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Join hundreds of other software developers,
development managers, test/QA managers and
senior test professionals at the Software
Test & Performance Conference! More than 70
classes and full day tutorials cover software
test/QA and performance issues across the
entire application life cycle.
Register online today and receive $50 off the Full Event Passport price. Simply use discount code RATIONAL. Valid with new registrants only. Not combinable with other offers. |
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Community Forums
Launched!
We are very excited to announce the launch of the Global Rational User Group Forums. Please help us make the forums a success by visiting often and reaching out to your fellow members. GRUG Council Member Highlight: Allena
Kendrick, UG leader of the NYC UG
Allena Kendrick is a Senior Rational Process
Chief Engineer with 10 year experience with Rational
Integrated solutions for Financial, Medical, Federal,
State and City government, Insurance, Automotive and
Telecommunication entities worldwide. She is an ITIL
(Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
certified professional.Her hands-on tool expertise in installing, configuring, mentoring, coaching and integrating Legacy and Rational products. In her spare time, she is the CEO of the PMRGROUP Inc, founding board member of Women Impacting Public Policy, President of Women after God's Heart, President of the New York City Rational User Group and a board member of the Global Rational User Group (GRUG). More information can be found at http://www.pmrgroup.us. The New York City Rational Users Group mission is to provide a forum for exchange of knowledge, experiences and questions among members involved in the design and development of software applications using Rational. Our theme for 2008-2009 is "Going beneath the Rational Products". Our lunchtime meeting on April 11, 2008 will focus on CQTM(ClearQuest Test Manager). Rational User Group Community
Statistics:
There are over 12,000 members in 90 UG worldwide. UG News
Orange County and LA Rational User Groups Carson Holmes, UG leader of the Orange County and LA groups is organizing a number of webinars between now and April. Please visit the respective UG pages to find out more. Monthly Member
Survey
Please help us drive your feedback back to IBM by completing this month's survey dealing with application security. |
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Featured Webcast: Enterprise
Modernization for System i
Please join Bob Cancilla, Rational's System i Software Evangelist for an understanding of products and modernization strategies for System i customers. March 25th at 12pm EDT IBM Rational Enterprise
Modernization Strategy and Roadmap
In this session, Todd Britton, IBM Rational Director of Product Strategy for Enterprise Tools and Compilers, will overview solutions within the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform that can help companies overcome these challenges with comprehensive support for enterprise modernization. April 15th at 1pm EDT iRise + Rational: Lowering
the Risks and Costs of Global
Development
Come to this webinar and learn how the iRise+Rational solution helps companies get innovative business applications to market faster through a low risk and cost effective distributed development model. March 19th at 12pm EDT Improving ClearCase
scalability with NetApp storage - Sponsored
by NetApp
The webinar will explain how Innovative NetApp technology protects against disk failures, and delivers up to 99.999% storage availability to maximize ClearCase up time. Examples will be shown of ClearCase and storage administrators using the built-in storage snapshot technology to make multiple instant backups and perform rapid restores of VOBs or Views, protecting against data deletion or corruption. April 9th at 12pm EDT |
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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:
IBM Rational Certification Tips - Submitted by Andrew Detandt of North Florida Rational User Group How to evaluate Requisitepro revision email notification mechanism? - Submitted by Olivier Béghain of BERUG - Belgium Luxembourg Rational User Group Performance Testing RAM with RPT - Submitted by Janet Pigeon of Research Triangle Park Rational Users Group (RTP-RUG) |
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The NFL scores a win with
extranet media portal
"We have a very good relationship with our media and are proud of the services we provide for them. The media portal is an extension of that, which is why we want to keep moving forward and making it the best resource we can." - Leslie Hammond, Director of Media Services, National Football League |
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Rational Five Year
Acquisition Anniversary with IBM
Grady Booch and TQ Celebrate the evolution of Rational software on CODESTATION in Second Life for the 5th Anniversary of Rational Software being part of IBM. Software bugtraps: Software
that makes software better (The
Economist)
Computing: Programmers are using a variety of software tools to help them produce better code and keep bugs at bay. Rational Software support
announces new features and navigation
available on all product support web
pages
In early March, Rational support, as part of an IBM.com-wide project, deployed a new design to all Rational Software product support pages. Along with a wider, easier to read format, IBM has added Dynamic Navigation, Simple Text Search, Additional Support Links and a new Support Task Navigator to provide clients with direct access to their primary support tasks and tools. More Rational
News
Featured Event: Swiss Testing Day 2008 March 18th, 2008 Zurich, Switzerland More Rational Events |
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Featured Tutorial
NEW! Using Rational Developer for System z Version 7.1 to work with COBOL programs Explore how IBM Rational Developer for System z can significantly increase productivity when creating and maintaining traditional mainframe applications. 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. For this month, we are getting a free preview of the first chapters of the following two books that were recently released. |
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The Global Rational User Group Community
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