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GRUG Council Update - Rational Method
Composer (RMC) and Rational Team Concert
(RTC) Sessions at VoiCE
Carson Holmes, the GRUG Council President, was able to attend many of the presentations for both the RMC and RTC tracks at last year's VoiCE events. In the first session he saw highlighted not only RMC, but Rational Insight (previously known as Vega), Telelogic FocalPoint, and Tara, a new PPM product. The future integration of process, portfolio, and project management on the Jazz Platform looked very bright. The most interesting session in the RTC track (besides the futures brainstorming session) was where the Jazz Foundation Services hosted by the Jazz Team Server were explained to us as RESTful web services. Representation State Transfer (REST) is a key design concept that uses a stateless client-server architecture where web services are viewed as resources and can be idenfitied by their URL. This is some powerful stuff! What Carson had been most interested in is the future integration of RMC and RTC. Currently RMC 7.5 integrates with RTC 1.0.1 allowing process definition to feed the process templates in Jazz. However, Carson was excited to learn this integration will evolve with the next versions of RMC in which more process governance details can be defined enabling richer integration for more powerful process enactment in the Jazz platform. Rational User Group Community Statistics:
There are over 18,900 members in 94 UG worldwide. Bi-Yearly Member
Satisfaction Survey
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IBM Helps Companies Secure
Their Web Businesses
New Solutions Help to Lower Risk and Cost Associated With Today's Highly Dynamic and Interactive Web Experiences CIO.com: Expert View:
Evaluating Agile Software Development Programs
Agile development used to be relegated to small-scope software development projects. No longer, says IBM's vice president of development transformation and integration. She argues that Agile can adapt to the most complex of development projects. InformationWeek: IBM Tool
Scans For Malevolent Ajax, Flash Code
Rational AppScan monitors interactive Web applications and SOA services built as Web services to spot potential security holes. IBM Cyber Security Tour:
Protecting your Web Applications against
Cyber Attacks
This informative half-day seminar provides a comprehensive approach to assessing and defending against security vulnerabilities. Focus is on Federal and State & Local Government but all are welcome. IBM is pleased to announce exciting
upgrades to the Appscan Family
AppScan Standard Edition 7.8 Adds new capabilities including Automatic Flash Execution & Assessment, Enhanced Web Services Testing and simplified results reporting. AppScan Developer Edition 7.8 / AppScan Build Edition 7.8 Are the first industry products to allow for both source code scanning and dynamic application security testing in one composite analysis using run-time monitoring to combine the techniques. AppScan Enterprise Edition 5.5 Is for teams who need to perform Web application security assessments in a centralized fashion. AppScan Tester Edition for RQM 5.5 Integrates security alongside quality testing for improved web application development, helping QA teams find and remediate security vulnerabilities earlier in the development process, reducing downstream cost and corporate risk. Trade up to Rational. Receive a 25%
Rational Quality Management Portfolio
competitive trade up discount.
Business Partner Resellers also are eligible. This promotion is effective until June 30, 2009. For additional information, click one of the following links. QM trade-up promotion details (Americas) QM trade-up promotion details (Europe) Create Order Out of the Chaos of SOA
Application Testing.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications pose "interesting" challenges for quality assurance teams.This sessions explores strategies, tools and techniques that can be used to effectively validate the fitness of SOA applications. View this webcast replay In their own words - Sogeti's Migration to IBM Rational Quality Manager IBM Rational Quality Manager is designed to help software delivery teams collaborate by allowing them to seamlessly share information, to use automation to accelerate project schedules, and to report on project metrics for informed release decisions. Sogeti shares its implementation and migration to IBM Rational Quality Manager from HP Quality Center. This is a joint presentation between IBM Rational and Sogeti, an IBM Rational premier business partner. Register for this teleconference RSDC 2009!
Annual Rational and Telelogic Conference May 31, June 4--2009 |
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Scott Ambler webcast replay
- Agile Requirements: Collaborative,
contextual and correct
Join this webcast and hear from Scott Ambler, IBM Rational's Agile Evangelist, on best-practice approaches and techniques for Agile requirements definition, along with how Agilists can drive active stakeholder collaboration to deliver successful project outcomes. |
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Success Stories
Here are the most recent success stories that have been published on the IBM web site. Arkansas Data Services
accelerates Web and SOA development using EGL.
ADS used EGL to help reduce development time by an estimated 75 percent, modernize legacy business systems and deliver rich Web-based solutions - positioning the company to solidify its existing customer base and tap new revenue streams. Trustmarque boosts
productivity by 400 percent with IBM Rational
Robot
Trustmarque Solutions is one of the UK's leading specialists in software licensing - helping organisations of all sizes understand and comply with complex software licensing structures. The company employs more than 100 highly trained staff, and is achieving year-on-year growth of between 10 and 20 percent. |
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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:
The Challenge of Quality Multi-tier, Multi-language Applications by CAST Software - Submitted by Andrew Detandt of North Florida Rational User Group |
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New discounts effective
March 3rd Lock in the best training discounts
with the IBM Education Pack
The IBM Education Pack-online account is a prepaid electronic debit account that automatically discounts the tuition for most U.S. public classes, onsite training, e-Learning and technical conferences. Effective March 3rd, the discount levels are changing with deeper discounts for larger training purchases and smaller discounts at lower price points. If you plan to spend less than $25,000 on training over the next 12 months, you should lock in your discount now! Our pricing table can help you decide if it's best to lock in today's Education Pack discounts or wait until March 3rd. Rational Requirements
Composer Web User Interface Open Beta - Now
Available
The Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) Open Beta features the new Web User Interface (UI) that works with RRC v1.0, Interim Fix 1. The Web UI capability provides a read-only view to artifacts that are stored in the RRC server, which enables you to review, comment on, and validate requirements... all without installing the RRC client software on multiple systems. Check it out today! Rational Application
Developer - Service Component Architecture
(RAD-SCA) Development Tools Open Beta - Now
Available!
The RAD-SCA Development Tool suite is a powerful, integrated extension to RAD for the assembly of service oriented application components based on the open Service Component Architecture (http://osoa.org) and the deployment of SCA assets to the WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Feature Pack for Service Component Architecture (SCA). Managed Beta program for Rational Team
Concert for System z with Rational Developer
for System z is coming soon-
For more details-please email: ratlbeta@us.ibm.com with "RTCz" in the Subject line. Telelogic Support completes their transition into IBM Rational Client Support On Monday February 2nd, 2009, Telelogic Support officially began working as IBM Rational Support. Visit our Telelogic support overview site which contains a one-sheet reference guide about how to best contact support in your geography. This site also includes the latest Telelogic support transition communication, the new IBM Telelogic Support Toolbar, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), as well as details about how to begin navigating IBM Software Support. |
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