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Innovate 2012 podcasts

Innovate 2012 Join us at Innovate 2012 to discover what's next in technology and trends from today's industry leaders. But, there is no next without a winning now. Innovate 2012 will show you how to harness the power of software-driven innovation to deliver smarter products and improve business outcomes. IBM Rational will share the stage with customers, business partners and your peers to show you how you can make the most of your investments now by managing complexity, lowering risk, and driving down costs.

Innovate 2012: Next - Now! An IBM Innovate conference update

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.


Innovate 2012: Leveraging Cloud Computing to transform software delivery

Learn how the Cloud Development and Deployment track at Innovate 2012 can help transform your software delivery process.
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.


Innovate 2012: Quality Management - What's NOW and What's NEXT in Testing!

IBM advises how to assure successful use virtualization in testing activities.
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.


Innovate 2012 for System z Customers

Hear Alisa Morse and Pam Induni share highlights for our System z customers about the Innovate 2012 conference.
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.


Innovate 2012: Transform your IT processes with Collaborative Development and Operations

Learn how the Collaborative Development and Operations track at Innovate 2012 can help you take collaboration across teams to the next level.
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.


Innovate 2012: Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management

Managing the impact of business-driven change
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 Hedström, speaker.


Innovate 2012: Best practices and tools for next generation software

Discover why Innovate 2012 is critical to your success as a developer, with insights, training and much more.
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.


Innovate 2012: Smarter Computing with IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power

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.


Innovate 2012: Systems and Software Engineering

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.


Innovate 2012: 5 Ways to "Get Agile" at Innovate!

Adopt Agile practices and scale them as you grow
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.


Innovate 2012: Getting from design to done faster--best practices and the latest Lifecycle Solutions!

Keep your competitive edge! Be more innovative, faster and better.
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.


Innovate 2012: Accelerating Mobile Application Development

Reduce time-to-market and cost of application development and deployment
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.


#197 Addressing the needs of the Renewable Energy Generation industry

By meeting safety, security, and collaborative workflow and design compliance goals, utilities achieve their business goals.
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.


#196 Collaborative Lifecycle Management on Cloud

Collaborate and Synchronize across globally distributed teams
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.


#195 Overcoming the challenge of power transmission and distribution with Rational software

By meeting safety, collaborative workflow and design compliance goals, utilities achieve their business goals
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 Rational's integrated solution, utilities can realistically transform their processes and technologies with little disruption, and minimized risk. Irv Badr, speaker.


#194 Moving the Software Development Lifecycle to the Cloud

Provide Application Lifecycle Management Capabilities as a Service on the Cloud
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.


#193 Scan and protect: Adopting an integrated approach to web application threats

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.


#192 Transform now! Modernize and optimize your core financial services systems

Develop the agility required to plan and execute portfolio and business strategies to reduce complexity and operating costs
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.


#191 Security Intelligence at the Endpoint

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.


#190 Accelerating SAP Deployments with IBM Rational

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.


#189 Reduce Errors with Continuous Delivery

Deploy Complex applications to the Cloud with IBM Rational and IBM Tivoli software
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.


#188 Application Onboarding for Expert Integrated Systems

Migrate applications to integrated optimized systems seamlessly
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.


#187 Expert Integrated Systems: defining a new category, and Rational is ready!

IBM's next generation platform
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.


#186 Accelerate System z software delivery with IBM's Integrated Solution for System z Development

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.


#185 Realizing more value from your IMS compiler upgrade

Upgrade to the latest compilers when you upgrade to the latest IMS
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.


#184 Realizing more value from your DB2 compiler upgrade

Upgrade to COBOL V4 when you upgrade to DB2 V9/V10
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 upgrading to DB2 V9/V10. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive with DB2 applications.


#183 Realizing more value from your CICS COBOL upgrade

Upgrade to COBOL V4 when you upgrade to CICS V4
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.


#182 Preview: Boosting Software Quality and Development Agility

Speed cycle time with integration testing and application virtualization
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.


#181 Social Business for software development teams

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.


#180 OVUM and IBM on System Engineering

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 of IBM Rational Marketing.


#179 IBM's point of view: How Google Tests Software

The future of testing
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.


#178 Government by Design: A strategic planning approach for government

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.


#177 Reduce vulnerabilities in your SAP business applications

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.


#176 Enterprise Management and its significance in transformation of the utilities industry

Irv Badr Managing the enterprise is vital towards transforming the utilities industry
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.


#175 Object Management Group's TelcoML - example of a mobile communications API

Irv Badr New standard leading to best practices for the Communications Industry
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.


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#174 Applying IBM's best practices to deliver the TM Forum's Frameworx compliant systems

Scott Niemann Delivering effective TM Forum Frameworx compliant solutions
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. Increase collaboration through actionable enterprise architecture through IBM Rational solutions. Scott Niemann, speaker.


#173 A New Era in Change Management

Steve Speicher 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.


#172 Deploying communication services with and without the cloud

Scott Niemann Effective cloud based service deployment
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.


#171 Sandboxes are not just for kids!

Susan Yoskin Playing in a sandbox has never been more rewarding
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.


#170 The keys to extended team involvement in software and systems design

Adeel Omer Neil Patterson Building consensus around design
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.


#169 10 Things I hate about ALM – Part 3

Eric Long Ease the pain and make sense out of complex software delivery with integrated requirements, quality and test
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.


#168 Five Application Lifecycle Management Imperatives for Successful Global Software Development

Andy Detandt Carolyn Pampino If you have ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans, this podcast is for you.
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.


#167 What's New in Solutions for building smarter products and systems?

Andrew Foster Sue Green New systems engineering and embedded software solutions for Electronics, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense Industries
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.


#166 Hear what's new in Rational Developer for Power and the COBOL for AIX compiler

William Smith Roland Koo IBM Rational introduces new functionality
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.


#165 Increasing Systems Engineering agility with Jazz collaboration and change management

Sue Green New systems engineering and embedded software solutions for electronics, automotive, aerospace and defense industries
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.


#164 Agile. Everywhere. Insure your Agile success.

Kim Werner Liz Parnell Agile in Healthcare? Yes we can!
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.


#163 Is time to market the real king?

Allan Wagner Yield strategic benefits beyond productivity gains.
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.


#162 How Security Is Well Suited for Agile Development

Patrick Vandenberg 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.



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#132 Product and Service Innovation

Domonic TavassoliPierre Coyne Delivering 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.


#133 Insight and Product Innovation

Steve Shoaf Nicole Katrana Design, deliver and manage smarter products
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 insight and product (IPI). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.


#154 Business Planning and Transformation

David Spade Steve Shoaf Nicole Katrana Product management and global optimization of process and organization
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.


#149 Products and Systems Development

Steve Shoaf Nicole Katrana Designing, delivering and managing product value and differentiation
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 insight and product (IPI). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.


#152 Product Support

Pierre Coyne Nicole Katrana Aligning product lifecycle and support functions for continual improvement
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 Insight and Product Innovation solutions and integrations can help! Pierre Coyne and Nicole Katrana, speakers.


#138 10 Things I hate about ALM – Part 1

Eric Long Ease the pain and make sense out of complex software delivery
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.


#151 Lifecycle Collaboration

Christophe Begue Nicole Katrana Process and Insight and Product Innovation
Creating a pipeline of innovative products and services—the "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 processes—at the design phase, the operations phase and the services phase. Christophe Begue and Nicole Katrana, speakers.


#139 10 Things I hate about ALM – Part 2

Eric Long Ease the pain and make sense out of complex software delivery with integrated requirements, quality and test
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.


#169 10 Things I hate about ALM – Part 3

Eric Long Ease the pain and make sense out of complex software delivery with integrated requirements, quality and test
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.