coyne talks about how requirements improve the complete development life cycle along with the best practices of managing requirements effectively.
Diagnostic Grifols has adopted Agile practices while keeping development in compliance with regulations. In this podcast you will learn how Diagnostic Grifols has evolved its practices with the new AAMI's Technical Information Report (TIR45) which gives guidance on the use of Agile in medical device development; Diagnostic Grifols has attained significant gains in productivity with a simultaneously Agile and compliant approach; and how this type of approach could be used in other regulated industries as well. Keith Collyer and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
Agile development allows the developers to build products quicker. One issue that organizations have in migrating to Agile is understanding project completion and how to manage the different metrics across projects. Another issue is the metrics capture process for an Agile team becomes quite burdensome, if it isn't automated. Typical agile metrics are things like burndown and velocity. Mapping these concepts to traditional project status like percent complete and expected ship date can become onerous. Martin Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
IT organizations today must be able to flexibly react to changing business requirements. The ability to host Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) in the cloud reduces the time, cost and resources required for installation, configuration and maintenance. Learn how IBM is extending IBM SmartCloud Enterprise images to include Rational’s development solutions. Kimberly Gist, Jean-Yves Rigolet and Steve Weaver, speakers.
As software plays an increasingly critical role in the business performance of corporations, IT faces considerable pressure to support new business initiatives while cutting costs. Over the last 30 years, billions of dollars have been invested in software applications, but typically these investments are poorly leveraged. Too often, a complex and poorly understood application portfolio consumes a large percentage of IT funds, leaving IT leaders challenged to find the funds needed for business innovation. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.
What's new in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how do you get it? William (Bill) Smith, Product Manager, Rational Solutions for Power, discusses the new features in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how you can download this new functionality.
Engineering medical devices is not an easy job. These devices include an increasing amount of software that integrates with hardware and electronics and need to meet changing healthcare needs and standards. This podcast will discuss how IBM Rational solution for medical devices provides tools to meet regulatory compliance with enhanced automation and reporting to avoid audits, lawsuits and company collapse, manage product complexity by integrate requirements and quality management and reduce time-to-market and cost by early defect detection and removal. Keith Collyer and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
Agile practices have transformed the way software is built and delivered. Today, Agile is used in virtually every industry and is being used to deliver every type of software from mobile to mainframe, Agile is everywhere and impacts everyone! Whether you are a developer, tester, analyst, architect or project manager agile could be in your future. Please take a few minutes to join Matt Holitza as he explores what the move to agile could mean for you and your team. Matt Holitza, speaker.
Banking, Insurance and Financial Market applications and processes have increasingly complex testing needs that are hindering time to market and increasing costs. Recent results show that financial institutions around the world are addressing this challenge in order to excel in rapidly changing financial environments. Join this podcast to hear how, from Mobile to Mainframe apps: 1) Test lab infrastructure costs can be reduced by up to 90%. 2) Labor involved in setting up test environments can be reduced by 80%+. 3) Test environments can be configured in minutes versus weeks. And 4) Developers have the means to test software earlier. Sue Green and Adam Olson, speakers.
Hear from Bret Greenstein, Vice President, Rational Complex and Embedded Systems on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2013. Bret will discuss his vision and strategic direction for product and systems development, focusing on industry capabilities, our commitment to openness, the importance of the partner ecosystem and continued investment in our products. Bret will also highlight our expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities offered at this year's event.
Are you a System z, Power (IBM i, AIX and Linux), or PureSystems customer? Then come explore how Enterprise System solutions from IBM can help you build on existing, proven applications by extending and streamlining in the areas of Mobile, DevOps, Cloud, Service Virtualization, and Modernization. This podcast features three speakers who will highlight the Smarter Computing, System z and Power/PureSystems tracks at Innovate. Hear which sessions are not to be missed, learn how to schedule a personalized 1:1 demo in the Solutions Suites, Register for the System z Reception, Check out the Expos and Workshops, and more. Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskins and Michael Connor, speakers.
The role of embedded software is growing exponentially in Engineering systems and quality in these systems is no longer a differentiator, but a necessity for success. Increasing development time or cost is not an option, therefore engineers must evolve their techniques to remain competitive. Learn how IBM and National Instruments are investing to equip engineers with technology to produce superior system quality and validation efficiency with the ability to trace and improve development end to end and improve collaboration between all engineering teams from initial requirements through final systems test. Chris Washington and Sanjiv Jain, speakers.
Systems engineering is increasingly being recognized as an essential technology for successful development of innovative, software-intensive smart products. Unlike the systems engineering in the Apollo age, visualized as a room full of slide-rules and skinny black ties, today’s systems engineering is more pervasive than ever before. Extending beyond typical engineering benefits such as lower costs, higher quality and reduced risk, today’s systems engineering, if utilized intelligently, can have a significant business impact – touching not only engineering, but manufacturing, procurement, support, and planning, as well as affecting future profit opportunities of long-lived products. Join Greg Gorman and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how systems engineering can impact business decisions made outside the engineering organization.
Are you tired of vendors pushing their over the top ALM solutions on you? Are you fed up with having to contort the way your team naturally works to fit someone else’s solution? Are you frustrated at how much effort you are spending trying to keep multiple development tools up and running? Then get some answers by attending this refreshingly candid podcast and learn how a simpler, leaner approach may be all you really need. Bernie Coyne, Sr., speaker.
Business innovation is increasingly being delivered via software, and the rapid pace of market changes is driving the need for business agility. To seize market opportunities, and realize the full competitive and economic benefits from IT investments, technology leaders are implementing enterprise strategies such as DevOps to both improve the quality and accelerate the delivery of innovative applications and services. Sessions in this area of interest will address best practices for aligning stakeholders across the organization, including business owners, development, test and operations teams, including business planning, collaborative development, continuous testing, continuous release and deployment and continuous monitoring and optimization. Steve Weaver, speaker.
In the era of the mobile enterprise, organizations understand that to stay ahead their mobile apps must evolve rapidly in response to feedback. This podcast highlights mobile at Innovate 2013, where new and exciting IBM MobileFirst content will be shared, from app development, to testing, to connecting mobile to your enterprise.
Gaining new insights and creating new opportunities with big data is becoming a game changer for organizations of today. From enterprise Hadoop through streaming 'real-time' technologies, our big data experts will be available at Innovate to assist with your big data challenge. Listen to this podcast to hear how to get started with big data and the experience that we have prepared for the conference.
The cloud computing track at Innovate 2013 focuses on leveraging the cloud accelerate software delivery, through rapid provisioning of development and test environments; collaboration across IT teams to accelerate delivery and deployment of software; and to drive new business value through innovative offerings and services. This track is for anyone interested in cloud computing as a way to reduce operational and capital expenses, reduce development and test cycle times and improve overall quality and time to market.
Going "all in" on Agile? Just exploring the potential benefits? Innovate 2013 has something for those that are looking to Go, Grow or Scale Agile! With over 70 Agile sessions dedicated to best practices, customer stories, tips and techniques combined with pre and post conference agile training, Innovate is the premier event for Agile developers. Take a few minutes and listen to the podcast to find out how you can Get Agile at Innovate 2013.
Need to deliver software more effectively? Yesterday's idea of application life-cycle management (ALM) may not get you there. The Lifecycle Management Track will help you consider the latest trends and best practices so you can to increase innovation while balancing speed and quality. Learn from ALM thought leaders and success stories from IBM clients.
Hear what's new and exciting about Innovate 2013, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2013 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what's going on at the event, and how you can Stay Ahead with IBM and Innovate.
Every agency is under pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increasing the amount of development. Join us to learn how service virtualization can "bend the cost curve" with more agility and less risk. The power of virtualization has moved from the data center floor to mission delivery with new service virtualization reduce the cost of developing and sustaining the complex, integrated systems that are critical for agency programs and operations. Madeline Bayliss and Tamara Kulesa, speakers.
Software quality and customer satisfaction are measured by companies more than any other form of measurement. However is the data being captured and analyzed providing an accurate reflection of reality with respect to quality and customer satisfaction? Join Al Wagner as he reflects on the recent IBM sponsored webcast where Capers Jones presented today's more practical measures and metrics allowing companies to be more predictable with quality.
For years, Governments have been trying to reap the benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures to improve their business agility. Whether agency information and processes are currently deployed on legacy systems, requires new modern development, or relies on the integration of open data, the core principles and capabilities for collaborative development can help drive successful SOA programs resulting in improved citizen outcomes and reduced costs.
Agile methods can bring benefits of discipline and efficiency to software development, and agile can be—and is—applied to the development of safety critical systems. In this podcast, Bruce Douglass answers a selection of questions from practitioners and managers engaged in safety-critical development on the topic of agile adoption.
Many developers are mislead or unfamiliar with the latest mainframe development tools. Luckily, there are no-cost instructor-led Distance Learning classes that have been helping developers get up-to-speed to tackle mainframe COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Java development and more. In this podcast Jon Sayles and Stephen Henderson will discuss the overall structure, course content and how you can signup for the upcoming sessions at no-cost.
In this podcast we will discuss how Invensys Rail Dimetronic has responded by establishing an ERTMS Center of Excellence, with IBM Rational as its primary platform. With Rational, the company works smarter, facing the future equipped with unprecedented levels of development automation, process integration and flexibility. It has reduced time-to-market for new products up to 40 percent.
Medical device companies have to find ways to compete with lower-cost competition worldwide. They need to make the right decisions to define the right features and functions to build into their medical devices for reaching the right market at the right time. In this podcast we will discuss how IBM Rational Focal Point software provides a full audit trail to help ensure regulatory compliance and capture enhancement requests, product ideas, market needs and technical needs for product development.
We seem to be in a mobile "2.0" zone, where companies are realizing that they must up their game to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications, and in order to do this they often must extend to their backend Power System. We'll talk to "Why" you might want to extend (access to databases, etc.) And then cover "What unique application development and delivery challenges this creates?"
Most mobile applications developed for the enterprise are distributed, involving a complex ballet between the development of the application for the mobile device, and the back-end supporting services or API. With both of these being developed simultaneously, how can we avoid late stage integration issues? Service virtualization can help. This podcast discusses the ways it can help and the pitfalls to watch out for when virtualizing APIs for mobile applications. Peter Cole, speaker.
We believe customers will deliver better mobile applications by integrating, collaborating and optimizing the mobile development lifecycle. In this podcast, we will introduce our new offering providing the only comprehensive mobile development lifecycle solution currently in the market, combining ALM and MAP tooling.
Become more productive and save development dollars with our new Application Development Toolset trade up program and the new Application Management Toolset. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Bill Smith, speaker.
Electronics fuel innovations in many industries. As a result, electronics firms are under constant pressure to deliver this innovation on time and within budget, while contending with rapidly changing technologies, increasing product complexity and strict compliance and safety standards. Additionally, firms must typically coordinate project tasks across a global marketplace with an international supply chain. To help meet these difficult challenges, IBM Rational offers a set of solutions and products for several electronics industry segments, including: semiconductors, medical devices, consumer electronics, network equipment providers, industrial automation and office products. This podcast will discuss the comprehensive set of capabilities IBM Rational provides for the electronics industry. Paridhi Verma, speaker.
For most medical device companies, the design control requirements of the FDA, as defined in 21 CFR Part 820, are fundamental to the business of developing products. The challenge is how to ensure that you remain compliant to these regulatory needs while reducing the overhead in doing so. Ideally, you want to make compliance just part of "how we do business around here", and, in effect, invisible to the practitioners. This podcast will discuss approaches to make that possible. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
Poor software quality is blamed for more major business problems than any other man-made product, and results in over 500 billion dollars of losses worldwide. Improving application quality is a high priority in virtually every industry. But traditional testing methods have become too costly and impractical to keep up with business demands due to the increasingly complex web of hardware, software and services. By automating the building and testing of z/OS application code in isolated environments using virtualized services, the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z helps significantly improve software quality while reducing delivery time and costs. Dave Myers and Cheri Bergeron, speakers.
Heavily regulated industries like automotive, aerospace and defense, and medical devices face issues like requirements management and traceability across the lifecycle to meet regulatory needs. While for lightly regulated industries like Telecom and consumer electronics key issues are being able to reuse components from product to product as development time frames get shorter. These industries have to address these pain points through their entire supply chain in developing both hardware and software. This podcast will focus on IBM Rational solutions for development of hardware/software co-design. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
First conceived in 2005, the founders of IBM Jazz asked the question "Can we do for teams what Eclipse did for individual developers?" Today, our mission for Jazz remains strong: to transform software and systems delivery by making it more collaborative, productive and transparent. In this podcast we chat with John Wiegand and Dan Griffin for the Jazz team. They will describe where we are with Jazz, and where we are going in the coming months and years.
Did you ever wish you could have a wizard at your fingertips, to help you make tough program and project decisions easier? IBM develops technical wizardry and makes it more accessible. One of the ways we do this is by encapsulating difficult problems into models, which can then be made available to those who need solutions in a more consumable way. Learn how IBM Rational helps make tough program and project management decisions easier. Murray Cantor and Brian Nolan, speakers.
Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the performance of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before their release at a lower cost? Join Dennis Moya as he shares IBM's point of view with key messages delivered during the IBM webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.
Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends, but an inevitable one. And although most companies already have some type of a mobile strategy, to take it to the next level and offer those 5-star apps, they will have to extend to the back-end leveraging their databases and mainframe applications. This podcast highlights a few of the challenges and the unique solution that IBM offers which combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development featuresall integrated together in one package. Leigh Williamson and Pam Induni, speakers.
Reduce waste and increase business value by helping customers make more informed investment and delivery choices. By providing the ability to rigorously assess the value of new investments, deployed applications and delivery projects, customers can ensure that they obtain the greatest return from their organization's resources. Listen to how IBM's business partner Decision Focus have helped organizations overcome some of their biggest challenges and how this has lead to that organizations could reach true business value. Jon Tollerup, speaker.
Hear the latest enhancements for the IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering, including: Systems Engineering Metrics, Cross Lifecycle Reporting, Quality Management tool mentors for the OSLC DOORS - RQM integration, Linked Lifecycle Data and the solution benefits from new product releases. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.
Join Ben Williams and Steve Shoaf as they discuss the challenges facing engineers developing today's smarter products, and how Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager can help tame complexity and promote innovation within product development environments.
Hear how Kanban planning and risk management enhancements in IBM Rational Team Concert support systems engineering and embedded software development. Darcy Wiborg Weber and Sue Green, speakers.
Collaborative DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations, extending agile techniques to resolve deployment bottlenecks. Learn how Rational software can help you reduce cost and time while increasing quality by automating the deployment on complex applications to the cloud. Steve Weaver, speaker.
What if you could effectively manage the cost and complexity of testing your mobile application without compromising the quality of the result? Leigh Williamson, Distinguished IBM Engineer, shares the ways an effective mobile application testing strategy that balances the use of multiple forms of integrated test execution capabilities (e.g., test virtualization, test optimization, cloud) can help deliver better quality results. He also highlights the important role our partners can play to help accelerate this process for customers faster, better, for less.
What really is an optimal product? Depends on your point of view, right? The question is optimal for what? High performance means high cost. Faster time to market might mean lower quality. How do you design a product that balances all of the competing constraints? Join Greg Gorman and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how systems engineering can help product developers understand the impact of design decisions on required business results.
Faster, less costly and high quality software delivery can be yours! Youll need a collaborative environment that supports requirements, design, quality and software change and configuration management. And you can have it in one easy-to-install and easy-to-use solution that can be optimized for agile or waterfall teams. Learn all about IBMs solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management and the best practices, tool guidance, hands on workshops, and services to support your successful adoption! Kelli Houston, speaker.
Organizations are evaluating new ways to gain additional engineering efficiencies at both the Systems Engineering level and in Embedded Software development. In this podcast we will talk with VDC Research about their research results and recommendations on the changes and challenges that are driving a growing need for lifecycle management tools that can facilitate higher levels of collaboration and integration across the development lifecycle. Chris Rommel and Sue Green, speakers.
In this two-part podcast we will discuss the best practices and comprehensive set of capabilities for enterprise mobile application development and lifecycle management using an agile methodology. This tightly integrated solutionwhich leverages our open standards-based mobile application platform and ALM capabilitiesdelivers capabilities targeted at key mobile development lifecycle stages. Teams can use the solution to more easily support multi-tier mobile application development and to develop and deliver high-quality apps more rapidly, successfully and cost-efficiently. In the second part we discuss the best practices for developing mobile applications. Leigh Williamson and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
In this two-part podcast we will discuss the best practices and comprehensive set of capabilities for enterprise mobile application development and lifecycle management using an agile methodology. This tightly integrated solutionwhich leverages our open standards-based mobile application platform and ALM capabilitiesdelivers capabilities targeted at key mobile development lifecycle stages. Teams can use the solution to more easily support multi-tier mobile application development and to develop and deliver high-quality apps more rapidly, successfully and cost-efficiently. In the first part we discuss the challenges faced by application developers and IBM capabilities. Leigh Williamson and Paridhi Verma, speakers.
Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! Join Matt Holitza, Agile Evangelist for IBM Rational, to find out about his new book, Agile for Dummies. He'll discuss some of the key takeaways from the book and talk about some of his observations on the state of agile adoption.
Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the stability and scalability of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before deploying to production at a lower cost? Join Al Wagner as he offers insight for an upcoming webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.
The thought of a software development process audit can literally send an organization into a frenzy as it is often costly and challenging to demonstrate compliance with complex and dynamic regulations. Learn how you can increase transparency and automate to save costs and reduce compliance riskhelping to alleviate the frenzy of software development process audits and greatly improve process integrity throughout the lifecycle. Cindy VanEpps and Nick Norris, speakers.
Hear a brief overview of the China government's outsourcing project from IBM Rational CTO for AP, Tom Kamimura. China has created 100 software parks for outsourcing. IBM has worked with several parks and major outsourcing companies to create an outsourcing solution-as-a-service with CLM at the core. By adding capabilities to CLM, this solution deliver results with capabilities to better manage the statement of work and build a common understanding on requirements by "outsourcer" and "outsourcee."
Business agility is the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently in response to change or demands. One thing we know is that change is constant and how you respond to change can be either your competitive differentiator or demise! Listen to this podcast to learn how to empower your IT organization to help increase your business agility.
The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Today, Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year with new planning capabilities, new enterprise scalability options and more.
Agility isn't a word typically associated with product development processes, especially something as seemingly complex as systems engineering. But agile development principles aren't limited to software development. They canand have beenapplied to systems engineering. Join Doc Brown and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how agile systems engineering is indeed possible!
Agile and iterative development has emerged as a leading way to increase flexibility and speed delivery in software development. Although such approaches have seen the most widespread adoption within the enterprise/IT domain, the desire to realize their benefits is not limited to this sector and can be successfully extended to areas as specialized as the embedded market. Hear from Chris Rommel of VDC Research and Bruce Powel Douglass of IBM Rational how and why agile can work in embedded development.
If you love the idea of applying Agile practices in your large enterprise, but think you can't, think again. Richard Knaster has worked with enterprise customers around the world to help implement Agile methods.
Many IBM Rational System Architect users have an inventory of model assets in US Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) version 1.5 and other sources. These model assets can be in DoDAF Classic, DoDAF ABM, in other models or in all these forms. Users in the DoD, the aerospace and defense industries have created and reused these model assets over an extended period of time for various projects. The DoD has issued a directive calling for the use of DoDAF version 2.0, making migration or rebuilding of these existing assets necessary. Recreating these modeling assets in DoDAF 2.0 can be a costly and time-consuming exercise and also may lead to loss of data during the transition. The System Architect Migration Toolkit is designed to reduce the cost and time needed for the migration.
The mainstream agile discussion focuses on the construction of straightforward software by small, co-located teams working in ideal conditions. Most teams deliver more complex products in more complex environments. How can agile principles be applied for these teams? Join Alan Brown, IBM Rational CTO for Europe as he shares key takeaways from his new book, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain.
Software teams have benefited from Agile development methods in recent years. They have adopted practices based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Learn how continuous integration can be employed in the context of embedded software development to improve a business's bottom line. Martin Bakal and Jennifer Althouse, speakers.
Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are under pressure to deliver compelling services to their customers in order to reduce churn and at the same raise the average revenue per user. However the process from when a service is first conceived until it's actually deployed can be a very cumbersome process and a inhibitor to a CSP's success. This podcast will cover new and innovative ways for CSPs to accelerate the delivery of high generating mobile services. Scott Niemann, speaker.
Listen to this podcast to learn what's new about model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and why it is considered a revolutionary concept. Presented by Barclay Brown, Global Solution Executive for Systems Engineering for IBM Rational.
Rational software testing solutions can help customers challenged by the increasing cost of quality associated with developing and maintaining complex applications with integrations across multiple technologies and platforms. Using virtualization capabilities as part of a comprehensive testing framework can help speed software delivery reducing risk and rework and also the cost and effort of delivering test environments to improve the quality, visibility and predictability of project outcomes.
To assist in expediting mainframe application delivery via continuous integration and testing, IBM is introducing the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z (CIz). This is a complete solution for planning, automating, and monitoring application quality and testing, as well as linking testing to build and provisioning of application environments -- as a seamless process. Clients can get better quality, faster -- in some cases compressing the application delivery cycle from months to weeks or days, while reducing the cost of eliciting and repairing defects by up to 90%. In addition, automated mainframe testing can be performed at low-cost, using no mainframe development MIPS, by executing the tests on a x86-based z/OS environment. Dave Myers and Moshe Cohen, speakers.
Hear from Bill Smith, Product Manager, about the capabilities of the latest release of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software for IBM i, AIX and Linux. Focus will be on a new class of workflow driven Advisor tools for porting and optimizing C and C++ applications for AIX.
Learn more about this year's exciting Quality Management track at Innovate 2012. Mix and match sessions choosing from the many interesting topics regardless of whether you are looking for general information to advanced technical detail! And, if you haven't heard, IBM recently acquired Green Hat. Attend one of the many sessions focusing on the Green Hat technology or stop by the booth to learn more on how this technology is redefining the future of testing. Al Wagner, speaker.
Come explore how Enterprise Modernization solutions from IBM can help you: identify and modernize key System z applications, attract new talent with modern tools, speed up development and deployment time, unify disparate teams across all platforms, and exploit multiplatform architectures through application modernization and the latest compiler technologies.
IBM Rational has just updated Rational Developer for System z. Richard Szulweski and Stephen Henderson will discuss what's new with RDz and also what IBM is doing to help strengthen mainframe development.
Renewable energy generation takes many forms, where commercially viable forms include solar, wind, and arguably, nuclear energy. To achieve best results, deployment planning, plus, careful management of assets, requirements, and data are essential. Safety and security concerns are major components of regulatory compliance, while design standards evolve into a set of best practices addressed by Rational's solution for Energy and Utilities. Irv Badr, speaker.
Get the latest news on all of the activities IBM and Rational have planned for the Innovate 2012 user conference. Brian Bryson, Innovate conference manager, will cover all aspects of the event from the keynote speakers and technical content, to networking opportunities and entertainment activities. If you want the inside track on what's NEXT for IBM Innovate, listen to this podcast NOW.
The Cloud Development and Deployment focuses on leveraging the cloud to deliver development and test environments; collaborate across IT teams to accelerate delivery and deployment of software services; and to drive new business value through innovative offerings and services. This track is for anyone interested in cloud computing as a way to reduce operational and capital expenses, reduce development and test cycle times, and improve overall quality and time to market. Steve Weaver, speaker.
Is your software delivery process too expensive and too time-consuming? Does it provide poor visibility across distributed teams? There is a solution: the IBM Rational Software solutions available on the cloud offer an agile, flexible cloud computing model, helping you simplify and streamline your operation so delivery teams can work faster -- no matter where they are. Steve Weaver and Steve Huntington, speakers.
Are you missing windows of opportunity for adopting new and innovative business solutions? Does a lack of collaboration and poor visibility across your IT organizations keep you from achieving your business objectives? The Collaborative Development and Operations track details best practices for aligning development and operations, including: collaboration and communication strategy, process integration and automation, 'pre-release to production' application performance optimization, and cooperative problem lifecycle management. Steve Weaver, speaker.
Effectively connecting strategic goals with key initiatives, and translating these into prioritized projects, is critical to business success. In order to create these connections, organizations need to break down information silos. The resulting transformation helps improve decision making through superior analysis, planning and execution of change. In this podcast, we examine how Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture solutions provide key capabilities for driving value and managing the impact of business-driven change. We also discuss how a collaborative platform can help the entire organization communicate, prioritize, plan, share and govern activities, projects, applications, infrastructure and products. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.
It is said that developers rule when it comes to the software that drives today's most innovative products and solutions. At Innovate 2012, explore real-world examples and receive training on the state of the art tools that enable developers to more efficiently design, develop, test and deploy quality software and systems to meet the most demanding of customer needs. Discover what's NEXT and how IBM is driving it NOW in this podcast with curriculum managers, Matt Holitza and Neil Patterson, speakers.
More and more utilities are recognizing the need for transforming their business processes and technical solutions, such as smart meter data management, simultaneously, in order to achieve their new business goals. Leveraging Rationals integrated solution, utilities can realistically transform their processes and technologies with little disruption, and minimized risk. Irv Badr, speaker.
Hear from Roland Koo and Susan Yoskin on why the IBM Innovate 2012 conference is a must-attend event for clients with IBM i, AIX or Linux on Power. At Innovate 2012, you will have an opportunity to network with over 4,000 software and systems experts and peers, hear exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team and our customers, and attend the dedicated Power Track sessions. Use the on-line Agenda Builder tool to customize your experience.
Hear from Meg Selfe, Vice President of Complex and Embedded Systems, on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2012. Meg will outline our new and expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities. Meg will also highlight the increasing importance of systems and software engineering in successful product development and how Rational is supporting this trend with our commitment to openness, expanded partner ecosystem and through new product developments.
IBM Rational is "getting Agile" in a whole new way at Innovate 2012. Our new Agile Transformation Track features 50+ sessions on Agile adoption, scaling techniques, and experiences from real-world Agile teams at world-class companies. Learn the latest trends from industry experts like Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler and Alan Brown, and get answers to your questions from Agile coaches. Listen to this podcast so you don't miss a moment of the Agile action! Cheri Bergeron, speaker.
Be innovative and be fast or watch your competition announce that next great product of service ahead of you! And do it while managing the high costs of disconnected software development. At the Innovate 2012 Lifecycle Solutions track learn what's new and how forward-thinking organizations are reducing costs and optimizing productivity with better collaboration across teams and multi-platforms with effective application lifecycle management capabilities built on the unifying, open, extensible Jazz platform. Jennifer Moore, speaker.
Traditionally, challenges such as high labor and capital costs for infrastructure and software, long development cycles and a greater risk for inefficiencies reduce the ability of IT organizations to get the most from their development teams. Learn how cloud can be used to transform software delivery, and how best practices for software development in the cloud can help IT organizations become more agile and flexible. Steve Weaver, speaker.
Web applications account for almost 40 percent of vulnerability disclosures; this makes them a popular vector for attack. Scanning in-house and third party applications throughout the development process can uncover critical vulnerabilities, but it takes time to address flaws that are found. Paul Kaspian, Market Segment Manager, Network Security, and Karl Snider, Market Segment Manager, Application Security, discuss the merits of adopting a multi-layered defense strategy for web applications, combining application security testing with real-time protection.
A recent IBM global survey shows that nearly 90% of financial organizations believe that transforming from the status quo is critical to profitability. Financial institutions are looking to achieve greater value in the form of improved services, increased client satisfaction, and reduced complexity though modernizing technologies and processes. Hear about the strategies to incrementally and continuously modernize with reduced risk; providing a roadmap to achieving greater value and performance from your IT investments. Valerie Hamilton, speaker.
The modern heterogeneous IT environment has an increasing number of endpoints -- each with unique security requirements -- due to the widespread adoption of mobile, virtual and cloud technologies. All of these endpoints provide tangible business value and act as gateways to a vault of business information; therefore, they must be secured. This podcast discusses the importance of security intelligence at the endpoint and how an integrated approach to endpoint security helps reduce business operation costs. Nick Harlow and Tom Cross, speakers.
Are you under constant pressure to implement SAP enhancements faster and to keep up with business demands in the face of SAP upgrades and maintenance efforts? Listen to this podcast to hear how IBM Rational can help accelerate your SAP deployments implementation and maintenance at lower cost. Can you optimize your SAP deployments to achieve these results? -- Reduction in costs by 40-80%. -- 40% timeline reduction. -- Up to 70% automation within 90 days. -- Reduce SAP time to go live by 50%. -- Reduce testing time by 60% percent. Know how in this podcast. IBM's Brian Yarow and Worksoft's Rick Thorn, speakers.
Over 30% of all defects in production applications are caused by poor configuration of hardware, middleware or software. Learn how IBM solutions such as Rational Team Concert and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning can help with continuous delivery of complex applications to the cloud. Steve Weaver and Daniel Berg, speakers.
IBM has recently announced new integrated optimized systems. Migrate existing supported applications into these systems with ease. The migration expertise built into these systems involves understanding the design of the existing application, encapsulating its configuration and data into a package, and then importing that package into the environment. You are not required to separately buy, install, and configure a separate migration tool, saving you time and increasing the quality of your deployed applications. Steve Weaver and Robbie Minshall, speakers.
The time has come for a new class of systems: systems with integrated expertise that combine the flexibility of a general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance, namely IBM's Expert Integrated Systems. Randy Newell and Steve Weaver discuss the application development solutions that complement Expert Integrated Systems, including IBM's collaborative application lifecycle management solution to help you deliver quality software and services faster through better team collaboration, automation and governance across platforms.
Mobile computing is and will continue to grow at exponential rates. The explosion in mobile data and applications growth is a phenomenon that touches many industries. Although some aspects of mobile applications development are the same as that of traditional software, mobile development has many unique aspects. Join the mobile application track at Innovate and accelerate your mobile application development across multiple platforms by reducing time-to-market and cost of application development and deployment. Paridhi Verma and Albert Ho, speakers.
The pressure to innovate and offer faster delivery, coupled with tight budgets is driving IT to explore fundamental transformations in software delivery. For System z development organizations, this may seem particularly daunting, due to portfolios that are decades old, mission critical applications that are enhanced and maintained with traditional, 3270-based tools. Discover how IBM's Integrated Solution for System z Development can help you optimize your System z development tools, processes, and infrastructure. Alisa Morse, speaker.
System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Roland Koo, Product manager for Rational compilers and Maria G. Querales, Product Manager, IMS, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I and C/C++ compiler technologies when upgrading to the latest IMS. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive with IMS applications. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/webcast/15feb/
System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Penny Scharfman, IBM Rational Segment manager, Power and Compilers and Chris Crone, IBM Distinguished Engineer, DB2 for z/OS Development, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I, and C/C++ compilers when upgradinsg to DB2 V9/V10. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive with DB2 applications. Webcast replay: Boost Performance, Productivity and Cost Savings with IBM's latest compilers for zEnterprise http://www.ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/15feb
System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Roland Koo, Product manager for Rational compilers and Matt Whitbourne, Business Manager for CICS, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I and C/C++ compiler technologies when upgrading to CICS V4. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive when using CICS applications. Webcast replay: Boost Performance, Productivity and Cost Savings with IBM's latest compilers for zEnterprise http://www.ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/15feb
The increasing cost of quality and development complexity while balancing quality and speed has become extremely challenging for software projects. Development teams are delivering applications faster which is driving a need for change in the world of testing. Listen to this podcast and get a preview on how the world of testing is changing and what solutions are available today to help. Register for the upcoming thought leadership webcast, "Boost software quality and development agility" to learn more about how technologies such as virtualization and the cloud enable continuous integration testing much earlier in the development cycle. Al Wagner, speaker. Learn more at http://ibm.co/BoostSoftwareQuality
Bringing the power of social software to software development teams provides many new collaboration capabilities that allow you to identify, connect with, and exchange ideas with a wide community of business and technical stakeholders, partners, and end users. For example you can find out what's happening in your community, blogs, wikis, and activities; search for contacts based on their experience, skills, or key relationships and publish key developer activities to the wider community. Mac Guidera and Rolf Nelson, speakers.
Software is not only changing the nature of products, but across many product industry sectors, it is arguably accounting for the lion's share of innovation. This has placed great stress on the systems engineering process. Listen to a preview of a webcast with Tony Baer, Senior Analyst at Ovum Software, and Dominic Tavossoli, Director of Marketing at IBM, as they discuss the challenges and solutions that product engineering organizations must address as they become more software-driven. Moderated by Steve Shoaf with IBM Rational Marketing.
Serge Lucio, IBM Rational, introduces listeners to James Whittaker, Test Director of Google and Thought Leader, as he shares his thoughts on how the world of software testing is changing, how Google is moving forward adopting change, and how IBM is moving forward to embrace this change.
Government by design is the application of strategic planning to provide a comprehensive view of the entire government agency. Repeatable processes help analyze the portfolio of capabilities and resources relating to their strategy and priorities; capture the current state of programs, services and technology and; identify the gaps between what exists and what is needed. The Government by Design approach leverages information to create a plan producing the best outcomes for your organization and citizens. Tammy Kulesa and Jim Amsden, speakers.
Building on its recent addition of Cobol scanning capabilities, IBM announced its partnership with a leading provider of SAP ABAP security scanning tools, Virtual Forge. In this podcast IBM and Virtual Forge will describe the capabilities of their combined offering, including use cases, success stories and how to get started. Markus Schumacher and Andy Bochman, speakers.
Most utilities are undergoing changes in their business process and enterprise management area, in order to offer fully integrated data and information across customers, municipalities, and, the utilities themselves. An example is the electric industry, where a set of best practices are prompted through a set of standards from IEC, SGIP, and other agencies. IEC CIM is a set of Electrical energy standards based on modeling of the data and information related to the Smart Grid. Inherent with data-centric design standards such as the IEC CIM, are a set of Business Architecture and Processes which need to be managed in conjunction with technical standards, in order to achieve success in the journey towards transformation. Irv Badr, speaker.
Many existing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), such as the GSMA OneAPI, define commonly supported set of lightweight and Web friendly interfaces to support mobile development, in an operator agnostic manner. With TelcoML delivery teams can build a component library of OneAPI objects, which are enabled for deployment in devices and operator networks alike. TelcoML provides a modeling view of the API, resulting in greatly improved time to market and superior mobile services and applications. Irv Badr, speaker.
Complexity within a Communication Service Provider can lead to difficult collaboration among business and IT, causing them to miss the mark with products and services that don't meet business goals. TM Forum's Frameworx is a suite of standards that provide the blueprint for effective business operations to enable better collaboration throughout the organization. Rational best practices can bring actionable Frameworx architecture to increase collaboration amongst the business throughout the service development lifecycle. Scott Niemann, speaker.
This podcast will discuss a new approach to systems and software development that transforms the way organizations manage change across the life cycle to make it more transparent, flexible and efficient. We will explore how the adoption of an open, uniform approach to commercial systems and software development, as well as the dynamic integration of project management capabilities with change management, can dramatically raise the bar on collaboration and productivity. Steve Speicher, speaker.
CSPs continue to be focused on operational efficiency by shifting the financial burden from capital to operating expenses through new collaborative business models. By taking an enterprise approach CSPs can plan and manage their internal transformations to cloud based solutions through the Rational Unified Service Creation Environment. Scott Niemann, speaker.
Have you ever wondered how you can try IBM Rational products anytime, anyplace and anywhere at no cost? It's easy. Through hands-on participation, guided walk-thru and the use of live, running System z and Power Systems (IBM i, AIX, Linux) development scenarios and solutions, our Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes help you experience and evaluate IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for the System z and Power Systems platforms. Susan Yoskin, speaker.
Your team is bigger than you think! The extended team of subject matter experts is needed to provide insights and feedback on designs to make sure your solutions satisfy customer needs and deliver the expected quality. Everyone from customers to internal experts are stakeholders with points of view that are invaluable from the early stages of development. Discover how Rational Software Architect and Rational Rhapsody with Design Manager can help drive consensus on designs across this extended team. Adeel Omer and Neil Patterson, speakers.
Ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans? Andy Detandt, Resource Manager at Lender Processing Services, and Carolyn Pampino, Program Director for Strategic Offerings focused on IT Software Delivery at IBM, introduce in this podcast five key imperatives for ALM and briefly discuss how these imperatives can be used to ensure success for ALM in a collaborative environment. To learn more details we suggest you also register for the supporting webcast.
Learn about the benefits that tapping into the powerful multiplier effect an integrated, lifecycle approach to requirements driven quality provides by linking, tracing, relating and manipulating across the lifecycle. Benefits that can help deliver better quality solutions and value that cut your risk and cost of software delivery, not results. Eric Long, speaker.
Achieving compliance with new industry standards is critical in industries delivering safety critical systems - including medical devices, automobiles, airplanes and defense systems. Co-development of hardware and software increases efficiency and quality. IBM's solution for building complex and embedded systems now provides industry specific content to help companies realize these goals. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.
Hear from Bill Smith, Product Manager for Rational Tools for Power, about the new functionality in the latest release of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software for IBM i, AIX and Linux for Power. He will also introduce the new migration and porting rules framework. Roland Koo, Product Manager for Compilers, will present the new performance and productivity enhancements in the COBOL for AIX 4.1.1 compiler. Trial download: Rational Developer for Power Systems Software http://ibm.co/mRFuJr
A new approach is needed to address rapid change and growing complexity in developing modern electronics, cars, planes and medical devices. Establishing a cross-lifecycle hub for collaboration, planning and change management is helping companies increase agility in their Systems Engineering processes. Hear how this makes a difference, and what companies that develop everything from planes to medical devices are doing to get started with agile planning and processes. Also learn how the Jazz Collaboration Platform is helping companies increase agility and unify the development lifecycle with the Rational solution for systems and software engineering. Susan Green, speaker.
Agile turns 10 this year! Since its advent in 2001, Agile practices have transformed the way software is built and delivered. Please take a few minutes to join Kim Werner, Agile Coach from ATSC and Liz Parnell, Solution Design Manager from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and learn how BCBSNC adopted a few Agile techniques, some good coaching, and implemented IBM Rational Jazz tools to reduce time to market, lower costs, and continue marching along the CMMI, SOX, PHI, and HIPAA compliance path.
Al Wagner introduces listeners to research by Tony Baer, a Senior Analyst at Ovum, who in a webcast and whitepaper twinset discusses how successful closing of the loop between disciplines of quality, requirements, and test management processes and tooling can yield strategic benefits that extend beyond productivity improvements in the respective processes.
For years the software development community has increasingly embraced an iterative and incremental methodology for software development -- Agile. It has driven significant business value through faster, more responsive features and functionality based on market and client demand. What does this development method mean for the an intrinsically process dependent security requirement? Is it possible to develop applications using Agile practices and yet retain a high level of software security assurance? Patrick Vandenberg, speaker.
"Systems Engineering For Dummies," IBM Limited Edition, explains what systems engineering is and how it can help you harness the complexity inherent in developing smart, connected products associated with industrial sector industries. This podcast introduces the book and outlines who might benefit from reading it. Steve Shoaf, speaker.
Discover what's new in the all-new Rational Automation Framework solution with new pricing and packaging, and a host of new features, while Rational Build Forge marches on with a new release and significant enhancements. Rational's software delivery automation solutions have led the market in helping software delivery teams streamline their builds, and manage the configuration and deployment of applications to target middleware solutions. Elissa Redmiles and Jesse Alva, speakers.
IBM is uniquely positioned to help financial institutions dramatically reduce the costs and risks of compliance management and meet the compliance needs of regulations, such as Dodd-Frank, Basel III and Solvency II. Please watch the webcast titled: IBM helps financial services clients meet Compliance needs. AnnMarie Stenglein, speaker.
Communications Service Providers CSP need to overcome the challenge of delivering innovative services at minimum cost while maintaining a positive customer experience. A series of best practices aimed at minimizing time-to-market through the use of requirements and feature management, Service Oriented Architecture and performance testing proves vital in the successful delivery of CSP services. Irv Badr, speaker.
One of the biggest challenges that companies in the business of product development face is the gap that exists between business and engineering departments. Bridging this gap between these two cultures is very important. How can you improve the collaboration between these two cultures which often have diverse and distributed teams? Listen to this podcast to find out how IBM can help you build the linkage between business strategy and technical execution in your quest to build successful products. Aravind Madhavan, speaker.
This podcast will take a deeper dive into IEC 62304 to identify key steps, best practices, and best of breed integrated tooling to help companies conform to IEC 62304 on the way to FDA and international approval of their medical device. Martin Bakal and Bruce Douglass, speakers.
In these tough economic times, all government agencies are required to cut their costs, reduce future spending on IT and get smart. Join to hear IBM experts discuss successful strategies for helping Government organizations achieving the cost cutting goal and enabling smarter government. Bruce Baron and Tammy Kulesa, speakers.
Business Planning and Transformation: Have you made the right investments? Do you have the best process in place? How about your technology investments? Learn how IBM is helping companies align business objectives with engineering capabilities through a combination of industry best practices and technology. David Spade, Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
This podcast highlights some of the Cloud Computing topics presented across the streams throughout the week at the Innovate 2011 conference, including a focus on Rational solutions on the cloud; Planning, developing, testing and deploying cloud applications; and leveraging the cloud for more effective software delivery. Steve Weaver, speaker.
IBM Rational offers an integrated life cycle solution for variation management while providing technology, best practices and tools to design, develop and deliver a product line in a more efficient and automated fashion. Greg Gorman and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
As physical products become increasingly digital in design, producers of smarter products must consider how to better integrate product lifecycle, and support functions to ensure ongoing product quality and performance and capitalize on new opportunities for product innovation and revenue growth. Learn how IBM's Integrated Product Management solutions and integrations can help! Pierre Coyne and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
Creating a pipeline of innovative products and servicesthe "building blocks" of smarter solutions -- at lower cost and risk means manufacturers must innovate, collaborate, and optimize in order to thrive in today's competitive market. They must do so at every step of their enterprise processesat the design phase, the operations phase and the services phase. Christophe Begue and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
This podcast provides an up to the date overview of the new UPDM 2.0 profile, a background of MoDAF and DoDAF , an understanding of changes underway and tools that can help you to connect the lifecycle from Enterprise Architecture to Software. Graham Bleakely and Brian Nolan, speakers.
Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
Are security and compliance risks within the Healthcare industry on the rise? Learn how the changing landscape of the healthcare industry may be driving the increase of security and compliance risks and the various ways to reduce the possibility and impact of security vulnerabilities. Valerie Hamilton, speaker.
Android Smartphones and other mobile and interconnected devices are rapidly growing in popularity. In this podcast we will show ways to accelerate Android mobile application development using the IBM Rational platform for software and systems development and requirements management. Six key functions will be discussed to address these emerging challenges. Martin Bakal, speaker.
Second in a special two-part podcast sub-series with Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director at MWD Advisors and IBM Chief Softare Economist, Walker Royce. We've all heard the hype about 'agile' software delivery, but to what extent are the implications of agility in software really understood? What does it mean to deliver quality in today's software systems, and how does that need to be reflected in the development and delivery of software today?
First in a special two-part podcast sub-series with Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director at MWD Advisors and IBM Chief Softare Economist, Walker Royce. We've all heard the hype about 'agile' software delivery, but to what extent are the implications of agility in software really understood? What does it mean to deliver quality in today's software systems, and how does that need to be reflected in the development and delivery of software today?
Successful businesses are those that use software for competitive advantage. In doing so, those same organizations face new challenges as they strive to be responsive in reacting to a highly dynamic business environment. IBM solutions give customers with a competitive edge by enabling better collaboration between development and operations and providing a path to increased innovation, better business agility, and effective and integrated management across the entire software and services life cycle. Marketing vice-presidents, Gina Poole, Rational software and Scott Hebner, Tivoli software share their views on the significance of collaborative development and operations.
Automotive manufacturer and suppliers worldwide are putting a greater emphasis on E/E engineering and E/E process and data management. In this podcast we'll discuss how the IBM Rational Software Platform for Automotive Systems enables automotive manufacturers and their supplier to more effectively develop E/E systems. Brett Hillhouse, speaker.
Please take a few minutes to join Scott Ambler as he shares his view on Development and Operations, what could be done to minimize the impact to agile projects, and the value addressing Development and Operations challenges would offer agile project teams and the business. Scott Ambler, speaker.
Learn about the benefits that tapping into the powerful multiplier effect an integrated, lifecycle approach to requirements and test management provides by linking, tracing, relating and manipulating business and test artifacts across the lifecycle. Benefits that can help deliver better quality solutions and value that cut your risk and cost of software delivery, not results. Eric Long, speaker.
Unlike other vendors, IBM Rational, the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM), offers a complete ALM solution with three key ways that its ALM solution differs: flexibility, increased business value, and open collaboration. Learn how IBM Rational helps ease the pain of complex software delivery and why it will continue to be the leader in application lifecycle management. Eric Long, speaker.
Model-based testing is a way to raise test and verification productivity to keep pace with the rapid innovation required for today's smart products. This podcast looks at how model-based testing delivered success for a smart power meter development project. Udo Brockmeyer, speaker.
When companies are looking for ways to improve the consistency, robustness, and efficiency of their product development cycle, drawing upon industry derived best practices can offer a significant competitive advantage. IBM discusses a solution for companies developing complex products that are seeking proven best practices, automation, and instant access to process guidance. Sue Green and Andrew Foster, speakers.
This podcast highlights key topics that will be presented as part of the Strategic Planning stream at the Innovate 2011 conference including how organizations can align strategy with execution, create a value driven approach, create an optimal enterprise architecture, develop smarter and better products, and rationalize the application portfolio. Johan Hedstrm, speaker.
Looking to improve the quality of your products but not at the expense of increased time of market? Hear Mark Lefebvre, Director, Systems Alliances and Integrations at IBM, talk about this balancing act and how IBM is helping clients to improve quality through their software and systems engineering process.
An interview with Innovate 2011's most influential curriculum managers discussing content planned in the areas of Change and Configuration Management, Automation, Deployment and Asset Management and most importantly Quality Management. An invaluable resource for developers, release managers, testers and quality professionals wanting to plan out their agenda for Innovate 2011. Matt Holitza, Brian Bryson and Adeel Omer, speakers.
Hear highlights about featured activities for our System z customers taking place at the Innovate 2011 conference on June 5-9, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Don't miss the dedicated System z track, executive keynotes, personalized demos, labs, technical workshops, and a special reception for enterprise modernization customers at Shula's Steakhouse. Will Smythe and Pam Induni, speakers.
IBM Rational and INCHRON, a leader in embedded system design solutions, are teaming to provide a comprehensive model and simulation-based systems engineering solution which addresses these challenges. The new agreement entitles IBM to resell the INCHRON Tool-Suite; IBM can now offer its clients an integrated solution for model-driven development, including timing and performance analysis and validation. Uwe Brodtmann and Mark Lefebvre, speakers.
This track at Innovate will show you how development and operations can work together to drive business change, quickly, with lower risk. Help your company break down the barriers between development and operations and delivery agile operations. Michael Rowe and Peter Marshall, speakers.
Please take a few minutes to join Scott Ambler as he dispels the myths that still exist about scaling Agile practices and previews the Agile. Everyware. interactive whiteboard.
Hear from Roland Koo and Susan Yoskin on why IBM's Innovate 2011 conference, held June 6-9, 2011 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for Power Systems customers. At Innovate 2011, Power Systems customers will have an opportunity to network with over 4,000 software and systems experts and peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team and our customers, attend the dedicated Power Track sessions or use the on-line Agenda Builder tool to customize your experience. In the Solutions Center you can try your luck against Watson, (as seen on Jeopardy), and hear how that same technology is making a difference in the world. Register for the Power Systems hands-on technical workshop, sign up for a 1-on-1 consultation and demo in our Power Solution Suite, and meet your fellow Enterprise Modernization peers at a special reception for you Tuesday evening in Shula's Steakhouse.
An interview with Innovate 2011's key curriculum managers discussing content planned in the areas of Application Lifecycle Management best practices, Requirements Definition and Management and Modeling, Architecture and Construction. An invaluable resource for analysts, engineers, architects, developers, and quality professionals wanting to plan out their agenda for Innovate 2011. Jennifer Moore, Andy Gurd and Neil Patterson, speakers.
This podcast highlights some of the topics in the Software and systems innovation stream, to be delivered at Innovate 2011. In addition, this series will highlight some IBM clients speaking at the conference about how they have leveraged IBM to gain a competitive advantage within their industry. Steve Shoaf and AnnMarie Stenglein, speakers.
This podcast highlights key topics that will be presented as part of the application security and compliance stream at the Innovate 2011 conference including how organizations can address a variety of application security challenges, helping attendees focus on the best practices and approaches for integrating security testing across the development lifecycle. Brian Moran, speaker.
Oscar Wilde said, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." One of the best advantages to being a part of the Rational Network is the opportunity to learn from others and to leverage others successes and failures. This year, IBM presents you with stories from customers such as AT&T, DHL, Samsung, General Motors, and some of the world's largest banks. Learning from others is a critical component to giving your company the right conditions to succeed. The customer success track is packed with 32 sessions where Rational customers discuss their experiences - trials and tribulations, and most importantly, share their stories on how to be successful. Tamara Kulesa, speaker.
Energy and Utility companies have traditionally focused on their core business of distributing electrical power in a reliable and efficient manner. With the adoption of the Smart Grid, electric power distribution is coupled with bi-directional, and frequently copious, data exchange. The underlying data is defined through standards from IEC, and a set of best practices is essential to implement and manage this new, data-centric paradigm. Irv Badr, speaker.
Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.
Product and Service Innovation: Speeding the delivery of innovative products and services that transform the way we live, work, and play. Smarter. Flatter. Intelligent. Interconnected. Instrumented. We all agree that the world is changing. More likely than not you are building products or services that are driving this evolution. But are you prepared lead? Learn how IBM can help you prepare and win in the age of Smarter Products and Services. Dominic Tavassoli and Pierre Coyne, speakers.
Almost daily, the healthcare industry makes the news headlines the industry is changing and undergoing a huge transformation. This transformation is driven by healthcare reform, aging populations, compliance mandates (ICD-10, HIPAA 5010, etc), and the business challenges of reducing costs, operating more effectively and improving customer service. Are you ready for change? Are you able to proactively plan for change versus simply responding to each demand as it comes your way? Learn how you can enable informed strategic and tactical decision-making to more effectively manage change and transformation while controlling costs and enabling the innovation that differentiates your business. Valerie Hamilton, speaker.
Successful ALM empowers organizations to get fast answers to questions that span multiple teams, tools and projects. But what's the "special sauce" that makes those fast answers possible? IBM Rational Program Director Carolyn Pampino explores best practices for transforming ALM environments so they are more collaborative, transparent and productive.
The upcoming ISO 26262 will, in many cases, add additional requirements to E/E engineering departments of automotive OEM and suppliers. How to deal with the enforcements of ISO 26262 and how the IBM Rational Software Platform for Automotive Systems helps achieve requirements of ISO 26262 is the subject of this podcast. Karla Ducharme, speaker.
It is well known that on-time delivery of a complex system is never certain. This fact raises the question every project lead should be able to answer, "What are the odds of making the date?" This podcast provides a method for answering this key question. Murray Cantor, speaker.
With public data breaches occurring almost daily and compliance demands on the rise, securing web applications used to collect sensitive data is a priority. So how secure are your web applications? This podcast will address the state of application security today, the benefits of building security into the software lifecycle and how you can make web applications more secure. Leading security expert, IDC's Charles Kolodgy will explain today's web application security challenges and best practices on how to overcome them.
Delivering the right products at the right time can provide a powerful boost to a manufacturer's bottom line. Dominic Tavassoli from IBM Rational, explores the tradeoffs associated with capability (i.e. function, time to market) versus the complexity introduced by additional product features and ecosystem interoperability that actually make a product "smarter".
Today we are going to talk about two different co-development solutions from IBM - one around the use of ClearCase in conjunction with Cadence Design Systems, a leading EDA company and IBM's own use of Clear Quest by the Hardware division. The reason this is so timely is that increasing electronics companies are seeing software as the catalyst for innovate and product differentiation. Gone are the days when software developers would wait for the latest release of a chip and then determine how to use it; today software frequently drives hardware choices. As a result, companies are recognizing the need for tight coordination and collaboration between the software and hardware engineers and the processes, tools and terminology they use. By having a common set of processes and tools, companies are able codevelop smarter products more efficiently, at a higher quality and lower cost. Speakers: Sreenivasan Rajagopal and Wayne Carrigan.
Executives need portfolios that meet customer needs AND align with business objectives. Engineering needs to deliver mass customization with limited resources. Learn how IBM can help you develop and deliver the right features and products to the right markets at the right time with the convergence of product and portfolio management and product line engineering.
Teams are consistently under pressure to deliver more applications, work more effectively, faster within a consistently decreasing timeframe. To help our WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Business Process Modeler customers, IBM has released new capabilities to help Supercharge your WebSphere Application and Process Server investments with IBM Rational. Speakers: Adeel Omer and Mahendra Pingale.
Products today are much more interconnected than they were five years ago. You can use your cell phone to sync up data to your computer. While this sounds impressive the question is how to develop applications without having complete architectural while maintaining reliability, safety, and security. Speaker: Martin Bakal.
Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Speaker: Steve Shoaf.
Agile software development techniques have taken the industry by storm, with 76 percent of organizations reporting that they had one or more agile projects under way. Agile is becoming widespread because it works organizations are finding that agile project teams, when compared to traditional project teams, enjoy higher success rates, deliver higher quality, have greater levels of stakeholder satisfaction, provide better return on investment (ROI) and deliver systems to market sooner.
While you were on vacation, IBM has been hard at work updating our solution portfolio for architects, developers, analysts and quality professionals. In this hour, we'd like to update you on the latest advances in our core development portfolio: Rational Software Architect and Rational Application Developer. We'll also update you on the latest updates to our Quality Management portfolio. Usability enhancements, model simulations and deployment planning and automation are available in leaner (and cheaper!) software solutions. We've made new changes to support agile development teams, and focused on facilitating team communication and collaboration. And now we'd like to tell you what we've done.
New Rational Developer for Power now supports Linux development in addition to AIX and IBM i. One "workbench" for all your Power development needs. Shell shares with common Eclipse offerings, as well as new RAD SE for Java tools. We also had a complete refresh of Rational compilers for Power. Listen to our Product Managers talk about the new fuctionality for Power developers which can make you more productive and your applications exploit the new technology of the Power hardware.
Need to gain control and insight over your end-to-end software lifecycle? The Rational Jazz platform is designed to be the "common glue" that can integrate a broad range of development tools, and help project teams collaborate, automate, and report across the software lifecycle. Join Robyn Gold and Pam Induni to learn what makes the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution a game-changer.
Achieving effective software delivery while keeping risks and costs in check is a difficult balancing act. With Cloud computing, you can reduce the high deployment costs of delivering software while maintaining quality, improve control and governance while speeding time to market and enhance the flexibility of software development and delivery processes. In this podcast, Steve Weaver and Jamie Knowles discuss new capabilities from IBM Rational around cloud computing, including Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing, Virtual Load Testing and Modeling and Automated Deployment for Cloud.
Software is an increasingly critical component of smart products and systems. Improving the quality of that software is traditionally seen as incurring increased development costs due to the need to implement more rigorous tools and processes. However, improved quality can also reduce development costs by eliminating constant replanning, reducing reworks costs and providing better predictability in project delivery timing. This podcast discusses the key quality management strategies to deliver such cost savings with improved product quality. Speaker: Moshe Cohen
Rational compilers can optimize your applications to work harder for you. Optimization is the process whereby compilers transform an application into a significantly more efficient version of itself. The compiler can recognize inefficient programming practices and transform them into more efficient ones. The program continues to behave as before but now runs smarter -- it can run faster, use less system resources, and exploit parallel programming to run multiple sections of the code simultaneously. Listen to Roland Koo, Product Manager, Compilers, discuss the new functionality that can be yours when you upgrade to the latest versions of the Rational compilers for Power Systems.
Our world is becoming smarter. Systems are being combined to deliver ever increasing value in ways that challenge our abilities to reason about, design and build. Discover the unique challenges posed on managing quality when systems are integrated to form a larger system of systems. Speaker: Dr. Bruce Douglass.
Web Application Security for Mid-Sized Businesses with Scott Crawford, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
Software is assuming an ever-increasing role in the control of potentially dangerous equipment. As product development timelines continue to be compressed, how can development organizations apply the principles of agile methods to the development of highly-reliable and safety systems? Join Bruce Powel Douglass, Chief Evangelist for IBM Rational as he discusses how Agile Embedded development applies to high reliability, safety critical systems.
The third installment is focused on how developers can use neat tips and tricks to accelerate code development without compromising on quality. In fact, using automation and code testing and profiling tools that ship with Rational software delivery solutions can help dramatically improve the quality of the first code that goes through the door. Automating the builds and repetitive processes for complex deployments can save time and allow development and test teams to be more efficient and work with software as it's meant to be deployed. We'll discuss some easy methods to use during software development that can perform code analysis, static and dynamic testing, accelerated deployment through automation and best practices for producing better code even before it gets to the test team! Speaker: Adeel Omer.
Security has always hung upon, or been hung by, its weakest link. The complexity of today's systems has compounded the difficulty of defending them, not just because of the number of components, but because of the many sources from which they are drawn. Whether you are integrating an outsourced or opensourced application, or if you are interfacing with an outsourced service provider, security must be one of the areas where there is clear focus and detailed requirements. In this podcast, Jack Danahy, Worldwide Security Executive for Rational, talks about some recent events where more security transparency would have helped, and describes ways in which Rational can help to ensure the security and reputations of our clients.
Have you ever been involved in a software project and thought "There must be a better way to do this?" Software delivery is a challenging proposition, but there are steps that can be taken to reduce cost and risk, and still delivery applications and services on time and on budget. In this series, we'll examine five strategies software delivery teams can take to ensure application quality, while maintain a focus on cost and customer expectations. Speaker: Adeel Omer.
In this series, we are listing five strategies software delivery teams can take to ensure application quality, while maintain a focus on cost and customer expectations. In this fourth installment, we're going to talk about avoiding surprises. When developers add new functionality, or make fixes to address defects, what guarantee do they have that their changes will not adversely impact other areas of the application? The answer: none. The burden lies on quality management teams to ensure that intended changes have not caused unintended consequences. This is a repetitive task that can consume a significant amount of time -- leaving little time left to validate new functionality. To ensure full coverage, teams can employ test automation to help avoid these unpleasant surprises and free their time to focus on validation of new functionality. Speaker: Brian Bryson.
If your development team is still using poorly integrated agile planning, version control, defect tracking or build tools, now you have no excuse not to try Rational Team Concert but we should warn you, that our experience with other Rational Team Concert customers is once developers try it they dont want to use anything else! Speaker: Rolf Nelson.
Achieving effective software delivery while keeping risks and costs in check is a difficult balancing act. With Cloud computing, you can reduce the high deployment costs of delivering software while maintaining quality, improve control and governance while speeding time to market and enhance the flexibility of software development and delivery processes. In this podcast, we'll discuss an integrated set of services for requirements definition, requirements management, test management, test planning and test lab management. Speakers: Alice Cockrum and Lisa Buckley.
Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6-10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for System z customers. At Innovate 2010, System z customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for System z customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for System z customers Tuesday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.
Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6-10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for Power Systems customers. At Innovate 2010, Power Systems customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for Power Systems customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for Power Systems customers Monday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.
Roland Koo and Don Yantzi, Rational's product managers for Power Systems compilers and development tools, explore the new development tools and compiler enhancements for IBM Power Systems; including brand new development tools for AIX, POWER7 exploitation in the AIX compilers, and new features in the IBM i compilers.
The ability to assess alternative solutions early in the production of a system or product is critical to delivering enduring business value. Join Dr. Graham Bleakley as he discusses the benefits of a cross-discipline Trade-Studies approach to systems engineering.
The true value of todays smart products and services is often derived from the successful combination of diverse technologies in a complex system-of-systems - where no single organization is responsible for all parts of the system. Join IBM expert Jeff Schuster, to learn how IBM Rational quality management solutions integrate quality management in to the systems development lifecycle and enable a requirements-driven, risk-based approach to systems quality.
Listen to Richard Crisp, Director of Requirements and Quality Management Product delivery, as he shares his experience of how requirements engineering can help unify product development teams so that together they can deliver a high-quality product that meets the needs of the customer, on time and on budget.
Getting started with automated functional regression testing can be a daunting task. In this podcast, IBM technology evangelist Brian Bryson will outline the simplest path for learning, implementing and generating rapid return on investment from IBM Rational Functional Tester. If you're stuck on the sidelines, this podcast will provide you with all the information you need to get in the test automation game and win.
Why the Innovate 2010 in Orlando, FL from June 6 to 10 is a must attend event. Hear from Patrick Roach, Principal Engineer Communications and Navigations Systems with a major aerospace company and Scott Hebner, Vice President, Marketing and Offering Management, IBM Rational Software. At Innovate 2010 we will all have the opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You won't want to miss this year's conference! Visit the Conference website for more information and to register today: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/innovate/
Join Sasha Mostofi, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Rational as she discusses why reporting is a vital, but often overlooked activity within organizations. She will highlight the reporting issues and implications that organizations commonly face and discuss the opportunities and benefits presented by modern, automated reporting and measurement solutions.
When requirements are defined and managed properly, project overruns can be reduced by as much as 20 percent by reducing the number of inaccurate, incomplete, and omitted requirements. In this podcast, we will tell you how Rational requirements solutions can help you achieve better business outcomes and deliver the right product the first time.
While most organizations want to ensure changes are seamlessly incorporated into each and every software project, they often lack the flexibility, automation and agility to make this a reality. In this podcast, Liz Urheim, Director of Marketing, IBM Rational, will discuss with you can increase organizational agility to better manage ever-changing requirements.
In this podcast, Scott Ambler, IBMs practice leader for Agile development discusses the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) and how it can help you define a roadmap for effective adoption and tailor agile practices to meet the unique challenges faced by your software and systems delivery team.
Hear from Don Yantzi, Product Manager, about the new family of development tools for the Power Systems platform (IBM i and AIX) from IBM Rational. Find out how IBM Rational Developer for Power, the new Eclipse-based integrated development environment for IBM i and AIX, can help them be more productive. Find out how Rational Team Concert for Power can consolidate disparate change management platforms and improve team collaboration. Linda Cole, Enablement Manager for Rational, will present ways to get started and where to find eLearning materials.
How do best-practice organizations achieve above average returns from their software and systems investments? They start with a plan that captures market and technical opportunities, and helps them to predict and manage their risk. Join IBM and learn how to streamline planning, improve decision-making, and enforce more consistent, collaboration across the organization through architectural, technological and business planning techniques that allow IT to facilitate the critical business conversations and help the organization make decisions that satisfy the financial and technical needs, while delivering supporting existing capabilities and driving new innovations into the market.
Listen to this Podcast to hear George DeCandio, IBM distinguished Engineer, share his experiences of reducing rework, errors and costs through effective requirements management.
Hear from Ryan Berg, Security Architect, IBM on how to promote secure software delivery starting in development. A defect - even a security vulnerability - caught early in the production cycle costs far less to fix than one caught later in production. How do you ensure that security standards are met as part of your quality measures? Find out.
Especially in tough economic times or where resources with requisite security skills are few, companies turn towards outsourcing for software development. Hear from Security Executive, Jack Danahy, of IBM's Rational Software Group explain why and how to hold your outsourced partners accountable to delivering secure code. Not only should outsourcers be held to a specific standard for quality but also a standard for security thresholds so that recipients of the final application can be assured that the code vulnerabilities are reduced and risk mitigated. Learn how to set expectations and communicate effectively with your outsourced partners. Learn why even though an application performs as it is intended, there could be inherent vulnerabilities buried in the code that leaves the application at risk. Learn how you can develop processes that ensure that in-house, outsourced or legacy applications can be held to the same standard of security excellence and best practices.
The newest release of Rational Asset Manager (RAM) has been refactored to the Jazz platform to improve users' collaboration and governance of software assets. In this podcast, chief architect Grant Larsen explores how organizations are using RAM to harvest, locate, and govern any software asset, including reusable services, approved open source components, and purchased commercial assets.
Whether you are just starting to adopt agile practices or expanding your adoption, Scott Ambler will discuss an approach that helps agile teams measure and iteratively improve their business processes. Find out how you can improve your process maturity by focusing on the core agile practices that matter most to you.
Mike Farland, Rational's Director of Worldwide Strategic Sales Initiatives, explores practical ways customers can leverage cloud deployment models to speed software delivery and reduce costs. Topics include: dynamics of cloud computing, cost of ownership models, security considerations, and key considerations of public and private clouds.
Hear from Security Executive, Jack Danahy, of IBM's Rational Software Group explain why application security is a critical priority for 2010 and beyond. He will highlight the drivers in the marketplace, define what application security encompasses, explain the business impact of developing an application security strategy, provide insight into how to get started on implementing an application security process, and give examples of best practices of a solid application security approach. Don't wait to learn how an application security strategy and policy can mitigate risk and thus safeguard not only your companys informational assets but also your bottom line and brand.
In this podcast, Dave Locke, IBM Rational's Worldwide Marketing Director, will discuss 10 reasons why IBM's requirements-driven quality solution is the best in the business and how these factors allow us to help our clients solve their business problems - in both the short and long term.
EGL Community Edition is a free Eclipse-based tool that simplifies the development of rich Web 2.0 style applications. Learn more from Will Smythe, Product manager, how EGL CE dramatically accelerates development of JavaScript and Java-based, rich Internet applications without needing to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML.
IBM Rational software recently announced new releases for the COBOL, PL/I, and C/C++ compilers for IBM System z. Hear from Roland Koo, Product manager for the Rational compilers, how you can further lower your total cost of ownership and gain higher return on IT investments.
Hear from Sanjay Chandru, Manager of the technology ecosystem team, about the new and enhanced Enterprise Modernization Sandbox scenarios for System z. The Sandbox can help you quickly experience and evaluate our latest solutions for modernizing and deploying core System z applications in a cloud-based test environment.
Hear from Chris Trobridge, Product manager, about the new release of IBM Rational Team Concert for System z V2.0. The latest version now fully integrates with the new release of IBM Rational Developer for System z V7.6. Find out how these innovations help bridge organizational silos, cut operational costs by consolidating disparate SCM environments, and automate software delivery across multiple platforms.
Hear from Rick Slade, Rational enterprise modernization community of practice leader, on how this new service offering enables you to evaluate and analyze existing application software to determine modernization strategies that resolve very specific and targeted business problems today with minimal risk and with clearly identified value.
Hear from IBM Rational's requirements-driven quality segment managers, Lisa Buckley and Alice Cockrum, on how their new ROI calculator can help you identify opportunities to lower cost and business risk for greater return on your investments in software through implementing requirements-driven quality solutions.
In this podcast we'll take a quick look at the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks to help you determine whether an open source or a commercial application is right for your company.
randy howie scott hebnerSmall businesses that rely on software to drive revenue may have only one chance to get it right. Success is a balancing act between driving revenue and consistently delivering the right features, on time for a fixed cost. Join Randy Howie, CEO, Black Diamond Software, and Scott Hebner, VP Marketing, Rational software to learn how Presto can provide a complete software development environment for your whole team for a fraction of the risk, time and cost needed to implement on your own.
In today's dynamic business environment, CEOs are increasingly concerned with improving their return on assets (RoA). This concern extends to their software and system delivery (SSD) organization. Their organizations need to be both innovative and efficient. The SSD executive must balance maintaining core competencies while taking advantage of globalization and labor arbitrage to reduce costs through outsourcing. Companies with the tools and infrastructure to support collaboration across the value chain and a means of creating and managing value will be best positioned to thrive in this complex environment. This podcast will discuss ways of measuring and managing value and turning the SSD from a cost center to a value center. Dr. Murray Cantor, speaker.
In the perpetual software "cycle", work starts on the "next version" of your software deliverable as soon as you deliver to customers. Cataloging of newly created assets and reusing existing assets can help speed up future iterations, while changes to the existing architecture for future releases can be done in a faster and reliable manner when the right practices and tools are used. Attend this podcast to hear some of the best practices on application maintenance that allow you to reuse what you've already built, and speed up delivery of the next version of your software solution. Carlos Ferreira and Bill Smith, speakers.
In today's dynamic business climate, many organizations have found that their ability to make intelligent portfolio decisions and drive disciplined project execution with a focus on delivering value has meant the difference between success and failure. Please join IBMs Jesper Christensen, Director of Product Delivery for IBM PPM and CCM solutions, to learn about how Rational's new Project, Portfolio and Performance Management solutions are helping organizations analyze market, economic and customer information to define investment value, drive a more collaborative and integrated project lifecycle, and providing a rich source of performance measurement information for teams and leaders to maintain alignment and continually improve their projects and processes. Come learn what many firms are now discovering; that PPM is the key differentiator that will define which companies will be able to capture changing economic conditions and be the next leaders in their industries.
The order of the day for software development teams is to deliver solutions faster, of higher quality and with fewer resources. In this podcast, our experts highlight how the Rational Automation Framework provided by the Rational Build Forge solution allows customers to automate manually intensive tasks throughout the software delivery lifecycle, dramatically improving quality, time to market and with a typical average ROI of 3 months. David Brauneis, speaker.
Software capabilities define what a business can do -- and how quickly and economically it can deliver products or services to market. According to the recent EDC Users' Choice survey, a comprehensive user satisfaction survey from 1200+ software developers, Rational with its best-in-class integrated software delivery platform is rated at the top, empowering clients to deliver for competitive advantage. Learn more in a discussion with Scott Hebner, vice president marketing, IBM Rational.
Providing more value with fewer resources... easier said than done, right? Every organization today is looking for ways to do more with less these days, and only the companies that implement the most effective methods will survive. In this podcast, we'll discuss specific secrets of delivering more valuable software to customers despite having fewer resources. We'll include secrets related to process, development, infrastructure, and information. It can be done, and we'll show you how. George Decandio, speaker.
Software testing will consume all of the time and resources it is given. But how does one streamline the quality management process, reducing risk and cost. In this podcast, Brian Bryson outlines quality management strategies for test management, test data management, functional and performance testing that streamline software delivery to gain market advantage.
In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." In this podcast, Rational Chief Architect John Wiegand, and Jazz Engineering Manager Kartik Kanakasabesan explore the most frequently asked questions about Jazz strategy, architecture and results in order to help customers chart a clear pathway to success.
The order of the day for software development teams is to build solutions faster, better and with fewer resources. Consider typical code reviews: in most instances reviews are done by humans, and as such can become subjective and error-prone, all the while being manually intensive and time consuming. What if this process could be automated and objective in nature? In this short podcast, Scott Nordstrom will introduce you to the newest release of Rational Software Analyzer and highlight how it seamlessly integrates with Rational Team Concert. The result? Continuous quality checks, automated code scans, and visibility into overall code quality, for improved enforcement of best practices.
Listen to Patrick Roach, Principle Engineer for an Aerospace and Defense Organization, talk about the importance of requirements engineering within his industry and how he's found that improving requirements practices is essential to project success.
The unprecedented global economic crisis has spurred many governments across the world to announce fiscal stimulus packages. The Global Fiscal Stimulus Package provides a one shot opportunity for IT and systems transformation to help you prepare for a different but smarter world and serve your customers and communities. Approximately $80B of stimulus spending is coming your way just in the US. The IBM Public sector team is on hand to share their expertise from the trenches. The podcast series will include case studies on project prioritization, roadmaps for enterprise planning to help you make the case to receive stimulus funding as well as practical roadmaps and approaches to execute such projects with transparency and accountability required. Speaker: Seema Sheth-Voss, Go-To-Market Program Director, Rational Marketing.
In today's challenging economic environment, businesses are faced with increased pressures to reduce overall cost and improve time to market. Having accurate insight into enterprise data, processes, and practices is a key component of success. However, many organizations today suffer from a lack of visibility, especially around the software and systems lifecycle. This podcast will discuss how IBM Rational Insight helps businesses effectively measure team performance and project results to improve business outcomes. Eric Larsen, speaker.
IBM jazz.net provides customers with a direct connection to IBM Rational development teams and a real-time window into how IBM uses its own Jazz products to build those products. In this podcast, Jazz technical and editorial leads Robin Garside and Seth Packham explore the lessons learned from this living development laboratory. They'll explain how Jazz.net is evolving, and give some practical tips on how customers can best engage to get more out of Jazz products and help create a higher-fidelity feedback loop between customers and developers.
Toyota became famous with its maxim, "No work without process, no process without metrics". But can we apply those same principals to the creative endeavor of team-based software development? Join Rational CTO and Distinguished Engineer Alan Brown as he explores the benefits and potential pitfalls of a software factory approach to team-based software and systems delivery.
Much has been written about IBM Rational Quality Manager - Datasheets, demos, whitepapers, technotes, blogs, web pages, etc... In fact, too much has been written. In fact, one could argue that IBM Rational Quality Manager suffers from information overload. In this podcast, we'll attempt to cut through the clutter and set you on a path to understanding the basics about Rational Quality Manager and how to cherry pick the information you need to become productive today in your quality management efforts. Speaker: Brian Bryson.
These days we're all required to do more with less; provide more output and meet solution needs faster than before, with a high degree of quality, while utilizing fewer resources. Whether you're a daily user of Rational Application Developer, or have yet to even download the free trial of the leading IDE in the market, there are a number of features that can ease your day-to-day life, but might not be a part of your routine. Just imagine starting a debug session that you can then park on a server, only for it to be handed off or picked up by your team mate halfway around the world! This podcast will cover this feature, and many more including code assist, code validation and built-in, automated quality checks that can help you identify and fix issues that you run into on a daily basis. Speaker: Adeel Omer.
This podcast focuses on the challenges unique to multi-core application developers, and the emerging model-based approach to address many of the key concerns, such as identifying the number of cores, increased processing bandwidth vs. power consumption, and dynamic load distribution. While most systems development verticals are relevant, examples from Telecommunication device development will be used as illustration. Speaker: Attila Bilgic.
In a podcast with eg3's Jason McDonald, Greg Sikes, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Systems Modeling for IBM Rational, discusses new product strategy from IBM Rational to help organizations create better embedded software faster and with fewer errors. Some of the new product developments discussed include Doors, Webtop, Change, Synergy, and Rational Rhapsody. All help software teams create better complex software for sophisticated embedded systems.
The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Today, Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year with new platform support, translations, document collaboration and now enterprise scalability and security.
Medical device manufacturers are faced with challenges to bring innovative products to market quickly while meeting functional, safety and regulatory requirements. Discovering a defect late in development or even worse, one that forces a product recall can be devastating to a medical device manufacturer. During this podcast, Paul Urban, Senior Medical Device Marketing Manager from IBM, discusses how using model driven development helps to accelerate the development, validation and verification of medical devices by assisting in team collaboration through graphical modeling, validating requirements through rapid prototyping, and automating the software development and test process.
Listen to Rick Slade, IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization Manager and Community of Practice Lead, as he introduces this timely new Webcast series: 'Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank'. Learn how you can leverage your existing software assets and skills to deliver new business solutions, manage change, quality and reduce the total cost for multiplatform application development and delivery.
Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational discusses with ebiz Q a topic on the top of every company's mind today: getting the most from their IT investments. This is of course the major focus of this year's IBM Rational Software Conference on June 1st.
Today, companies face complex WebSphere infrastructure management challenges. The key to delivering greater operational productivity with quality lies in automation. This podcast will answer questions about the new Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere, an optional feature that extends the Rational Build Forge solution, and is designed specifically for automating application deployments for WebSphere Application Server and Lotus/WebSphere Portal environments. By eliminating manual/complex tasks when managing WebSphere environments, this solution will help to improve productivity, cut costs, improve quality, and enforce governance without extra work.
To compete in today's economic environment and deliver superior products to your customers, software organizations have to define and manage requirements in a way that delights customers with high quality and innovation. In order to do that, companies must build the right solution -- the first time. In this podcast, Kurt Bittner, CTO for Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Inc. and author of Use Case Modeling, will talk about how to do that -- how to work with stakeholders to ensure your solution focuses on desired outcomes, rather than the customer's idea of what the solution should be, and how to document the solution as agreements are reached.
We are experiencing one of the most difficult economic climates in decades. The conversation has turned from innovation and winning in the marketplace to one of surviving and staying afloat until the crisis has passed. In this podcast, Beth Friday, VP, WW Client Support, Rational, talks about strategies for survival -- strategies that include the imperative to deliver winning solutions despite limited resources through requirements driven quality.
What's new with Rational Quality Manager v1.0.1? Listen to Brian Bryson and Bernie Coyne share the new capabilities in this release that include work item integration for defect specification and a concurrency license model between Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert. Included are the collaborative and automation advantages and benefits these new capabilities bring to dev-build and quality-test teams alike.
Now more than ever, software development teams need to realize productivity gains quicker, cut costs without sacrificing quality and become more effective with the resources that they currently have -- be they local or distributed. With the release of Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase and Rational Build Forge v7.1, IBM solidly delivers what today's companies have been demanding from an enterprise class Change and Release Management solution. A strengthened, centralized deployment model easily adopted for global teams is at the heart of this release. Jamie Thomas will answer questions using real world examples about the new features and advancements that will help software development teams realize effective distributed development through the use of remote clients, database replication, centralized monitoring and more.
Graham Stradling at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the importance of effective requirements management in delivering high quality systems to customers. With technologies converging and increased pressure on the telelcommunications industry to provide increased speed and bandwidth to customers, ensuring a reliable, fast efficient system is critical in order to maintain a competitive edge. By managing requirements across the whole lifecycle, Alcatel-Lucent are able to make sure that quality is not compromised and they can successfully meet their customers' needs.
The face of software development is changing rapidly. Today, software is often mission-critical to business success. And yet, recent studies show costs for software development are rising 10% annually, and unfortunately, about twice the rate of IT budget growth. In this podcast, hear Susan McNeice, a technology consultant at Frost and Sullivan, talk about the characteristics and benefits of solutions available today to move your development to a more productive environment.
This podcast will introduce Flash and Flex security. It will present the most prevalent security concerns in these technologies; suggest techniques on how to test for their existence and will provide recommendations and best practices for avoiding such security vulnerabilities.
In this podcast, Stefano Sergi, IBM Rational Product Line Manager for EGL and Rational Business Developer, talks about "EGL", IBM newest business language for accelerating Web and SOA development for i5/OS.
Listen to IBM Rational Quality Management evangelist and thought leader, Mike Lundblad, discuss the new Quality Management thought leadership whitepaper series and its first paper titled, "When am I done testing?" -- a new barometer for measuring the business risk of release versus the cost of continuing testing that provides an innovative framework for answering the questions: "Is it wise to continue spending money on quality assurance?", "Will further testing cost more than it is worth?", "Am I sacrificing too much value if I delay going to market now?", "Is the software even ready for release?"
In an uncertain economy, IT needs to do more with less. Given tightening budgets, and increased competition to innovate and adapt to change in a difficult marketplace, businesses need to align their business and IT goals, while at the same time reusing and repurposing existing applications and technologies to take advantage of modern architectural frameworks such as SOA. IBM can help businesses reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT investments - investments which they have either just acquired, or investments which already exist in mainframe systems across lines of business. In many cases, there is no clear knowledge of the importance of these applications to the business, and IBM can help customers understand this massive portfolio of applications through consolidation and modernization to help eliminate duplication, reduce maintenance burden and improve IT effectiveness.
Listen to Jerry Krasner, Ph.D., MBA, Vice President of Embedded Market Forecasters and its parent company, American Technology International. Jerry, a recognized authority with over 30 years of embedded industry experience, advises vendors and consumers on what software and embedded developers are using, what is working and what is not, and the associated costs of product development. During this podcast, Jerry will discuss and share his recent findings that are presented in his ROI paper, The Economics of Embedded Development, Testing, Deployment and Support. This discussion is intended to help senior management consider alternative development strategies that can be used to enhance design outcomes, meet market windows of opportunity, and minimize product recalls.
Organizations are being asked to be more responsive, efficient, and effective in supporting their business goals. Some development teams are turning to agile methods to address this challenge. However, reporting, auditing and compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley or CMMI initiatives, often require more than self-organizing teams. This podcast will provide an overview of how connecting people, best practices, processes, and tools can increase your productivity and build systems and software that better meet the needs of your customers.
Rational Team Concert is the new collaborative development environment that provides Source Control Management, Team Awareness and Governance to modern application development environments. This will be a discussion of the similar features and differences between Rational Team Concert and Rational Team Concert for i for proper positioning.
An introduction to the new collaborative software development environment, Rational Team Concert for i, that provides Source Control Management, Team Awareness, and Governance for the IBM i development environment. George Farr, Rational Product Line Manager for System i Tools will discuss how this platform, based on the new Rational Jazz technology, helps you deliver high quality software that meets ever changing market demands.
The role of the business analyst is rapidly changing in today's challenging economic environment. As it becomes more critical for organizations to increase business value while using the same or fewer resources, innovation is key for BA's to provide this value. Join Ashok Reddy, a Director of Product Delivery Organization at IBM Rational, to examine the changing role of business analyst at IBM and discuss how this pivotal role is helping to drive more effective product and project delivery and keeping teams aligned to the business outcomes. Ashok Reddy is responsible for product delivery in areas consisting of Security, Jazz Platform, Process Automation, Reporting and Process Products and to bring an outside in customer/market view to deliver products that help customers achieve their business outcomes.
Michael Suby, Director of Stratecast and an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, talks about the importance of Web Vulnerability Scanning. In this podcast, you will learn the why businesses of all sizes, small and large, should be scanning for web vulnerabilities as well as how web vulnerability scanning fits relative to other security technologies. Suby then goes on to discuss best practices in the use of web vulnerability scanning in order to help keep your company and your company's critical data safe.
Joe Lea speaks on the use of dynamic scripting language skills in WebSphere sMash to develop fast and agile applications that meet businesses' situational needs.
An introduction to the software development components of the Systems & Software Delivery Platform from IBM, featuring Rational and Telelogic. This platform helps you deliver with confidence, high quality software that meets ever changing market demands
Learn how one company used IBMs Rational Application Developer for WebSphere to succeed in their business path and deliver successful high quality application faster and with less manual coding. Funatic's William Janssen will discuss time saved, quality achieved and how Rational Application Developer for WebSphere helped differentiate Funatic from their competitors.
Hear IBM Rational Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) evangelist Larry Gerard discuss the new advancements that will help companies unify teams around the world, foster individual productivity, and enhance project visibility and governance. A strengthened, centralized deployment model easily adopted for global teams is at the heart of the new release.
Susan McNeice, a technology consultant at Frost & Sullivan, talks about the importance of Enterprise Architecture in the convergence of Business and IT. In this podcast, you will learn how the pace of change in your organization's business models and competition is accelerating. To achieve and sustain a competitive position, your organization needs to see the IT backed business environment systemically, across the enterprise, as a collection of interdependent components. McNeice discusses how this "enterprise view" of business demands an Enterprise Architecture to deliver an improved return on your IT investments.
Join Vishy Ramaswamy, IBM Rational Lead Product Architect and Senior Development Manager on the creation of Rational Requirements Composer, to learn how IBM used Requirements Composer to define the product, shipping early and often iterations, and using scenario driven approaches to deliver a business driven application that is transforming the way that applications are being created and delivered inside IBM.
IBM Rational AppScan is a leading suite of automated Web application security and compliance assessment tools that scan for common application vulnerabilities, generate actionable reports, and help manage regulatory and standards compliance in online environments. In this podcast you will hear how the IBM Rational AppScan software suite with a focus on AppScan Enterprise is used across an organization's software development lifecycle to increase visibility and control, helping address the critical challenge of application security.
This podcast by IBM Marketing Manager Bruce Baron and IBM Vice President Carl Kessler is a question and answer discussion about his book Outside in Software Development, and how it relates to key client needs and the new IBM Rational Requirements Composer.
ONE Scan, ONE analysis, ONE Decision, and only ONE company has this static analysis framework, it is IBM. Learn more about Rational Software Analyzer's extensible foundation for increasing productivity and simplifying static analysis. Come hear why you can't live without it.
A consultant from Frost & Sullvan, Bernice Lee, speaks about aging insurance systems, the customer satisfaction challenge and to gain and maintain, as well as increase customer loyalty.
A consultant from Frost & Sullivan, Bernice Lee, speaks about the challenges that banks face today in trying to maximize sales and marketing opportunities by leveraging systems and the types of solutions that have proved to be successful.
Jazz is the future of Rational, and the Jazz Foundation serves as the cornerstone technology for all Jazz products. In this discussion with the Jazz Foundation product manager, Kartik Kanakasabesan, we explore the latest thinking on the Jazz product road map, open commercial development, new approaches to support agile teams and much more.
System Performance solutions from IBM help bridge the gap between IT Operations and Development
Come learn how to access awarding winning security and compliance in an application sized for your business.
As software development continues to become increasingly distributed, the environments that we work in become more disparate and varied. Introducing Rational Team Concert, the first ever tool from Rational built from the ground up on the new Jazz technology with team collaboration and agile disciplines in mind. In this podcast we learn how Rational Team Concert can unify previously siloed development environments of varying sizes that include Subversion, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge.
This podcast features two speakers from IBM Rational: Derek Baron, IBM Rational Offering Manager, and Jim Conallen, a software engineer in the IBM Rational CTO team. They will explore the challenges of delivering converged applications and the solutions offered IBM Rational software.
Customers today are facing a number of challenges in Enterprise IT - increasing complexity, ad hoc architectures across the organization and difficulty leveraging existing assets. In addition, there is immense pressure to focus on short term business results and managing costs which has led IT to build/buy/deploy without enterprise level engineering and planning , leading to islands of automation and complexity. See how IBM solutions can help you manage your architecture across many different disciplines and geographies with this presentation on managing solution architectures
The IBM Rational Quality Management portfolio released updates to two core products on April 28th, 2008: IBM Rational Performance Tester v7.0.2 and IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality v7.0.2. In this podcast, IBM Rational technology evangelist Brian Bryson will discuss the new features and advancements that will help testers in their performance testing and SOA/Web Services testing efforts.
Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition is a static analysis solution that enables developer level static analysis code reviews and bug identification very early in the development cycle. In this podcast we'll learn about one of the newest offerings from IBM Rational from Mike O'Rourke, the Vice President of Rational Product Development.
Traditional process adoption often becomes an unfocused -boil the water effort-. We will discuss a set of tools that help you determine how well you are doing today and incrementally approve a practice at the time - called assessment-driven adoption.
Steve Weaver, Rational Architecture Management Marketing Engineer, discusses how the combination of Rational Asset Manager and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository can help organizations govern the service lifecycle, from business requirements through design, development and testing to deployment. Rational Asset Manager is used to govern service assets at development time, while WebSphere Service Registry handles the run time management of the services. Together, they form a powerful solution for managing service assets across the lifecycle.
Miss the action? This 3 minute clip of Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and IBM Rational co-founder and Theresa Quatrani, IBM Rational Evangelist. summarizes the celebration on CODESTATION in Second Life of the evolution of Rational. It's the 5th Anniversary of Rational Software joining the IBM team.
Dave Myers, Rational Enterprise Tools Product Line Manger, will be talking about Enterprise Modernization and how Rational Developer for System z (RDz) and Rational Business Developer (RBD) can assist. The session will address what Enterprise Modernization entails, how RDz helps move applications toward a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for CICS, IMS, and other System z workload, and provide an introduction to EGL -- IBMs newest business langauge -- and how RBD makes creating Web, Web 2.0, and Web user interface to CICS/IMS applications easy. Key features and future direction of the products will also be discussed.
George Farr from Rational is the Product Line Manager for System i Tools. He will be discussing IBM Rational solutions for i5/OS application development.
Raj Daswani, Product Line Manager for Rational Transformation Workbench, joins us to talk about what the Rational Transformation Workbench (RTW) provides developers and how it helps to accelerate asset reuse. He will also discuss how customers are already using the tool to enhance their development process.
John Douglas, Host Integration Product Line Manager, discusses HATS, what it is, and how it can help you modernize your enterprise. This short session will address both the products green-screen transformation capability and its ability to generate Web Services from mainframe applications. We'll also discuss key features and functions of the latest release, how customers use the product enhancements, and the future of HATS.