Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Medical device manufacturers are faced with challenges to bring innovative products to market quickly while meeting functional, safety and regulatory requirements. Discovering a defect late in development or even worse, one that forces a product recall can be devastating to a medical device manufacturer. During this podcast, Paul Urban, Senior Medical Device Marketing Manager from IBM, discusses how using model driven development helps to accelerate the development, validation and verification of medical devices by assisting in team collaboration through graphical modeling, validating requirements through rapid prototyping, and automating the software development and test process.

Listen to Rick Slade, IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization Manager and Community of Practice Lead, as he introduces this timely new Webcast series: 'Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank'. 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.

Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational discusses with ebiz Q a topic on the top of every company's mind today: getting the most from their IT investments. This is of course the major focus of this year's IBM Rational Software Conference on June 1st.

Today, companies face complex WebSphere infrastructure management challenges. The key to delivering greater operational productivity with quality lies in automation. This podcast will answer questions about the new Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere, an optional feature that extends the Rational Build Forge solution, and is designed specifically for automating application deployments for WebSphere Application Server and Lotus/WebSphere Portal environments. By eliminating manual/complex tasks when managing WebSphere environments, this solution will help to improve productivity, cut costs, improve quality, and enforce governance without extra work.

To compete in today's economic environment and deliver superior products to your customers, software organizations have to define and manage requirements in a way that delights customers with high quality and innovation. In order to do that, companies must build the right solution -- the first time. In this podcast, Kurt Bittner, CTO for Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Inc. and author of Use Case Modeling, will talk about how to do that -- how to work with stakeholders to ensure your solution focuses on desired outcomes, rather than the customer's idea of what the solution should be, and how to document the solution as agreements are reached.

We are experiencing one of the most difficult economic climates in decades. The conversation has turned from innovation and winning in the marketplace to one of surviving and staying afloat until the crisis has passed. In this podcast, Beth Friday, VP, WW Client Support, Rational, talks about strategies for survival -- strategies that include the imperative to deliver winning solutions despite limited resources through requirements driven quality.

What's new with Rational Quality Manager v1.0.1? Listen to Brian Bryson and Bernie Coyne share the new capabilities in this release that include work item integration for defect specification and a concurrency license model between Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert. Included are the collaborative and automation advantages and benefits these new capabilities bring to dev-build and quality-test teams alike.

Now more than ever, software development teams need to realize productivity gains quicker, cut costs without sacrificing quality and become more effective with the resources that they currently have -- be they local or distributed. With the release of Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase and Rational Build Forge v7.1, IBM solidly delivers what today's companies have been demanding from an enterprise class Change and Release Management solution. A strengthened, centralized deployment model easily adopted for global teams is at the heart of this release. Jamie Thomas will answer questions using real world examples about the new features and advancements that will help software development teams realize effective distributed development through the use of remote clients, database replication, centralized monitoring and more.

Graham Stradling at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the importance of effective requirements management in delivering high quality systems to customers. With technologies converging and increased pressure on the telelcommunications industry to provide increased speed and bandwidth to customers, ensuring a reliable, fast efficient system is critical in order to maintain a competitive edge. By managing requirements across the whole lifecycle, Alcatel-Lucent are able to make sure that quality is not compromised and they can successfully meet their customers' needs.

The face of software development is changing rapidly. Today, software is often mission-critical to business success. And yet, recent studies show costs for software development are rising 10% annually, and unfortunately, about twice the rate of IT budget growth. In this podcast, hear Susan McNeice, a technology consultant at Frost and Sullivan, talk about the characteristics and benefits of solutions available today to move your development to a more productive environment.

This podcast will introduce Flash and Flex security. It will present the most prevalent security concerns in these technologies; suggest techniques on how to test for their existence and will provide recommendations and best practices for avoiding such security vulnerabilities.

In this podcast, Stefano Sergi, IBM Rational Product Line Manager for EGL and Rational Business Developer, talks about "EGL", IBM newest business language for accelerating Web and SOA development for i5/OS.

Listen to IBM Rational Quality Management evangelist and thought leader, Mike Lundblad, discuss the new Quality Management thought leadership whitepaper series and its first paper titled, "When am I done testing?" -- a new barometer for measuring the business risk of release versus the cost of continuing testing that provides an innovative framework for answering the questions: "Is it wise to continue spending money on quality assurance?", "Will further testing cost more than it is worth?", "Am I sacrificing too much value if I delay going to market now?", "Is the software even ready for release?"

In an uncertain economy, IT needs to do more with less. Given tightening budgets, and increased competition to innovate and adapt to change in a difficult marketplace, businesses need to align their business and IT goals, while at the same time reusing and repurposing existing applications and technologies to take advantage of modern architectural frameworks such as SOA. IBM can help businesses reduce the total cost of ownership of their IT investments - investments which they have either just acquired, or investments which already exist in mainframe systems across lines of business. In many cases, there is no clear knowledge of the importance of these applications to the business, and IBM can help customers understand this massive portfolio of applications through consolidation and modernization to help eliminate duplication, reduce maintenance burden and improve IT effectiveness.

Listen to Jerry Krasner, Ph.D., MBA, Vice President of Embedded Market Forecasters and its parent company, American Technology International. Jerry, a recognized authority with over 30 years of embedded industry experience, advises vendors and consumers on what software and embedded developers are using, what is working and what is not, and the associated costs of product development. During this podcast, Jerry will discuss and share his recent findings that are presented in his ROI paper, The Economics of Embedded Development, Testing, Deployment and Support. This discussion is intended to help senior management consider alternative development strategies that can be used to enhance design outcomes, meet market windows of opportunity, and minimize product recalls.

Organizations are being asked to be more responsive, efficient, and effective in supporting their business goals. Some development teams are turning to agile methods to address this challenge. However, reporting, auditing and compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley or CMMI initiatives, often require more than self-organizing teams. This podcast will provide an overview of how connecting people, best practices, processes, and tools can increase your productivity and build systems and software that better meet the needs of your customers.

Rational Team Concert is the new collaborative development environment that provides Source Control Management, Team Awareness and Governance to modern application development environments. This will be a discussion of the similar features and differences between Rational Team Concert and Rational Team Concert for i for proper positioning.

An introduction to the new collaborative software development environment, Rational Team Concert for i, that provides Source Control Management, Team Awareness, and Governance for the IBM i development environment. George Farr, Rational Product Line Manager for System i Tools will discuss how this platform, based on the new Rational Jazz technology, helps you deliver high quality software that meets ever changing market demands.

The role of the business analyst is rapidly changing in today's challenging economic environment. As it becomes more critical for organizations to increase business value while using the same or fewer resources, innovation is key for BA's to provide this value. Join Ashok Reddy, a Director of Product Delivery Organization at IBM Rational, to examine the changing role of business analyst at IBM and discuss how this pivotal role is helping to drive more effective product and project delivery and keeping teams aligned to the business outcomes. Ashok Reddy is responsible for product delivery in areas consisting of Security, Jazz Platform, Process Automation, Reporting and Process Products and to bring an outside in customer/market view to deliver products that help customers achieve their business outcomes.

Michael Suby, Director of Stratecast and an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, talks about the importance of Web Vulnerability Scanning. In this podcast, you will learn the why businesses of all sizes, small and large, should be scanning for web vulnerabilities as well as how web vulnerability scanning fits relative to other security technologies. Suby then goes on to discuss best practices in the use of web vulnerability scanning in order to help keep your company and your company's critical data safe.