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April 2007 Rational Global User Group Community Newsletter
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Rational News
 

New IBM Software Portfolio to Help Customers Ensure Quality of Service Oriented Architectures
IBM today announced new software and services to help organizations ensure quality of their service oriented architecture (SOA). An SOA is a business strategy that enables a company to more closely align and reuse existing technology to achieve business goals.

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To join enterprise markets and participate in large- scale projects, Indecomm sought to standardize its IT systems and processes and streamline its development efforts. Indecomm is in the process of implementing an automated process runtime engine to map, choreograph and deploy all of its internal business pro . . .

Case study: Alma Littera Group implements project management solution with IBM & Sintagma
Alma Littera Group worked with IBM Premier Business Partner Sintagma (www.sintagma.lt) to implement and customize IBM Rational Portfolio Manager on the IBM System x server platform. Sintagma and Alma Littera Group analysed the company’s business processes to produce an effective project planning and managemen . . .

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Rational Edge
 

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    RUG Active User Group: 91
    RUG Newsletter Subscribers: 7,152

Tell us about your last meeting
Share with us any updates on your user group!  Did you recently present at a technical conference?  We are looking for feedback on how our community is doing. We want to hear success stories about how your groups and members are being successful.  Share ideas of how you get attendance to your meetings, how you locate speakers.  We are part of a very dynamic community and this is great forum for us to share our ideas.  Please send your information to info@rational-ug.org.

RUG Call for Content!
Share your own tips and tricks, great ideas, or articles with the global community! We are dedicating this section of our newsletter to include content authored by YOU! You may also send in presentations that will be placed in the "New RUG Presentations Zone" on the website. Email your content to us at info@rational-ug.org

Events
 

Register Now - Rational Software Development Conference 2007 -June 10-14, 2007 Orlando, FL
And now you can save money by using your IBM Education Pack - online account to pay the conference fee. It's a great way to maximize your training dollars.
10 Jun 2007 - 14 Jun 2007

Accelerating Global Software Delivery
Ottawa; Ontario
Technical
17 Apr 2007 - 17 Apr 2007

Effective Software Testing: Tools and Strategies for Project Success
New York City; NY
Technical
17 Apr 2007 - 17 Apr 2007

Software Test & Performance Conference
San Mateo, California 
Tradeshow
17 Apr 2007 - 19 Apr 2007

Accelerating Global Software Delivery
Montreal; Quebec
Technical
19 Apr 2007 - 19 Apr 2007

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform
Los Angeles; CA
Technical
19 Apr 2007 - 19 Apr 2007

COMMON - A Users Group, Annual Conference and Expo
Anaheim, California
Technical
April 29 - May 3

Accelerating Global Software Delivery
Hartford, CT
Technical
01 May 2007 - 01 May 2007

Accelerating Global Software Delivery
Boston, MA
Technical
03 May 2007 - 03 May 2007

STAR East
Orlando, Florida
Technical
14 May 2007 - 18 May 2007

SHARE, Summer Conference and Technical Exchange
San Diego, California
Technical
August 12 - 17, 2007

Education & Training
 

Education Zone
This month learn about The Key to Retaining Your Most Important Asset, IBM Redbooks - a great tool for building skills,Rational web-based training library, Most- requested Rational Software Courses, Advanced WebSphere Commerce Training for Developers and Administrators, IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Administration on AIX,WebSphere Application Server V6 Advanced Administration,WebSphere MQ Debugging Techniques on Distributed Platforms,WebSphere MQ: Designing and Architecting Clustering Solutions,Don't delay enroll now for the Rational Software development conference. Find the right courses, conferences, and savings plans to help with your skill building needs from IBM Training.

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