(08-08-08)

IBM Rational Requirements Composer's features and advanced collaborative capabilities makes the requirements process accessible to all project stakeholders working on developing and meeting requirements.  >>

(07-23-08)

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert Standard provides a complete change & release management solution in a collaborative software delivery environment that enables software teams to deliver innovation through collaboration. >>

(07-23-08)

Learn how the integration of an Agile planning tool with IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz provides greater visibility, opportunities for collaboration, and traceability as well as process awareness into a single platform for improving development productivity.  >>

(07-23-08)

This article explains two ways to manage test assets by using IBM Rational Team Concert with IBM Rational ClearQuest. Team Concert includes integrated work item, source control, and build management support, all optimized for small and medium-sized teams. It is the first product that is based on the Jazz technology platform that IBM Rational introduced in early 2008. Jazz is a commercial but open-source background for scalable and extensible team collaboration that seamlessly integrates tasks across the software development lifecycle. >>

(07-23-08)

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.  >>

(07-23-08)

Participate in the open beta program for IBM Rational Quality Manager, a collaborative, web-based quality management solution for test planning, workflow control, and tracking and metrics reporting. Rational Quality Manager enables you to quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.  >>

(07-23-08)

Download the IBM Rational Requirements Composer V7.1 open beta code and enhance your requirements elicitation and definition capabilities with this easy-to-use visualization and collaboration toolset. Build consensus with stakeholders and teams by visualizing results before committing resources. Enable improved speed, quality, and alignment across the IT Lifecycle to help avoid costly requirements failures and project rework. >>

(07-23-08)

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.  >>

(07-23-08)

Listen to this 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. >>

(07-23-08)

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. >>

(07-23-08)

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

(07-23-08)

Join this webcast to examine how WebSphere Family products can be used in conjunction with VMware or similar virtualization technologies (XEN, and so on) to simplify common WebSphere scenarios, from development through production. Well 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. >>

(07-23-08)

Discover how you can deliver Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based applications with speed and quality. This complimentary eKit provides a collection of materials such as articles, podcasts, webcasts, and demos to help you understand how to use IBM Rational software to model, code and test SIP-based applications.  >>

(07-23-08)

Use this enablement roadmap for an easy step-by-step approach to growing your Rational Team Concert skills. >>

(06-19-08)

Get free training in the IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management certification training e-kit. As a member of the Project Management Institutes (PMI's) corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 PMI-certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Now, you can learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with six free courses based on IBM's best-practices processes and tools.  >>

(07-09-08)

Governance, developer productivity, business agility, communication, the list of what your company is requiring goes on and on. If you're not centrally managing your software assets, you and your organization are toast and any hope of software reuse is mired in a sea of artifacts. Learn why you need a central software asset manager and why IBM Rational Asset Manager is just the ticket. >>

(06-24-08)

Model-driven development is increasingly becoming more important for all phases of software development. Learn how IBM Rational Systems Developer gives you the benefits of modeling your systems without the pain of forcing you into a certain way of developing code. >>

(06-20-08)

Replication and Change Data Capture enable data to be distributed across critical systems in real time while eliminating costly system workloads. In this webcast, well discuss how this technology can deliver real-time data throughout the enterprise.  >>

(06-20-08)

SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is to the semantic Web as SQL is to a relational database. It allows applications to make sophisticated queries against distributed RDF databases, and is widely supported by many competing frameworks. This tutorial demonstrates its use through the example of a team tracking and journaling system for a virtual company.  >>

(06-20-08)

The ability to instant message (IM) co-workers and friends is a great convenience, but some environments prohibit the use of instant messaging clients in the workplace due to security concerns. The exercise in this tutorial resolves any security concerns by showing you how to use Ajax to create a Web-based IM client that turns IM traffic into plain Web traffic by creating an instant messaging "bot" and a corresponding Web application. >>

(06-20-08)

Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools plug-in from Eclipse Europa. Become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.  >>

(06-20-08)

This tutorial shows you how to tune a typical J2EE application for performance by analyzing database usage and by using the Rational Application Developer Java Profiler to identify costly operations. >>

(06-20-08)

XQuery and VoiceXML are a perfect combination. XQuery provides a very simple and direct method to generate XML documents from other XML documents. Because you can pick and choose the different elements that you want from the source XML file, and format the output file in any way you wish, you can easily produce a VoiceXML document that contains the exact information you need. In this tutorial, you see how to employ XQuery with XML documents to build complex and dynamic systems that take input and information from a VoiceXML environment and combine them with existing XML documents to produce interactive applications.  >>

(05-15-08)

The HATS toolkit provides a set of plug-ins for the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform to help you easily extend your legacy applications. HATS makes your 3270 and 5250 applications available as HTML through the most popular Web browsers, while converting your host screens to a Web look and feel and it also enables you to develop new Web, portal, and rich-client applications. Download a free trial of the Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) Toolkit today. >>

(06-20-08)

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.  >>

(06-20-08)

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! >>

(06-19-08)

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial of IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition V11.5. Informix Dynamic Server offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance, while helping to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying databases for medium to enterprise business applications. >>

(03-25-08)

The IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment (the IBM Power Systems platform, including IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, and System i) is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them. >>

(06-19-08)

Download IBM Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition at no cost. Use IBM Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition for applications development and prototyping. It is integrated with IBM Data Studio to provide you with full range of tooling for development. Developer Edition is available free of charge, for development use only, with no time limits, and no support.  >>

(06-19-08)

Get the free trial version of IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition. Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Express Edition offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance, while helping to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying databases for small business applications.  >>

(06-19-08)

Download a free trial version of WebSphere Message Broker V6.1, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) built for universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments. WebSphere Message Broker distributes information and data generated by business events in real time to people, applications, and devices throughout your extended enterprise and beyond. >>

(06-17-08)

Take advantage of open, flexible Web 2.0 technologies, like social software and mash-ups. The IBM Web 2.0 Developer eKit has been updated with the latest best practices & technologies from IBM. The eKit is available at no charge and provides resources to help you effectively build and apply Web 2.0 technologies to gain a competitive advantage. This eKit includes podcasts, developerWorks articles, demos, webcasts, case studies and alphaWorks emerging technologies.  >>

(05-29-08)

With the latest release of Eclipse, you can get the most up-to-date components of the Eclipse framework which will speed your development of Java EE applications. Discover why Eclipse is the best framework for developing Java EE applications and why with the addition of Rational tools built on top of Eclipse, you can build the best quality enterprise applications in the shortest amount of time. >>