Rational Team Concert Turns Two: Jazz Embraces the Enterprise
Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009

Description: The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Join Robert Kennedy, IBM Rational Change and Configuration Management Market Manager, as he discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year with new platform support, translations, document collaboration, agile planning enhancements and enterprise scalability and security. Speaker: Robert Kennedy Robert is a Market Manager in the Change and Configuration Management product team for IBM Rational. Robert has been helping customers achieve success with implementing their application lifecycle management strategies for over 20 years with IBM and other leading software vendors.

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Success with Systems - Advances in Model Driven Systems Development
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Description: PLEASE NOTE: This event was targeted to GRUG members in Israel and was delivered in Hebrew.

You are facing unprecedented pressure to deliver more capabilities in your systems and embedded software using fewer resources than ever before. Combine this with increased regulatory pressures, competition and the imperative to differentiate products with innovative software. IBM Rational provides model driven systems development (MDSD) solutions that are the critical piece to addressing these issues. Explore the market leading MDSD solution, Telelogic Rhapsody, including new and updated capabilities that enable you to deliver the right product at the tight time even when there is little time and budget to produce and test the systems and software before they go into production.

Attendee Benefits:

• How Rhapsody Model Driven Development helps you accelerate the steps in Systems development
• How to bring testing early in the Design process
• Collaboration for large projects and multiple teams
• How to ensure effective communication across the systems architecture, software, mechanical, and electrical disciplines
• How MDD helps with compliance with new emerging standards and regulations
• Exploration of the basics of SysML, including a real demonstration

Speakers:

Eran Gery, Senior Manager, Systems Modeling Product Development, IBM Rational Software
Eran is the principal architect of the Rhapsody product at IBM Rational Software. He has over 20 years of experience within the modeling and embedded systems domain. He holds an MSc degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Eldad Palachi, Software Architect, Rhapsody Development Team, IBM Rational Software
Eldad main focus areas are System Engineering, UML, SysML, model-based testing, and model execution and validation. He represents IBM in the OMG SysML submission team as well as in the SPEEDS European project for System Engineering. Eldad has an MSc degree in Chemical Physics from Tel-Aviv University.

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Optimizing the new BIRT-based Reporting in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Description: This advanced reporting session jointly presented by Actuate and IBM, will review the integration of Rational ClearQuest 7.1 with the new Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) technology to meet the core, on-demand reporting requirements of ClearQuest users including:

• New real-time reporting paradigm
• Feature rich BIRT reporting and charting
• Integration of data from multiple Rational tools into the same BIRT report

This new reporting architecture also provides the basis for more advanced reporting capabilities that will allow users to maximize the value of the data captured in ClearQuest. The webcast will provide a live demo of these capabilities that include:

• Customization and user personalization of reports based on user roles
• Web-based report development by any ClearQuest user
• Secure report scheduling, archiving and distribution

Speakers

Sean Wilbur, Software Engineer, Unleash the Labs, IBM Rational
Virgil Dodson, Developer Evangelist, Actuate Corporation

The webcast is brought to you by Actuate and IBM. Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT project, and also provides value-added BIRT products and services, enabling advanced reporting options for Rational ClearQuest users

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The future of the Jazz platform: A conversation with Jazz product manager Kartik Kanakasabesan
Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009

Description: Attendee Benefits: Understand the future of the Jazz platform and the benefits this will bring to users of current and future Rational products.

How can software delivery organizations leverage the power of the Web to unify islands of people, processes and information? IBM Product Manager Kartik Kanakasabesan explores the future of the Rational Jazz platform and architecture. Kartik will discuss the current and future state of the Jazz Foundation and Jazz Team Server, and share common blueprints for team collaboration. He will show how the Jazz platform is leveraging Web architectures to enable teams to "surf the ALM Web" to speed workflow and improve team agility.

Kartik Kanakasabesan has been with Rational for over 10 years and more than 14 years of experience with Rational tools. He has been working in various capacities throughout his career, ranging from development to technical sales,consulting services, and product management. He has published several white papers and has patents that have helped customer see value in adopting Rational solutions. He is currently the product manager for the Jazz Foundation.

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Rational Application Developer Secrets that will enhance your productivity today!
Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009

Description: These days we're all required to do more with less; provide more output and meet solution needs faster than before, with a high degree of quality, while utilizing fewer resources. Whether you're a daily user of Rational Application Developer, or have have yet to even download the free trial of the leading IDE in the market, there are a number of features that can ease your day-to-day life, but might not be a part of your routine.

Just imagine starting a debug session that you can then park on a server, only for it to be handed off / picked up by your team mate halfway around the world! This webcast will cover this feature, and many more including code assist, code validation and built-in, automated quality checks that can help you identify and fix issues that you run into on a daily basis. The webcast will feature a demo of these capabilities and allow you to pose your questions directly to the subject matter experts.

Speakers:

Anita Rass Wan is the Senior Product Manager of Rational Application Developer.

She is responsible for the overall product strategy, content and delivery of the Rational Application Developer product. Anita joined IBM in 1988. She has held various senior positions in development and release management. She has published various papers, disclosures and patents in application development and performance tools.

John Pitman is one of the team leads for Rational Application Developer. He is responsible for the Java EE tooling within the Rational Application Developer product, in particular as it relates to the WebSphere Application Server. John joined IBM in 1987. He has held various positions in both development and management.

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Seamlessly connect your development teams, large and small
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009

Description: Using IBM Rational Team Concert with Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge software.

Today's software development environment is complex. Often teams that code for heterogeneous environments when building traditional applications, need to collaborate with smaller, more agile teams that build modern applications. But how do teams with such different needs and pain points collaborate without losing track of the big picture? Check out this webcast to learn how IBM RationalR Team ConcertT software can help teams of varying sizes, often located in vastly separate locations, work together to build software ranging from simple to complex. Does your organization already use IBM Rational ClearCaseR, IBM Rational ClearQuestR and/or IBM Rational Build ForgeR software? Find out how easily you can integrate those tools with Rational Team Concert to establish new agile sites and collaborate with existing repositories. By using Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge solutions together with Rational Team Concert, you can easily establish a collaborative application lifecycle management process.

Speakers:

Bernie Coyne - Marketing Manager for IBM Rational Team Concert
Bernie Coyne has worked in the software development field for 25+ years. He has held a variety of roles including chief technology officer, software development manager, systems analyst and developer. 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 IT application development. Bernie is the Marketing Manager for IBM Rational Team Concert - a new collaborative software development solution based on IBM Jazz technology.

Matt Holitza - SCM Solutions Marketing Manager
Matt has over 10 years of experience as a software development professional. In his current role he focuses on helping customers succeed in effectively managing change and accelerating delivery of their software projects. Matt has worked with IBM Rational since 1998 as a customer and joined IBM Rational in 2007 as a solutions marketing manager. Before joining IBM Rational, Matt served in many IT roles from developing mainframe applications to administering enterprise deployments of ClearQuest. Most recently Matt was the QA Manager for a Fortune 500 company.

Martin Levesque - Market Manager, Change and Configuration Mgmt
Marty Levesque is a Change and Configuration Management Market Manager with IBM Rational Software. He has over 8 years experience with the Change & Configuration Management discipline and over 10 years experience in the software development industry. Marty's current role as Market Manager is to identify new target markets, create and deliver product messaging, conduct competitive analyses and participate in analyst relations specific to the Change and Configuration Management portfolio of products. Marty is also a key subject matter expert and contributed to two published IBM Redbooks:

- Software Configuration Management: A Clear Case for IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest UCM
- Global Development and Delivery in Practice: Experiences of the IBM Rational India Lab

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Web Application Security & Compliance - Not Sure Where to Begin? Why Not Outsource the Problem
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009

Description: Not surprisingly, Web application security & compliance continues to be a top priority for CIOs. Recent headlines predict that the current economic climate will result in higher incidents of insider fraud and cyber crime in 2009. But where to begin? If your current security strategy does not include Web application vulnerability analysis or your security team doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with the overwhelming number of new applications being pushed into production, why not consider outsourcing the problem?

IBM Rational offers Web application security and compliance solutions designed to reduce the cost and risk of your online operations using the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand and Policy Tester OnDemand provide a highly effective, outsourced, turnkey alternative to on-premises licensed software to identify and prioritize Web application security and Web content compliance vulnerabilities and risks. An experienced team of product experts configure, run, and interpret results on your behalf using Rational's industry-leading software. The result is unmatched time-to-value and dramatically reduced exposure.

Join us during the Global Rational User Group webcast on Feb 25th where we will explore these OnDemand offerings. We will show you how you can improve the efficiency of your IT organization and execute with reduced business risks while taking advantage of lower start-up costs and faster time-to value. Let IBM manage the software for you, run the scans, analyze the results and let you focus on what you need to do--fix those issues that could be putting your organization at great risk.

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Improving the Performance of Distributed Rational ClearCase Environments
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009

Description: Software configuration management (SCM) solutions are commonly accessed remotely and developers can experience performance limitations when performing SCM operations over the WAN. Critical SCM transactions can take multiple minutes to complete with typical network latencies, resulting in lost productivity and higher development costs.

Using real-life performance test results and customer case studies, this Webinar will discuss how Certeon's aCelera application acceleration software cost-effectively reduces Rational ClearCase transaction response time over the WAN by as much as 93%. Customer case studies will show how aCelera can dramatically improve Rational ClearCase developer productivity.

Attendee Benefits:
Learn through real-life examples how you can optimize your Rational ClearCase performance over the WAN.

Speakers

Charlie Kraus, Senior Director of Business Development, Certeon Inc.
Charlie is a Senior Direct Business Development for Certeon and manages the IBM partner relationship. Charlie authored a white paper on Rational ClearCase Remote Client application performance and works with large Rational customers, presenting acceleration solutions for ClearCase, ClearQuest and Team Concert.

Paul Weiss, Senior Manager Performance and Reliability, Rational Division, IBM Software Group
Paul Weiss is currently Senior Manager of the Performance and Reliability team (PRT) for the Rational Software Brand of the IBM Software Group (SWG). Paul has been with IBM for 6 years and has over 13 years of experience with IBM Rational products. In addition to managing his performance team, he is responsible for maintaining key relationships with key hardware (IBM STG, Intel, AMD, Sun, HP, NetApp, EMC), OS and WAN acceleration vendors. Paul is also currently Co-Chair of the IBM Software Group Sizing Initiative responsible for providing IBM's enterprise customers with hardware sizing information for the most critical IBM enterprise SWG offerings.

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Driving Business Agility with Collaborative Software Delivery Solutions
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009

Description: These days in business, it is critical to make the right decisions, align them with your priorities, take into account evolving change and risk, and execute with the optimal use of resources. A collaborative software delivery environment can help you achieve these goals. In this webcast we will discuss how you can improve team productivity, team collaboration performance, the quality of your releases and the governance of your projects using IBM Rational Team Concert - based on the open and extensible IBM Jazz platform. We'll also cover the new Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, which streamlines document collaboration and approval processes using Microsoft SharePoint or Lotus Quickr.

Speakers: Bernie Coyne & Yaacov Cohen

Bernie Coyne
Bernie Coyne has worked in the software development field for 25+ years. He has held a variety of roles including chief technology officer, software development manager, systems analyst and developer. 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 IT application development. Bernie is the Marketing Manager for IBM Rational Team Concert - a new collaborative software development solution based on IBM Jazz technology.

Yaacov Cohen
Yaacov Cohen and the management team are responsible for developing SharePoint integration software products for IBM platforms, including Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, WebSphere Portal, and Rational Jazz. He joined Mainsoft in 1994, served as CTO for five years, and became CEO in 1999. Yaacov has a B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology.

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The Value of Application Modernization - Oxford International
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009

Description: Modern tools and languages that protect investments in and add value to critical legacy applications and IT developer skills have taken on increasing business importance. Concurrently enabling a path to SOA, and a manageable, low cost, low risk replacement strategy is equally important - in these challenging times there are no economically viable "rip and replace" alternative software strategies.

IBM's world class Rational application management portfolio, through its enterprise modernization suite provides the tools, and Oxford International, IBM's premier EM business partner for best practice EM deployment provides the solutions.

Modernization Solutions for Architecture, Assets and Skills: IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), Rational Business Developer (RBD) for Enterprise Generation Language (EGL), and Rational Developer for System i/z

Oxford International's Steve Norton, President, Alan Jack, Director of Technology, will lead a discussion and demonstration of these modern, integrated toolsets. The exciting new Rational Team Concert for IBM i (RTCi), a collaborative tool for developer team productivity, and improved management control and governance will also be presented.

This 60 minute discussion will include a product demonstration of the Rational toolsets.

The focus of the discussion is on incremental, low risk/cost transition to IT Application Modernization.

Discussion Theme:
1. Leverage and reuse of valued, proven legacy system assets as content rich, web-enabled services.
2. Seamless integration of new services (SOA) with existing legacy functions
3. "Putting it Altogether" to enable incremental, low cost, risk software replacement
4. Enablement of cross platform development and deployment alternatives to achieve cost effective, flexible IT architectures
5. IT developer skills transition to modern toolsets
6. Collaborative software development and management control processes

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Introducing IBM Rational AppScan and Web Application Security and Compliance
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009

Description: Web site security and compliance should be a top priority for organizations intent on protecting sensitive data, meeting regulatory and corporate compliance requirements, and defending against the high cost of a security breach. Web applications have become high-focus targets for attack since they potentially provide a direct route to the sensitive personal or corporate data they collect.

IBMR Rational AppScanR is a leading suite of automated Web application security and compliance assessment tools that scan for common application vulnerabilities, generate actionable reports, and help manage regulatory and standards compliance in online environments. Designed for the broadest range of users-from non-security professionals to advanced power users - AppScan embeds application security analysis across the entire software development lifecyle, from development through to deployment.

Join us during the Rational User Group meeting on January 21st where we will introduce this industry leading line of security solutions and share with you the highlights of the latest release, Rational AppScan Version 7.8.

Speaker:

Paul Kaspian is a Product Marketing Manager for IBM's Rational software division specializing in information security. Paul is responsible for IBM Rational AppScan Standard edition, IBM's market-leading web application vulnerability scanning solution.

Paul Kaspian has spent close to ten years working as part of the greater data networking and security communities and has held strategic positions in both Product Marketing and Product Management. He has contributed numerous articles and presented on a wide range of information security related topics including e-mail and web security, as well as issues related toindustry compliance.

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The Chaos of SOA Application Testing
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009

Description: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications pose some "interesting" challenges for quality assurance teams. Unpredictable business requirements and unforeseen component interactions, operating in distributed, heterogeneous environments secure with multiple layers of application integrity protection collectively amounts to a quality management nightmare.

In this session, we'll explore strategies, tools and techniques that can be used to effectively validate the fitness of SOA applications.

We'll examine:

• SOA application business function fulfillment
• Component functional and performance validation
• Post deployment SOA application performance and quality

This session will include both discussion and technology demonstration.

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Self-Serve Virtual Machines for Build Management and QA - Automatically Provision and Tear Down Virtual Resources
Thursday, Dec 11, 2008

Description: Some of the most prevalent barriers in the enterprise software development process are the significant time and cost associated with scheduling, setting up, tearing down, and tracking a wide variety of build/test environments. In fact, the time spent provisioning these unique environments can easily consume 50% or more of the build/test cycle.

Users of Rational BuildForge and the new Rational Quality Manager users now have the ability to leverage fully integrated self-serve virtual machines throughout the build/QA cycle via the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform. With both scheduled and on-demand provisioning, automated setup/teardown, and additional reporting tools, QA and IT professionals eliminate tedious administrative tasks and free up more time for focused testing, ultimately resulting in reduced costs and higher quality software. Virtualization for build/QA cycle brings the ability to provision multiple instances of the same environment in order to run multiple builds and tests in parallel.

In this presentation and technology demonstration, you will learn how to easily:

• Locate and deploy virtual build / test resources from within Rational BuildForge and Rational Quality Manager
• Automatically and reliably provision complex, multi-machine build / test configurations
• Maintain an easy-to-navigate, comprehensive library of known-good test configurations and customer/production environments
• Securely request and access environments for build processing and manual or automated testing from a Web browser worldwide (24x7)
• Leverage standard reports, or author custom reports with 3rd-party SQL tools, to accurately measure and track test lab resource use

Speaker:
Mike Andren, Director of Product Management, Surgient

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Building Rich Internet Applications with Rational Application Developer
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008

Description: Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V7.5 has been updated to provide a great number of features to help developers quickly design and develop rich internet applications, including the use of Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax using the Dojo Toolkit, and various client and server side technologies. In addition to this, Rational Application Developer provides integrated debugging capabilities for Javascript and provides integrated testing on included WebSphere Application Servers. 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.

Speaker Bio
Adeel Omer is a Marketing Engineer on the Rational Architecture Management team and focuses on the Rational Architecture and Construction Management portfolio including Rational Software Architect and Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software. Before starting his marketing career, Adeel was involved in product development and loves to share his insight on how effectively Rational tools can help developers and architects make the most out of their time.

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Joint Virtual UG Meeting - North America
Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008

Description: 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.

Here are the details about the presentation:
The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages for ClearQuest provide a solution framework for ensuring ALM best practices in your existing RationalR ClearQuestR change management system. The ClearQuest ALM packages provide you with a role-based process and security model that offers optimal performance with a collection of tightly integrated record types that create a foundation for managing software development projects. The solution can be applied to new or existing ClearQuest 7.0.1 schemas and will be included in ClearQuest 7.1.

Carolyn's Bio:
Carolyn Pampino is now focused on leading the Collaborative ALM road map and strategy for 2009 and was a primary contributor to the ClearQuest ALM packages. As a member of the 'green thread' team she has promoted the use of story boarding to drive product integrations and direction. She is a co-author of a Redbook titled Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with Rational products. Previously, she contributed to the acquisition of Build Forge, where she served as a transition manager for product management and has also contributed to the solutions and strategies related to integration with the Tivoli portfolio. Carolyn has 5 years driving product direction at Rational and over 20 years in the software development industry.

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Is SOA Dead Absolutely not! Find out why with Sogeti USA
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008

Description: Many organizations have started down the path of SOA, only to find that reality is more challenging than the hype. Businesses need to see ROI, and IT professionals have a hard time staying on the theoretical course. So, how are we going forward?

In this web-event, we will focus on the current problems around SOA, suggest successful strategies towards attaining SOA benefits and discuss how you can be the catalyst for improving IT and Business-IT alignment: essentially, making SOA work in the here and now.

Our main topic will be SOA governance: coordination, ownership, right-to-decide and versioning of services are all critical factors in SOA. Other topics will include: service lifecycles, portfolio management and an SOA maturity model.

The content of this event is based in part on the book "SOA for Profit, a Manager's Guide to Success with Service Oriented Architecture". After the event, we will send attendees an electronic copy of this book.

Speaker Profiles:

Erik Van Ommeren is the Director of Innovation for Sogeti USA and is responsible for VINT, the international research institute of Sogeti. The VINT Research institute has published and organized events around topics such as Open Innovation, new media developments, the business value of IT and IT governance. The continuing theme of VINT research is how new technology is actually used to achieve business goals. Erik is an analyst with a broad background in IT with experience ranging from software development using many different technologies to Enterprise Architecture and executive management. Part of his time is spent advising organizations on transformation projects, architectural processes and innovation. Erik is also a trainer, speaker at seminars and author of several books and articles. He is an author of both 'SOA for Profit - A Manager's Guide to Success with Service Oriented Architecture' and 'Open for Business -Open Source Inspired Innovation'. His latest book is 'Collaboration in the Cloud', which is written in cooperation with Microsoft. Contact: Erik.vanOmmeren@Sogeti.com

Ram Seetepalli (PMP) is a Practice Director at Sogeti USA's Houston office. He has extensive real-world experience in SOA, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Organization Optimization and Strategic Planning from providing consulting services to high-profile clients in several industries around the country. He has developed, provided formal training and mentored large teams at Fortune 500 clients on SOA and Business Process Management. Contact: Ram.Seetepalli@Sogeti.com

Please note that his event was re-recorded on Jan 13 due to technical difficulties.

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Maximizing the Value of the New BIRT Reporting and Charting in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008

Description: The soon-to-be-released version 7.1 of Rational ClearQuest provides powerful new capabilities for reporting and charting, based on technology from the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project. BIRT technology in ClearQuest 7.1 supports flexible and enterprise-level access to real-time reporting and metrics with new features including:

• Reporting against multiple record types and data sources
• Rich charting capabilities
• Support for sub-reports

This 50 minute webcast will include a live demonstration of BIRT reporting, and show you how to get more timely and improved visibility into your release processes by:

• Automating the scheduled generation and distribution of ClearQuest reports
• Letting users customize their view of information by modifying existing reports as they view them
• Giving users the ability to create new ClearQuest reports using a Web-based designer

The webcast is brought to you by Actuate and IBM. Actuate initiated and co-leads the BIRT project, and also provides value-added BIRT products and services, enabling advanced reporting options for Rational ClearQuest users.

Speakers:

Larry Gerard, IBM Rational, Sr. Manager, CCM Product Management
Larry is a seasoned Change and Configuration Management professional with over 20 years developing and deploying SCM tools and processes. Larry currently manages the CCM product management team for IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest. Larry has been with IBM product management roles for 11 years, managing ClearCase, ClearQuest, ClearDDTS, Rational Suite ContentStudio and ClearGuide. Prior to joining IBM, Larry worked in a software engineering process group for Fidelity Investment helping project teams implement project management best practices and tooling.

Virgil Dodson, Java Reporting Evangelist, Actuate Corporation Virgil Dodson is a Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate Corporation. Virgil has over 12 years experience as a software developer. For the past 5 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate's embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.

Vijay Ramakrishnan, Senior Director, Marketing, Actuate Corporation As Senior Director at Actuate, Vijay Ramakrishnan brings more than 12 years of experience in high technology and enterprise software. Ramakrishnan is responsible for marketing and building community around Actuate's BIRT product line, which is based on technology from the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project. Prior to joining Actuate, he held various roles of increasing responsibilities within sales and product marketing departments for companies such as Oracle and Yahoo! Ramakrishnan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley.

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Ensure Quality and IP License Compliance in Software Development
Thursday, Nov 13, 2008

Description: Many development organizations are turning to open source software as a way to stretch budgets and accelerate time to market. But there are challenges when using open source such as ensuring quality and IP license compliance to reduce risk, accelerate time-to-market.

With the recent strains on the economy, businesses have placed an emphasis on increasing productivity in order to get quality software products out the door quickly, in a cost effective manner. However, in this age of software development where open source software is combined with internally developed and other code, companies often have to work with distributed and diverse teams, making the management of software development extremely difficult. The solution is to use automated development processes for the software development workflow and validation process and embrace open source at the same time.

Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software and third-party code. IBM Rational Build Forge provides a software development platform that improves the speed, quality, and predictability of software projects.

In this webinar, join Black Duck Software and IBM Rational software for an informative session on open source trends and adoption plus a demonstration on how Rational Build Forge and Black Duck Protex provide unprecedented opportunity to:

• Leverage open source to accelerate development and lower costs
• Automate and streamline software factory including the validation of software license compliance against open source policies
• Discover open source, IP compliance and policy issues earlier in the software lifecycle to reduce the cost of rework and mitigation
• Reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance
• Improve productivity with automated processes and technologies for software assembly and validation
• Improved productivity - through reliable, repeatable processes, and rapid error detection.

Presenters:

• Dan Zentgraf, Sr. Product Manager, IBM Rational Build Forge
• Peter Vescuso, Sr. VP of Marketing and Business Development, Black Duck Software
• Kaj Kandler, Integration Manager, Black Duck Software

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From Green Screens to Web Services in Minutes Featuring HATS (Host Access Transformation Services)
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2008

Description: You may already know that HATS can extend any 3270 or 5250 green screen application to a browser, portlet, rich client, or even a mobile device. But did you know that HATS also helps you move to new architectures like SOA? New HATS enhancements now allow you to create web services from your System z, IBM i, and UNIX screens in minutes, with absolutely no coding and without having access to or modifying any of your source code.

This session will demonstrate step by step how HATS can be used to navigate through a terminal application using new Visual Macro Editor and create HATS Integration Objects that can be used by web services and other technologies. We will start with a brief HATS overview and then dive into the tooling used to create web services from any 3270, 5250 or VTXXX application. You will also learn about what's in the latest HATS 7.5 release, business benefits, customer references, and where to get trial code.

Alisa Morse serves as the architect for the HATS product team, and was the HATS V6 Chief Programmer. She has over 20 years of software development experience in a range of IBM networking products such as WebSphere Host Publisher, Personal Communications, and Communications Server. She works in IBM Software Group, in Research Triangle Park, NC.

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Web 2.0, SOA and Collaboration on System z featuring the Rational Software Delivery Platform
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008

Description: Web 2.0, mashups, and collaboration promise to create tremendous advantage for IT. The issue, how do large scale IT organizations become more responsive and deliver to that promise? Rational's October launch focuses on making IT more responsive enabling competitive advantage through adoption of these technologies across diverse IT organizations. The new capabilities announcing will enable customers to simplify development and delivery of new workloads across platforms and technologies while breaking down skills, organization and geographic boundaries.

With these new capabilities organizations can dramatically accelerate development and delivery of new workloads on System z by:

• Gaining insights into use of business rules and understanding of IT systems
• Leveraging existing and new skills to create multiplatform SOA and Web 2.0
• Extending the reach of 3270 green screens to new markets and users
• Increasing collaboration between dispersed software teams

Learn how the following enhanced IBM Rational development tools can help simplify innovation and deliver real business results. Products discussed in depth will include Rational Developer for System z, the industry's leading IDE for mainframe development; Rational Business Developer and EGL - the first single language solution for Web 2, Web, and System z deployment; We'll also touch on other key Rational deliverables including Rational Asset Manager for SOA Governance, Rational ClearCase and Team Concert supporting Change Management and Collaboration, and Rational Buildforge speeding cross platform deployments.

About Dave Myers
Dave Myers is the System z Application Development Tools Product Line Manager, specifically in charge of Rational Developer for System z (formerly WDz). He also has experience with other Enterprise Modernization offerings including Rational Business Developer (RBD), WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer (WSAA), Rational Transformation Workbench (formerly ATW), ClearCase/ClearQuest on z, and Jazz/RTC. He is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Dave has extensive experience in both the distributed and the System Z environments, including 8 years as software engineer working with government, banking, insurance, and finance customers designing, developing, and modernizing heterogeneous J2EE/.NET-System/z applications and workloads. He also works as a developer on the eclipse-based RDz and RBD tooling when free time allows.

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