Webcast
Bridging the IT silos: An evolutionary approach to application development and delivery
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Developed for: IT executives, IT managers, development managers, application architects and application developers, systems programmers, and IT operations and IT operations managers
Technical level: Intermediate
Application maintenance and development costs are eating up many IT budgets, and yet there’s little clear mapping of expense to business value. These escalating costs include the cost of labor, and yet to stay competitive, businesses must continue to recruit and retain the talented staff required to bridge the gap between the legacy world and the newer worlds of Web services, Java™ and .Net. This is driving a hard look at the way IT teams are deployed – businesses can no longer afford siloed IT teams spread across the enterprise using incompatible development processes, technologies and infrastructure.
Join IBM for this complimentary webcast to learn how companies are reducing their mainframe transaction costs, and driving down the cost of new mainframe application workloads – using new and enhanced IBM solutions. We’ll discuss the new System z® Solution Editions that are designed for specific business needs, from data warehousing to security and application development. Each solution is an integrated package that delivers the latest technology at costs that fit your budget.
We’ll also discuss Rational® Developer for System z, Rational Team Concert for System z and IBM compiler enhancements. These can help improve your current maintenance efficiency and extend the life of core IT systems. Finally, this webcast will cover IBM WebSphere® Business Process Management, which helps organizations optimize business performance by
discovering, documenting, automating, and continuously improving business processes. Our Problem Determination Tools complete the picture by helping you modernize existing System z applications and transform a System z environment into a service-oriented architecture infrastructure.
In this session, you’ll learn how all these products work together, and enable you to:
- Cost-effectively maintain and extend the value of your applications through reuse, while improving agility and lowering cost and risk
- Improve productivity of existing and new IT staff by leveraging common tooling across multiple platforms and languages
- Increase efficiency, collaboration and governance across the enterprise application life cycle by unifying disparate IT infrastructure across teams
Speakers: Karl Freund, Vice President, System z Strategy and Marketing, Jim Porell, Distinguished Engineer, System z Business Development and Charles Chu, Director, Enterprise Modernization and Compilers
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. This webcast will also be available for replay after the event.