Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the stability and scalability of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before deploying to production at a lower cost? Join Al Wagner as he offers insight for an upcoming webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.

The thought of a software development process audit can literally send an organization into a frenzy as it is often costly and challenging to demonstrate compliance with complex and dynamic regulations. Learn how you can increase transparency and automate to save costs and reduce compliance riskhelping to alleviate the frenzy of software development process audits and greatly improve process integrity throughout the lifecycle. Cindy VanEpps and Nick Norris, speakers.

Hear a brief overview of the China government's outsourcing project from IBM Rational CTO for AP, Tom Kamimura. China has created 100 software parks for outsourcing. IBM has worked with several parks and major outsourcing companies to create an outsourcing solution-as-a-service with CLM at the core. By adding capabilities to CLM, this solution deliver results with capabilities to better manage the statement of work and build a common understanding on requirements by "outsourcer" and "outsourcee."

Business agility is the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently in response to change or demands. One thing we know is that change is constant and how you respond to change can be either your competitive differentiator or demise! Listen to this podcast to learn how to empower your IT organization to help increase your business agility.

The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Today, Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year with new planning capabilities, new enterprise scalability options and more.

Agility isn't a word typically associated with product development processes, especially something as seemingly complex as systems engineering. But agile development principles aren't limited to software development. They canand have beenapplied to systems engineering. Join Doc Brown and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how agile systems engineering is indeed possible!

Agile and iterative development has emerged as a leading way to increase flexibility and speed delivery in software development. Although such approaches have seen the most widespread adoption within the enterprise/IT domain, the desire to realize their benefits is not limited to this sector and can be successfully extended to areas as specialized as the embedded market. Hear from Chris Rommel of VDC Research and Bruce Powel Douglass of IBM Rational how and why agile can work in embedded development.

If you love the idea of applying Agile practices in your large enterprise, but think you can't, think again. Richard Knaster has worked with enterprise customers around the world to help implement Agile methods.

Many IBM Rational System Architect users have an inventory of model assets in US Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) version 1.5 and other sources. These model assets can be in DoDAF Classic, DoDAF ABM, in other models or in all these forms. Users in the DoD, the aerospace and defense industries have created and reused these model assets over an extended period of time for various projects. The DoD has issued a directive calling for the use of DoDAF version 2.0, making migration or rebuilding of these existing assets necessary. Recreating these modeling assets in DoDAF 2.0 can be a costly and time-consuming exercise and also may lead to loss of data during the transition. The System Architect Migration Toolkit is designed to reduce the cost and time needed for the migration.

The mainstream agile discussion focuses on the construction of straightforward software by small, co-located teams working in ideal conditions. Most teams deliver more complex products in more complex environments. How can agile principles be applied for these teams? Join Alan Brown, IBM Rational CTO for Europe as he shares key takeaways from his new book, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain.

Software teams have benefited from Agile development methods in recent years. They have adopted practices based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Learn how continuous integration can be employed in the context of embedded software development to improve a business's bottom line. Martin Bakal and Jennifer Althouse, speakers.

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are under pressure to deliver compelling services to their customers in order to reduce churn and at the same raise the average revenue per user. However the process from when a service is first conceived until it's actually deployed can be a very cumbersome process and a inhibitor to a CSP's success. This podcast will cover new and innovative ways for CSPs to accelerate the delivery of high generating mobile services. Scott Niemann, speaker.

Listen to this podcast to learn what's new about model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and why it is considered a revolutionary concept. Presented by Barclay Brown, Global Solution Executive for Systems Engineering for IBM Rational.

Rational software testing solutions can help customers challenged by the increasing cost of quality associated with developing and maintaining complex applications with integrations across multiple technologies and platforms. Using virtualization capabilities as part of a comprehensive testing framework can help speed software delivery reducing risk and rework and also the cost and effort of delivering test environments to improve the quality, visibility and predictability of project outcomes.

To assist in expediting mainframe application delivery via continuous integration and testing, IBM is introducing the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z (CIz). This is a complete solution for planning, automating, and monitoring application quality and testing, as well as linking testing to build and provisioning of application environments -- as a seamless process. Clients can get better quality, faster -- in some cases compressing the application delivery cycle from months to weeks or days, while reducing the cost of eliciting and repairing defects by up to 90%. In addition, automated mainframe testing can be performed at low-cost, using no mainframe development MIPS, by executing the tests on a x86-based z/OS environment. Dave Myers and Moshe Cohen, speakers.

Hear from Bill Smith, Product Manager, about the capabilities of the latest release of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software for IBM i, AIX and Linux. Focus will be on a new class of workflow driven Advisor tools for porting and optimizing C and C++ applications for AIX.

Learn more about this year's exciting Quality Management track at Innovate 2012. Mix and match sessions choosing from the many interesting topics regardless of whether you are looking for general information to advanced technical detail! And, if you haven't heard, IBM recently acquired Green Hat. Attend one of the many sessions focusing on the Green Hat technology or stop by the booth to learn more on how this technology is redefining the future of testing. Al Wagner, speaker.

Come explore how Enterprise Modernization solutions from IBM can help you: identify and modernize key System z applications, attract new talent with modern tools, speed up development and deployment time, unify disparate teams across all platforms, and exploit multiplatform architectures through application modernization and the latest compiler technologies.

IBM Rational has just updated Rational Developer for System z. Richard Szulweski and Stephen Henderson will discuss what's new with RDz and also what IBM is doing to help strengthen mainframe development.

Renewable energy generation takes many forms, where commercially viable forms include solar, wind, and arguably, nuclear energy. To achieve best results, deployment planning, plus, careful management of assets, requirements, and data are essential. Safety and security concerns are major components of regulatory compliance, while design standards evolve into a set of best practices addressed by Rational's solution for Energy and Utilities. Irv Badr, speaker.