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Rational Support now part of the new IBM Support Portal - Start Using it Today!
In early January 2010, the existing technical support pages were retired and officially replaced by the new IBM Support Portal. This portal centralizes all IBM technical support sites into a single, customizable online support experience. IBM Support Portal has been available since October on a "Click to Try" basis to all IBM clients. So don't wait - start using the IBM Support Portal today!

 

IBM Rational C/C++ and COBOL Development Tools for AIX Open Beta Program
This program targets clients interested in deploying Rational C/C++ and COBOL development tools for AIX. This new code is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) where developers can remotely develop, compile, build and debug applications on Windows while their sources reside on AIX. The Beta Forum (click the Support tab) will be monitored by the development team. Give the new beta code a try and let us know what you think on the Forum!

 

Revolutionizing the Economics of Application Maintenance
Application maintenance and development costs are eating up many IT budgets, yet the correlation between expense and business value is unclear. Businesses are taking a hard look at how IT manages applications, development skills, and team collaboration. They can no longer afford disparate IT teams spread across the enterprise using incompatible development processes, technologies, and infrastructure. At the same time, they need to continue delivering value from their existing software investments.

IBM Rational announces new and enhanced capabilities to help organizations reduce their mainframe transactions costs, improve their maintenance efficiency, and extend the life of their business critical applications.
To learn more, visit www.ibm.com/software/rational/announce/modernization

 

Rational News: Consolidated Collection of Trial Software Pages on developerWorks
IBM has compiled a set of resources for each of the 60+trial organized into Learn, Try, Buy, and Support. Learn provides and overview of the product, Try provides way to download or use the product online, Buy gives pricing information, and Learn is a collection of technical content.

 

Rational News: IBM Acquires Ounce Labs
IBM announced it has acquired Ounce Labs, Inc., a privately-held company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose software helps companies reduce the risks and costs associated with security and compliance concerns. IBM will integrate Ounce Labs, a leading provider of enterprise source code security testing, into its Rational software business. Financial terms were not disclosed.

 

Rational Earns #1 Ranking in Application Development Software from Gartner and Evans Data
According to analysts Gartner, Inc., IBM is the worldwide market share leader in application development based on total software revenue in 2008. This is the eighth consecutive year that IBM leads in this space. According to the independent Gartner report, IBM leads the industry with 27.1 percent share in 2008, growing 7.9 percent as compared to the overall segment's growth of 4 percent.

IBM Rational tools also achieved top honors in the annual Evans Data Corp. Software Development Platform User Satisfaction survey. Rational was named overall winner, ranking higher than development tools from Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, as well as open source offerings. This is the third time in four years Rational has taken top honors.

 

Hear our strategy: Rational 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 Requirements Composer and RequisitePro, and Richard Watson, Product Manager for DOORS, as they reflect back on the conference and speak to the evolution of these offerings.

 

Update! The Telelogic products have undergone a name change.
All products previously known as Telelogic, are now known under the IBM Rational brand name. You will see this change reflected on the various product support pages. Please note the URLs have remained the same, so you can still obtain the support you need from the same locations on ibm.com.

 

ebizQ Podcast: Making Every IT Dollar Result in a Desired Business Outcome: Scott Hebner of IBM Rational Explains
In this podcast, Scott Hebner talks to ebizQ about a topic that is on the top of every company's mind today and that is - getting the most from their IT investments. Also, Scott talks about the upcoming IBM Rational Software Conference coming this June 1st.

 

Rational Team Concert for 2.0 - provides a complete collaborative development environment for software development teams. It integrates source control, work item, and build capabilities to improve software quality and accelerate software delivery.
Register Here
Note: This download requires a jazz.net ID

 

Rational Quality Manager 2.0 - provides a centralized test management environment to help increase the efficiency and quality of software delivery by mitigating risk and lowering cost through collaborative ALM for test planning, workflow control, tracking and traceability, and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions impact and align with business objectives. Rational Test Lab Manager, which is an extended component of Rational Quality Manager, helps to improve the efficiency of the test lab environment and optimize its utilization, cutting workload and saving on test infrastructure.
Register Here
Note: This download requires a jazz.net ID

 

Mr. Fong needs your help to choose the right path back to Earth
Mr. Fong is still lost in space, and once again needs your help. Watch his travel log to find out how Requirements Composer would have prevented this mishap. Hurry up! Space monsters are lurking.

 

Facebook fan page for Rational Requirements Composer
Become a facebook fan or Rational Requirements Composer to get updated information about Rational's newest jazz offering.

 

Difficult for competitors to equal. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Impact Brief
IBM Rational Introduces New Quality and Requirements Management Offerings Which Extend the Value of the Jazz Platform. EMA reviews IBM Rational's newest quality and requirements management offerings. The verdict?  EMA "continues to be impressed… for companies seeking to improve ROI delivered by software projects, we believe Rational’s value proposition is difficult to match.
Read the complete EMA Impact Brief

 

Requirements Composer 1.0 trial and new Web UI beta!
Have you taken a look at the latest addition to the Rational Jazz offering family, Rational Requirements Composer? If not, download a free trial of Requirements Composer V1.0, our new requirements definition offering that elicits and defines requirements, enhancing your ability to create the right requirements for your projects and drive improved quality, speed, and alignment across the IT lifecycle.

If you have already tried out or purchased Requirements Composer 1.0, be sure to also take a look at the Requirements Composer Web User Interface (Web UI) beta , which provides a read-only view to artifacts that are stored in the Rational Requirements Composer server.

 

Playing from the same Score: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert in Perfect Harmony! - March 26, 2009 - 1pm ET
Join our panel of experts to 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. All questions will be answered during and after event - ask live or via email!

 

Breaking through barriers: Transforming how teams work together to lower the cost of software delivery across mixed development environments.
IBM Rational® helps ensure successful software projects by improving organizational collaboration, overcoming infrastructure barriers, and providing valuable reporting and dashboards.  Our Rational Jazz technology platform integrates a wide variety of tools and infrastructure offerings, including new and expanded capabilities for integration of .NET environments. Unified business processes for software delivery are the outcome. The result: Do more with less, helping businesses realize the value of software.

Learn more about our new Rational offerings that further support our clients' ability to effectively deliver software by overcoming heterogenous infrastructure barriers, and facilitate cross-organization collaboration. Access a global ecosystem of skilled IBM Rational business partners with expertise, best practices, and integrated partner solutions to help you cost-effectively deliver successful software.

Visit IBM's booth at the United Kingdom DevWeek 2009 conference for software developers to learn more about how IBM Rational Team Concert can help to integrate .NET and other development environments for real-time visibility and complete project collaboration.

 

Telelogic News
As a result of the April 2008 acquisition of Telelogic we would like to welcome Telelogic to the IBM family. Click here for more information.

 

IBM Launches Cloud Services Initiative
IBM today launched a company-wide initiative that extends its traditional software delivery model toward a mix of on-premise and cloud computing applications with new software, services and technical resources for clients and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

 

IBM Rational Clients on iTunes!
It is official! We now have an IBM Client Podcast Series which can be subscribed to on both ibm.com and iTunes. The first two Rational Case Study Podcasts highlight IJC Consulting (Business Partner) and NC State (Academic Initiative Partner). If interested in participating in our podcast series please contact Wendy Batten

 

IBM Delivers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs
IBM announces today it is making its courseware and technical skill-building tools accessible free of charge to university faculty.

 

IBM Rational Academic Initiative: Rational Software Student Center on Facebook
We are proud to announce the launch of our new community program for the Rational Academic Initiative. This community encourages students to explore the many no-charge offerings available through AI, including the IBM Student Portal, webcasts, tutorials, downloads, podcasts, and newsletters.

 

New Content on IBM TV
A new batch of content has been published on the IBM TV site.

 

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