Streams and Tracks
The Innovate 2012 agenda will feature approximately 400 technical sessions in 27 tracks. You do not have to register separately for these sessions as they are included in your registration fee. Content streams group similar tracks together to help you better organize your schedule and enable you to focus on the content that is important to you.
Application lifecycle management
This stream will showcase a broad variety of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) disciplines and solutions that are advancing the state-of-the-art of software delivery. ALM manages the flow of people, process and information across the software lifecycle. IBM tools, best practices and services are designed to help customers leverage a collaborative, whole-team approach to Application Lifecycle Management. ALM can help reduce communication inefficiencies, improve team agility and enhance overall quality.
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Design, development, test and deployment
This stream will explore a broad variety of technologies and solutions enabling collaborative design, implementation, and testing of software, applications, products, and systems. A collaborative approach to design, development and deployment helps you improve your responsiveness to business needs by leveraging an open, modular, integrated environment; improve quality by standardizing on a common set of tools, components, and best practices for all platforms; achieve faster return on investment (ROI) through flexible reuse and optimization of core assets; and optimize productivity through automation.
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Embedded systems and software
Today’s products and systems are smarter than ever, due primarily to intelligence enabled by software. However, complexity is increasing exponentially as engineers can no longer operate in silos, but must collaborate from the earliest stages of product development while shrinking time to market, increasing product quality, and addressing the needs and desires of demanding consumers. Successful products and systems result from precise requirements that are traced throughout the development process, from insights revealed by architecture and behavior modeling, from collaboration among multiple teams and engineering disciplines, and from quality metrics tracked and enforced throughout development. This stream will illustrate best practices for requirements management, architecture design and modeling, and inter-discipline collaboration as applied to systems engineering and embedded software development.
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Portfolio management and enterprise architecture
To make the right decisions, and analyze, plan and execute change faster, you must have the right information. Critical to success is effectively connecting strategic goals and objectives to key initiatives that are translated into prioritized projects. IBM Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture solutions provide key capabilities for managing the impact of business-driven change. This stream will showcase best practices and success stories on gaining better enterprise insight and understanding, targeted budget allocation, portfolio prioritization, risk and impact analyses, and ongoing control and monitoring of execution and alignment – all designed to improve business execution. The net result: a realistic, concrete and repeatable way to connect strategy to execution and business to delivery – thereby driving tangible business results.
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The Rational network
This stream unites a community of designers, partners, researchers and customers to share customer’s journeys, discuss the next generation of Rational software and other commercial products and help us imagine the possibilities that may come in the future. The English poet John Donne said “No man is an island, entire of itself”. The same is true for Rational. This stream unites a community of designers, partners, researchers and customers to share customer’s journeys, discuss the next generation of Rational software and other commercial products and help us image the possibilities that may come in the future.
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Security
This stream will explore how organizations can address a wide variety of application security challenges, which continues to be one of the greatest areas of risk. Application vulnerabilities can create exposure for critical data and in this stream we will help attendees understand today’s emerging threats with a focus on the best practices and approaches for integrating security testing into the development lifecycle.
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Smarter computing with enterprise modernization
Are you struggling to drive innovation and deliver more services on a flat or reduced IT budget? Are the costs of maintaining your existing applications preventing you from meeting new requirements? As a cornerstone of Smarter Computing, the IBM enterprise modernization approach is one of continuous improvement that enables you to revitalize applications, leverage existing and new skills, unify teams and optimize your infrastructure—all with the goal of helping you make breakthroughs in IT productivity, efficiency and innovation. This stream will showcase the latest tools from IBM as well as success stories and best practices from our customers and partners covering application discovery, analysis, portfolio management, multi-platform development and test, compilers, deployment, and lifecycle management leveraging System z, Power Systems and distributed environments.
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