Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Get the latest news on all of the activities IBM and Rational have planned for the Innovate 2012 user conference. Brian Bryson, Innovate conference manager, will cover all aspects of the event from the keynote speakers and technical content, to networking opportunities and entertainment activities. If you want the inside track on what's NEXT for IBM Innovate, listen to this podcast NOW.

The Cloud Development and Deployment focuses on leveraging the cloud to deliver development and test environments; collaborate across IT teams to accelerate delivery and deployment of software services; 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. Steve Weaver, speaker.

Is your software delivery process too expensive and too time-consuming? Does it provide poor visibility across distributed teams? There is a solution: the IBM Rational Software solutions available on the cloud offer an agile, flexible cloud computing model, helping you simplify and streamline your operation so delivery teams can work faster -- no matter where they are. Steve Weaver and Steve Huntington, speakers.

Are you missing windows of opportunity for adopting new and innovative business solutions? Does a lack of collaboration and poor visibility across your IT organizations keep you from achieving your business objectives? The Collaborative Development and Operations track details best practices for aligning development and operations, including: collaboration and communication strategy, process integration and automation, 'pre-release to production' application performance optimization, and cooperative problem lifecycle management. Steve Weaver, speaker.

Effectively connecting strategic goals with key initiatives, and translating these into prioritized projects, is critical to business success. In order to create these connections, organizations need to break down information silos. The resulting transformation helps improve decision making through superior analysis, planning and execution of change. In this podcast, we examine how Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture solutions provide key capabilities for driving value and managing the impact of business-driven change. We also discuss how a collaborative platform can help the entire organization communicate, prioritize, plan, share and govern activities, projects, applications, infrastructure and products. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.

It is said that developers rule when it comes to the software that drives today's most innovative products and solutions. At Innovate 2012, explore real-world examples and receive training on the state of the art tools that enable developers to more efficiently design, develop, test and deploy quality software and systems to meet the most demanding of customer needs. Discover what's NEXT and how IBM is driving it NOW in this podcast with curriculum managers, Matt Holitza and Neil Patterson, speakers.

More and more utilities are recognizing the need for transforming their business processes and technical solutions, such as smart meter data management, simultaneously, in order to achieve their new business goals. Leveraging Rationals integrated solution, utilities can realistically transform their processes and technologies with little disruption, and minimized risk. Irv Badr, speaker.

Hear from Roland Koo and Susan Yoskin on why the IBM Innovate 2012 conference is a must-attend event for clients with IBM i, AIX or Linux on Power. At Innovate 2012, you will have an opportunity to network with over 4,000 software and systems experts and peers, hear exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team and our customers, and attend the dedicated Power Track sessions. Use the on-line Agenda Builder tool to customize your experience.

Hear from Meg Selfe, Vice President of Complex and Embedded Systems, on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2012. Meg will outline our new and expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities. Meg will also highlight the increasing importance of systems and software engineering in successful product development and how Rational is supporting this trend with our commitment to openness, expanded partner ecosystem and through new product developments.

IBM Rational is "getting Agile" in a whole new way at Innovate 2012. Our new Agile Transformation Track features 50+ sessions on Agile adoption, scaling techniques, and experiences from real-world Agile teams at world-class companies. Learn the latest trends from industry experts like Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler and Alan Brown, and get answers to your questions from Agile coaches. Listen to this podcast so you don't miss a moment of the Agile action! Cheri Bergeron, speaker.

Be innovative and be fast or watch your competition announce that next great product of service ahead of you! And do it while managing the high costs of disconnected software development. At the Innovate 2012 Lifecycle Solutions track learn what's new and how forward-thinking organizations are reducing costs and optimizing productivity with better collaboration across teams and multi-platforms with effective application lifecycle management capabilities built on the unifying, open, extensible Jazz platform. Jennifer Moore, speaker.

Traditionally, challenges such as high labor and capital costs for infrastructure and software, long development cycles and a greater risk for inefficiencies reduce the ability of IT organizations to get the most from their development teams. Learn how cloud can be used to transform software delivery, and how best practices for software development in the cloud can help IT organizations become more agile and flexible. Steve Weaver, speaker.

Web applications account for almost 40 percent of vulnerability disclosures; this makes them a popular vector for attack. Scanning in-house and third party applications throughout the development process can uncover critical vulnerabilities, but it takes time to address flaws that are found. Paul Kaspian, Market Segment Manager, Network Security, and Karl Snider, Market Segment Manager, Application Security, discuss the merits of adopting a multi-layered defense strategy for web applications, combining application security testing with real-time protection.

A recent IBM global survey shows that nearly 90% of financial organizations believe that transforming from the status quo is critical to profitability. Financial institutions are looking to achieve greater value in the form of improved services, increased client satisfaction, and reduced complexity though modernizing technologies and processes. Hear about the strategies to incrementally and continuously modernize with reduced risk; providing a roadmap to achieving greater value and performance from your IT investments. Valerie Hamilton, speaker.

The modern heterogeneous IT environment has an increasing number of endpoints -- each with unique security requirements -- due to the widespread adoption of mobile, virtual and cloud technologies. All of these endpoints provide tangible business value and act as gateways to a vault of business information; therefore, they must be secured. This podcast discusses the importance of security intelligence at the endpoint and how an integrated approach to endpoint security helps reduce business operation costs. Nick Harlow and Tom Cross, speakers.

Are you under constant pressure to implement SAP enhancements faster and to keep up with business demands in the face of SAP upgrades and maintenance efforts? Listen to this podcast to hear how IBM Rational can help accelerate your SAP deployments implementation and maintenance at lower cost. Can you optimize your SAP deployments to achieve these results? -- Reduction in costs by 40-80%. -- 40% timeline reduction. -- Up to 70% automation within 90 days. -- Reduce SAP time to go live by 50%. -- Reduce testing time by 60% percent. Know how in this podcast. IBM's Brian Yarow and Worksoft's Rick Thorn, speakers.

Over 30% of all defects in production applications are caused by poor configuration of hardware, middleware or software. Learn how IBM solutions such as Rational Team Concert and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning can help with continuous delivery of complex applications to the cloud. Steve Weaver and Daniel Berg, speakers.

IBM has recently announced new integrated optimized systems. Migrate existing supported applications into these systems with ease. The migration expertise built into these systems involves understanding the design of the existing application, encapsulating its configuration and data into a package, and then importing that package into the environment. You are not required to separately buy, install, and configure a separate migration tool, saving you time and increasing the quality of your deployed applications. Steve Weaver and Robbie Minshall, speakers.

The time has come for a new class of systems: systems with integrated expertise that combine the flexibility of a general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance, namely IBM's Expert Integrated Systems. Randy Newell and Steve Weaver discuss the application development solutions that complement Expert Integrated Systems, including IBM's collaborative application lifecycle management solution to help you deliver quality software and services faster through better team collaboration, automation and governance across platforms.

Mobile computing is and will continue to grow at exponential rates. The explosion in mobile data and applications growth is a phenomenon that touches many industries. Although some aspects of mobile applications development are the same as that of traditional software, mobile development has many unique aspects. Join the mobile application track at Innovate and accelerate your mobile application development across multiple platforms by reducing time-to-market and cost of application development and deployment. Paridhi Verma and Albert Ho, speakers.