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The Chaos of SOA Application Testing
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Webcast date: January 14, 2009

Webcast time: 12pm ET

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.

 

Driving Business Agility with Collaborative Software Delivery Solutions
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Webcast date: February 4, 2009

Webcast time: 12pm ET

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 & Philippe 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.

Philippe Cohen
Philippe Cohen is Mainsoft's Vice President of Products, a position he has held since 1999. In this role, he oversees Mainsoft's product operation, from inception to delivery. He has extensive experience creating cross-platform development tools as well as expertise creating software that integrates Microsoft SharePoint with IBM middleware, including Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, WebSphere Portal, and Rational Jazz. Currently he is overseeing the development of Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Quickr editions.

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The Value of Application Modernization
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Webcast date: January 28, 2009

Webcast time: 12pm ET

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, and Doug Singh, Manager of Modernization Services 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

 

Improving the Performance of Distributed Rational ClearCase and Team Concert Environments
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Webcast date: February 11, 2009

Webcast time: 12:00pm ET

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 and Team Concert application response time over the WAN by as much as 93%. Customer case studies will show how aCelera can dramatically improve Rational ClearCase and Team Concert developer productivity.

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

Speaker Bio
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