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GRUG News
Member Satisfaction Survey Help us create a better user group community by filling out our Summer Satisfaction Survey. Atlanta Rational User Group
- Upcoming meeting - September 17,
2009
Kerrie Muller, the leader of the ARUG has organized a meeting on September 17. The meeting will cover Jazz. If you are in the area, please make sure to attend the meeting. In addition to the Atlanta meeting, the user group in Austin, TX
is holding their kick-off meeting on
September 3rd .
We have new leaders of the groups in Colorado Springs, Holland, and St. Louis. We are
looking forward to new activity in these groups.
New user groups have been established in China, New Zealand, Huntsville, AL, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Take on a leadership role in the Global
Rational User Group Community
Ever thought about taking on a leadership role in the GRUG community? Now's the time. The following user groups are in need of new leaders:
Promote your UG in the GRUG
Newsletter!
If you would like to share information about your upcoming meeting or would like to provide a brief report on your recent meeting, please contact Tin Dizdarevic and we will be more than happy to feature the information in the upcoming issues of the GRUG newsletter. Global Rational User Group Community
Statistics:
There are over 20,500 members in 96 UG worldwide. Monthly Member Survey
Please help us provide feedback to IBM by completing this survey: https://secure.rational-ug.org/globalsurvey.php |
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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. Requirements Definition &
Management blog
Share your comments and feedback on the requirements definition and management blog. Lead your own recovery with
strategic program & portfolio management
Recovering from the current conditions that are facing your organization is dependant on your ability to protect your current business interests as well as position yourself for growth when capital flows return to normal. Best in class organizations focus on the achievability of business goals and objectives, rebalancing the mix between maintenance and transformational efforts, and drive measurable results through execution plans that inspire as well as align teams. Join IBM's Portfolio Management solution team to learn how to bring the business, customers, markets and engineering together to deliver a portfolio of projects, applications and services that drive financial predictability and growth. IT Performance Management:
Measure, Monitor and Modify for Operational
Excellence
For years IT organizations have struggled to reduce business risk by seeking out repeatable and measurable business processes that help ensure that they align to business strategy, enhance their project predictability, and identify opportunities for continual improvement. Unfortunately, most approaches have required long-term, large-scale transformation, and offer a 'one-size fits all' strategy that has failed to promote diversity across teams, organizations, and geographies that lead to innovation. Join IBM Rational to learn how high-performing organizations are taking a more practice-based and practical, approach to measuring, managing and enhancing IT performance, and learn about new, flexible solutions that can be adopted to support the way that organizations can use IT to drive operational excellence. Five Reasons Investing in
Requirements Should Be Your Top Priority Webcast
What happens when you don't invest in requirements? The news is full of stories from delayed presidential helicopter projects, to lost memory in spacecrafts, to interrupted utility services. In this webcast, we'll talk about some famous and not so famous disasters and why investing in requirements should be a top priority to avoid similar occurrences in your own organization. Featured Event: IBM Portal
Excellence Conference 2009 - Four Worldwide
Locations
Topics include integration across mashups, Lotus Web Content Management, collaboration, Filenet, Cognos, security and Business Process Management (BPM). Join us in Macau, China, San Diego, California, Salzburg, Austria or Dubai, UAE. |
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Introducing Rational's new
PPM Solution Platform: Achieve greater
returns, lower risks and guide teams to do
more with less - September 2 - 12pm
EDT
Join this IBM webcast and get a look into the new Portfolio, Project and Performance Management solutions that leverage IBM's years of best practices to help customers achieve REAL results. Keeping the beat with Jazz -
What's new and noteworthy with the Quality
Management portfolio - September 23 - 12pm EDT
Brian Bryson shares the new news in the recently enhanced Rational Quality Management portfolio designed to help you cut risk and cost, speed your time to market and make informed, confident decisions. IBM Rational Welcomes and
Introduces Ounce Labs: Industry Leading
Providers of Source Code Security Testing -
September 30 - 12pm EDT
Join us for a 1-hour webcast so that we can introduce you to the Ounce Labs solutions. |
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Success Stories
Here are the most recent success stories that have been published on the IBM web site. University of Arkansas
creates new learning with SAP and IBM
"The collaboration between the University of Arkansas, local businesses, SAP and IBM demonstrates our commitment to providing future generations with mutually beneficial teaching, research and learning experiences." - David Douglas, Director of Enterprise Systems, University of Arkansas. CNC Hebei Branch gains a
competitive advantage with IBM Rational DOORS
and IBM Rational Synergy software
"IBM's products have standardized the management of requirements, changes and versions within our enterprise. " - CNC Hebei branch spokesperson |
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Presentation Zone
Do you have a presentation to share with the community on how to implement Rational software? Post it on the Presentation Zone! A list of recent presentations:
Achieving Agility with Rational - Submitted by Manoj Panda of India - Hyderabad Rational User Group |
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Rational Requirements
Composer Web UI Open Beta available on
Jazz.net
This RRC Open Beta, which features the Web UI that works with Rational Requirements Composer v1.0, Interim Fix 1 or high, is available on Jazz.net. It is now be supported via Jazz.net workitems, and on the Jazz.net forums. The Web UI beta provides a read-only view to artifacts that are stored in the Rational Requirements Composer Server, which enables business analysts, client stakeholders, and software development teams to review, comment on, and validate requirements -- without installing the RRC Client software on multiple systems. Get more information at Jazz.net. New Product! IBM® Rational®
Focal Point for Project Management
Beta 1 will be posted to jazz.net in mid-August. If you wish to be alerted when the Beta 1 code is available on jazz.net, send a note to ratlbeta@us.ibm.com with "Ratl Focal Point" in the subject with this request. See the section on Jazz.net that describes some of the functionality at https://jazz.net/projects/rational-focal-point-for-project-management/ and and a short 5-minute recorded demo entitled "Overview of Rational's project management solution" at http://jazz.net/library/ Rational Team Concert for
System z Open Beta
Beta 3 is available now on jazz.net Now available. New Quality
Management Test Management, Test Lab
Management and Test Automation offerings
Help your customers cut risk and cost, speed time to market and make confident decisions with new quality management capabilities that enable your customers to collaborate seamlessly to reduce rework and the cost of bugs, use smart automations that boost productivity for rapid ROI, and provide real-time metrics and measures for full visibility into project quality status for informed action, greater predictability and ongoing improvement. Test automation trials for: Test management and test lab management trials for: Survive and thrive in times
of change
Successful organizations make change work for them. Learn how Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management and Performance Measurement technologies from IBM Rational can help you build a platform for managing change - and achieve your goals in any business climate. Save like never
before
For the first time, we're increasing the U.S. IBM Education Pack discount to 15% when you invest $25,000 or more. Save on most public classes, onsite training, technical conferences and online education. Act by October 16th. |
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