Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Highlights of the three Enterprise Modernization tracks supporting DevOps for the Enterprise, including mainframe, AIX, IBM i and Linux environments. Our three track chairs discuss the main topics that will be explored to help you plan your Innovate experience. Speakers, Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskin, Dwayne Moore and Kimberly Gist

Delivering quality software on-time, on-budget and on-target isn't easy: costly, error-prone manual processes; slow deployment to development and test; upgrade risks due to multiple applications platforms - all of these cause delays and bottlenecks in software delivery. For organizations using mobile, social, big data and cloud technologies for competitive advantage, they need a smarter, more flexible foundation for software delivery. Businesses are benefiting from continuous aligning releases with business strategies and goals and balancing those priorities with user feedback. Speakers, Roger LeBlanc and Kimberly Gist

Hear what’s new and exciting about Innovate 2014, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2014 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on at the event, and how you can Innovate@Speed with IBM. Speakers, Brian Bryson and Kimberly Gist

BlueMix is IBM's recently announced $1B investment into the cloud—it is IBM's cloud platform. Let's take a minute to understand what BlueMix is, how developers can leverage it today, and why it matters to business. Speakers, Chris "Spence" Spencer and Kimberly Gist

Service outages and system downtimes have a direct adverse effect on consumer satisfaction. That's why for telecommunication companies, developing and building resilient services is especially important. In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the importance of resilient services and what to keep in mind as companies aim to develop resilient services. Speakers, Tolla Cherwanka and Jiani Zhang

With development time and cost constantly being squeeze, how can companies become more efficient and capture the most from their development investments? In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the concept of strategic reuse, its connection to continuous engineering and its application to product development. Speakers, Joanne Scouler and Jiani Zhang

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments -- from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail. When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty. In this podcast, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist.

Your business depends on software. So it's critical that enhancements be meaningful and timely – but you are confronted with legacy applications managed through disparate processes, tools and siloed teams that take too long to deliver the software changes needed to support your business. In today's podcast, Tim Hahn, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Enterprise Modernization joins us to discuss IBM's point of view on DevOps and solutions available to accelerate integration of emerging systems of engagement applications such as mobile with existing systems of record spanning distributed, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Speakers, Timothy Hahn and Kimberly Gist

Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? How can your team deliver software faster and improve quality? How do you balance speed, cost, quality and risk, that seems like a tall order? Speakers, Sanjeev Sharma and Kimberly Gist.

Global organizations developing complex systems are facing increasing pressure to innovate, to develop more features at a lower cost with higher quality than ever before; staying ahead of the curve is essential to remain competitive. In this podcast we will talk about how to create processes that people accept and embrace and how to select the right technologies to run them. Participants will learn how to transform the development environment from isolated engineering silos to a collaborative learning organization. In short, to ensure harmony between People, Process and Practices. Speakers, Erich Meier, Brett Hillhouse, and Kimberly Gist.

Faced with the pressures of empowered consumers and fierce competition, communication service providers (CSPs) need to constantly optimize the services they deliver to their customers. CSPs are forced to continuously update customer-facing applications and internal IT applications that improve performance. By capturing the benefits of continuous deployment, CSPs can not only streamline their deployment of applications, increasing efficiency and speed, but also improve coordination and integration across both internal and external application environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist

The role of a business analyst is changing day by day and is getting exciting with the increased business value that a BA can deliver to the organization. Do you have what it takes to be a successful business analyst? Join us for a podcast where George DeCandio, Distinguished Engineer discusses about the top competencies needed to become a successful business analyst. Speakers, George DeCandio and Kimberly Gist.

In current development processes, various methodologies and supporting software suites are used for system level analysis and multi-physics simulation analysis. These analysis are two critical parts of a Continues Engineering methodology, which have not been married in the past and have been carried out in silos by separate teams with minimal interactions. For an effective Continues Engineering methodology, it is imperative to close this gap. This podcast describes the successful joint effort by IBM and its business partners to develop a hybrid simulation platform with the goal of connecting system level analysis and multi physics simulation. Speakers, Amit Fisher, Jens Schindler, Sayyidul Arafat and Kimberly Gist.

DevOps processes and tools are helping Retailers compete in their fast paced mobile, digital and physical markets. Hear what key retailers are doing to deliver innovation faster. Learn how they can collaborate with customers and stakeholders during development to ensure success. Test virtualization and deployment automation are improving front end mobile to back end mainframe lifecycle development processes. DevOps processes and tools can enable your company to quickly respond to market shifts with greater agility, quality and success. Speakers, Sue Green and Kimberly Gist.

Recent advances in the energy sector are prompting a transformation in development practices. Energy organizations must be lean, agile, and focused on maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems. Join this podcast to hear IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass discuss how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while increasing their focus on safety. Speakers, Bruce Douglass and Kimberly Gist.

From 4k TVs to healthcare wearables, the consumer electronics industry is not only diverse in the types of products but also expansive in covering multiple aspects of the consumer's life. These electronic products are innovating at lightning speeds and are facing challenges that are new to this industry. Factors such as certification, safety, and extensive connectivity are essential to modern day consumer electronics. In this podcast, listen as we explore these new challenges of consumer electronics and discuss how to turn these challenges into opportunities. Speakers, Jiani Zhang, Michael Rowe and Keith Collyer

Businesses are working to address the challenges of today's complexities and demand that has shifted delivery time lines from months down to weeks and even days. The key to a successful DevOps program is bringing together environment delivery, tooling, automation, governance and organizational collaboration. The PureApplication system can act as a catalyst to launch a successful DevOps program. Speakers Don Thomas and Kimberly Gist

In the current Electronics market with the pressures of fierce competition and empowered consumers, having the right products at the right time is pivotal to success. In this podcast, we will discuss the two distinct types of speed: innovation speed versus development speed. Speakers: Jiani Zhang and Martin Bakal

Equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-readable identifiers could be transformative of daily life. According to ABI Research more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things (Internet of Everything) by 2020. Along with this latent potential comes inevitable complexity. When your architecture has to scale from hundreds to millions to billions of things rigorous methods and tools would be required to manage the exploding complexity. Join this podcast to understand how Rational is gearing to contain complexity. Speakers, Michael Rowe, Manprit Singh, and Kimberly Gist.

From changing business environments and technology trends to ever-increasing customer expectations, there are many factors forcing you to rethink the product and systems development and delivery lifecycle. In this podcast Jon Chard, marketing manager for IBM Rational Smarter Product Development discusses the key challenges and how Rational is continuing to deliver on its strategy of an open, connected, systems approach to Smarter Product Development. Speakers, Jon Chard and Kimberly Gist.