Knowledge paths are focused learning guides that bring together diverse training resources for IT professionals: how-to articles, free trial software, discussion forums, educational videos and podcasts and hands-on exercises. These resources are specifically chosen by subject matter experts, and arranged in sequence to guide you from conceptual awareness to task mastery. more

Innovate 2011 is coming to town! Have you enrolled yet? Discover the presence of software everywhere, bettering your business and life. This is your chance to let IBM Rational escalate your profits through the roof. Reap rich benefits by integrating people, processes and data and by facilitating team collaboration profit from a smarter software. more

To develop a useful enterprise architecture (EA) it is important to first understand the questions you want to answer with your architecture. Then based on these questions, you can develop an approach and identify the models that you need. Finally, you can do both quantitative and qualitative analysis on your architecture to either see where the business can be improved or identify necessary changes or enhancements to the architecture. This article offers a summary of an enterprise architecture program and its processes. more

Mike Perrow gets specific about how Rational software and services contribute to what IBM calls "Business Agility:" analytics and business rules for better decisions, practices for smarter software development, and ways to extend your reach with secure, multi-platform and cloud development. more

Today's digital-savvy consumers are driving corporations to re-imagine their business models. The expectation is that the products they produce will integrate into our lives, work in more personal ways, and adapt to our individual needs. IBM can help provide the software, hardware, and services to help you make your products smarter. more

Take advantage of the learning opportunity that 7,200 technology and business leaders from around the world enjoyed at the 2011 IBM Impact Conference. Change, complexity and uncertainty are the new normal. Never has it been more important to have the business agility to turn these challenges into opportunities. Learn how you can make that transformation with the unique opportunity to have real experience and expertise shared in a city near you. more

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Attending one of the jam-packed IBM developerWorks Live! briefings will shorten your learning curve, and improve the quality and results of your most difficult software projects. Keep up-to-speed on the latest trends in the industry. See how IBM tools can help you get the most value from your IT investments. Sign up now for some of the most powerful briefings delivered by IBM. more

From wherever you are, you can watch general sessions and see interviews straight from the EXPO floor with IBM thought leaders, IBM Business Partners, and customers on how they are implementing IBM Information Management software to gain insight from data and turn insight to action. more

Knowledge paths are focused learning guides that bring together diverse training resources for IT professionals: how-to articles, free trial software, discussion forums, educational videos and podcasts and hands-on exercises. These resources are specifically chosen by subject matter experts, and arranged in sequence to guide you from conceptual awareness to task mastery. more

A collaborative data design solution to help you discover, model, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets, is now available for trial download on developerWorks. more

Tune in to hear IBM industry experts and IBM Business Partners share technical details about industry solutions and the results driven by the implementation of IBM solutions. Every few weeks, we'll publish a new discussion with an expert on the topics that are important to your industry. more

Delivers the complete range of business intelligence capabilities on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA). Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. Cognos BI gives you the information you need to make better decisions. more

This article explains how you can create an active-active environment for IBM InfoSphere Warehouse to meet the highest availability requirements using DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, WebSphere Edge Components, and Q Replication. more

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Bringing in a new application or a new piece of code can raise a question: will it work the way it's supposed to? In this article, Hans Kamman and his team offer advice on benchmarking and the basics of efficient, effective testing to minimize risk and turn you into a change champion without gambling. more

Attending one of the jam-packed IBM developerWorks Live! briefings will shorten your learning curve, and improve the quality and results of your most difficult software projects. Keep up-to-speed on the latest trends in the industry. See how IBM tools can help you get the most value from your IT investments. Sign up now for some of the most powerful briefings delivered by IBM. more

Provides database developers and DBAs with an integrated, modular environment for productive administration of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. It also provides collaborative database development tools for DB2, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase. more

IBM DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows takes the cost savings, ease of use, and security of DB2 9.5 to the next level. For example, the industry-leading deep compression technology introduced in DB2 9.5 has been enhanced and extended in DB2 9.7. The result is even lower storage costs in DB2 9.7 compared with DB2 9.5. Beyond the concrete storage cost savings deep compression offered, it also simplified administration of large databases and lead to welcome performance gains for many clients. more

If you're a DBA or database developer currently working with Oracle or another relational database management system, learn how easy it is to get trained and certified for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Features introduced in DB2 9.7 make it very easy to reuse your PL/SQL knowledge, since DB2 has out-of-the-box support for Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL dialects. Expand your skills portfolio, or extend your DBMS vendor support to include DB2. You'll find that you're already almost there. more

Cloud computing provides a way for you to develop applications in a virtual environment, one in which computing capacity, bandwidth, and storage aren't issues. Cloud computing is a key component to effectively provisioning IT resources and services so you can store them in a secure manner, find the individual bits you need quickly to move projects along, and access the analytical value in your data to make the most effective organizational business decisions. more