With IBM Rational Systems Development Solution, you can deliver products faster with higher quality. Within this kit, Read the “Model Driven Systems Development” white paper to see how to improve product quality and communication. Then check out the rest of the e-Kit to learn more about important topics that can affect the success of any software project through customer examples, tutorials, informative Webcasts, and best practices for designing, building and managing systems. Read more.

Portfolio management is about effectively managing portfolio value by aligning portfolio investments with business goals. This complimentary e-kit provides a collection of materials that can help you understand how IBM Rational enables and automates best practices for improved governance and clear visibility into portfolio and project performance across the entire IT project lifecycle.

IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions help organizations evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies--reducing the burden of maintenance and freeing up resources to develop new business requirements and capabilities. With the IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z you can evaluate IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions focused on five key areas: Assets, Architectures, Skills, Processes and Infrastructures, and Investment. Each solution is based upon real customer experiences and offers a proven path to get you started with your modernization projects.

Discover how IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition can help you detect vulnerabilities in your Web applications in the Web Application Security eKit. IBM Rational AppScan is a leading suite of automated Web application security solutions that scan and test for common Web application vulnerabilities. The new Web Application Security eKit provides you with valuable resources, including whitepapers, demos, and additional information on the benefits of testing your Web applications.

Secure your Web applications with IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.7, previously known as Watchfire AppScan. This Web application security testing tool automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for common Web application vulnerabilities. Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial of IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.7.

Rational Build Forge Express Edition is an automation framework that packages the latest enterprise-grade technologies into a reliable, flexible and robust configuration designed and priced specifically for small to midsize businesses. The new Rational Build Forge Express eKit provides you with valuable resources including a case study, podcast, demo, and articles to help you increase staff productivity, compress development cycles and deliver better software, fast.

Learn how to do more with your reusable assets with the free Rational Asset Manager eKit, which includes demos on how Rational Asset Manager tracks and audits your assets in order to utilize them for reuse. Plus youll find whitepapers and a Web cast that discuss the challenges of a Service Oriented Architecture and how Rational Asset Manager can provide quick and effective solutions.

Download the Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 open beta code and start developing applications for the JEE5 standard which features EJB3.0, JPA, JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5 standards. When you use this beta you will see how you can increase developer productivity for already existing applications with improved support for refactoring, as well as adding new features to existing applications. In addition, the beta provides tooling for JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft to improve the developer productivity with these enterprise systems.

The IBM SOA Sandbox is an online learning environment designed to help enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers increase SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience. The IBM SOA Sandbox includes five SOA entry points: people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity. Each entry point provides a predefined SOA solution that you can quickly implement based on real-world customer experience and IBM best practices. Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox today!

Discover how Rational tools and best practices for testing can make your job easier. The new Rational Testing eKits provide you with valuable resources--including demos, Webcasts, tutorials, and articles--that help you address your specific testing needs across the software lifecycle. Five new eKits are available covering the topics of Requirements and Test Management, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Code Quality and Embedded Systems, and SOA and Web Services Testing. »

Learn how you can extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). This eKit includes podcasts, Webcasts, tutorials, white and red papers, demos, and articles designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise. This complimentary kit for mainframe developers is a practical, how-to guide for making the most of an existing development environment, including the skills and infrastructure already in place at an established enterprise.

You can now evaluate IBM Rational Asset Manager online without installing or configuring it on your own system! Rational Asset Manager helps create, modify, govern, find, and reuse any type of development assets, including SOA and systems development assets. Rational Asset Manager helps you reduce software development costs and improve quality by facilitating the reuse of all types of software development-related assets. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.

Get a free trial download of the latest version of IBM Rational Functional Tester V7.0.1. Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional and regression testing solution for QA teams concerned with the quality of their Java, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and Web-based applications.

Better testing starts with having the latest and smartest tools in the palm of your hand, which is why we put together an eKit full of information specifically for Siebel and SAP applications testing. With demos, Webcasts, articles and more, the eKit shows how to simplify and streamline test creation through automation, as well as how to help maximize system performance, scalability and functionality.

Put best practices to work with IBM Rational Method Composer.

See the value that IBM Rational Method Composer, including RUP, can provide your organization and projects—register today.

IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services. IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality is a load and performance testing and problem analysis tool that extends performance and scalability testing to SOA applications.
These new tools allow you to perform:

Script-less automated functional testing of Web services

Functional verification testing of Web services

Interoperability testing of Web services

Load testing of Web services

System Resources and SOA monitoring

As systems increase in complexity, communication between systems and software teams becomes more and more difficult. With systems teams under so much pressure to develop products faster, reduce production costs, and react to changing business needs quickly, communication and collaboration seem to get lost. Now, there's a way to improve product quality and communication.

Visit developerWorks and try the new WebSphere® Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) that gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications to business partners, customers, and employees. 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. The HATS Toolkit is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse-based, IBM Rational® Software Delivery Platform.

You can now evaluate IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 without installing it on your own system! Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 is an integrated development environment that can help you quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy high-quality Web, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, and portal applications. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.

Download the updated evaluation tool for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.1.

One-stop shopping. Easy access to IBM software that answers your IT challenges. Find solutions for simpler software development, collaboration and more—all in the latest edition of the catalog. Register to download a PDF copy or sign up to receive a printed copy in just a few weeks.

IBM Rational Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool designed to help data architects design relational and federated databases, understand data assets and their relationships and streamline database projects.

IBM Rational Software Modeler is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool for architects, systems analysts, and designers who are responsible for specifying and maintaining system or software models and designs.

IBM Rational Systems Developer is a design and development tool that takes advantage of the full power of Eclipse and includes plug-ins that enable system architects to model complex systems.

IBM Rational Test RealTime is a cross-platform solution for component testing and runtime analysis. It's designed specifically for those who write code for embedded, real-time, and other types of cross-platform software products.

IBM Rational Rose Technical Developer, formerly Rational Rose RealTime, is a robust Model-Driven Development (MDD) solution expressly created to meet the challenges of complex systems development. Based on the industry standard Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Rose Technical Developer provides a highly automated and reliable solution to the unique problems of concurrency and distribution.

Manage requirements using Microsoft Word, while leveraging analytical capabilities such as requirements analysis, coverage and change impact with this easy-to-use yet powerful tool.

IBM Rational Software Architect is an integrated design and development tool that leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.

Align IT processes with business requirements using free enterprise architecture tools, technologies, and information from IBM.

IBM Rational Software Architect is an integrated design and development tool that leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.

Rational Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-based Applications brings the power of Rational Functional Tester to TN3270 (zSeries), TN5250 (iSeries) and VT100 (Unix) applications.

You can now evaluate Rational ClearCase V7.0 without installing or configuring it on your own system! Rational ClearCase is a comprehensive solution that provides integration with design, development, build, test, and deployment tools for controlled access to software assets across the full lifecycle. Rational ClearCase is seamlessly integrated with IBM Rational ClearQuest for a complete change and configuration management solution. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.

Rational ClearQuest automates and enforces development processes for better insight, predictability, and control of the software lifecycle. ClearQuest integrates with design, development, build, test and deployment tools and facilitates communication across the organization.

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 system software assets with Rational Asset Manager.

In this Rational Talks to You teleconference, Clear Case experts Paul Boustany and Mark Krasovich discuss 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Web cast 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.

Distributed assets? Legacy Mainframe applications? Disparate? Disconnected? Not anymore! With IBM Rational software change and release management products, you can connect and manage all of your development assets no matter where they reside. See how IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational Build Forge work together to unify and accelerate software delivery on both your mainframe and distributed servers.

Get a technical overview of WebSphere Business Modeler. This Webcast will cover the basics of business modeling, the business-driven development cycle, and how WebSphere Business Modeler works with other development tools from the IBM WebSphere and IBM Rational product sets.

Learn about collaborative software development asset management with IBM Rational Asset Manager, software that enables organizations to identify, manage and govern the design, development and consumption of software assets, including services as part of an SOA initiative. This presentation introduces the key challenges of an asset-based development strategy, and how IBM Rational Asset Manager can help provide the solutions.

Find out how centralized build management can be a reality for geographically-distributed organizations. Most companies today have decentralized, uncontrolled policies and practices to manage the build and release process. So while organizations have invested in source code configuration management systems and automated testing systems, the bridge between them has been left to manual and ad-hoc practices. Watch this Webcast to see how centralizing build and release management makes sense.

This presentation introduces the new features in IBM Rational Build Forge release 7.0.1. A variety of enterprise themes are addressed in this release, including globalization, scalability, performance, compliance, and wider platform coverage. A new reporting feature is part of the latest release, Rational Build Forge Quick Report, which provides an easy to use, web-based wizard interface with pre-defined report types and templates to quickly create customized, ad-hoc reports. Other new items include a Java API, multi-byte character support, and RSS data feeds.

Rational Asset Manager software enables organizations to identify, manage, and govern the design, development, and consumption of software assets, including services as part of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. This Webcast introduces some of the key challenges of an asset-based development strategy, and how IBM Rational Asset Manager can help provide the solutions.

Explore how you can use Rational Performance Tester to pinpoint system performance bottlenecks in WebSphere Portal applications. While specific attention will be paid to WebSphere Portal applications, information in this session will also be valuable to those deploying J2EE, Web, SAP, ERP, Siebel and Oracle online applications.

Learn how to effectively deliver software development and systems engineering that connects development, operations, and business management. We will discuss how process becomes the basis for repeatable, consistent project plans and how you can then automate these through a workflow. We will then dive into specific software and systems delivery activities demonstrating how these would be executed using an IBM Rational and Tivoli solution. Replay will be available for 9 months following the live presentation.

Architectural concerns are fundamental to the success of any large-scale enterprise solution. This Webcast introduces seven "Lessons for Success" in the creation of Service Oriented Architecture solutions across the enterprise. A variety of IBM tools and methodologies which automate, enforce and/or assist customers in leveraging and implementing the seven lessons will be covered.

Today's mainframe application development environment is complicated by the need to integrate existing mission critical applications with new Web based applications, especially in the SOA environment. Join us for an introduction to several IBM offerings that can help you 1) quickly create Web services out of existing mainframe applications, 2) identify methods of using less skilled developers to meet your business' application requirements and 3) manage the successful deployment of quality cross platform applications.

Quality management is an essential business process in transforming an organization into an SOA, and requires complete, continuous, and collaborative testing in the delivery of services and composite applications. Learn about quality management within IBM's SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management solution and how our expertise and tools can help you succeed with your SOA initiatives and projects.

Change is a constant of software development. Tracking defects, issues, and feature requests is a critical component of project success. When bugs are resolved early and quickly, lower development costs, higher quality products, and faster time to market are the likely outcome (along with the attendant boost to your team's reputation). The question is how one successfully manages change in today's complex heterogeneous development environments.

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.

Web applications are now the #1 focus of hackers. It's not surprising given the increasingly high value of data collected. Customer information, credit card numbers, health and financial records are all ripe targets for the unscrupulous. According to Gartner, an astounding 80 percent of organizations will experience an application security incident by 2010.

The demands SOA places on your QA team are enormous and neither traditional nor manual test processes can keep up with Web service development's unique challenges. Learn how IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality automates the complexity away from functional and performance testing of Web services without requiring extensive training or programming knowledge.

Software and systems development can be maddeningly frustrating. Understanding where you are in the "process", how you got there, and where to go from here is often unclear. At times it seems like everyone is following their own process despite earnest efforts of project managers and process engineers to "standardize" the process with which work is done.

The IBM SOA Sandbox is an online learning environment designed to help enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers increase SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience. The IBM SOA Sandbox includes five SOA entry points: people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity. Each entry point provides a predefined SOA solution that you can quickly implement based on real-world customer experience and IBM best practices. Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox today!

IBM Rational Rose users seeking increased productivity, improved collaboration capabilities, and enhanced functionality should consider the more advanced features and functionality of the IBM Rational Software v7.0 tools. Learn why it pays to consider using or migrating existing Rational Rose projects to Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, and other tools.

The jury of public opinion may not have made up its mind about Second Life yet, but IBM is expending great effort to make sure that developers experience its transformational potential as an intellectual festival for likeminded professionals.

Can you build the ultimate SENTINEL defender? Compete against your fellow coders and explore Second Life as you strive to defeat evil and protect Codestation. Beginning on Tuesday, July 31 all of the details on the Challenge can be found at specially marked kiosks in Codestation.

The open source release of the Second Life viewer program by developer Linden Lab offers a rare opportunity to peer into the comparative strengths of closed and open source development models. This article, the first in a series, gives an overview of some of the differences between these development styles, and talks about what's involved in setting up your own build environment.

The developer documentation in the Second Life client takes the form of a wiki. In Part 2 of our ongoing exploration of the Second Life software, take a look at that documentation, and use it to jump-start some modifications to the client.

In the last part of our exploration of the Second Life software, learn how to plug a simple command-line program into Second Life that provides a language translation function.

Patterns let you capture domain knowledge, best practices, and design expertise in tools such as Rational Software Architect to improve productivity, efficiency, and quality while automating and minimizing the mundane and mechanical aspects of software development.

IBM Rational Application Developer v7 allows you to download only the features you need and is easily customized to your role and requirements. New pre-packaged views, perspectives, code samples, wizards, tutorials, and a host of other goodies, make it easier than ever to rapidly develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Web, Web services, and SOA applications

IBM Rational version 7 tools virtually knock out the silos that exist between Visual Studio.NET, C/C++, and Java programmers in heterogeneous and globally dispersed environments enabling your entire development and deployment team to work smarter and more efficiently on all your application development projects.

IBM Rational has just simplified the process of SAP regression and performance testing, ensuring successful deployment of any upgrades and changes you make to your SAP system, as well as enabling you to optimize the performance, quality, and reliability of your SAP application to meet critical business requirements.

IBM Rational Software Architect is an advanced model-driven development and static analysis tool for software architects and model-driven developers who are creating SOA, J2EE and portal applications.

Download a free trial version of IBM Rational? Functional Tester. Rational Functional Tester is an advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing applications based on Java, Microsoft? Visual Studio .NET?, and Web technologies.

Your development skills need to evolve away from 3GL, toward modeling and more abstract development methodologies, if you plan to survive the disruptive forces reshaping the software industry.

IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational Software Development Platform provide a customizable off-the-shelf solution for process and workflow management, lifecycle traceability, and breaking down software development and deployment silos across the application lifecycle.

Get IBM Rational Build Forge^TM for building and releasing management capabilities and to streamline your software delivery throughout the development lifecycle. Learn more

If you need to test and insure the quality, reliability, and robustness of SOA applications, components, libraries, and services written in native C/C++, or a mixture of Java and C/C++, you can't live without IBM Rational PurifyPlus.

IBM Rational's business-level programming language, development tools, and new initiative enable development of mainframe SOA and "services-ready" applications.