Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

This podcast highlights key topics that will be presented as part of the application security and compliance stream at the Innovate 2011 conference including how organizations can address a variety of application security challenges, helping attendees focus on the best practices and approaches for integrating security testing across the development lifecycle. Brian Moran, speaker.

Oscar Wilde said, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." One of the best advantages to being a part of the Rational Network is the opportunity to learn from others and to leverage others successes and failures. This year, IBM presents you with stories from customers such as AT&T, DHL, Samsung, General Motors, and some of the world's largest banks. Learning from others is a critical component to giving your company the right conditions to succeed. The customer success track is packed with 32 sessions where Rational customers discuss their experiences - trials and tribulations, and most importantly, share their stories on how to be successful. Tamara Kulesa, speaker.

Energy and Utility companies have traditionally focused on their core business of distributing electrical power in a reliable and efficient manner. With the adoption of the Smart Grid, electric power distribution is coupled with bi-directional, and frequently copious, data exchange. The underlying data is defined through standards from IEC, and a set of best practices is essential to implement and manage this new, data-centric paradigm. Irv Badr, speaker.

Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Steve Shoaf and Nicole Katrana, speakers.

Product and Service Innovation: Speeding the delivery of innovative products and services that transform the way we live, work, and play. Smarter. Flatter. Intelligent. Interconnected. Instrumented. We all agree that the world is changing. More likely than not you are building products or services that are driving this evolution. But are you prepared lead? Learn how IBM can help you prepare and win in the age of Smarter Products and Services. Dominic Tavassoli and Pierre Coyne, speakers.

Almost daily, the healthcare industry makes the news headlines the industry is changing and undergoing a huge transformation. This transformation is driven by healthcare reform, aging populations, compliance mandates (ICD-10, HIPAA 5010, etc), and the business challenges of reducing costs, operating more effectively and improving customer service. Are you ready for change? Are you able to proactively plan for change versus simply responding to each demand as it comes your way? Learn how you can enable informed strategic and tactical decision-making to more effectively manage change and transformation while controlling costs and enabling the innovation that differentiates your business. Valerie Hamilton, speaker.

Successful ALM empowers organizations to get fast answers to questions that span multiple teams, tools and projects. But what's the "special sauce" that makes those fast answers possible? IBM Rational Program Director Carolyn Pampino explores best practices for transforming ALM environments so they are more collaborative, transparent and productive.

The upcoming ISO 26262 will, in many cases, add additional requirements to E/E engineering departments of automotive OEM and suppliers. How to deal with the enforcements of ISO 26262 and how the IBM Rational Software Platform for Automotive Systems helps achieve requirements of ISO 26262 is the subject of this podcast. Karla Ducharme, speaker.

It is well known that on-time delivery of a complex system is never certain. This fact raises the question every project lead should be able to answer, "What are the odds of making the date?" This podcast provides a method for answering this key question. Murray Cantor, speaker.

With public data breaches occurring almost daily and compliance demands on the rise, securing web applications used to collect sensitive data is a priority. So how secure are your web applications? This podcast will address the state of application security today, the benefits of building security into the software lifecycle and how you can make web applications more secure. Leading security expert, IDC's Charles Kolodgy will explain today's web application security challenges and best practices on how to overcome them.

Delivering the right products at the right time can provide a powerful boost to a manufacturer's bottom line. Dominic Tavassoli from IBM Rational, explores the tradeoffs associated with capability (i.e. function, time to market) versus the complexity introduced by additional product features and ecosystem interoperability that actually make a product "smarter".

Executives need portfolios that meet customer needs AND align with business objectives. Engineering needs to deliver mass customization with limited resources. Learn how IBM can help you develop and deliver the right features and products to the right markets at the right time with the convergence of product and portfolio management and product line engineering.

Today we are going to talk about two different co-development solutions from IBM - one around the use of ClearCase in conjunction with Cadence Design Systems, a leading EDA company and IBM's own use of Clear Quest by the Hardware division. The reason this is so timely is that increasing electronics companies are seeing software as the catalyst for innovate and product differentiation. Gone are the days when software developers would wait for the latest release of a chip and then determine how to use it; today software frequently drives hardware choices. As a result, companies are recognizing the need for tight coordination and collaboration between the software and hardware engineers and the processes, tools and terminology they use. By having a common set of processes and tools, companies are able codevelop smarter products more efficiently, at a higher quality and lower cost. Speakers: Sreenivasan Rajagopal and Wayne Carrigan.

Teams are consistently under pressure to deliver more applications, work more effectively, faster within a consistently decreasing timeframe. To help our WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Business Process Modeler customers, IBM has released new capabilities to help Supercharge your WebSphere Application and Process Server investments with IBM Rational. Speakers: Adeel Omer and Mahendra Pingale.

Products today are much more interconnected than they were five years ago. You can use your cell phone to sync up data to your computer. While this sounds impressive the question is how to develop applications without having complete architectural while maintaining reliability, safety, and security. Speaker: Martin Bakal.

Smarter products are the building blocks of a smarter planet, but how do you make smarter products better and faster than your competition? Companies require product and systems development capabilities that can balance the trade-offs between product features, quality, time- to-market and profitability. IBM calls its set of capabilities for building smarter products integrated product management (IPM). Speaker: Steve Shoaf.

Agile software development techniques have taken the industry by storm, with 76 percent of organizations reporting that they had one or more agile projects under way. Agile is becoming widespread because it works organizations are finding that agile project teams, when compared to traditional project teams, enjoy higher success rates, deliver higher quality, have greater levels of stakeholder satisfaction, provide better return on investment (ROI) and deliver systems to market sooner.

While you were on vacation, IBM has been hard at work updating our solution portfolio for architects, developers, analysts and quality professionals. In this hour, we'd like to update you on the latest advances in our core development portfolio: Rational Software Architect and Rational Application Developer. We'll also update you on the latest updates to our Quality Management portfolio. Usability enhancements, model simulations and deployment planning and automation are available in leaner (and cheaper!) software solutions. We've made new changes to support agile development teams, and focused on facilitating team communication and collaboration. And now we'd like to tell you what we've done.

New Rational Developer for Power now supports Linux development in addition to AIX and IBM i. One "workbench" for all your Power development needs. Shell shares with common Eclipse offerings, as well as new RAD SE for Java tools. We also had a complete refresh of Rational compilers for Power. Listen to our Product Managers talk about the new fuctionality for Power developers which can make you more productive and your applications exploit the new technology of the Power hardware.

Need to gain control and insight over your end-to-end software lifecycle? The Rational Jazz platform is designed to be the "common glue" that can integrate a broad range of development tools, and help project teams collaborate, automate, and report across the software lifecycle. Join Robyn Gold and Pam Induni to learn what makes the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution a game-changer.