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#80 Free Web 2.0 tool from IBM Rational software
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.
#79 IBM Rational for System z — New compiler updates for 2009
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.
#78 Introduction to Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z
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.
#77 Introduction to Rational Team Concert for System z V2.0
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.
#76 Introduction to the new Rational Application Heath Assessment Services offering
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.
#75 Generating real ROI with IBM Rational’s requirements-driven quality solution
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.
#74 Open Source or Commercial?
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.
#73 Presto, New IBM software development appliances from Black Diamond Software
Small 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.
#72 Creating and managing value across the software and system delivery organization
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.
#71 The Software is out the Door: Strategies for managing released products and how to improve them
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.
#70 Executive Perspective: Optimizing and executing your investment portfolio with PPM
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.
#69 Streamline Software Delivery to Gain Market Advantage: Episode 5 - Pack it, Ship it: Consistent and automated software assembly processes
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.
#68 IBM maintains leadership in application development market share and customer satisfaction
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.
#67 Top ten software delivery secrets: Do more with less
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.
#66 Streamline Software Delivery to Gain Market Advantage: Episode 4: Reduce risk and cost by improving software quality, function and performance
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.
#65 Rise of Cloud Creates New Requirements for Application Security
In this BizTech Reports podcast, David Grant discusses the new and elevated role application security must play to protect vital corporate interests in as efficient a manner possible. According to IBM’s X-Force most recent research from the end of 2008, over 50% of all vulnerabilities disclosed last year were related to the application layer.
#64 What's happening with Jazz? A conversation with Rational Chief Architect John Wiegand and Engineering Manager Kartik Kanakasabesan on Jazz strategy and results
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.
#63 Streamline Software Delivery to Gain Market Advantage: Episode 3 - Developing your Software: How to develop better software, faster, with less effort
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.
#62 Smarter Products for a Smarter Planet
Eaton is helping UPS reduce fuel consumption. Daimler FleetBoard is optimizing fleet management. Merge Healthcare is delivering new solutions to medical professionals. Delphi is collaborating across 35 countries to design innovative auto components. What do these companies have in common? They all use IBM Rational software in the design and delivery of their products and systems. Please join IBM to discuss how we can help you deliver smarter products that are more interconnected, instrumented, and intelligent. With the IBM Rational Platform for Systems and Software you can improve both your software engineering and your systems engineering, and can more effectively connect your products to the Internet, back-end IT systems, and each other. A smarter planet needs smarter products. Join us to learn how to leverage IBM’s software, hardware and services to achieve competitive advantage.
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#61 Requirements engineering best practices in Aerospace and Defense
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.
#60 A software factory approach to software delivery
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.
#59 The key to success: Accurate insight into data, processes, practices and performance
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.
#58 Developing software in a fishbowl: A conversation with Jazz.net technical leads
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.
#57 Leverage the Global Economic Stimulus to transform citizen experiences
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.
#56 DOORS and RequisitePro Evolution to Jazz
We recently returned from the Rational Software Conference, where we made some important announcements regarding our requirements product portfolio and introduced our strategy for the evolution of DOORS and RequisitePro onto the Jazz platform. Please join Dwayne Dreakford, Product Manager for IBM Rational Requirements Composer and RequisitePro, and Richard Watson, Product Manager for IBM Rational DOORS, as they reflect back on the conference and speak to the evolution of these offerings.
#55 Quickstart Series — Rational Quality Manager in 4 Steps
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.
#54 A quick tour of productivity-enhancing capabilities in Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software
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.
#53 Using Model-Driven Development approach for multi-core platforms
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.
#52 Web application security: solutions for securing the smarter planet
IBM ISS' Dan Holden and IBM Rational's Paul Kaspian discuss current analysis from the latest X-Force threat report and highlight strategies to help businesses not only protect against web application security threats, but lower costs and manage the risk of conducting business online.
#51 IBM Rational Software - New Directions for Embedded Software Development
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.
#50 IBM Rational Team Concert Turns Two!
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.
#49 Stay Ahead of the Hackers: Strategies to Protect your Web Applications – and Your Organization
John Pescatore from leading analyst firm Gartner and IBM Rational’s Michael Weider will address the leading web application security challenges that organizations face and, more importantly, how to overcome them.
#48 Staying competitive and showing ROI in a changing web application security landscape
Businesses are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty but while budgets may be tightening, security threats still exist. Fortunately, technology to help you save time and money while combating internal and external threats continues to innovate. Learn how IBM web application security solutions can help organizations be more competitive by reducing costs, managing risk and improving service. Speaker: Michael Weider
#47 Building Better Medical Devices with MDD
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.
#46 Making Every IT Dollar Result in a Desired Business Outcome: Scott Hebner of IBM Rational Explains
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.
#45 IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
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.
#44 'Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank' — Introduction to the Webcast Series
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.
#43 A look ahead: the future of Agile Development
The software delivery organization of the future will be more global, collaborative and responsive to change than ever before. How are agile teams both leading and responding to this transformation? Today, Walker Royce, Vice President, IBM Rational Software Services, discusses the future of agile development. The discussion will include: cultural and economic trends impacting agile teams; the critical link between team agility and software economics, and patterns of success in achieving agility at scale.
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#42 Building the right solution -- Kurt Bittner, CTO for Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Inc., on building the right solution — the first time
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.
#41 When the going gets rough, succeed with Requirements-Driven Quality
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.
#40 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.
#39 Real Stories, Real Results: Realizing Distributed Development through a Centralized Deployment Model
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 & Release Management (C&RM) 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.
#38 Alcatel-Lucent's Requirements Engineering Success
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.
#37 Software Development Collaboration and Innovation — Getting More for Less
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 & Sullivan, talk about the characteristics and benefits of solutions available today to move your development to a more productive environment.
#36 Flash & Flex Security
This podcast will introduce Flash & 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.
#35 Managing Software Quality as a Strategic Business Asset
Listen to IBM Rational Quality Management evangelist and through leader, Mike Lundblad, discuss the new Quality Management through 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?”
#34 SOA in a down economy: Delivering improved return on IT investments through Enterprise Architecture and Legacy Modernization
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.
#33 Finding Value In Your Embedded Development Tools
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.
#32 Connecting People, Process and Tools
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 your customers’ needs.
#31 Differentiating between Rational Team Concert and Rational Team Concert for i
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.
#30 Introduction to Rational Team Concert for i (RTCi)
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.
#29 The Future of the Business Analyst
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.
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