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Maximizing the Value of the New BIRT Reporting & Charting in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1

With the release of Version 7.1 of IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® provides a powerful new reporting paradigm with capabilities for real-time reporting and charting, based on technology from the Eclipse™ Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project. IBM and Actuate Corporation, founder and co-lead of the BIRT project, have collaborated to provide a more robust reporting solution to meet the reporting requirements of ClearQuest users with a new real-time reporting paradigm, feature-rich BIRT reporting and charting, and the ability to integrate data from multiple Rational tools, like RequisitePro, into the same BIRT report.

Click Here to learn how you can maximize your investments in Rational using BIRT through exclusive resources from IBM and Actuate, including a whitepaper, interactive demos, and on-demand webinars.




DeviceAnywhere™
The Ultimate Mobile Testing Platform
DeviceAnywhere™ provides best in class mobile application development solutions including mobile application testing, test automation and monitoring solutions allowing organizations to cut time and operational expenses associated with testing mobile content and applications. DeviceAnywhere™ helps organizations of all sizes bring their products, services and IT applications to the mobile platform more efficiently. DeviceAnywhere™ has integrated with the Rational Quality Center and has also integrated DeviceAnywhere Automation™ with Rational Functional Tester.

How can DeviceAnywhere™ enhance an organization's usage of IBM Rational? Click Here:


GRUG at the Rational Software Conference
Carson Holmes and Julian Holmes of the GRUG Council compete in front of 2,000 attendees at a karaoke competition. Thank you to all GRUG members who participated at the Rational Software Conference in Orlando this year.


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.

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Global Rational User Group Community Statistics:
There are over 20,500 members in 96 UG worldwide.

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IBM Helps Organizations Transform Software Investments into Strategic Business Assets
At the 2009 Rational Software Conference, IBM announced new products and services to help organizations more effectively align their business strategies with their investments in software.

Did you know that you're in the software business?
lBM Rational helps you deliver innovation and competitive differentiation.

ComputerWorld: IBM rollout 'Jazz-es' up software project management
IBM unveils software project management wares as a precursor to enabling access to Rational products via a cloud computing paradigm.

Rational Software Conference Recap
Find reports, keynote videos and other pertinent information from this year's Rational Software Conference.

If you were unable to attend RSC in Orlando, please find the list of this year's local conferences:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/rsdc/aroundtheworld.html

Introducing IBM Rational Insight
IBM Rational Insight, a performance management and measurement solution, gives organizations the right tools to keep their project and process investments in concert with their strategic objectives, providing transparency and control into risks, status, and trends. IBM Rational Insight ensures that managers can measure, monitor, and analyze performance correctly and take corrective actions when necessary. This software delivers measurement best practices that help organizations reduce time to market, improve solution quality, and take greater control of software and systems development and delivery.

Requirements Composer is now on jazz.net
Learn about the RRC project, ask a question in the forum, see the project dashboard and download the web user interface open beta.


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.

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.

Success Stories
Here are the most recent success stories that have been published on the IBM web site.

Telelogic System Architect fuels growth at AGL Energy
AGL Energy continued their investment in Telelogic System Architect to define and capture business processes across the enterprise to ensure that business processes and supporting IT systems aligned with the company's strategy.

Anhui Mobile accelerates software development and configuration management with IBM Rational solutions
To stay competitive, Anhui Mobile must strengthen its core business by continually developing new features and services to meet customer demand. Anhui Mobile standardizes on IBM Rational applications for change and configuration management to achieve greater efficiency and quality.

Presentation Zone
Do you have a presentation to share with the community on how to implement Rational software? Post it on the Presentation Zone!


New Webcast: Modern Quality Management for efficiency and speed to market.
In this third series seminar, we examine best practices, tools and strategies for lifecycle quality management of modernization projects.

New Podcast: What's new with Rational Quality Manager v1.0.1
This RTTY podcast (#40) summarizes new capabilities in this release that include work item integration for defect specification and a concurrency license model between Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert. Included are the collaborative and automation advantages and benefits these new capabilities bring to dev/build and quality/test teams alike. It's also available via http://www.ibm.com/podcasts/software/rational/index.rss and on iTunes at the Rational software podcast series.

IBM software delivery best practices e-Kit: Do more with less
This e-Kit is for anyone who wants to deliver effective software, while reducing costs and risks in this challenging economic environment. Our white papers, videos, webcasts, and customer success stories provide guidance and best practices while showing you how Rational solutions help you gain both short- and long-term value. This e-Kit is divided into three areas to help you: * Understand the problem and solution * Build, test and deploy your solution * Realize distributed development

Go global with your information: Five steps to efficient and cost-effective international deployments whitepaper
The global economy in today's environment includes both large and small organizations who reach around the world. Growth into new geographic markets and changing consumer expectations drive the need for greater information in context at a much more rapid pace. This whitepaper will discuss five steps IT departments and administrators can take to meet the challenge of creating efficient and cost-effective international deployments.




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