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INNOVATE: The IBM Rational Software Conference 2010 - Call to submit your speaker application today

The call to INNOVATE is now! This is your chance to tell the world how IBM tools and best practices have helped you ignite innovation and competitive differentiation! Join us for this industry-leading conference and show how you are building a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. Become a conference speaker and share how you have: Seized business opportunities by managing change in this economic environment and by ensuring your software delivery investments are aligned with your business priorities Made better decisions based on real-time, accurate information and consensus across stakeholders Delivered quality products and software solutions through improved governance and risk management Business is growing, shifting, adapting...and so is our conference. Be in on the ground floor as we continue to INNOVATE software development, management, and delivery. Submit your speaker application today! The deadline is December 31, 2009. Selected speakers will gain: Recognition from industry peers Networking opportunities with over 4,000 attendees A conference pass valued at $1,995 at no-charge (provided to confirmed customer primary speakers) Your presentation description published in the conference proceedings Skills sharpening with the nation's leading software professionals

IBM Rational Software Mini Conference : November 11-12

IBM® Rational® Software Mini Conference is going to be held in Hazelwood, MO on November 11-12, 2009.

The conference will be kicked off with a special keynote: Innovation for a Smarter Planet. For the remainder of the two-day conference, choose the schedule that best matches your own - attend a mix of technical briefings, workshops, and executive briefings. Experience the Rational Software Development tools first-hand!

Here are some of the topics we will be offering at the conference. View the agenda now!

Technical briefings

• Techniques for Eliciting Good Requirements


• Agility at scale: Agile Software Development in the Real-world


• Hacking 101 (Web Security)

Hands-on workshops

• Hands on Workshop with Rhapsody


• Jazz and Rational Team Concert


• Quality Management; Effective Software Testing: Tools and Strategies for Project Success

Executive briefings

• Keynote: Innovation for a Smarter Planet


• Enterprise Modernization: Connecting Applications and People across Teams to Improve Business and IT Flexibility


• Lower Costs/Improved Quality: How to Deliver Enduring Quality for Less via Automation

Each day will begin with registration and a complimentary continental breakfast at 9 a.m. Morning session details: 9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Lunch will be provided from 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. both days. Afternoon workshops are from 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Register today and check out other worldwide IBM developerWorks Live! events.

Attend the Rational virtual technical briefings - November 3 & 4

Connect from your own computer Learn how IBM Rational products enable better collaboration, automation, and reporting You can join for the IBM developerWorks Live! virtual technical briefing: Quality driven software delivery: Achieving greater value and performance from software and systems investments, parts 1 and 2. Hear how modern software delivery teams enable quality management throughout the lifecycle, detecting defects early, and in the process reducing cost, and improving credibility. Part 1—Quality driven software delivery: Achieving greater value and performance from software and systems investments Date: Date: Tuesday, November 3 Time: 10:00 a.m. (New York) Part 2—Quality driven software delivery: Achieving greater value and performance from software and systems investments Date: Date: Wednesday, November 4 Time: 10:00 a.m. (New York) Note: Sign up and connect 30 minutes before the start of the event Learn how to use IBM Rational Quality Manager, Test Lab Manager, Functional Tester, Performance Tester, and Service Tester to infuse quality into software development from the beginning. Explore the role of diligent governance of the build and test execution processes. Get more information... To participate, you will need: Reliable high speed access to the internet (at least 200 kbps up and down); LAN or broadband connection is strongly recommended; test your connection speed Computer with soundboard Headset or computer speaker and microphone Windows 2000 or Windows XP Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, or Firefox 1.5 or later Screen resolution set to 1024 by 768 pixels Reliable high speed access to the internet (at least 200 kbps up and down); LAN or broadband connection is strongly recommended; test your connection speed Computer with soundboard Headset or computer speaker and microphone Windows 2000 or Windows XP Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, or Firefox 1.5 or later Screen resolution set to 1024 by 768 pixels

Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank.

IBM solutions offer practical application modernization roadmaps to help your IT organization overcome the challenge of managing both your legacy and modern systems. Please join us for the IBM Rational webcast series: Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank.

This webcast series will provide real-world best practices to implement.

Topic 1: Modernization approaches to reduce the total cost for multi-platform enterprise applications
Attend this webcast for an overview of the solutions that matter and learn how you can leverage your existing software assets and skills to deliver new business solutions, manage change, quality and reduce the total cost for multiplatform application development and delivery.

Topic 2: Three steps tor effective multi-platform development
Learn tips and tricks on how to manage change and automate software delivery across the lifecycle to dramatically cut your maintenance costs.

Topic 3: Moderrn quality management for efficiency and speed to market
Learn how our quality management solutions help solve multi-dimensional, cross-platform, software quality lifecycle challenges of modernization projects.

Upcoming Rational Web Events.

Here are couple of upcoming Rational Web events. If you are unable to attend these events, the replays will be available within 24 hours of the live event.

Turn your IT plan into a competitive advantage in an uncertain market
Harnessing the power of Enterprise Architecture
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 11:00 a.m. (New York)
Integrated with Enterprise Architecture (EA), portfolio management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

Streamlining roles (webcast series)
Episode 1 - Collaborate with your stakeholders thru requirements-driven quality
Date: Thursday, May 28
Time: 11:00 a.m. (New York)
Hear from Michael Lundblad, program manager for IBM Software Requirements and Quality Management, on how the IBM Rational requirements-driven quality solution provides ways to evolve projects with agility based on changing requirements, acquire seamless real-time data on project health, and gain early and often project team consensus of requirements.

IBM Rational Software Conference 2009, May 31-June 4, 2009, in Orlando, FL.

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	See the return on investment and why you can't afford to miss this year's conference

Get ready to uncover how Real insights plus Real teams equals Real results, at the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009, May 31-June 4, 2009, in Orlando, FL. With over 400 sessions in 19 tracks, 28 technical and hands-on workshops, IBM Certification Testing at no cost, and an inspiring line-up of keynote speakers, this is the educational event of the year. Register today. IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 Dates: May 31 - June 4, 2009 Location: Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando FL 4 Real reasons to attend this year's conference! It's time to Get REAL. See a preview of "As Real as It Gets:" the world's first software reality show. Get a year's worth of education in one week: See your return on investment and why you can't afford to miss this conference. Inspiring keynotes with industry-leading experts and IBM leaders including Steve Mills, Dr. Danny Sabbah and Grady Booch, plus Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of MythBusters. Validate your technical and sales expertise by certifying your skills with on-site IBM Professional Certification exams! Attendees of the IBM Rational Software Conference are entitled to take one IBM Rational Certification exam at no cost while on-site at the conference. We hope to see you in Orlando! Find us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team

Rational Quality Manager 2.0 beta available‏

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Following your participation in the Rational Quality Manager beta program last year, you might be excited to hear that the Rational Quality Manager 2.0 beta is now available on jazz.net.
Rational Quality Manager provides a centralized test management environment to help increase the efficiency and quality of software delivery by mitigating risk and lowering cost through collaborative ALM for test planning, workflow control, tracking and traceability, and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions impact and align with business objectives. Rational Test Lab Manager, which is an extended component of Rational Quality Manager, helps to improve the efficiency of the test lab environment and optimize its utilization, cutting workload and saving on test infrastructure.

Also on jazz.net, is the Rational Team Concert 2.0 beta.  IBM Rational Team Concert is a team-aware software development platform that integrates work item tracking, builds, source control, and agile planning. Rational Team Concert interoperates with other products by providing Visual Studio integration and connectors for ClearCase and ClearQuest. Learn more about the capabilities of Rational Team Concert.

We look forward to you trying these latest releases.  Let us know what you think by posting your feedback on the user forums on jazz.net.  The most recent version 1.0 releases for Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager are also available to download from jazz.net.

Happy testing!

Going Green - GReen IT Report

Going Green - GReen IT Report Resources and information for the technical professional

With today's market realities—rising energy costs; shrinking power and space capacity; increased regulatory scrutiny; and higher customer expectations—going green is not only socially responsible, it's an economic imperative. Issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability impact every business, worldwide. In a world that is increasingly connected, IBM recognizes that taking a 'smart systems' intelligent approach to offerings, processes, and infrastructures can be the key to solving energy issues. As an IT professional, you play a pivotal role in developing your company's green strategy. Improving overall energy efficiency begins with your ability to diagnose and identify which areas need improvement - are you focused on your IT operations? Do you need to make your business processes more efficient? Can you help optimize the way people work? Explore resources and discover information specifically for the technical professional in the GReen IT Report. Green IT - it matters: Make your applications work smarter by redesigning business processes, increasing automation, and developing an efficient application lifecycle. Build your "green" skills: Don't be left behind in the dirt...tutorials, e-kits, articles, trials, downloads and more to keep you growing.People and Ideas: Adopt a culture of energy efficiency by enabling mobile and home offices, reducing travel, and consuming and producing recyclable materials.Green Mainframe: The mainframe has been green for years. Save energy by consolidating servers, employing improved cooling technologies, managing systems & energy use. Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team

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	Execute with reduced risk and cost to deliver enduring quality

IBM Rational software testing and quality management transforms the way teams work together to deliver enduring quality. Learn more with these resources: 2009 Thought Leadership Series from Rational Quality Management Explore topics including: Balancing the innovation and transformation mandate against business risk Tackling governance with a new barometer to determine "when am I done testing?" Achieving real ROI from quality management - Automation techniques that pay Differentiation through collaboration - Lowering the cost of software and time to market with requirements driven quality "Difficult for competitors to equal." Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Impact Brief: IBM Rational introduces new quality and requirements management offerings which extend the value of the Jazz platform Julie Craig (EMA) reviews IBM Rational's newest quality and requirements management offerings. Her verdict? "She continues to be impressed... for companies seeking to improve ROI delivered by software, we believe Rational's value proposition is difficult to match." Teleconference replay: Migration from HP-QC to IBM-RQM: The Sogeti Practice IBM Rational Quality Manager helps software delivery teams collaborate by allowing them to share information, to use automation to accelerate project schedules, and to report on project metrics for informed release decisions. But how do you get started? What are the implementation challenges? How do you move from your current environment to IBM Rational Quality Manager? Hear how Sogeti, a Rational Quality Manager case study, addressed implementation and migration to IBM Rational Quality Manager from HP Quality Center. Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team

Smarter Application Modernization

Smarter Application Modernization
	Learn how to save time, money and maybe your job

Today's economic climate has put cost control front and center on the IT agenda. IT organizations will be facing tough choices on how to rapidly modernize their aging application portfolio and infrastructure to respond to changing business environments and balance this against pressure to reduce costs. Learn more with these resources: On demand webcast: Smarter application modernization saves time, money, and maybe your job Speakers: Speakers: Phil Murphy, principal analyst, Forrester Research, and Hayden Lindsey, IBM Rational Software Group, vice president and distinguished engineer, Enterprise Tools and Compilers Forrester's application modernization framework and IBM solutions offer a practical application modernization and portfolio management roadmap to help your IT organization: Leverage portfolio value, build flexible architectures and superior quality workloads to quickly respond to change Choose the most optimal deployment platform for modern and new workloads Empower existing and new skills to achieve greater business agility and IT productivity Improve operational efficiency of teams through consolidation, collaboration Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z Play in our no charge sandbox with our solution scenarios featuring Rational Asset Analyzer and Rational Transformation Workbench. Also, don't miss these bonus webcasts to learn how the banking industry is addressing challenges in the new economic environment:An analyst's perspective in overcoming IT challenges and meeting growing business objectives in the banking industryFaster payback for the banking industry using application development solutions from IBM Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team

Rational ClearQuest ALM Appliance V7.1

	Ready-to-use change management production server

It's simple to evaluate Rational ClearQuest in a production ready configuration with the new Rational ClearQuest ALM Appliance. Skip the product installations, schema design and database configuration - after setup you're ready to go! Download Rational ClearQuest ALM Appliance V7.1 today. This virtual server with Rational ClearQuest 7.1 is pre-configured with easy to use and flexible change management practices, project iteration planning, work tracking, and modern web 2.0 based access for global teams. The appliance includes a pre-configured IBM DB2 database repository and runs as a virtual SUSE Linux server on a VMware hypervisor. After setup, you're ready to go to support teams of up to 20 users.