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Gartner MarketScope for Application Lifecycle Management

Last updated: 17 Feb 2011

Organizations adopting agile practices, utilizing globally distributed teams, or exploiting complex processes are the most likely to benefit from ALM tools. This Gartner MarketScope analyst research paper assesses the market offerings and their providers.

The Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Last updated: 08 Sep 2010

Author, industry analyst and Agile luminary Liz Barnett evaluates the Rational Jazz strategy in this objective 27-page report.

Butler Group technical audit: Rational software delivery platform

Last updated: 01 Mar 2010

This incisive comprehensive review covers Rational ALM products, product strategy, deployment recommendations and more.

Announcement letter

Last updated: 15 April 2011

Announcement letter

Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM XL C, XL C/C++ V9.0 and XL Fortran V11.1 programs - Replacements available

Last updated: 12 April 2011

Withdrawal announcement for IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux, V9.0.

Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM XL C, XL C/C++ V9.0 and XL Fortran V11.1 programs - Replacements available

Last updated: 12 April 2011

Withdrawal announcement for IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V9.0.

Work Item Management with IBM ClearQuest and the Jazz Platform: A Customization Guide

Last updated: 12 May 2011

The authors tightly link theory with proven best practices, offering implementation guidance, detailed examples, and complete schemas. They present innovative solutions, introduce advanced customization techniques, and walk step-by-step through every phase of workflow development, from requirements through maintenance.

A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

Last updated: 29 June 2010

This is the first comprehensive, practical guide for Scrum practitioners working in large-scale distributed environments. Written by three of IBM's leading Scrum practitioners--in close collaboration with the IBM QSE Scrum Community of more than 1000 members worldwide.

IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant, and CruiseControl: The Java Developer's Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process

Last updated: 01 June 2006

Now, there’s a step-by-step guide to creating Java build processes that are right for your organization. Leading build and release management expert Kevin Lee introduces best practices for integrating and using three exceptionally powerful and recognized industry standard tools.

Accelerate software delivery in the complex financial services market

Last updated: 03 May 2011

IBM Rational Application Life cycle Management for financial services solution can help you achieve end-to-end traceability and visibility, better collaboration between business and IT and improved alignment across business goals, requirements, solutions, and testing.

Gain control of your application portfolio with IBM Rational System Architect and IBM Rational Focal Point software

Last updated: 03 May 2011

Use Rational System Architect and Rational Focal Point to gain knowledge of your application portfolio. IBM software offers financial institutions a solution that helps IT bring together strategy, business objectives, stakeholder priorities, and marketplace and economic inputs to...

Application deployment and management automation: Bridge the gap between development and deployment

Last updated: 02 Feb 2011

The application deployment and management automation solution for financial services from IBM can help insurance companies and banks deploy applications in a consistent manner, from environment discovery through deployment planning and automation, to the handoff to production.

IBM Rational AppScan: Managing application security and regulatory compliance (PDF, 427KB)

Last updated: 19 Jan 2011

Identify, prioritize, track and remediate critical security vulnerabilities throughout the application life cycle

IBM Rational AppScan: enhancing Web application security (PDF, 344KB)

Last updated: 29 Sep 2008

IBM Rational AppScan: enhancing Web application security.

Comply, Improve, Transform: IBM Rational Solutions for Compliance-Driven Development

Last updated: 26 Sep 2005

Meeting regulatory requirements is more than a legal obligation—it is an opportunity to improve your organization’s transparency, oversight and results. This 16-page brochure explores the Rational approach to compliance-driven development.

MCC creates unique data center management program ... With assistance from the IBM Academic Initiative, Power Systems

Last updated: 04 Oct 2011

Working with the IBM Academic Initiative, Power Systems™, MCC implemented a comprehensive degree program, using IBM course materials and deploying IBM® POWER® processor-based blades.

Centralized, global testing with IBM Rational software helps financial services organization reduce development time by up to 59 percent

Last updated: 12 Oct 2010

Centralized, global testing with IBM Rational software helps financial services organization reduce development time by up to 59 percent

Fujitsu New Zealand saves 20% of its test time and spends 60% less time on requirements traceability with full lifecycle test management

Last updated: 12 Oct 2010

Fujitsu New Zealand saves 20% of its test time and spends 60% less time on requirements traceability with full lifecycle test management

IBM Rational Team Concert for System z

Last updated: 08 Oct 2009

Organizations face growing demands to quickly deliver high-quality software that effectively meets business objectives.

IBM Rational Method Composer

Last updated: 01 April 2009

Built on top of Eclipse, Rational Method Composer adds new best practices to RUP that leverage IBM's expertise in portfolio management, collaborative distributed development, and service-oriented architectures.

IBM Rational Business Driven Development for Compliance Service

Last updated: 31 Mar 2006

IBM Rational Business Driven Development for Compliance Service will help customers develop and deploy a compliance management solution enabling more rapid realization of its benefits.

IBM Software Development Platform Demonstration

Last updated: 01 July 2005

This demo covers 5 roles on a development team as they implement an enhancement request for an existing Web-based Java app. For each role you will see the elements of the platform & how they work together to bring business value to your organization.

Design, Develop and Deploy Better Business Driven Applications for Power Systems

Last updated: 04 Aug 2011

New Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software, and Rational Compilers provide a rich set of tools for application development, build, and deployment on Power Systems...

Discover uninitialized floating point and integer variables

Last updated: 04 Aug 2011

This demo demonstrates the use the -qinitauto= option of IBM XL Fortran compiler for debugging errors due to uninitialized variables in Fortran programs. The principles demonstrated here also apply to C and C++ programs using the IBM XL C/C++ compilers.

Rational Team Concert evaluation guide

Last updated: 01 Feb 2010

Leverage the benefits of Rational Team Concert in this evaluation guide that explores the comprehensive features and functions that Rational Team Concert offers, including integrated work item tracking, source control, continuous builds, agile planning and reporting, and more.

IBM Rational Team Concert evaluation guide.

Last updated: 23 Dec 2009

Learn about the agile application lifecycle management platform especially designed to support distributed development teams with comprehensive agile practice coverage

IBM Rational ClearQuest

Last updated: 04 April 2005

Use this evaluation guide to facilitate the evaluation process, as well as learn about broad feature sets and capabilities of the product and answers to commonly asked questions.

Information center

Last updated: 11 Oct 2011

Information center

The IBM System z Enterprise Development Tools and Compilers information center

Last updated: 08 Sep 2011

The IBM System z Enterprise Development Tools and Compilers information center provides fast, online centralized access to application development and problem determination tools product information.

Information center

Last updated: 15 Nov 2010

Information center

Five Imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management

Last updated: 19 Oct 2011

Five Imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management

Article: Simplifying Multiplatform Development

Last updated: 10 July 2010

System z Magazine article about how Rational pairs with the zEnterprise System to address to major IT challenges.

Article: Drive innovation using Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes for IBM System z and IBM Power systems toolsets

Last updated: 01 June 2010

This article provides a quick overview of the Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z and Power Systems

Are security and compliance risks within the Healthcare industry on the rise?

Last updated: 01 July 2011

Are security and compliance risks within the Healthcare industry on the rise? Learn how the changing landscape of the healthcare industry may be driving the increase of security and compliance risks and the various ways to reduce the possibility and impact of security vulnerabilities.

Health plans and healthcare providers: Are you ready for change?

Last updated: 01 April 2011

In the healthcare industry, change is constant - driven by healthcare reform, compliance mandates (ICD-10, HIPAA), and business challenges of reducing costs while improving customer service. Learn about the IBM solutions that can help to improve your business agility.

Proactively planning for change and transformation in the Healthcare industry

Last updated: 01 April 2011

The healthcare industry is undergoing transformations driven by healthcare reform, aging populations, compliance mandates, and the need to reduce costs. The ability to proactively plan for change is a necessity. Hear about strategies that can help your organization become more agile and proactive to change.

EAM Flash Brochure

Last updated: 30 Dec 2009

EAM Flash Brochure

RQM BP Poster

Last updated: 02 April 2009

It's the virtuoso in quality software management

Rational Method Composer Model-Driven Systems Development Poster

Last updated: 01 Nov 2008

Rational Method Composer Model-Driven Systems Development Poster

Rational Developer for System z Unit Test v8.0.3: Configuration Guide

Last updated: 11 Nov 2011

The Unit Test Configuration Guide discusses the configuration of the IBM Rational Developer for System z Unit Test feature that is based on the IBM z Personal Development Tool (zPDT)

Rational Developer for System z v8.0.3 Unit Test License Key Quick Start

Last updated: 11 Nov 2011

This guide is intended to get you started with a base configuration for IBM Rational Developer for System z Unit Test License Key

Rational Developer for System z v8.0.3 Unit Test Quick Start

Last updated: 11 Nov 2011

This guide is intended to get you started with a base configuration for IBM Rational Developer for System z

Red Book: The value of z/OS applications and importance of z/OS application maintenance and support

Last updated: 16 Mar 2011

IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the importance of z/OS application maintenance and support— investing in people, investing in optimizing your development process, the tools, the value of optimizing your maintenance life cycle, and the keys to success.

Redbook: IBM System z Personal Development Tool - Vol1 Introduction and Reference

Last updated: 01 June 2010

IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z® Personal Development Tool, zPDT. zPDT provides a System z system on a PC capable of running current System z operating systems, including emulation of selected System z I/O devices and control units. Intents are for development, demonstration and learning platforms.

Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX

Last updated: 13 April 2010

This IBM Redbooks publication can help experienced UNIX application developers who are new to the AIX operating system.

Rational Developer for System z v8.0.3 Host Configuration Release Notes

Last updated: 14 Oct 2011

This document covers release-specific Host Configuration information (such as problems and limitations) that did not become available until after the product documentation and product readme were finalized.

Rational Developer for System z v8.0.3 Release Notes

Last updated: 14 Oct 2011

This document provides information about new features and enhancements included in Rational(R) Developer for System z and lists the known limitations in the release.

IBM Rational Developer for System z v7.6 Host Configuration Release Notes

Last updated: 29 Oct 2009

IBM Rational Developer for System z v7.6 Host Configuration Release Notes

Transforming financial systems and applications e-Kit

Last updated: 01 May 2011

This complimentary e-Kit is a collection of materials that introduces you to IBM Rational® solutions that help financial services institutions (FSIs) transform core systems and applications to meet customer demands.

Web application security and compliance for financial services

Last updated: 01 May 2011

This complimentary e-Kit is a collection of materials that introduces you to IBM Rational® solutions for web application security and compliance for financial services institutions (FSIs).

Security and compliance for healthcare e-kit

Last updated: 01 April 2011

This complimentary e-Kit provides materials to help you learn about IBM Rational security and compliance solutions. These solutions enable you to anticipate and prevent, not just respond to, security and compliance breaches.

Security and compliance in the healthcare industry: Anticipate and help prevent security and compliance breaches with IBM Rational software

Last updated: 01 Dec 2010

The domain of healthcare has become a challenging arena for information security due to the complex nature of healthcare information & individual privacy. Learn about the industry challenges around protecting and securing sensitive information and how the Rational solutions can help customers with these challenges.

Viewlets for Rational Developer for System z in IBM Education Assistant

Last updated: 14 Oct 2011

Articles and viewlets in IBM Education Assistant discussing Rational Developer for System z

Core Banking Transformation with Rational Developer for System z and Rational Team Concert

Last updated: 01 Jan 2011

Learn, first-hand, how to use IBM Rational Developer for System z and IBM Rational Team Concert to transform your core banking systems. Follow along with this step-by-step guide while you are working in the Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z.

Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z

Last updated: 01 Jan 2011

New Rational Developer for System z, Rational Developer for zEnterprise, Rational Asset Analyzer, CICS, IMS tools and more.... Try them all today, for free, in our hosted environment. No download or installation required.

Cognos on System z provides fast, operational BI

Last updated: 19 May 2010

Numius found that Cognos on System z ran at high speed and efficiency - and required no redevelopment.

Cognos on System z revolutionizes BI speed and sharing

Last updated: 19 May 2010

Jo Coutuer of Numius Performance Management describes how moving the BI environment to Cognos on System z enabled their client to run reports at unprecedented rates, and to share the latest BI with more than 10,000 stakeholders.

Expanding BI capabilities and controlling costs

Last updated: 19 May 2010

Numius Performance Management partner Jo Coutuer explains how they achieved superior performance while reducing costs.

QMed Webcast: Support for IEC 62304 compliance through better reporting.

Last updated: 13 Jan 2012

In this webcast we will explain the power of Rational Publishing Engine (RPEs) design and how it isn't specific to one tool.

Moving the Software Development Lifecycle to the Cloud

Last updated: 10 Jan 2012

Join us as senior technical members from IBM discuss how cloud can be used to help transform software delivery, and how best practices for software development and test in the cloud can help IT organizations become more agile and flexible in order to meet changing business needs.

Coffee Break Chat: OVUM and IBM on System Engineering

Last updated: 05 Jan 2012

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.

Collaborative software delivery: improving software quality with better lifecycle management

Last updated: 24 Feb 2010

This whitepaper discusses how an IBM® Rational® solution can help your company build better software faster, using an integrated application lifecycle management solution designed to support collaboration across distributed agile development teams.

Open source, commercial or a co-existance strategy

Last updated: 24 Feb 2010

This paper examines the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether your company should turn to an open source solution, a commercial application, or a combination of both.

Centralized Change and Configuration Management for Globally Distributed Development

Last updated: 12 Feb 2010

This info center provides planning guidance and step by step instructions on how to centralize regional deployments of Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearCase.