Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

The pressure to innovate and offer faster delivery, coupled with tight budgets is driving IT to explore fundamental transformations in software delivery. For System z development organizations, this may seem particularly daunting, due to portfolios that are decades old, mission critical applications that are enhanced and maintained with traditional, 3270-based tools. Discover how IBM's Integrated Solution for System z Development can help you optimize your System z development tools, processes, and infrastructure. Alisa Morse, speaker.

System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Roland Koo, Product manager for Rational compilers and Maria G. Querales, Product Manager, IMS, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I and C/C++ compiler technologies when upgrading to the latest IMS. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive with IMS applications. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/webcast/15feb/

System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Penny Scharfman, IBM Rational Segment manager, Power and Compilers and Chris Crone, IBM Distinguished Engineer, DB2 for z/OS Development, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I, and C/C++ compilers when upgradinsg to DB2 V9/V10. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive with DB2 applications. Webcast replay: Boost Performance, Productivity and Cost Savings with IBM's latest compilers for zEnterprise http://www.ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/15feb

System z compilers continue to deliver the latest programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration, interoperability, and modernization. Hear from Roland Koo, Product manager for Rational compilers and Matt Whitbourne, Business Manager for CICS, why it is important to stay current on COBOL, PL/I and C/C++ compiler technologies when upgrading to CICS V4. Learn about compiler features that can help your developers become more productive when using CICS applications. Webcast replay: Boost Performance, Productivity and Cost Savings with IBM's latest compilers for zEnterprise http://www.ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/15feb

The increasing cost of quality and development complexity while balancing quality and speed has become extremely challenging for software projects. Development teams are delivering applications faster which is driving a need for change in the world of testing. Listen to this podcast and get a preview on how the world of testing is changing and what solutions are available today to help. Register for the upcoming thought leadership webcast, "Boost software quality and development agility" to learn more about how technologies such as virtualization and the cloud enable continuous integration testing much earlier in the development cycle. Al Wagner, speaker. Learn more at http://ibm.co/BoostSoftwareQuality

Bringing the power of social software to software development teams provides many new collaboration capabilities that allow you to identify, connect with, and exchange ideas with a wide community of business and technical stakeholders, partners, and end users. For example you can find out what's happening in your community, blogs, wikis, and activities; search for contacts based on their experience, skills, or key relationships and publish key developer activities to the wider community. Mac Guidera and Rolf Nelson, speakers.

Software is not only changing the nature of products, but across many product industry sectors, it is arguably accounting for the lion's share of innovation. This has placed great stress on the systems engineering process. Listen to a preview of a webcast with Tony Baer, Senior Analyst at Ovum Software, and Dominic Tavossoli, Director of Marketing at IBM, as they discuss the challenges and solutions that product engineering organizations must address as they become more software-driven. Moderated by Steve Shoaf with IBM Rational Marketing.

Serge Lucio, IBM Rational, introduces listeners to James Whittaker, Test Director of Google and Thought Leader, as he shares his thoughts on how the world of software testing is changing, how Google is moving forward adopting change, and how IBM is moving forward to embrace this change.

Government by design is the application of strategic planning to provide a comprehensive view of the entire government agency. Repeatable processes help analyze the portfolio of capabilities and resources relating to their strategy and priorities; capture the current state of programs, services and technology and; identify the gaps between what exists and what is needed. The Government by Design approach leverages information to create a plan producing the best outcomes for your organization and citizens. Tammy Kulesa and Jim Amsden, speakers.

Building on its recent addition of Cobol scanning capabilities, IBM announced its partnership with a leading provider of SAP ABAP security scanning tools, Virtual Forge. In this podcast IBM and Virtual Forge will describe the capabilities of their combined offering, including use cases, success stories and how to get started. Markus Schumacher and Andy Bochman, speakers.

Most utilities are undergoing changes in their business process and enterprise management area, in order to offer fully integrated data and information across customers, municipalities, and, the utilities themselves. An example is the electric industry, where a set of best practices are prompted through a set of standards from IEC, SGIP, and other agencies. IEC CIM is a set of Electrical energy standards based on modeling of the data and information related to the Smart Grid. Inherent with data-centric design standards such as the IEC CIM, are a set of Business Architecture and Processes which need to be managed in conjunction with technical standards, in order to achieve success in the journey towards transformation. Irv Badr, speaker.

Many existing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), such as the GSMA OneAPI, define commonly supported set of lightweight and Web friendly interfaces to support mobile development, in an operator agnostic manner. With TelcoML delivery teams can build a component library of OneAPI objects, which are enabled for deployment in devices and operator networks alike. TelcoML provides a modeling view of the API, resulting in greatly improved time to market and superior mobile services and applications. Irv Badr, speaker.

Complexity within a Communication Service Provider can lead to difficult collaboration among business and IT, causing them to miss the mark with products and services that don't meet business goals. TM Forum's Frameworx is a suite of standards that provide the blueprint for effective business operations to enable better collaboration throughout the organization. Rational best practices can bring actionable Frameworx architecture to increase collaboration amongst the business throughout the service development lifecycle. Scott Niemann, speaker.

This podcast will discuss a new approach to systems and software development that transforms the way organizations manage change across the life cycle to make it more transparent, flexible and efficient. We will explore how the adoption of an open, uniform approach to commercial systems and software development, as well as the dynamic integration of project management capabilities with change management, can dramatically raise the bar on collaboration and productivity. Steve Speicher, speaker.

CSPs continue to be focused on operational efficiency by shifting the financial burden from capital to operating expenses through new collaborative business models. By taking an enterprise approach CSPs can plan and manage their internal transformations to cloud based solutions through the Rational Unified Service Creation Environment. Scott Niemann, speaker.

Have you ever wondered how you can try IBM Rational products anytime, anyplace and anywhere at no cost? It's easy. Through hands-on participation, guided walk-thru and the use of live, running System z and Power Systems (IBM i, AIX, Linux) development scenarios and solutions, our Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes help you experience and evaluate IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for the System z and Power Systems platforms. Susan Yoskin, speaker.

Your team is bigger than you think! The extended team of subject matter experts is needed to provide insights and feedback on designs to make sure your solutions satisfy customer needs and deliver the expected quality. Everyone from customers to internal experts are stakeholders with points of view that are invaluable from the early stages of development. Discover how Rational Software Architect and Rational Rhapsody with Design Manager can help drive consensus on designs across this extended team. Adeel Omer and Neil Patterson, speakers.

Ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans? Andy Detandt, Resource Manager at Lender Processing Services, and Carolyn Pampino, Program Director for Strategic Offerings focused on IT Software Delivery at IBM, introduce in this podcast five key imperatives for ALM and briefly discuss how these imperatives can be used to ensure success for ALM in a collaborative environment. To learn more details we suggest you also register for the supporting webcast.

Learn about the benefits that tapping into the powerful multiplier effect an integrated, lifecycle approach to requirements driven quality provides by linking, tracing, relating and manipulating across the lifecycle. Benefits that can help deliver better quality solutions and value that cut your risk and cost of software delivery, not results. Eric Long, speaker.

Achieving compliance with new industry standards is critical in industries delivering safety critical systems - including medical devices, automobiles, airplanes and defense systems. Co-development of hardware and software increases efficiency and quality. IBM's solution for building complex and embedded systems now provides industry specific content to help companies realize these goals. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.