Webcasts

Design and Automate Software Deployment

Webcast date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Webcast time: 11:00 AM EST
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Description:

Delivering product and service innovation with integrated service management for design and delivery. Ever wonder how quickly your phone got you directions and downloaded your favorite tunes? IBM Rational® and Tivoli provide the capabilities to design and deliver increasingly complex system of systems projects along with the systems and application software critical to delivering a superior user experience. In today's interconnected world every service and interaction between the multiple systems and stakeholders needs to be managed, monitored, and maintained in a production environment with little or no visibility into how the ecosystem will evolve over the next few years. Current models of design, development, operations, and deployment simply won't scale or be cost effective.

Integrated service management for design and delivery from IBM bridges design, development, test activities seamlessly with operational processes to meet the ultimate needs of the business and synergistically enabling organizations to:

• Identify required changes and resolve customer issues in less time
• Reduce system downtime and repair costs
• Limit risk exposure by providing better visibility to change impact

Speakers: Seema Sheth-Voss and CJ Paul

 

Tired of wrestling with point solutions? Then step up to a lean ALM platform!

Webcast date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Webcast time: 11:00 AM EST
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Description:

Does your organization develop for both Java and .NET platforms? Are you looking to tie-in your legacy system development with newer development technologies? Are you adopting agile development practices? Do you want to leverage your open source tools? Are your teams scattered among different offices, time zones and countries? Then attend this webcast by Rolf Nelson, product manager for IBM Rational Team Concert, and learn how an agile application lifecycle management solution can help disparate teams produce high quality software in a much more cost effective and predictable manner. We make it easy for you to trade up from your current software.

Highlights: (where we deliver a superior solution to MS)

• Full agile practice coverage: agile planning, estimation, plan risk assessment
• Incremental adoption
• Build integration
• Lower TCO
• Seamlessly integrated solution (less moving parts)
• Scalability in team size and geographical distribution
• Multiple platform support including Windows, Linux, IBM i, System z
• Open platform (OSCL, ecosystem, open source,...)
• Could we bring in CareMedic as a case study (Robin Garside contact)
• Show we can handle more robust requirements and quality mgmt capabilities by using RRC and RQM as appropriate vs Microsoft
• Include competitive trade-ups, CC trade-ups, and CQ entitlement to RTC

Speaker: Rolf Nelson, RTC Product Manager

 

Getting Started with Agile - Method

Webcast date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Webcast time: 11:00 AM EST
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Agenda:

• Review of Agile disciplines and methods
• Deep dive on Scrum
• Demo of how Rational Team Concert Express-C Free edition automated key Scrum activities

Description:

Is your team ready to do Agile development, but unsure where to start, which methods to tackle first, or if your existing tools will be sufficient? Join IBM and one of our top Agile Business Partners, ATSC, for an in depth discussion of Agile methods, where to start, and why a deep dive using Scrum, illustrated through IBM Rational Team Concert Express-C (Free Edition) can accelerate new teams in their Agile adoption to achieving rapid results.

Speaker: Mr. Kim Werner

 

The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF)

Webcast date: Thursday, March 25, 2010

Webcast time: 10:00 AM EST
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Webcast time: 9:00 PM EST
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Description:

IBM Rational offers a structured approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous process improvement. The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) helps you gain competency in the core development practices that most impact business outcomes. This panel will provide you an opportunity to hear from the creators of MCIF and to ask any questions you may have related to this framework and how it relates to you and your business.

Speaker: A GRUG Virtual Panel Discussion with - Per Kroll, Bruce MacIsaac & Chris Sibbald

 

Optimizing Rational Team Concert Application Performance for Rapid ROI

Webcast date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Webcast time: 9:00 AM PST
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Agenda:

• Overview
• The WAN Bottleneck Problem
• aCelera Virtual Appliance Software
• Rational Team Concert Performance Testing and Results
• ROI Savings
• Summary
• Contacts and Resources

Description:

Critical to lowering costs and increasing the efficiency of remote software development environments is a high performance wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. SCM solutions are commonly accessed over the WAN where remote developers can experience performance degradation due to high latency, resulting in lost productivity and higher development costs.

This Webcast features IBM Rational Team Concert performance test results and total cost of ownership (TCO) and ROI analyses to demonstrate how Certeon’s aCelera WAN Optimization software cost-effectively reduces Rational Team Concert response time over the WAN by up to 95%, saves 60% in capital and operations TCO, and can deliver a rapid ROI.

Speakers: Charlie Kraus, Certeon, Sr. Director of Business Development
Paul Weiss, IBM Rational, Sr. Manager Performance and Reliability