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November 2008
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Welcome to the Global Rational 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.

Call for Papers is open for the Rational Software Development Conference 2009!
IBM Rational software invites you to submit your papers for the 12th annual Rational Software Development Conference, which will be held May 31 - June 4, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The deadline is Monday, December 15th!


GRUG - BECOME A SPONSOR!
"The success of our Webinar program was due in large part to the ease in which we are able to manage it. IBM Rational and the Global Rational User Group made this possible by eliminating the manual event-management processes and automating the capture of customer data, which had a corresponding impact on new business. Without question, the User Group's ability to capture, store and share customer information was crucial to our ability to be proactive and respond quickly to Webinar-generated sales activity. The result was a Webinar program that complemented our global marketing efforts while enhancing the overall performance of CAST's business."
Jake Messier - Marketing Communications Director, CAST Software

The Global Rational User Group community is the information and community hub for User Groups, Business Partners, IT professionals and business users. It is a forum to communicate and share experiences, ideas, solutions, and technical expertise related to the use of Rational family of products and related products and services.

GRUG Sponsorships enable you to:
  • Build awareness across the Rational community
  • Educate users and other Partners about relevant solution offerings
  • Drive key messages to end-user customers
  • Customize sales presentations via dynamic solution mapping
  • Participate in promotion of key events
  • Influence additional training/services opportunities via User Groups

For more information on our sponsorship packages and services, please contact us at info@rational-ug.org
Joint Virtual North America UG Meeting
Please join us for the first virtual Rational User Group meeting for North America. We will start out with a brief introduction by Carson Holmes, the GRUG Council President, as well as the UG leader of the San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange County UGs. Second, we will have a presentation by Carolyn Pampino of IBM Rational about the application lifecycle management packages for ClearQuest.

For more information, please visit your local UG page.

Rational User Group Community Statistics:
There are over 17,600 members in 94 UG worldwide.

For Members in Brazil: Você conhece o Sr. Ping?
O Sr. Ping trabalha com desenvolvimento de software e perdeu contato com sua equipe!

Todos os seus projetos estavam organizados, mas ele imaginou que conseguiria se comunicar com seu time e isso não está acontecendo. Ajude-o a estabelecer contato! Acesse o site http://www.viagemdosrping.com.br. Com um clique você pode ajudar!

Bi-Yearly Member Satisfaction Survey
Please help us improve your Community by completing our semi-annual.
November 19 at 12pm ET - Maximizing the Value of the New BIRT Reporting and Charting in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1
Attend this webcast to learn more about the BIRT reporting in CQ, including the ability to join data from multiple CQ instances into one BIRT report, and how to get more timely and improved visibility into your release.

December 10 at 12pm ET - Building Rich Internet Applications with Rational Application Developer
The webcast will go over the various features that set Rational tools apart in terms of helping you acquire and use your web 2.0 development skills sooner.

December 11 at 12pm ET - Self-Serve Virtual Machines for Build Management and QA - Automatically Provision and Tear Down Virtual Resources
In this presentation from Surgient and IBM, you will see Build Forge and Rational Quality Manager are integrated with the Surgient virtualization tools.

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 DEMO: Rational Build Forge and Rational Team Concert
This demo provides an overview of the new integration with IBM® Rational® Build Forge 7.1 and IBM Rational Team Concert.

NEW PODCAST: Outside-in software development and Rational Requirements Composer
Join Carl Kessler, VP of WW Software Development as he discusses the challenges faced by organizations looking to define requirements that balance competing perspectives in order to maximize stakeholder returns. Carl discusses best-practices from the "Outside-In" methodology and tools, like Rational Requirements Composer, that aid teams to adopt these best practices, and provide techniques to accomplish successful stakeholder directed projects.



Whip your skills into shape at IBM Rational boot camps
These intensive courses deliver a potent combination of classroom and Web-based training taught by product experts. Plus, you save 20% off the price of attending these classes separately.

Enroll Today!

IBM adds 70+ Telelogic courses to its training portfolio
With its recent acquisition of Telelogic, a global provider of software and services for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM), IBM now offers 70+ Telelogic classes. These courses teach companies how to align product, systems and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs. This powerful alignment significantly reduces time-to-market and overall costs.

Check out our Telelogic courses

IBM Rational Knowledge Community becomes the first IBM internal community to adopt IBM Rational Asset Manager
The IBM Rational® Knowledge Community, an internal IBM community, was established to provide an environment where practitioners in IBM Global Business Services can collaborate and learn how best to deploy IBM Rational software solutions.

IBM Service Management helps Swiss Re IT make ITIL best practices actionable
Working with IBM, Swiss Re is implementing an IT service management model based on ITIL3 that will enable it to achieve the scalability, flexibility and quality of service it requires.

Announcing the release of IBM Rational Team Concert v1.0.1
With the release of Rational Team Concert on October 31, 2008, IBM Rational recognizes that organizations are looking for flexibility in license usage and management. Rational Team Concert 1.0.1 introduces floating licenses to the Standard Edition which provides a concurrent user license mechanism that is centrally logged and reported for easy auditing. Teams using Standard Edition with high latency networks can also take advantage of the new standard HTTP proxy server support.

Rational Team Concert Express Edition has been enhanced in this release with new customizable project dashboards that enable the team to view real-time status on trends and tracking to project milestones.

Expanding contributor access for team collaboration is now even easier with the elimination of counting contributor licenses in the maximum user count for both the Standard and Express Editions.

Rational Team Concert also expands its platform support to include Windows 2008 server, SQL Server and Firefox 3.0 browser.




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