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GRUG Forums
In less than a month we have had over 1500 members join and participate in the community forums. Please take a look for yourself and interact with your fellow members. The posts so far have covered a wide range of topics from Change and Release Management to Process and Portfolio Management. |
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GRUG Council Elections at RSDC
During RSDC, GRUG will be hosting a number of events, among them will be a Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday, June 3, at 1pm. Please stop by as we will be holding elections for the GRUG Council board. All members are welcome to submit their nomination for the board by sending email to : t.dizdarevic@groupintelligence.com GRUG Council Member Highlight: Carson
Holmes- Leader OCRUG & LARUG
Carson Holmes is an IT management
consultant with over 20 years of software
engineering experience. In 1996, Carson
first partnered with Rational Software as an
instructor of OOA&D and Rational Rose.
Carson's passion for process and his
professional attitude has elevated his
consulting career from software development
to IT Governance.
Currently, Carson Holmes is the UALM Services Manager for Noblestar Systems, Inc., and helps numerous clients achieve their IT Governance and process improvement goals, with pragmatic process, policy, and metrics. Carson regulary works closely with IBM to provide industry feedback on RUP, RMC, WBM, Jazz, and the Green Thread project. Carson is the President of the Los Angeles Rational User Group and the Orange County Rational User Group, and sits on the Global Rational User Group Council. Carson will be presenting twice at the Rational Software Development Conference in June, with colleague and friend Barry Snyder. Their two presentations are titled, BPM11 - Optimizing Process with RMC & WBM, and PPM23 - A Tale of Two Case Studies: Realizing Enterprise Process with RMC. Outside of work, Carson enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, mountaineering, and playing music. Rational User Group Community
Statistics:
There are over 14,900 members in 93 UG worldwide. UG News
New UG - Connecticut Rational Users Group Joseph Noonan and Jessica Nocerino of IBM started a new Connecticut UG in the spring. They held a meeting on May 6th and are looking forward to more events in the upcoming year. 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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May 22 at 12pm CST - IBM
Rational PCI Requirements Webinar
In this webinar, we will explain the PCI requirements, how they may affect you and what you can do about it. We will then have time for Q&A so we can answer some of your specific questions about the requirement. May 22nd at 2pm EDT -
Mainframe Reality Check: Are Your Core
Applications Perfectly Aligned with your
Business Strategy?
Mainframe-based applications are at the heart of your business - but do they support the goals of your business? Security, agility, availability, and efficiency are among your central requirements. Can you spot where your applications diverge from these needs -- and execute the right development activities that return you to alignment? Learn how to modernize and align your mainframe-based applications with business goals and optimize your application development budget. June 11 at 12pm EDT -
Rational Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for
System z
Attend this Webcast to get an overview of the new on-line Sandbox for System z environment. Come and see how you can leverage this 24/7 virtual environment to quickly try out latest technologies and scenarios to help you get started with your modernization projects, leverage existing application assets, skills and accelerate deployment of new workloads on System z - while ensuring that your decades long mainframe application investments are protected and continue to grow. |
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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:
Change Management with Rational Tools - Submitted by Andrew Detandt of North Florida Rational User Group |
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HostBridge and IBM products
provide foundation for development of a new
Web-based call center application at Navy
Federal Credit Union.
"Our long-term relationship with IBM and HostBridge has enabled us to move our application development forward to provide Web-based applications that support our employees, who in turn services our members. We went from having no internal applications Web-enabled to exploiting HostBridge to build Web services used by almost all internal applications, so it's been a quantum leap for us." - Phil Arsenault, vice president of technical services, Navy Federal Credit Union Rotech experiences dramatic
performance, efficiency and availability
gains while lowering costs using IBM
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise.
"The performance of our applications has been phenomenal. The speed of interactions has exceeded our expectations." - Marlin Clark, Director of Information Systems-Technology, Rotech Healthcare Inc. Celink transforms its core
business platform using IBM middleware.
"Anybody that works in financial services can tell you that each client has a unique set of reporting and business functionalities, so the faster we can adapt and react to each individual client's requirements, the better we are at meeting our client's objectives. With IBM solutions, we built the next generation of our system with new functionality to handle virtually all situations." - Brent Steiner, Chief Technology Officer--Celink |
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IBM Rational Support's web team will be at
RSDC 2008!
The IBM Rational Support web team is really looking forward to meeting you at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008! We have much great news to share - new support tools, updated content and a new support site! Plus, we want to hear your feedback and discuss how we may improve our offerings. You'll be able to find us easily during the entire week! We'll be at the VoiCE event on Sunday; in the Solutions Center and Tech Preview area in the exhibit hall Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (look for the IBM Rational Support blimp!); and finally, we will be hosting a "Client Self Assist Birds of a Feather" Tuesday night from 6:30PM to 7:30PM in the Southern Hemisphere III ballroom! New release - Announcing the
IBM Support Assistant V4.0!
IBM is pleased to announce the release of IBM Support Assistant V4.0 with a host of new features and enhancements, making this version the most comprehensive and flexible yet. Our one-stop-shop solution to research, analyze and resolve software issues is now better than ever before, and you can still download it at no charge! All these new features augment the support features from previous versions such as multi-source search, symptom-specific data collectors, and on-line problem submission from the ease of a desktop application. As always, there are several problem determination tools to help you diagnose, analyze and resolve your issues. |
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Featured Trial Download:
Evaluate Rational Business Developer V7.1
Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Business Developer V7.1. Rational Business Developer offers rapid and simplified development of business applications and services through Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) tools, generating Java or mainframe solutions while shielding developers from technical complexities. FREE Onsite IBM professional
certification exams at Rational Software
Development Conference
As an RSDC attendee, you can take three FREE IBM Rational professional certification exams while at the conference. Additional exams may be taken at the significantly reduced price of $75. This free offer covers certification exams from IBM Tivoli, IBM Information Management and IBM WebSphere. IBM Lotus certification exams are offered for $75. IBM Press at RSDC
IBM Press (www.ibmpressbooks.com) and Addison-Wesley Professional (www.informit.com) will be at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando June 1-5. Be sure to stop by booth #707 to see the latest releases, save up to 30% on books, and learn about the special giveaways for RSDC attendees. |
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The Global Rational User Group Community
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