Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Systems engineering is increasingly being recognized as an essential technology for successful development of innovative, software-intensive smart products. Unlike the systems engineering in the Apollo age, visualized as a room full of slide-rules and skinny black ties, today’s systems engineering is more pervasive than ever before. Extending beyond typical engineering benefits such as lower costs, higher quality and reduced risk, today’s systems engineering, if utilized intelligently, can have a significant business impact – touching not only engineering, but manufacturing, procurement, support, and planning, as well as affecting future profit opportunities of long-lived products. Join Greg Gorman and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how systems engineering can impact business decisions made outside the engineering organization.

Are you tired of vendors pushing their over the top ALM solutions on you? Are you fed up with having to contort the way your team naturally works to fit someone else’s solution? Are you frustrated at how much effort you are spending trying to keep multiple development tools up and running? Then get some answers by attending this refreshingly candid podcast and learn how a simpler, leaner approach may be all you really need. Bernie Coyne, Sr., speaker.

Business innovation is increasingly being delivered via software, and the rapid pace of market changes is driving the need for business agility. To seize market opportunities, and realize the full competitive and economic benefits from IT investments, technology leaders are implementing enterprise strategies such as DevOps to both improve the quality and accelerate the delivery of innovative applications and services. Sessions in this area of interest will address best practices for aligning stakeholders across the organization, including business owners, development, test and operations teams, including business planning, collaborative development, continuous testing, continuous release and deployment and continuous monitoring and optimization. Steve Weaver, speaker.

In the era of the mobile enterprise, organizations understand that to stay ahead their mobile apps must evolve rapidly in response to feedback. This podcast highlights mobile at Innovate 2013, where new and exciting IBM MobileFirst content will be shared, from app development, to testing, to connecting mobile to your enterprise.

Gaining new insights and creating new opportunities with big data is becoming a game changer for organizations of today. From enterprise Hadoop through streaming 'real-time' technologies, our big data experts will be available at Innovate to assist with your big data challenge. Listen to this podcast to hear how to get started with big data and the experience that we have prepared for the conference.

The cloud computing track at Innovate 2013 focuses on leveraging the cloud accelerate software delivery, through rapid provisioning of development and test environments; collaboration across IT teams to accelerate delivery and deployment of software; and to drive new business value through innovative offerings and services. This track is for anyone interested in cloud computing as a way to reduce operational and capital expenses, reduce development and test cycle times and improve overall quality and time to market.

Going "all in" on Agile? Just exploring the potential benefits? Innovate 2013 has something for those that are looking to Go, Grow or Scale Agile! With over 70 Agile sessions dedicated to best practices, customer stories, tips and techniques combined with pre and post conference agile training, Innovate is the premier event for Agile developers. Take a few minutes and listen to the podcast to find out how you can Get Agile at Innovate 2013.

Need to deliver software more effectively? Yesterday's idea of application life-cycle management (ALM) may not get you there. The Lifecycle Management Track will help you consider the latest trends and best practices so you can to increase innovation while balancing speed and quality. Learn from ALM thought leaders and success stories from IBM clients.

Hear what's new and exciting about Innovate 2013, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2013 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what's going on at the event, and how you can Stay Ahead with IBM and Innovate.

Every agency is under pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increasing the amount of development. Join us to learn how service virtualization can "bend the cost curve" with more agility and less risk. The power of virtualization has moved from the data center floor to mission delivery with new service virtualization reduce the cost of developing and sustaining the complex, integrated systems that are critical for agency programs and operations. Madeline Bayliss and Tamara Kulesa, speakers.

Software quality and customer satisfaction are measured by companies more than any other form of measurement. However is the data being captured and analyzed providing an accurate reflection of reality with respect to quality and customer satisfaction? Join Al Wagner as he reflects on the recent IBM sponsored webcast where Capers Jones presented today's more practical measures and metrics allowing companies to be more predictable with quality.

For years, Governments have been trying to reap the benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures to improve their business agility. Whether agency information and processes are currently deployed on legacy systems, requires new modern development, or relies on the integration of open data, the core principles and capabilities for collaborative development can help drive successful SOA programs resulting in improved citizen outcomes and reduced costs.

Agile methods can bring benefits of discipline and efficiency to software development, and agile can be—and is—applied to the development of safety critical systems. In this podcast, Bruce Douglass answers a selection of questions from practitioners and managers engaged in safety-critical development on the topic of agile adoption.

Many developers are mislead or unfamiliar with the latest mainframe development tools. Luckily, there are no-cost instructor-led Distance Learning classes that have been helping developers get up-to-speed to tackle mainframe COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Java development and more. In this podcast Jon Sayles and Stephen Henderson will discuss the overall structure, course content and how you can signup for the upcoming sessions at no-cost.

In this podcast we will discuss how Invensys Rail Dimetronic has responded by establishing an ERTMS Center of Excellence, with IBM Rational as its primary platform. With Rational, the company works smarter, facing the future equipped with unprecedented levels of development automation, process integration and flexibility. It has reduced time-to-market for new products up to 40 percent.

Medical device companies have to find ways to compete with lower-cost competition worldwide. They need to make the right decisions to define the right features and functions to build into their medical devices for reaching the right market at the right time. In this podcast we will discuss how IBM Rational Focal Point software provides a full audit trail to help ensure regulatory compliance and capture enhancement requests, product ideas, market needs and technical needs for product development.

We seem to be in a mobile "2.0" zone, where companies are realizing that they must up their game to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications, and in order to do this they often must extend to their backend Power System. We'll talk to "Why" you might want to extend (access to databases, etc.) And then cover "What unique application development and delivery challenges this creates?"

Most mobile applications developed for the enterprise are distributed, involving a complex ballet between the development of the application for the mobile device, and the back-end supporting services or API. With both of these being developed simultaneously, how can we avoid late stage integration issues? Service virtualization can help. This podcast discusses the ways it can help and the pitfalls to watch out for when virtualizing APIs for mobile applications. Peter Cole, speaker.

We believe customers will deliver better mobile applications by integrating, collaborating and optimizing the mobile development lifecycle. In this podcast, we will introduce our new offering providing the only comprehensive mobile development lifecycle solution currently in the market, combining ALM and MAP tooling.

Become more productive and save development dollars with our new Application Development Toolset trade up program and the new Application Management Toolset. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Bill Smith, speaker.