IBM Rational software podcast series

IT organizations today must be able to flexibly react to changing business requirements. The ability to host Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) in the cloud reduces the time, cost and resources required for installation, configuration and maintenance. Learn how IBM is extending IBM SmartCloud Enterprise images to include Rational’s development solutions. Kimberly Gist, Jean-Yves Rigolet and Steve Weaver, speakers.

What's new in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how do you get it? William (Bill) Smith, Product Manager, Rational Solutions for Power, discusses the new features in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how you can download this new functionality.

As software plays an increasingly critical role in the business performance of corporations, IT faces considerable pressure to support new business initiatives while cutting costs. Over the last 30 years, billions of dollars have been invested in software applications, but typically these investments are poorly leveraged. Too often, a complex and poorly understood application portfolio consumes a large percentage of IT funds, leaving IT leaders challenged to find the funds needed for business innovation. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.

Engineering medical devices is not an easy job. These devices include an increasing amount of software that integrates with hardware and electronics and need to meet changing healthcare needs and standards. This podcast will discuss how IBM Rational solution for medical devices provides tools to meet regulatory compliance with enhanced automation and reporting to avoid audits, lawsuits and company collapse, manage product complexity by integrate requirements and quality management and reduce time-to-market and cost by early defect detection and removal. Keith Collyer and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Agile practices have transformed the way software is built and delivered. Today, Agile is used in virtually every industry and is being used to deliver every type of software from mobile to mainframe, Agile is everywhere and impacts everyone! Whether you are a developer, tester, analyst, architect or project manager agile could be in your future. Please take a few minutes to join Matt Holitza as he explores what the move to agile could mean for you and your team. Matt Holitza, speaker.

Banking, Insurance and Financial Market applications and processes have increasingly complex testing needs that are hindering time to market and increasing costs. Recent results show that financial institutions around the world are addressing this challenge in order to excel in rapidly changing financial environments. Join this podcast to hear how, from Mobile to Mainframe apps: 1) Test lab infrastructure costs can be reduced by up to 90%. 2) Labor involved in setting up test environments can be reduced by 80%+. 3) Test environments can be configured in minutes versus weeks. And 4) Developers have the means to test software earlier. Sue Green and Adam Olson, speakers.

Hear from Bret Greenstein, Vice President, Rational Complex and Embedded Systems on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2013. Bret will discuss his vision and strategic direction for product and systems development, focusing on industry capabilities, our commitment to openness, the importance of the partner ecosystem and continued investment in our products. Bret will also highlight our expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities offered at this year's event.

Are you a System z, Power (IBM i, AIX and Linux), or PureSystems customer? Then come explore how Enterprise System solutions from IBM can help you build on existing, proven applications by extending and streamlining in the areas of Mobile, DevOps, Cloud, Service Virtualization, and Modernization. This podcast features three speakers who will highlight the Smarter Computing, System z and Power/PureSystems tracks at Innovate. Hear which sessions are not to be missed, learn how to schedule a personalized 1:1 demo in the Solutions Suites, Register for the System z Reception, Check out the Expos and Workshops, and more. Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskins and Michael Connor, speakers.

The role of embedded software is growing exponentially in Engineering systems and quality in these systems is no longer a differentiator, but a necessity for success. Increasing development time or cost is not an option, therefore engineers must evolve their techniques to remain competitive. Learn how IBM and National Instruments are investing to equip engineers with technology to produce superior system quality and validation efficiency with the ability to trace and improve development end to end and improve collaboration between all engineering teams from initial requirements through final systems test. Chris Washington and Sanjiv Jain, speakers.

Systems engineering is increasingly being recognized as an essential technology for successful development of innovative, software-intensive smart products. Unlike the systems engineering in the Apollo age, visualized as a room full of slide-rules and skinny black ties, today’s systems engineering is more pervasive than ever before. Extending beyond typical engineering benefits such as lower costs, higher quality and reduced risk, today’s systems engineering, if utilized intelligently, can have a significant business impact – touching not only engineering, but manufacturing, procurement, support, and planning, as well as affecting future profit opportunities of long-lived products. Join Greg Gorman and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how systems engineering can impact business decisions made outside the engineering organization.

Are you tired of vendors pushing their over the top ALM solutions on you? Are you fed up with having to contort the way your team naturally works to fit someone else’s solution? Are you frustrated at how much effort you are spending trying to keep multiple development tools up and running? Then get some answers by attending this refreshingly candid podcast and learn how a simpler, leaner approach may be all you really need. Bernie Coyne, Sr., speaker.

Business innovation is increasingly being delivered via software, and the rapid pace of market changes is driving the need for business agility. To seize market opportunities, and realize the full competitive and economic benefits from IT investments, technology leaders are implementing enterprise strategies such as DevOps to both improve the quality and accelerate the delivery of innovative applications and services. Sessions in this area of interest will address best practices for aligning stakeholders across the organization, including business owners, development, test and operations teams, including business planning, collaborative development, continuous testing, continuous release and deployment and continuous monitoring and optimization. Steve Weaver, speaker.

In the era of the mobile enterprise, organizations understand that to stay ahead their mobile apps must evolve rapidly in response to feedback. This podcast highlights mobile at Innovate 2013, where new and exciting IBM MobileFirst content will be shared, from app development, to testing, to connecting mobile to your enterprise.

Gaining new insights and creating new opportunities with big data is becoming a game changer for organizations of today. From enterprise Hadoop through streaming 'real-time' technologies, our big data experts will be available at Innovate to assist with your big data challenge. Listen to this podcast to hear how to get started with big data and the experience that we have prepared for the conference.

The cloud computing track at Innovate 2013 focuses on leveraging the cloud accelerate software delivery, through rapid provisioning of development and test environments; collaboration across IT teams to accelerate delivery and deployment of software; and to drive new business value through innovative offerings and services. This track is for anyone interested in cloud computing as a way to reduce operational and capital expenses, reduce development and test cycle times and improve overall quality and time to market.