NEW! Maintaining QoS and Process Integrity in an SOA Environment

This webcast outlines the best practices that must be instituted to gain the maximum benefit from SOA while maintaining high quality of service. Whether you are deploying new applications or managing and monitoring your existing infrastructure, learn how you can ensure high quality of services with SOA based solutions from IBM. All registrants who attend this live Web Seminar will receive complimentary access to a white paper titled "Maintaining QoS in an SOA Environment".

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Accelerating Software Innovation with System z

Attend this launch webcast with Scott Hebner, Vice President of IBM Rational Marketing and Strategy, where he will overview Rational's new offerings and programs to help customers accelerate software innovation on System z. He will discuss how these solutions help organizations extend their core business processes toward modern architectures such as SOA and web technologies to deliver business improvements that stand the test of time.

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NEW! Hacking 101

Join us for this web seminar to learn how you can defend your web applications from attack. Learn about the 3 most common web application attacks, including how they occur and what can be done to prevent them. We'll also discuss manual versus automated approaches for scanning and identifying web application vulnerabilities and how IBM Rational AppScan, an automated vulnerability scanner, can help you automate more of what you are doing manually today.

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NEW! Smart agile development within dispersed teams

Successful agile development teams have demonstrated impressive increases in team efficiency, shorter development cycles, better quality software and software that is ultimately better suited to the customer's needs. A repository that promotes asset collaboration and governance while ensuring quality can be a key cornerstone of a successful agile development strategy. Hear how IBM Rational Asset Manager can help empower distributed agile teams.

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NEW! Rational Quality Management Open Beta Program Introduction

The IBM Rational Quality Management Open Beta Program is now live! Experience the v8 portfolio first hand and participate in the open beta program featuring IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Test Lab Manager. Hear the latest information on the new beta v8 Quality Management portfolio, including Rational Quality Manager - our new business-driven software quality portal and Rational Test Lab Manager - our new end-to-end test lab management solution.

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Can ClearCase and Subversion Coexist? Leveraging Both for Maximum Results.

One size does not fit all! Subversion is used by many organizations for lightweight version control. But requirements don't vary just from company to company; they may be significantly different from project to project. Can you support the diverse needs of your various projects? Teams can connect heterogeneous SCM environments using tools like Subversion with an enterprise class SCM solution like Rational ClearCase providing the reliability, security, and stability necessary for the organization. Learn how Rational ClearCase and Subversion can coexist for maximum results!

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Using Rational Business Developer to enhance your developer productivity

Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference, to hear how Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) eliminates the need for tedious and error-prone low level coding, so developers can focus on business requirements. EGL extends the Rational software development platform with a simplified programming language that enables developers who have little or no experience with Java, Web technologies or Service Oriented Architecture, to create enterprise-class applications and services quickly and easily. It also allows developers who may have little or no mainframe programming experience to quickly create traditional mainframe components.

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Application Development Tools for the Mainframe Developer

You probably have thousands of lines of COBOL code loaded with business intelligence and being used to run your business, along with an army of developers maintaining these applications. Learn how to prepare your applications and developers so you can keep that competitive edge and move to a service-oriented architecture with the IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization solutions. Replay is available for 9 months

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Using IBM Rational Developer for System z and IBM Rational ClearCase together to manage application development

Whether you are creating new applications or modifying existing ones, managing integration of new components with traditional z/OS elements is a critical part of building and deploying modern applications. Listen to this webcast to see how IBM can help you optimize your development process using an IDE like Rational Developer for System z that integrates with management tools, such as ClearCase to manage your application development on mainframes.

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Driving Business Success with Rational Process Library

Join this webcast, to learn how the Rational Process Library can help with compliance issues, drive process improvement, and assist in service-oriented architecture (SOA) or Agile development. We will take a peek into the Rational Process Library with content around software and systems engineering (including RUP), operations and systems management, program and portfolio management, and asset and SOA governance.

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Best Practices in Integrated Requirements Management

Poor Requirements Management capabilities in an Enterprise have been linked to excessive project failures, escalating IT costs, and failure to deliver competitive advantage into the marketplace. Join Brianna M Smith from IBM Rational and learn about how successful organizations align IT and Business stakeholders through collaborative processes and tools for effective requirements management, and how an integrated approach across the IT lifecycle can provide unparalleled visibility and traceability to ensure that project teams are delivering on the business vision by "doing the right things" and "doing things right."

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Develop Systems Software Assets with IBM Rational Asset Manager

Join us for this on demand webcast to learn about developing complex systems more quickly and efficiently. We'll cover market drivers for developing, governing and reusing systems software assets and how you can develop system software assets with Rational Asset Manager.

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Accelerating Software Innovation on i on Power Systems

Attend this launch webcast with Scott Hebner, Vice President of IBM Rational Marketing and Strategy, for an overview of Rational's new software offerings and resources to help modernize and accelerate software innovation on i on Power Systems - while ensuring past application investments are protected and continue to grow. Learn how these solutions are helping customers extend their core i5/OS solutions toward modern architectures such as SOA and web technologies to deliver business improvements that stand the test of time.

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Best Practices: The Integrated Project and Portfolio Management Platform.

Hear how IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management integrated solutions help teams put the right tools and processes in place to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of project teams and ensure that the business vision is being executed correctly. Learn how to automate and integrate requirements prioritization, top-down project planning, communications and controls, and methodology deployment to keep your scope, costs, and schedules under control. Tackle with an end-to-end approach the management of scope and scope changes, usage of methodology to control and empower project teams, and optimization of resources to align activity costs with the overall project plan.

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Be the first to hear about i5/OS V6R1!

Hold your calendar on January 30, 2008 for this free webcast on the new i5/OS. Rational's Enterprise Modernization products will be discussed at this webcast as they help to drive the application development environment for this new System i OS. And learn how i5/OS will take you to the next step of efficient, resilient business processing. You will hear about the new i5/OS capabilities as it will be the most significant i5/OS release in years. If you cannot join the webcast on 1/30/08 you can still use this link to listen to the replay.

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Calling All Testers! Find Application Vulnerabilities Early in the Development Process Where they are Easier to Fix and Less Risky to your Business

In this webcast, IBM Rational will discuss the importance of Web application security and will share techniques and best practices to introduce application security testing into current QA processes including: understanding common security vulnerabilities and techniques to integrate security testing with defect tracking and remediation systems in an effort to safeguard sensitive online information.

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Striking the right balance between manual and automated testing

Join this webcast to learn how IBM Rational's Functional Testing solution enables you to implement automation your way, at your pace, with your existing staff. In this webcast, you'll learn how you can eliminate redundancy of manual test scripts, reduce errors, and increase test coverage through test automation. After this presentation you will understand how IBM Rational Functional Testing solution can streamline your manual testing and make test automation easily attainable.

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IBM Rational Build Forge - Beyond the Build

The discipline of assembling and delivering software is maturing beyond standard developer-centric compile/test software builds. The end-to-end software development lifecycle is emerging as the new focus moves "Beyond the Build." Join this on demand webcast to learn about methods for streamlining software delivery and key capabilities of the IBM Rational Build Forge framework for automating build and release management in environments of any size.

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Calling all CC Power Users - and those that would like to be!

Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference, featuring Paul Boustany and Mark Krasovich, to speak to the experts about becoming a Rational ClearCase power user. Get a chance to ask your questions and learn tips and tricks for using Rational ClearCase in Agile development.

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NEW! Take it to the next level: Using WebSphere Family Products with VMware or XEN

Join this webcast to examine how WebSphere Family products (Application Server, Process Server, Portal) can be used in conjunction with VMware or similar virtualization technologies (XEN, and so on) to simplify common WebSphere scenarios, from development through production. We'll look at how to deploy and use WebSphere and VMware together at each stage in the lifecycle. Hear several case studies of successful use of VMware in both development and production and discover performance best practices and deployment tips and techniques.

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Discovering the value of WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere Process Server delivers a unique integration framework that simplifies existing IT resources. Often, as IT assets grow to support business demand, so too does their complexity and manageability. In this webcast, we'll discuss how WebSphere Process Server helps deliver an SOA infrastructure that provides a common model to orchestrate, mediate, connect, map, and execute the underlying IT functions. Discover how WebSphere Process Server simplifies integration of business processes by leveraging existing IT assets as reusable services without the complexities of traditional integration methodologies.

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Addressing software-as-a-service challenges using Tivoli security and WebSphere solutions

Building a software-as-a-service solution requires addressing a few key technical challenges. In this webcast, we'll focus on the role of IBM Tivoli Directory Server and WebSphere Portlet Factory in creating a Software as a Service solution. We will demonstrate how to use Tivoli Directory Server to prevent the user population of one tenant from accessing the virtual portal and portlet components of another tenant. We will also use the dynamic profile capability of WebSphere Portlet Factory to create multiple highly customized applications from one code base.

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IBM - Taking Web 2.0 to Work

You'll get answers to many questions and more from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies. David will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.

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Info 2.0: Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 and Enterprise Mashups

Listen to this webcast to get an overview of Info 2.0 and a technical demo of how to quickly build an enterprise mashup. IBM's Info 2.0 technology leverages emerging Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups, feeds, AJAX, and JSON in order to simplify assembly of information using feeds and services. Come learn about the technical elements of Info 2.0 including the Feed Generation framework, Mashup Engine, and mashup assembly components. Learn how to pull information from databases, departmental information, and the Web to create mashups critical to your company's success. We will also discuss best practices to help you get started.

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NEW! Monitoring and Managing Change for Database Administration

Need to get control of your database catalog? Having trouble keeping up with DB2 change requests? Interested in learning how to complete complex database changes in minutes rather than hours? Would you like to minimize application downtime? Attend this webcast to find out how IBM Data Studio Administrator for DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows addresses these questions. During the webcast, we will demonstrate how IBM Data Studio Administrator for DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows improves DBA productivity and reduces application outages by automating and simplifying complex DB2 structural changes.

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Need for Speed? IBM solidDB - an in-memory RDBMS that delivers microsecond response times to tens of thousands of transactions per second

IBM recently acquired Solid Information Technology, a leading provider of in-memory, relational database software that is now part of IBM Information Management. Join this webcast for a technical overview of the architecture and capabilities of IBM solidDB, with a focus on the in-memory database implementation, and how it has been built to provide micro-second response times, high transaction throughput, and sub-second failover. The presentation will include use cases for solidDB, performance benchmark results, and how solidDB is integrated as a front-end cache to accelerate access to data stored in IBM DB2 and Informix Dynamic Server.

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Integrating XML into Your Enterprise Using Data Federation

XML has become a common way of storing business data as flat files and many data server vendors including IBM have provided ways to store this data within relational database systems. Increasingly collections of XML files are accessed like databases using an xQuery and other XML standard mechanisms. Businesses find the need to combine the traditional tabular structured data with XML formatted data. In this webcast, you'll learn about IBM's WebSphere Federation Server technology, which provides users with the ability to integrate these two data formats.

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Harnessing the power of SQL and Java for high performance data access

Join this webcast to see how IBM Data Studio Developer and pureQuery can take the pain out of Java data access. uApplications developed using both Java and SQL have become a common requirement. Database connectivity using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to create an application is a multi-step tedious process, and tooling that covers both SQL and Java has been unavailable, until now. IBM Data Studio introduces the pureQuery platform: a high-performance, Java data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing, managing, and optimizing database applications and services.

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NEW! Quality Management for Packaged Applications: Deploy your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Deploying Enterprise Resource Planning applications such as SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft or Oracle is a risky proposition. These complex, integrated applications have broad impact on core business functionality and require special attention from Quality Assurance organizations. Teams that focus solely on last minute testing risk failed deployments and corrupted data. To deploy with confidence, QA teams must implement a strategic quality management plan that focuses on requirements, validates functionality, services and performance, and tracks defects. Come hear how IBM Rational can help you with tooling and strategies to ensure the successful deployment of your ERP applications.

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NEW! Business benefits of enterprise mashups from IBM

Perhaps you've heard of mash-ups, but can't see how this technology would benefit your company? In this online presentation, Larry Bowden, IBM SWG VP, Portals and Mashups, will discuss IBM's strategy and show examples of how you can leverage mashup technology to achieve significant benefits for your enterprise.

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NEW! Quality in Action - What does quality look like in your environment?

Where does quality begin and end? Who is responsible for quality? What is quality management? How do we deliver better products, on time and on budget? All of these are questions we'll examine in this teleconference. Come join us for an interactive discussion on best practices for quality management throughout the lifecycle. Quality specialists Brian Bryson and Matt Holitza will lead this discussion and try to unravel some of the challenges and mysteries of implementing quality management in modern, distributed organizations.

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Applying lean thinking to the governance of software development

Effective governance for lean development isn't about command and control. Instead, the focus is on enabling the right behaviors and practices through collaborative and supportive techniques. Hear from Scott Ambler on how it is far more effective to motivate people to do the right thing than it is to force them to do so. Learn how to form a lightweight, collaboration-based framework that reflects the realities of modern IT organizations.

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Enabling Real-Time Data Throughout the Enterprise with Replication and Change Data Capture

Organizations need more up-to-date and accurate data, but face difficulties in rolling out successful implementations across business units. These challenges range from information being locked in heterogeneous data silos to a tough balancing act between system resources and shrinking batch windows. Replication and Change Data Capture enable data to be distributed across critical systems in real time while eliminating costly system workloads. In this webcast, we'll discuss how how this technology can deliver real-time data throughout the enterprise.

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Achieving True Agility -Achieving True Agility - How process can change the behavior of your tools

Achieving true agility is a never-ending effort. We will showcase how you can become agile incrementally, a few practices at the time. Which practices should any agile team strive to adopt? What additional practices should you consider based on your needs to scale? Adopting practices are however made much easier with the right tool support. What about if your tools adapt to your practices? We will take a look at how the Jazz technology can be leveraged to make your process change the behavior of your tools.

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Innovate don't duplicate! Asset reuse strategies for success

Asset Reuse is a key strategy for companies looking to create innovative solutions to solve complex software development problems. Searching for, identifying, updating, using and deploying software assets can be a difficult challenge. Listen to this webcast, to learn about strategies and tools that you can leverage for a successful project, including Rational Asset Manager, Rational Software Architect and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

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