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June 2007 Rational Global User Group Community Newsletter
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Welcome to the Rational Global User Group Community newsletter. The newsletter is available to all registered members of the Rational UG Community. Please click here to register and receive the newsletter.

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Success Stories
 

Community Health and counseling Services accelerates delivery of HIPAA-compliant medical software with EGL
"We have very experienced programmer analysts that know RPG very well. With EGL, we are not going to lose that strength; we are going to complement it with the ability to deploy browser-based user interfaces. EGL plugs into the IBM WebSphereŽ Development

SITA Drives Governance, Compliance, and Distributed Development Initiatives for IT and non-IT Projects with IBM Rational Portfolio Manager
Rational Portfolio Manager allows us to see the entire mix of events and the links between engineering and specific customer engagements. We have a single source for all project management related information which leads to better decision making and ena

LANSA uses full range of IBM partner benefits to increase leads, sales and revenue
Our IBM partnership has helped us grow in every way possible -- from increasing our size of our deals to entering new markets abroad. - John Siniscal, president of LANSA

User Groups
 

RUG Call for Content!
Share your own tips and tricks, great ideas, or articles with the global community! We are dedicating this section of our newsletter to include content authored by YOU! You may also send in presentations that will be placed in the New RUG Presentations Zone

Tell us about your last meeting,
Share with us any updates on your user group! Did you recently present at a technical conference? We are looking for feedback on how our community is doing. We want to hear success stories about how your groups and members are being successful. Share ideas of how you get attendance to your meetings, how you locate speakers. We are part of a very dynamic community and this is great forum for us to share our ideas. Please send your information to info@rational- ug.org.

Rational User Group Community Statistics:

    RUG Community Membership: 11,092
    RUG Active User Group: 94
    RUG Newsletter Subscribers: 7,237

Events
 

REGISTER NOW Upcoming RUG Webcast Hosted by Actuate! June 27th 1:00 EST. - Business Intelligence SOA Solutions and IT Governance from IBM Rational and Actuate
Join the upcoming webcast to hear how IBM and Actuate collaborate to provide organizations with advanced Business Intelligence solutions for IT governance. The key to effective governance is visibility into business performance. As business requirements change, organizations need the flexibility to analyze performance from new perspectives.

REGISTER NOW Upcoming RUG Webcast hosted by Agile! July 19th 1:00EST - All Together Now: Software, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Collaboration with Enterprise PLM and Software Lifecycle Management

Get started on SOA with WebSphere's proven, flexible entry points
Technical
14-Jun - Ankara, Turkey
14-Jun - NYC
19-Jun - Rome
12-Jun - Seattle

IBM Tech Briefings: SOA reuse and connectivity
16-Jun - Beijing
19-Jun - New York City

Better Software Conference and EXPO
Las Vegas
Technical
18 Jun 2007 - 21 Jun 2007

Rational's Business Developer Extension
Rome
Technical
21-Jun - Rome

Building SOA solutions and managing the service lifecycle
Pittsburgh
21-Jun
Technical

Architecture & Design World 2007
Chicago, IL
Technical
24 Jul 2007 - 27 Jul 2007

UKCMG Annual Conference
Northamptonshire, UK
Technical
25 Jul 2007 - 27 Jul 2007

Save The Date: IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference
Orlando, Florida
Technical
October 8 - 11, 2007

Education & Training
 

This month learn about What Would you do With an Extra $2,000 - $5,000 in IBM Training?, Building Boom in IBM Training Classrooms, Spring 2007 IBM Training eCatalog - Now Available, IBM Rational and WebSphere Education Launches Instructor-Led Online (ILO). Visit the RUG Education Zone to read more

Rational software training from IBM
There are many ways to learn concepts, develop skills, and gain the specialized knowledge needed to master the art of software development. IBM Training is pleased to offer training for the Rational suite to help meet all of your skill building needs. Our offerings are mapped to the Rational development tool areas, which support the distinct stages of the AD life cycle and include: Visual Modeling and Development, Software Quality, Requirements and Analysis, Configuration Management, and Rational Unified Process. Get a window into some great skill building and certification opportunities, by visiting our Rational Software catalog view.

IBM Redbooks - a great tool for building Rational skills
IBM Redbooks offer a great way to grow your technical skills with Rational software. They provide product positioning and value guidance, installation and implementation experiences, typical solution scenarios, step-by-step "how-to" guidelines, while often including sample code and other supporting materials. Redbooks are developed and published by the IBM International Technical Support Organization, ITSO. Content is available in many domains including Rational, application development, Information Management software, Lotus, Tivoli, WebSphere and many more. In each domain you can find a list of the most popular Redbooks, a list of the most recent Drafts, Redpapers (short technical documents written to reflect working experiences on a specific topic), Workshops (for highly experienced professionals on complex technical topics), Residencies (where Redbooks are developed over a 2 to 8 week process) and much more.

Literature and Resources
 

IBM Press -- Be Sure You're Taking Advantage of Special 40% User Group Discount!
IBM Press represents the best books, written by the best researchers, engineers, and developers. Simply Link to "Member Benefits" as a registered site user, and follow the instructions to obtain your discount. The IBM Press library has the breadth and dep

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