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Revolutionizing the Economics of
Application MaintenanceApplication 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 IBM Rational Smart Products Virtual
Conference - systems engineering for building
smart products
 Systems engineering for building smart products, join IBM's Chief Scientist, Grady Booch and other distinguished speakers as they explain how to create the complex systems that define today's smart products, and harness the power of software to deliver innovative products in a challenging marketplace-boosting you ahead of the competition. Talk to your peers, visit the exhibition booths of IBM and our partners and chat online. Are you prepared to deliver smart products? Register today Date: January 19, 2010, 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 ET to 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM PT Gartner Inc.'s 2009 Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Architecture Tools positions IBM
in the Leaders Quadrant
Read the report: http://imagesrv.gartner.com/media-products/pdf/reprints/ibm/external/volume4/article28.pdf Rational Fall Launch Announced!
IBM has launched several key initiatives that will help customers build an agenda for sustained growth and competitive differentiation. Spanning Rational, Tivoli, GTS, and GBS. Together, these solutions help customers speed innovation with reduced risk and cost by deploying a dynamic infrastructure for software delivery. Find more information and resources here. 
Build smarter products with Rational
software - innovators share their storiesSmarter products are everywhere, permanently changing the way we work, play and live. Watch new videos that show how Waters Corporation, Eaton and other innovators use IBM Rational software to design and build smarter products that deliver unique value to their customers. Find the videos and other resources here. |
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"Best Practices in Requirements Gathering
with IBM Rational Requirements Composer"
Webcast
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12pm EST / 9am PST / 17:00 GMT Register for this webcast. Join technical experts from IBM Rational and Active Endpoints and learn how developers are using business process management systems (BPMSs) for a new generation of process applications. Speakers: Dr. Michael Rowley, Ph.D., CTO, Active Endpoints Andy Berner, Lead Architect for ISV Enablement and Strategy, IBM Rational Software The Measured Capability Improvement
Framework (MCIF)
Thursday, January 14th at 10am EST - Register here! Thursday, January 14th at 9pm EST - Register here! IBM Rational offers a structured approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous process improvement. The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) helps you gain competency in the core development practices that most impact business outcomes. This panel will provide you an opportunity to hear from the creators of MCIF and to ask any questions you may have related to this framework and how it relates to you and your business. A GRUG Virtual Panel Discussion with: Per Kroll, Bruce MacIsaac & Chris Sibbald Replay: A Virtual Panel Discussion with -
Philippe Kruchten, Bruce MacIsaac, Scott
Ambler
Since the creation of the RUP in 1998, Unified Process has been evolving with the industry. In the last few years, the RUP has been refactored into "practices" that extend an agile core called OpenUP. Today with tension between new process brands and the various communities, it's natural to wonder where the Unified Process is headed. Listen to these two replays -- A virtual panel discussion on the Future of the Unified Process: Moderated by Julian Holmes http://www.rational-ug.org/webcastDetail?wid=91 Moderated by Carson Holmes http://www.rational-ug.org/webcastDetail?wid=92 |
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Success Stories
Here are the most recent success stories that have been published on the IBM web site. New Zealand-owned energy
company gains control over its data by
centralizing information architecture with
Rational System Architect
A New Zealand-owned energy company supplies the country's electricity from its thermal and renewable power stations. As an energy retailer, the company provides electricity, gas and liquefied petroleum gas to customers across the country |
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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:
November 26th: Jos Jennekens - Rational Insight Introduction [ Download this presentation ] Contributor: Eric Lopes Cardozo of Holland Rational Users Group November 26th: Julian Holmes - The Need for
Integrated Roles, Practices, Tools for
Iterative and Agile Teams
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Increase your IBM Rational skills with a free, one-hour test drive of four, new IBM instructor-led online (ILO) courses. ILO courses deliver live instruction with the same course content and hands-on labs as classroom training without the need to travel. Learn more. Hear From Customers and IBMers on How
Rational Helps Them to Innovate
Watch the videos today: http://www.youtube.com/IBMRational Download the trial of IBM
Rational Requirements Composer V2!
Requirements Composer is a Jazz offering that helps teams to define requirements more effectively and manage them efficiently across the project lifecycle. The integration between Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager brings software delivery to a new level of integration and collaboration capabilities, and enable project teams to deliver the right product faster. Customer Speak RDQ Telcon w/
Greenridge Business Systems
Hear Brian Beveridge with Greenridge Business Systems speak about his experiences from using a collaborative process for delivering software quality with Rational requirements and quality management solutions. Requirements Driven
Development Software Factory Flash
Demo
Find out how IBM Rational solutions can help you build quality into your project using requirements-driven development to deliver innovation through efficiency and collaboration. Requirements-driven Quality
ROI Calculators Podcast
Explore how the new ROI calculators can help you identify opportunities to lower cost and business risk for greater return on your investments in software through implementing requirements-driven quality solutions with Lisa Buckley and Alice Cockrum, IBM Rational's requirements and quality segment managers. Getting Requirements Right:
Avoiding the Top 10 Traps Whitepaper
This whitepaper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget. IBM Press -- Be Sure You're
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