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Join the best minds in IBM Rational as product experts and market thought leaders provide insight into the latest trends and products through these web events.

#28 Web Vulnerability Scanning

Michael SubyMichael 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.


#27 Build smart and agile applications fast with WebSphere sMash

Joe LeaJoe Lea and focuses on the use of dynamic scripting language skills in WebSphere sMash to develop fast and agile applications that meet businesses' situational needs.


#26 How Rational Application Developer helped us improve software development – one customer's story

Learn how one company used IBM 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.


#25 Software Development Platform for Systems – Deliver high quality software that meets your market demands

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.


#24 What's new in Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest v7.1?

Lawrence GerardHear 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.


#23 Enterprise Architecture: Deliver improved return on IT investments through alignment with business priorities

Susan McNeiceSusan 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.


#22 Early, Often and Aligned: Requirements Definition for Business-Driven solutions, an IBM case-study.

Vishy RamaswamyJoin 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.


#21 The critical challenge of application security

David GrantIBM 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.


#20 ONE Scan, ONE analysis, ONE Decision, and only ONE company has this static analysis framework

Scott NordstromWe're the ONE! 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.


#19 Insurance Legacy Systems: Customer Satisfaction Challenge

Bernice LeeA consultant from Frost & Sullivan, Bernice Lee, speaks about aging insurance systems, the customer satisfaction challenge and to gain and maintain, as well as increase customer loyalty.


#18 Maximizing Sales and Marketing Opportunities by Leveraging Systems

Bernice LeeA 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.


#17 All That Jazz – Exploring the Jazz Foundation for collaborative software delivery with Kartik Kanakasabesan.

Kartik KanakasabesanIBM Rational software podcast series 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 roadmap, open commercial development, new approaches to support agile teams and much more.


#16 Outside-in software development and Rational Requirements Composer

Carl KesslerThis podcast by IBM Marketing Manager Bruce Baron and IBM Vice President Carl Kessler is a question and answer discussion about Carl’s book Outside-in Software Development, and how it relates to key client needs and the new IBM Rational Requirements Composer.


#15 System Performance solutions from IBM help bridge the gap between IT Operations and Development

William ChandlerHear from William (Bill) Chandler on how integrations between IBM Brand products offer rapid error detection and correction with a solid ROI. One such link is between Rational Performance Tester (RPT) and Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) and provides rapid problem detection and correction by linking the operations and application development teams


#14 Effectively Addressing Web Application Security with Limited Resources

Come learn how to access awarding winning security and compliance in an application sized for your business.


#13 Managing Change and Delivery

Paul BoustanyAs 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 today's podcast we will learn how Rational Team Concert can unify previously siloed development environments of varying sizes that include Subversion, Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge.


#12 Delivering next generation converged applications with speed and quality

Derek Baron James ConallenThis 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.


#11 Managing Solution Architecturesy

James ConallenCustomers 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.


#10 Quality Management for Packaged Applications: Deploy your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications with Confidence

Brian BrysonThe 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.


#9 Introducing Rational Software Analyzer

Mike O'RourkeRational 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 today's podcast we'll learn about one of the newest offerings from IBM Rational from Mike O'Rourke, the Vice President of Rational Product Development.


#8 Incremental Adoption through Practices

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.


#7 SOA Governance with RAM and WSRR

Steve WeaverSteve 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.


#6 Rational Five Year Acquisition Anniversary with IBM

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.


#5 Next Generation Mainframe Applications with Rational Developer for System z and Rational Business Developer

Dave MyersDave 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.


#4 Accelerating asset reuse with Rational Transformation Workbench

Raj DaswaniRaj 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.


#3 Build Modern Interfaces and Services with Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS)

John DouglasJohn 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.


#2 Building next generation i5/OS applications

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.


#1 Building next generation business applications for System i

George FarrGeorge Farr from Rational is the Product Line Manager for System i Tools. He will be discussing IBM Rational solutions for i5/OS application development.