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GRUG News
New Features on the GRUG Website We have made a number of improvements to the GRUG Website. Some of the features are specific to UG management and only leaders will see them. There are also a number of features that we have added or improved that relate to all members.
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. Find out more 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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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. 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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Crack Open The Bubbly: Why
We're Drinking Our Own Champagne With
Requirements Composer - July 15 - 12pm
EDT
Join Tom Mutdosch and Nam Le, from the Rational Requirements Composer team, as they discuss the value Rational software delivery teams have gotten from using their own solutions. How to Achieve Requirements
Traceability between DOORS and ClearQuest -
July 22 - 12pm EDT
Learn how to achieve two-way traceability between DOORS requirements and ClearQuest records including defects, work items and test cases and automatically analyze impacts on ClearQuest records including defects and test cases due to changes in DOORS requirements. Improve the productivity of
your software developers and reduce your
storage expenses with optimal storage and
data management solutions from NetApp - July
29 - 12pm EDT
In this session you will learn how to deliver the best possible storage performance to your ClearCase users, while reducing your TCO, by leveraging NetApp's unified storage architecture. |
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Success Stories
Here are the most recent success stories that have been published on the IBM web site. CGI brings its distributed
development team together with IBM Rational
Team Concert
CGI adopted IBM Rational Team Concert software to streamline and govern software delivery across multiple development offices. The CGI development team also uses integrated requirements management and software modeling solutions from the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform. Load testing SAP ABAP Web
Dynpro applications with IBM Rational
Performance Tester
This technical solution briefly describes how the SAP CoE / Value Prototyping successfully leveraged IBM Rational Performance Tester 8.0 to test an ABAP Web Dynpro application before it went into production. |
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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:
Arun Zachariah - RUP with MCIF in MS Environment - Submitted by Julian Holmes of UK Rational User Group |
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Rational Support eGuide CD
now on Jazz.net
This new Rational Support eGuide is meant to be an additional resource to help you navigate your way around the IBM Rational landscape, with links to useful sites and pages within ibm.com. We've taken the home page of our eGuide CD and published it on Jazz.net! Stay tuned for further improvements to this online eGuide in the months ahead! New Open Betas
Please take advantage of these recently announced open betas: Rational Requirements Composer Web UI Open Beta - Now available on Jazz.net Rational Quality Manager 2.0 The Rational Performance Tester v8.1, Rational Functional Tester v8.1 and Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality v8.1 Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0 Open Beta on jazz.net Rational Developer for System z v7.6 Managed Beta 30 Productivity Tips from the developers
of Requirements Composer
Each section of this series was written by a developer on the Requirements Composer team who had a hand in designing and implementing that part of the offering. Our intention is not to replace the documentation and tutorials in the Help system of the workbench, but to complement those instructions with additional helpful tips. Part 1. Navigation Part 2. Collaboration Part 3. Templates Announcing the release of
IBM Support Assistant 4.1
With the new IBM Support Assistant 4.1, clients will be able to simplify analysis on software problems and accelerate the time to resolution. They will have even more components and tools to find solutions faster. Some of these tools include Log Analyzer, IBM Dump Analyzer for Java and Visual Configuration Explorer. And best of all, the IBM Support Assistant is more intuitive and easier to use than ever! 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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