Learn more about how the new IBM Rational Architecture Management and Construction v7.5 solutions will help you deliver innovative, scalable solutions. This complimentary e-kit provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools that promote communication to unify all aspects of design and development.

This collection of how-to guides, demos, and articles will help you sharpen your skills around the range of implementation technologies needed during all phases of application development cycle.

Business Requirements change as fast as business objectives evolve, and failure to manage necessary scope change is a root-cause of underperforming and scrapped projects. Join Requirements Product Manager, Dwayne Dreakford, as he talks about how and why requirements change, and how tools and techniques can help you to control requirements change, and often use change processes to maximize your project outcomes.

Jazz is a new technology from IBM Rational designed for collaborative software delivery. This Software Evaluation Kit includes everything you need to get started with Jazz products. It includes all three editions of IBM Rational Team Concert, our collaborative development environment, plus beta versions of two additional Jazz products, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager.

Learn how you can leverage IBM&'s Smart SOA approach, based on IBM's unique experience with more than 5700 customers and discover how IBM provides combined, integrated design-time and run-time SOA repositories to govern the service lifecycle from creation to consumption. This capability is powered by IBM Rational Asset Manager that manages information that is useful for developing, re-using and managing all types of reusable assets and IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository that manages information that is useful for the runtime operation, management and development use of services.

All teams and organizations follow processes, and agile software teams are no exception. Processes are either defined up-front or emerge over time and evolve as the teams learn how to work more effectively. This talk will explore case studies of software teams who have evolved their agile processes over time. We will also explore how process awareness is built into the heart of IBM Jazz technology, and how this capability has helped teams fine-tune and evolve their process over time.

Learn how agile processes can improve projects delivered by an offshore team and take a closer look at IBM Rational Team Concert. This new collaborative development solution features built-in agile process templates, iteration planning and continuous integration. The collaboration, project dashboards, and reporting capabilities make managing time zone differences and communicating status practical and efficient for offshore projects.

Attend this webcast to explore how IBM FastTrack automates and accelerates the translation of business requirements to integration projects. IBM FastTrack is designed to accelerate the technical understanding of data assets, the gathering of business requirements and the facilitation of user collaboration, regardless of role or geography to help ensure project success. Learn how to streamline collaboration between business analysts, data modelers and developers to ensure data integration project success.

IBM thought leaders discuss innovative solutions and technologies for managing solution architectures and discover the right approach for you and your enterprise. Get an overview of how IBM Rational tools, Rational Software Architect, Rational Asset Manager and Requisite Pro can transform your existing applications into a flexible, agile business solution.

Download your free trial of IBM solidDB V6.1, relational in-memory database software that delivers extreme speed, performing up to ten times faster than conventional databases. solidDB uses the familiar SQL language to allow applications to achieve throughput of tens of thousands of transactions per second with response times measured in microseconds, while also providing applications extreme data availability with sub-second failover to another instance of solidDB.

This e-Kit provides information focused on helping business analysts empower their organizations to improve communication, move faster, and provide clarity for teams and stakeholders looking to deliver on ever-evolving business objectives. Download today and learn about best practices in requirements definition and management through podcasts, whitepapers, webcasts and demos.

Increase developer productivity and application performance by leveraging the power of pureXML in IBM software development tools. The IBM pureXML Developers kit is available at no charge and provides resources to help you increase productivity through the ability to access both relational and XML data within a single request. Learn how to preserve the integrity of your XML documents and maintain digital signatures to help ease the time and costs associated with auditing requirements.

Rational Team Concert Express Edition integrates source control, work item, and build capabilities to improve software quality and accelerate software delivery for departments and small to medium businesses.

Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert Standard Edition, 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. This Standard Edition provides a collaborative software delivery environment for corporate teams.

Discover how you can deliver Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based applications with speed and quality. With the attached collection of articles, podcasts, webcasts, you'll learn how to use IBM Rational software to model, code and test SIP-based applications. »

Find out how IBM Data Studio Administrator for DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows addresses issues of keeping up with change requests, keeping control of your database catalog and streamlining the database management process. 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.

Learn about the critical role that a discipline called integrated requirements management can play in helping to ensure that your business goals and IT investments are continuously aligned—whether you are sourcing, integrating, building or maintaining software.