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Open Source: The shining aspects and the limitations (recorded on Nov 19, 2009)
Our panel of experts delves into this very relevant topic and discusses the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether an open source, a commercial application, or a combination of both are right for your company.

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Customer speak: Deliver your software solutions faster with requirements-driven quality
Delivering high-quality and innovative software solutions that best address your customers needs and help reduce their risk and yours is a major challenge when developing software. In this teleconference, Brian Beveridge, Co-Founder of Greenridge Business Systems, answers your questions on building and delivering the right products faster with IBM Rational's requirements-driven quality solution.

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Five (5) Best Practices for Developing and Deploying Applications in a Cloud (recorded on Oct 29, 3009)
The average new application takes six to nine months to develop and deploy, more time than most companies can afford in a highly competitive marketplace. Ask the experts how Rational and WebSphere solutions dramatically reduce application delivery backlogs and enable faster rollout of innovative new applications and services to market.

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A conversation with Grady Booch (recorded Aug 27, 2009)
Hear Grady Booch in a freewheeling, interactive conversation on the future of software delivery in the current internet culture and new social media vehicles. Hear how software teams are responding to wikinomics and the democratization of ideas, how open source initiatives are changing software economics and how the software delivery team of the future will be more global, collaborative and transparent than ever before.

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Enriching the Jazz environment with social software (recorded Aug 25, 2009)
Imagine how using instant messaging and team wikis, sharing best practices in a blog, or using professionals networks to find a developer with unique skills can fundamentally improve the effectiveness of an organization. This discussion covers combining social software with software delivery tools and explores practical benefits of using Lotus Advanced Collaboration and IBM® Jazz™ products.

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In their words - Migration from Compuware to Rational software testing tools (recorded June 25 , 2009)
IBM Business Partner Real-Time Technology Solutions (RTTS) share one of its customer experiences helping implement and migrate from Compuware QARun to IBM Rational Functional Tester and Compuware QACenter Performance Edition to IBM Rational Performance Tester.

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Streamline Software Delivery to Gain Market Advantage (episode 2: recorded June 18, 2009)
Anson Kokkat discusses how to build a software blueprint that allows the design of a software solution that meets stakeholder needs.

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Streamline Software Delivery to Gain Market Advantage (episode 1: recorded May 28, 2009)
Michael Lundblad discusses how to achieve consensus with stakeholders early and often to reduce costs and risk. First discussion in a series.

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Playing from the same Score: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert in Perfect Harmony! (recorded March 26, 2009)
Panel of experts discuss Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearCase & Rational ClearQuest. Find out more about how to unify these tools for environments of scale AND agility, meeting the needs of today’s software development teams.

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Migration from HP QualityCenter to IBM Rational Quality Manager: The Sogeti Practice (recorded February 26, 2009)
IBM Rational and Sogeti, an IBM Rational premier business partner present a Rational Quality Manager case study, specifically addressing implementation and migration to IBM Rational Quality Manager from HP Quality Center. How do you get started? What are the implementation challenges, dos and don’ts. How do you move from your current system to IBM Rational Quality Manager? Listen in.

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Using the Rational toolset for your architectural digs (recorded February 5, 2009)
Senior Software Developer Celso Gonzalez discusses how you can leverage and reuse your specific existing infrastructure using architectural discovery with the IBM Rational Architecture Manage+ment solution. Celso provides expert insight and answers questions about applying this concept and Rational Solutions to your unique situations.

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Ask the experts, How to build Rich Internet Applications using Rational Application Developer (recorded December 11, 2008)
Learn about Rational Application Developer capabilities around Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application development including Ajax and the Dojo Toolkit, support for using various SOA services and adding responsive Web interfaces to your existing enterprise applications. Hear customer questions answered directly by IBM players working with these technologies.

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Quality In Action: Using Rational Quality Manager with Functional, Performance and Web Service Testing Products (recorded November 20, 2008)
Join us as we lead a discussion focused on using the newly updated Rational Quality Management functional, performance, and web services testing products in conjunction with Rational Quality Manager. All questions will be answered during and after event - ask live or via email!

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Quality In Action: Using Rational Quality Manager (recorded November 18, 2008)
Join us as we lead a discussion about the integrations with and leading practices for our newest software quality offering, Rational Quality Manager – a web-based software test management environment that enables teams to deliver greater quality software, improve operational efficiency and continuously lower risk. All questions will be answered during and after event - ask live or via email!

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Ask Scott Ambler about streamlining Agile software delivery (recorded November 5, 2008)
Join Scott as he discusses how "Going Agile" can mean significant changes for your organization. Discover how IBM Rational Change & Release Management software like Rational Team Concert can give you a leading edge in the agile world, and how Rational Build Forge and Rational Software Analyzer can take you to even more advanced levels. All questions will be answered during and after event - ask live or via email!

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Actionable Enterprise Architecture with Jim Amsden (recorded October 30, 2008)
Join Jim in a discussion around Rational strategy, the new Telelogic portfolio's fit in that software architecture strategy plus hear recommendations on how to get started to effectively align IT projects with the business by using the right tools with your business' architecture. All questions will be answered during and after event - ask live or via email!

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ClearQuest as the hub for process efficiency, consistency, quality and insight (recorded September 25, 2008)
Paul Boustany, IBM Marketing Engineering, discusses IBM Rational ClearQuest as the focal point to manage all types of change including defects, enhancements, requirements and more across all projects. Ensure consistency amid disparate processes by taking a holistic view of the entire delivery lifecycle.

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Bringing agile processes to life (recorded August 28, 2008)
Kai-Uwe Maetzel, IBM Rational Jazz process lead and Martin Chmelar, a process consultant, at TietoEnator in charge of mentoring and coaching teams implementing agile development processes discuss a range of topics relevant to helping teams fine-tune and evolve their process over time.

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WebSphere Portal Enhancements (recorded July 31, 2008)
IBM WebSphere Portal product experts and market thought leaders provide insight into the recently released IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 release and its web2.0 capabilities.

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Managing Solution Architectures (recorded July 24, 2008) with Rational Software Architect, Rational RequisitePro and Rational Asset Manager. IBM author and Senior Software Engineer Jim Conallen discusses best approaches to achieve reuse within your reality.

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Quality in Action - What does quality look like in your environment? (recorded June 26, 2008)
Brian Bryson from IBM Rational and John Whitfield from IBM Tivoli discuss best practices for your strategic quality management focusing on requirements, functionality, validation, services and performance, and defect tracking to ensure a closed loop quality action plan.

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Use Rational Business Developer to enhance your developer productivity (recorded May 29, 2008)
Wendy Toh, IBM Director, Enterprise Tools & Compilers discusses how EGL eliminates tedious and error-prone low level coding to help you focus on business requirements.

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Calling all Rational ClearCase Power Users – and those that would like to be! (recorded April 24, 2008)
Paul Boustany and Mark Krasovich, discuss tips and tricks for using Rational ClearCase in Agile development. Listen to one of our most interactive discussions.

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Panel of experts on Best Practices in IT Governance with IBM Rational (recorded Feb 28, 2008)
Hear about actionable process guidance, methods, and software solutions supporting enterprise level priorities such as globally distributed environments, packaged application deployment, and SOA.

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Danny Allan on Testing Best Practices (recorded Jan 24, 2008)
Join Danny Allan and Brian Bryson in this interactive discussion on best practices and strategies for software testing to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

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Grady Booch on Architecture (recorded Nov 29, 2007)
Join Grady in an interactive discussion around architecture and reuse.

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David Grant on Security Best Practices (recorded Nov 14, 2007)
Join a panel discussion on the newly acquired Watchfire application testing products

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