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GRUG Webcast
Archives
Over the last year we have hosted over 20 Rational related webcasts. They were all recorded and are available for replay on the community site. The topics covered include:
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GRUG Council News
GRUG Council elected a number of new members and still looking for a few more fresh faces. If you are interested in joining the Council and helping guide the future efforts of the community, please contact Tin Dizdarevic at t.dizdarevic@groupintelligence.com GRUG Council Member Highlight: Wendy
Batten - IBM
Wendy Batten has been part of Rational Software since 1996. She started her career as a field sales person and then transitioned into marketing as the world-wide reference program manager for Rational. Upon acquisition with IBM she has held positions as the Rational Brand Reference/Case Study and is now the Marketing Manager for Rational Communities: Global Rational User Group and Academic Initiative. Rational User Group Community
Statistics:
There are over 15,500 members in 93 UG worldwide. UG News
New UG Leadership - India - Hyderabad Rational User Group A new leadership team has taken over the reigns of the Hyderabad group and is planning new meeting in the near future. Monthly Member
Survey
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June 18 at 12pm EDT -
Metrics that Matter with CAST Software
Learn about the "metrics that matter" for technical quality that can help organizations to increase the manager's level of visibility, reduce application risks and accelerate application delivery. This webinar is ideal for PMO professionals, QA managers, project managers, senior architects, CTOs and overall managers of critical business applications. June 24 at 1pm EDT -
Rational Quality Management v8.0 Open Beta
Webcast
Offers an early opportunity for customers and IBMers to: learn more about the open beta program, introduce the new v8 portfolio highlighting Rational Quality Manager, get a dialogue going/answer questions, and get started with the open beta code. June 24 at 1pm EDT -
Leverage the Value of Your People and System
i Assets Through Modernization
IBM and Oxford International invite you to spend a little time listening as they discuss ENTERPRISE MODERNIZATION - DELIVERED. Modernization of the IT enterprise, people skills, development tools and applications is a key to managing these challenges. IBM Rational software provides the common toolset solution to resolve your technology islands, while Oxford International provides the transition and deployment expertise to support your modernization program. |
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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:
Traceability from Use Cases to Test Cases - Submitted by Chris Gillespie of Columbus Rational Users Group (CORUG) |
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Cars.com Turns to IBM
Software and SOA Expertise to Drive Rapid
Business
"Our SOA strategy has been fundamental to supporting our most important business projects... Bringing together IBM hardware, software and services has enabled us to take on these and other large projects to deliver new value to our site visitors and advertisers in a way that would not have otherwise been possible." - Manny Montejano, CTO, Cars.com Wachovia sets a new standard
for flexibility by bringing SOA to its
payments function
"We've chosen a path that has accelerated the adoption of SOA into the core of our business. It's given us a clear advantage in the kinds of attributes that banks like Wachovia now have to excel-speed, flexibility and efficiency." - Leigh Ferrante, senior vice president and IT managing director, Wachovia PPS brings unprecedented
flexibility to the South African insurance market
"Most of what we need to do to introduce a new product is now easily accomplished.. It is vastly more efficient than it was before." - Stephan Clark, head of business applications, PPS |
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IBM Tranforms How People
Work Together To Deliver Software
IBM today announced new software that will transform how people will collaborate thereby driving greater value and performance from their globally distributed software investments. New IBM Programs and
Business Partner Products to Accelerate
Software Delivery
IBM today announced software and programs to help clients more quickly and effectively deliver software in a global team environment. Rational Quality Management
ROI calculator
Use the new ROI (return on investment) calculator to find out how you can benefit from implementing a Rational functional test automation solution. The ROI calculator helps you identify objective labor savings from automating your functional testing. |
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Featured Trial Download: Try
the new IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox
for IBM i
The IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment (the IBM Power Systems platform, including IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, and System i) is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them. Featured eKit: IBM Rational
Project and Portfolio Management
certification training e-kit
Get free PMI training in the IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management certification training e-kit. As a member of the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 PMI-certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Now, you can learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with six free courses based on IBM's best-practices processes and tools. IBM Press -- Be Sure You're
Taking Advantage of Special 40% User Group
Discount!
The Global Rational User Group Community's special partnership with IBM Press entitles Rational members to 35% discounts on all IBM Press books (as well as additional select software titles from Pearson's Addison-Wesley Professional and Prentice Hall Professional imprints). Once logged in, click on "Member Benefits" and proceed to the IBM Press link. |
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The Global Rational User Group Community
email:
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