As part of a multi- faceted alliance, AMD and IBM are developing customer-centric solutions with IBM Rational. AMD is pleased to support IBM and be a part of Rational's growth. To learn more about AMD, please visit http://www.amd.com/enterprise.

To learn more about the Rational and AMD partnership, please contact Pamela Boyd at Pamela.boyd@amd.com.

AMD was the platinum sponsor of the Rational Conference in Bangalore August 23 and 24th. Over 500 developers and executives from India and AP stopped by the AMD booth to learn about our partnership with VMWare as well as our new Quad Core Opteron processor - Barcelona.

Ready for IBM Rational software Comes to You is a webinar series designed to expose you to a cross section of value-added IBM Ready for IBM Rational software (RfRS*) solutions available from Rational Business Partners to extend your Rational software implementations. This webinar series is rich with live demos so you can see first hand how these offerings integrate and enhance the features and functions of the Software Delivery Platform increasing the ROI of your Rational software investment.

Upcoming Webinars:

September 19th at 12pm: Bridging from Systems Engineering to Model Driven Development - Collaboration through Architecture - Sponsored by Pathfinder
In this webinar, Pathfinder Solutions shows you how, by applying the IBM Rational Model Driven Systems Development approach with the SysML language with specific optimizations to improve collaboration and software architecture longevity, key architectural techniques and work products can serve as an effective bridge between systems engineering and software development. By outlining a rigorous and coherent set of steps that are collaboration focused and based on proven modeling disciplines, this webinar helps transform your separate Systems Engineering and Software Development groups into an efficient and effective joint team.

October 3rd at 12pm: Secure, High Quality Code with IBM Rational Application Developer & IBM Rational ClearCase - Klocwork Source Code Analysis Integrated with your Software Lifecycle - Sponsored by Klocwork
The introduction of security and quality bugs in your code can be prevented by enabling developers to find bugs early in the software lifecycle before they check-in new code. This requires a source code analysis solution tightly integrated with both Rational Application Developer and Rational ClearCase.

In this presentation you will see a demonstration of Klocwork's automated source code analysis used directly within the Rational Application Developer environment, enabling the best defense against check-in of potentially crippling coding errors.

October 17th at 11am: From Chaos to Continuous Improvement: Leveraging RUP Software Delivery Best Practices for CMMI® - Sponsored by Wipro and featuring Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst from Forrester Research
Leveraging CMMI for business advantage is a key goal for many organizations. Becoming more process mature can reduce costs, redundancy, implementation risks and improve quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Whether your organization is just beginning the journey or stabilizing existing efforts, join Wipro Technologies and IBM Rational Software for an educational webinar on October 17th at 11am to:

• Learn from the experts about software delivery best practices for CMMI
• Understand the powerful synergies that exist between the IBM Rational Unified ProcessR and CMMI.
• Learn about a ready-made solution that can help you fast track your quality journey by exploiting the synergies

Archives
The Sept. 5th webinar, hosted by Ravenflow is now available in our webcast archive.

A Joint Global Rational Community and Tivoli User Community: Increasing Agility Across the IT Service Lifecycle
Webcast date: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Webcast time: 10:00 EDT

Description: A service-centric approach requires coordination across the full IT service lifecycle. Organizations need to integrate around the IT service lifecycle to help drive efficiency, agility, and growth for customers. Until recently, you rarely saw development connected with operations . . . nor did you see either side connected with the "business side of IT" - IT staffing, planning, governance. A service centric approach, exemplified by the recent version 3 release of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), is one that connects all 3 of these organizations together and allows you to manage services from initial thought conception to development, to deployment into operations and eventually into the retirement of that service. This webcast will cover the products from Rational and Tivoli that demonstrate this agility across the IT service lifecycle.

Speakers: Bernie Coyne, IBM Rational, Perry Swenson, IBM Tivoli, and Geoffrey Bessin, IBM Rational

Speakers Bios:
Bernie Coyne has worked in the software development field for 25+ years. He has held a variety of roles including chief technology officer, product development manager, systems analyst and programmer. He has worked for IT consulting firms, software product companies and has experience in both the private and public sectors. He has a wealth of hands-on experience in practical IT service lifecycle situations. Currently he works in Rational Marketing on the Governance & Risk Management Program.

Perry Swenson is the worldwide Program Manager for the IBM Service Management Program. With over 28 years of information technology solution experience, Perry has a strong depth of software, services and product experience. Since joining Tivoli in 2000 he has focused on service management solutions and the benefits of integrating development and operations.

Geoffrey Bessin, a member of the IBM Rational Strategy and Planning team, has held field enablement, product management, and go-to-market positions within Rational for 10 years. He is currently focused on the evolution of IBM Rational's strategy from software and service development to software and service delivery and governance - a more holistic strategy that incorporates business, development, and IT operational concerns.

Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments
SCM experts Brad Appleton, Robert Cowham and Steve Berczuk discuss capturing and using the right metrics to help you optimize your software configuration management processes.

IBM Software support announces new features and navigation available on main support web 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.

Rational Leading Innovation Website is Now Available!
In the increasingly complex world of software and systems delivery, the Rational brand stands for business innovation and the best practices to help you succeed. Here we showcase the thought leadership and technical know-how that keep our customers on the competitive edge.

CAIXA Econômica Federal slashes infrastructure costs and boosts customer convenience with a new lottery system leveraging IBM hardware and software.
"The new lottery system allows us to extend our banking services through our lottery offices. In fact, more than 60 percent of bills paid in Brazil are now paid at our lottery offices." - -CAIXA Econômica Federal

Details are now available for sessions, labs, and more at the IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference in Orlando
A listing of sessions, labs, and discussion for this exciting event is available in a special directory on our web site. Count on a very full schedule for the entire conference! Enjoy more than 5 different tracks with topics for a wide range of interests. Join us for the largest annual event dedicated to WebSphere Portal business solutions and technical strategies.
Technical
Orlando, FL
10/8/2007-10/11/2007

Software Development Best Practices
Boston, MA
SD Best Practices is where the major players in the software development community gather to learn about the latest technologies, network with peers and connect with the industry's leading vendors. The SD Best Practices conference delivers business-critical development training focused on giving you the tools you need to successfully incorporate best practices, quality design and proven management techniques into your development projects.
Technical
9/18/2007-9/21/2007

Embeded Systems Conference Boston
Boston, MA
IBM will be present at this conference in the UML track.
Technical
9/18/2007-9/21/2007

JAAO Conference 2007
Aarhus, Denmark
JAOO is a conference made for developers by developers. At JAOO we gather knowledge on a broad range of topics in professional software development.
Technical
9/23/2007-9/28/2007

EclipseWorld 2007
Reston, VA
"EclipseWorld is the industry's first independent conference for enterprise software developers, architects and development managers using Eclipse tools and technologies.

Simply enter 'IBM' when asked for a code on the online registration form and receive a $100 discount "
Technical
11/6/2007-11/8/2007

DeveloperWorks Mini-Conference
Waltham, MA
This 2 day event provides a hands-on opportunity to use Rational software development tools and tools for managing service lifecycle: service planning & definition, analysis & modeling, development & deployment, versioning & service retirement.
Technical
10/17/2007-10/18/2007

DeveloperWorks Mini-Conference
San Mateo, CA
This 2 day event provides a hands-on opportunity to experience the Rational software development tools, including the software testing tools. Other hands-on sessions provide experience on the Eclipse open standards tools.
Technical
11/1/2007-11/2/2007

IBM Tech Briefings

Rational Business Developer Extension
Seattle, WA
11/6/2007

Portland, OR
11/8/2007

IBM SOA Executive Summit
"We have an important event to promote to our User Group community-the IBM SOA Executive Summit is an opportunity arranged exclusively for CIOs and high level executives.

A flexible IT infrastructure means a flexible business. One that can respond effectively to rapid change. Boost your ability to compete. And foster innovations that can change the game to your advantage. IBM SOA Executive Summits are a prime opportunity to make SOA a successful key to your strategy.

The event features a lineup of executive speakers from IBM, reference customers, and analysts so whether you are just beginning your SOA journey or are already a seasoned traveler, this event packs more knowledge, collaboration and empowerment than any other you are likely to experience. Speakers and networking opportunities will demonstrate the value of SOA and how IBM can help you build a better, more flexible business model with strong ROI returns on their investment.

Register for an event near you today.

IBM SOA Architect Summit
We have an important event to promote to our User Group community-the IBM SOA Architect Summit is an opportunity arranged exclusively for Enterprise and IT architects.

Businesses are depending on Enterprise and IT Architects to make Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) work. The right implementation will add immediate value and business flexibility. IBM SOA Architect Summits can help you develop a winning strategy and set you and your team on the path to success.

The event features a formidable lineup of senior IBM subject matter experts so whether you are just beginning your SOA journey or are already a seasoned traveler, this event packs more deep technical knowledge, collaboration and empowerment than any other you are likely to experience. Speakers and networking opportunities will demonstrate the value of SOA and how IBM can help you build a better, more flexible business model with strong ROI return on your investment.

Register for an event near you today.

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:

Case Study: Implementing Use Cases Through a Use Case Resource Center - Submitted by Janet Pigeon of Research Triangle Park Rational Users Group (RTP-RUG)

Enough Process, Let's do practices: An Introduction to EssWork and EssUP - Submitted by Gina Cavoores of North Florida Rational User Group

RMC Perspectives - Submitted by Geri Winters of Pittsburgh (Western PA) Rational User Group

Utilizing IBM Rational Tools to Successfully Outsource in a Globally Distributed Development Environment - Submitted by Janet Pigeon of Research Triangle Park Rational Users Group (RTP-RUG)

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.

*New* IBM Rational Instructor-Led Online (ILO) Get the education you need on Rational tools right from your desk and be part of a virtual classroom! Rational Education now offers Instructor-Led Online courses, which are synchronous classes with live instructor interactions, hands-on labs, and group interactions. ILO provides you with an alternative to traveling to a physical classroom location by training you in your own learning environment. ILO training also benefits those who need to train teams that are geographically dispersed allowing you to complete training locally in your own environment, and reduces the need for travel to a classroom.

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.

IBM Press Books and Redbooks - two great resources for IT skill building
Books are wonderful resources to both build and refresh skills. They provide a wonderful opportunity for self-paced learning while becoming a handy reference guide for use on-the-job. IBM offers many great resources to build your library of technical and business skills - two of which are IBM Press Books and IBM Redbooks.

IBM Press (http://www.ibm.com/ibmpress) is the official publisher of IBM retail books for professionals and students, and provides a variety of books to suit individual learning styles. It has a large variety of resources covering software, severs, business, and on demand topics. New books are added each month. IBM Press publishes books that are authored by eminent architects, engineers and consultants, as well as business leaders, with contributions from other experts working in the IBM community.

IBM Redbooks (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/) 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 the domains of application development, IBM System i, p, storage, x, z, Information Management software, Infrastructure solutions, Linux, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere. 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.

Precision Payment Plan for the IBM Education Pack - online account The IBM Education Pack - online account makes it easy for you to save big on IBM Training. In addition, our "precision payment plan" adds flexible account levels to this savings plan option. You no longer need to purchase a prepackaged offering. Instead, buy the IBM Education Pack - Online account in $100 increments with a minimum purchase of $1,000. What's the advantage to precision payment? Smaller increments let you match your account balance to your training needs Add only as much as you need - avoid losing unused balances Save money on every purchase A wide variety of training options are covered from public classes, onsite, technical conferences, instructor mentoring, and e-learning.

Rational Web-based Training (WBT) now Hosted on IBM Learner Portal
Effective September 1, 2007, IBM Rational WBT is available through IBM Learner Portal. The IBM Learner Portal is an online web based, fully-managed, learning environment with content hosting services, which manages online course content, has user authentication and tracking/reporting, and is specifically designed to bring self-paced courses and information ""front and center"" for the student.

Instead, you can now purchase and self-enroll in course collections priced as a portfolio of courses for one year. These collections are available across the lifecycle stages of Architecture Management, Process and Portfolio Management, Change and Release Management, and Quality Management.

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 depth of coverage to support you throughout your career.

New Release: "SOA: Principles of Service Design", authored by Thomas Erl

Rational Edge
The Rational Edge is IBM's monthly, online magazine for the software development community. Focused on all aspects of the software development lifecycle, The Rational Edge delivers practical insight and commentary from IBM Rational thought leaders.

More information can be found at www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/rationaledge/

Webcasts

Live Webcast: Collaborate Without the Chaos: Effective Collaboration for Global Development Teams
Join us on September 26th at 11:00 a.m. ET to hear a distinguished panel discussion between Dr Dobbs Journal and IBM technical experts on the importance of effective team collaboration. IBM offers solutions that automate tasks between teams, make communication easier, resolve problems faster, and document results so everyone stays on the same page. Tune in to this enlightening full-length video discussion led by technology insider and CMPTV Executive Producer Jon Erickson and top IBM Collaboration Thought Leaders; Grady Booch, Don Boulia, Charles Hill and Michael Green discuss how IBM helps global development teams work together like they were next door.

Live Webcast: WebSphere Business Modeler for developers
Join us on September 20 at 11:00 a.m. ET to get a technical overview of WebSphere Business Modeler from this Software Delivery Platform webcast. We'll cover the basics of business modeling, the business-driven development cycle, and how WebSphere Business Modeler works with other development tools from the IBM WebSphere and IBM Rational product sets.

Live Webcast: IBM Rational Approach to Virtualization with VMLogix for Global Software Delivery
Join us on September 27 at 11:00 a.m. ET to learn how you can leverage IBM Rational Build Forge and VMLogix LabManager to automate global software delivery by harnessing the power of virtualization from Microsoft, VMware and XenSource. IBM Rational Build Forge provides reliable, high-performance builds for agile development and streamlined software delivery. VMLogix LabManager ensures rapid, highly repeatable, resource-optimized deployments of complex, multi-machine build and test environments on-demand across virtual and physical platforms. The combined solution offers breakthrough productivity and quality gains for enterprise software delivery.

Live Webcast: Development to Deployment: Application Development with Free Tools from IBM
Listen to this webcast live on September 25 at 11:00 a.m. ET to learn about updated, freely downloadable tools and capabilities from IBM that help developers build robust, scalable web applications that can form the basis for enterprise applications.

On-Demand Webcast: Developing Web 2.0 Mashups with Info 2.0
Listen to this webcast to learn how you can use new Web 2.0 tools, principles, and practices in your company. Web 2.0 is one of the hottest things on the consumer Web, but where does it fit in the enterprise? And how can companies use new Web 2.0 tools, principles, and practices to harness the vast amount of data both inside and outside their company? Hear from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies, as he discusses what IBM is doing in the Web 2.0 space and gives demonstrations of Info 2.0, including the QEDWiki mashup maker and Mashup Hub, and shares lessons learned from joint Web 2.0 development projects.

Trial Downloads

IBM Rational software for testing SOA applications
IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services. IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality is a load and performance testing and problem analysis tool that extends performance and scalability testing to SOA applications. These new tools allow you to perform script-less automated functional testing of Web services, functional verification testing of Web services, interoperability testing of Web services, load testing of Web services, and System Resources and SOA monitoring.

Try IBM Rational Performance Tester online
You can now evaluate IBM Rational Performance Tester online without installing or configuring it on your own system! Rational Performance Tester is a load and performance testing solution for teams concerned about the scalability of their Web-based applications. Rational Performance Tester simplifies the test-creation, load-generation and data-collection processes to help ensure the ability of applications to accommodate required user loads. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.

Demos

Development and technology integration demos
View or download demos to learn more about how IBM can help you integrate new technologies, architectures, and processes into your environment, even for teams in multiple locations. Explore key open standards-based technologies such as Eclipse and Linux -- and see how IBM products enable you to rapidly build and deploy applications in heterogeneous environments for all major platforms.

Architecture, design and construction using the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, Part 3
This demo shows you how to use the model fuse capabilities of the Rational architecture tools.

This demo is the third in a nine part series of demos that supplements the developerWorks Live! briefing, ""Architecture, design and construction using the IBM® Rational® Software Delivery Platform"". This series of demos are the same demos shown at the live briefing.

Developer self service with IBM Rational Build Forge IDE plug-ins
This demo shows you how to do a preflight build using IBM Rational Build Forge IDE Plug-in. This feature allows developers to build checked-out or private source files in a remote build system without having to commit those changes. This ensures developers are building in the same environment as production, and that environment can only be changed by the build team.

Unify your System i test efforts with IBM Rational software
This demo shows how IBM® Rational® Software enables IT organizations to effectively manage three dimensions of application development: test management, requirements management and workflow management. This demo highlights Rational ClearQuest, Rational RequsitePro, and Rational ClearQuest TestManager.

Unify your System z test efforts with IBM Rational software
This demo shows how IBM® Rational® Software enables IT organizations to effectively manage three dimensions of application development: test management, requirements management and workflow management. This demo highlights Rational ClearQuest, Rational RequsitePro, and Rational ClearQuest TestManager.

Tutorials

Model Service-Oriented Architectures with Rational Software Architect: Part 2. Modeling the business domain
This tutorial, Part 2 of a series, introduces the concepts and tools involved with modeling service-oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM Rational® Software Architect. In this series, you will learn how Rational Software Architect, along with IBM WebSphere® Business Modeler, supports a model-driven development (MDD) approach to the specification of SOA.

Using IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality: Testing Java Message Service on IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6
Learn how to set up the environment required for IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality to use the WebSphere V6 Java Message Service (JMS) transport and how to test Web services by using this JMS implementation.

Using IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality: Testing SOAP-Secured Web Services
Learn how to test SOAP-secured Web services by using the IBM Rational Tester for SOA quality.

Transform UML to COBOL with WebSphere Developer for System z, Part 1: Create COBOL programs and Web services without writing code
Explore a new feature in Version 7 of WebSphere Developer for System z: z/OS Database Application Generator. z/OS Database Application Generator automatically generates CICS COBOL programs that can access DB2. It also generates a Web service, as well as the JCL to assist in the deployment of the generated code. In this tutorial, you will get a quick introduction to this feature and walk through an example scenario in which you transform UML to COBOL.

White Papers/Articles

SOA Governance with IBM Rational Asset Manager
The success of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) in terms of software development and delivery is dependent on a strong governance environment supporting the effort to develop and deploy services and service based applications and frameworks. This whitepaper discusses some of the challenges around SOA governance in the context of a the service lifecycle, and introduces IBM Rational Asset Manager as a solution to those challenges, illustrating the principles of IBM's development-time metadata management strategy in the context of SOA Governance.

Optimizing development compliance management and governance
This paper addresses the compliance and governance landscape as it relates to development and IT professionals. It examines the relationship between application development and compliance management. And it identifies approaches that can help optimize internal procedures. Finally, this paper discusses how IBM® Rational® Build Forge® build and release management software can help provide a foundation and framework for good IT governance and efficient ongoing compliance management.

Automatically create and generate reports using IBM Rational Portfolio Manager software Whitepaper
Ease the task of enterprise reporting. Take back control! Learn how IBM Rational Portfolio Manager software gives you the power and real-time information you need to effectively manage your projects and portfolios.

Offers

Codestation Coder's Challenge in Second Life
If you've been keeping up, you already know that IBM CODESTATION is a virtual island in Second Life, offering resources for Second Life developers and LSL scripters. It's a place for like-minded developers to get technical information, interact and have fun! On July 31 we launched the first of four stages of the Codestation Coder's Challenge - the Sentinel 2.0 Project. Can you build the ultimate SENTINEL defender? Compete against your fellow coders and explore Second Life as you strive to defeat evil and protect Codestation.

Beginning on Tuesday, August 28 all of the details on STAGE 03 of the Challenge can be found at specially marked kiosks in Codestation: http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20CODESTATION/124/159/25.

In addition, access information on Codestation and the upcoming Coder's Challenge on our new developerWorks blog!

if you didn't begin the Challenge on July 31, you can still participate and complete previous stages at any time! But hurry, if Codestation is to be saved, we need your help!

ProObject Training is an IBM Premier Partner certified to conduct the full line of Rational training. ProObject Training offers a variety of courses including Ration Rose Real Time using C++, and the full line of ClearQwest products.

Our training facility, equipped with state-of-the-art computer workstations, is located in Hanover, MD just a few miles from the Baltimore Washington International (BWI) airport.