Rational Software Conference 2009
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Rational Software Conference 2009
It’s all about business outcomes
Hearing technical experts discuss real life situations can provide valuable insight to your own work projects and environment. But, your learning experience shouldn’t end there. Continue to increase your knowledge and view many more valuable materials sorted by track. You can also take this opportunity to share the best assets with your manager and teammates.
Take advantage of these valuable resources from IBM experts, specifically for our valued IBM Rational customers to help you continue your learning and move forward on your business outcomes.
Application security and compliance
This track focused on the fundamentals of application security – common attack types, how to defend against these attacks, secure coding practices, identifying vulnerabilities through a combination of manual and automated approaches, what to do when vulnerabilities have been identified, and best practices for integrating security testing into application development. It also delved into emerging threats in Web 2.0 environments, SOA security and the inherent risks of Web-enabling legacy applications. Check out some of the related resources below to learn more.
IBM Web Application Security e-Kit
Download this complimentary e-Kit now and find white papers, demos, podcasts and additional information on the benefits of testing your Web applications.
Developing secure Web applications: An introduction to IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition
This article focuses on the role developers should play in improving Web application security, and details how IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition enables them to do so. Rational AppScan Developer Edition is the first to offer all of the dominant security analysis technologies in one product (dynamic analysis, static analysis, runtime analysis, and string analysis), and is the first to tap into the potential of using these techniques together (composite analysis).
IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition trial download
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition, a leading Web application security testing tool that automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for all common Web application vulnerabilities including SQL-injection, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflow.
IBM Rational AppScan Developer Edition demo
This demo walks you through the creation of a full scan using IBM® Rational® AppScan®, including dynamic analysis, static analysis, and execution flow. Scan results are presented in a view where static analysis results are correlated to dynamic analysis results.
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Change and release management
This track was for practitioners, administrators, and advanced users who wanted to learn how IBM Rational change and release management solutions – IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Build Forge and IBM Rational Software Analyzer – can empower organizations to improve productivity and team collaboration, gain better visibility into projects, automate processes, improve quality, manage distributed teams, and provide audit trails and traceability across the software development lifecycle for fast delivery of high-quality software.
Determine your return on investment (ROI) on various IBM Rational solutions in 2 minutes
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Rational Software Analyzer ROI calculator
Rational Team Concert ROI Calculator
IBM Rational Build Forge demo series
Learn how Rational Build Forge can help development teams standardize and automate repetitive tasks, uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects and manage compliance mandates.
Rational software process automation - Real value delivered. Real customer stories.
Come hear first-hand how Rational Build Forge and related products are delivering real customer value to a variety of customers - in a variety of situations.
Seemlessly connect your teams, large and small
Check out this webcast from the Global Rational User Group and learn how IBM Rational Team Concert can help your team work together to build software ranging from simple to complex.
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Enterprise architecture management
This track focused on the management aspects of enterprise architecture the balances of two areas of concern: Building enterprise architecture and using it. By addressing both of these issues, participants in this track learned how to make enterprise architecture more actionable – integrating strategy and solution delivery – thereby improving time-to-value for affecting transformation and overall business results.
Rational System Architect evaluation
Download a complimentary 15-day evaluation license of Telelogic System Architect.
Actionable Enterprise Architecture Management
This white paper provides an overview of the enterprise architecture concept and highlights how an actionable enterprise architecture approach from IBM can help organizations manage complexity and align IT projects and solutions with business objectives.
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Turn your IT plan into a competitive advantage in an uncertain market: Harnessing the power of enterprise architecture
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Rational System Architect demo
Watch this demo to gain additional insight into how Rational System Architect can help you visualize, analyze, and communicate your organization's enterprise architecture and business processes.
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Enterprise modernization
This track showcased IBM Rational’s enterprise modernization solutions that enable organizations to cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems toward modern architectures and technologies—reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more of their resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities.
'i' can do it e-Kit
Your business is facing unprecedented pressure to deliver more capabilities, with fewer resources and less money than ever before. Register for this webcast and discover how IBM® Rational® software can help you cut your maintenance cost and transform your business with assets you already have.
The business value of enterprise modernization with IBM i on Power hardware
This white paper outlines IBM’s enterprise modernization “philosophy” for Power and IBM i. Though it mentions some specific IBM offerings, it is not an in-depth, technical perspective. The goal is to address enterprise modernization from a business perspective, that is, why should you modernize and why should you use your IBM i Power platform as part of that modernization effort. This paper discusses the platform itself, then moves to software, both tooling and your application code, and discusses developers and their skills.
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Did you say mainframe? e-Kit
Extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM® Rational® Software Delivery Platform (SDP). Register for this e-Kit to take advantage of a collection of resources designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise.
The business value of enterprise modernization
Smarter application modernization saves time, money and maybe your job
In this on-demand webcast, you’ll learn how to improve the value and performance of your investments in software as strategic business assets by leveraging portfolio value; building flexible architectures to quickly respond to change; achieving greater business agility and productivity by leveraging existing and new skills; and improving operational efficiency through consolidation, collaboration, and governance.
IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes
These sandboxes let you experience and evaluate the IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for the System z™ and IBM i platforms through hands-on participation, guided walk-thru and usage of live, running System z and IBM i development scenarios and solutions.
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Modeling architecture and construction
Sessions in this track explored the benefits of a well-architected system, presented the tips and techniques of organizations that have made software architecture an important part of their software delivery process, and showed how both visual and code-centric development can help organizations adopt the right paradigm for their particular development needs. This track was designed for architects and developers interested in best practices and the latest innovations in methodology and tools for supporting architectural design, discovery, and control, and software construction and assembly.
IBM Software Architect e-Kit
This complimentary e-Kit for IT architects provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools that promote communication to unify all aspects of design and development.
Rational Asset Manager e-Kit
Explore the benefits of IBM Rational Asset Manager with this IBM e-Kit and learn how to do more with your reusable assets. Discover how to track and audit your assets to utilize them for reuse, especially within a service-oriented architecture.
Trial: Rational Software Architect for WebSphere V7.5
Download a free trial of Download Rational Software Architect for WebSphere V7.5, an advanced and comprehensive application design, modeling and development tool for end-to-end software delivery.
Better collaborative strategies using asset lifecycle management
Software development is a team sport, and we must have clear game rules to collaborate effectively across all of our development assets, including UML models, code and project plans. Efficient collaboration is a critical aspect of the products you use to support your delivery activities with assets. This webcast will discuss collaboration techniques in developing, delivering and using assets.
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Process, project and portfolio management
This track explored topics across several domains that support organizational change and iterative software and systems delivery. Find resources below designed for executives, IT leaders, program managers, project managers, portfolio managers, process engineers, business analysts, and other stakeholders concerned with optimizing IT investments with industry best practices and team unifying tools for more predictability, adaptability, and visibility.
Are you making the best decisions for your organization? Make better decisions by overcoming information blind spots
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IBM Rational project and portfolio management certification training e-Kit
As a member of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI's) corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 PMI-certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Register for this e-Kit to learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with six free courses based on IBM's best-practices processes and tools.
Tough times, Tough choices: The keys to a value-driven portfolio
In control: Measuring and managing software economics
In this video, Walker Royce discusses the critical market trends and cultural shifts that are redefining software economics, and how they are driving greater emphasis on software delivery as the key to value.
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Quality management
Attendees of this track gained in-depth guidance from experienced IBM experts and customers on topics ranging from deep code analysis to system test automation and management, all enabled by the tools and capabilities in the IBM Rational quality management portfolio. Check out the resources below to learn how to work with existing resources and how to overcome schedule constraints in order to increase productivity and value to the organization while enhancing project success.
Achieve predictability in desired business outcomes through requirements-driven quality
Top 10 reasons HP software test customers are turning to IBM for quality management
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Enterprise Management Associates impact brief: IBM Rational introduces new quality and requirements management offerings which extend the value of the Jazz Platform
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What’s new with Rational Quality Manager V1.0.1
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Gain market advantage through delivering enduring software quality
A message from Steve Robinson, Vice President of world wide sales for IBM Rational.
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IBM Rational quality management thought leadership white paper series
This quality management thought leadership series explores enduring software quality delivery and its challenges and opportunities in today’s marketplace. Read on to learn more about the ways in which Rational is working to help you achieve greater value and performance at less cost from your investments in software.
IBM Rational Quality Manager ROI Calculator
The Rational Quality Management ROI calculator is intended to give you an idea of what return you can garner from implementing our functional testing solutions. Our quality management solutions offer tools that help you develop a continuous process, powered by automation to govern software delivery.
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Requirements definition and management
This track explored the experiences of organizations with tools, techniques, and processes used to effectively define and manage requirements and analyze systems. Find resources below for analysts, architects, developers, project managers and others interested in methodology and tools for defining, managing, and analyzing requirements.
IBM software delivery best practices e-Kit: Do more with less
This e-Kit contains white papers, videos, webcasts, and customer success stories. They demonstrate how IBM solutions can help you achieve your business goals both short- and long-term, while reducing costs and risks through increased productivity and faster time to market.
Requirements-driven quality solution brief
A quick overview from IBM Rational that describes how you can achieve predictability in desired business outcomes through requirements-driven quality.
Focus on desired outcomes to build the right solution
Agile Requirements: Collaborative, contextual and correct with Scott Ambler
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When the going gets rough, succeed with requirements-driven quality
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.
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