Upcoming #IBM Webinars: May 2015 #ironsiderational #rational

May Webinars Join IBM Business Partner Ironside Rational for their upcoming webcasts to learn about the latest in IBM Rational trends or technologies. Check out the schedule below and register today!

JAZZ Introduction to Rational Team Concert Source Control Management: A Jazz and CLM Component Overview  May 5 |  11:00am-12:00pm >>Register

DEVOPS Inventory Benefits and Financial Impacts of IEM for Asset Discovery May 12  |  11:00am-12:00pm >>Register

ENTERPRISE REPORTING  What's New in the Jazz Data Collection Component May 13  |  11:00am-12:00pm >>Register

REPORTING WRITING Creating Custom Reports with RRDI and Rational Insight: Part 2 May 13  |  12:30pm-1:30pm >>Register

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Understanding and Configuring DOORS Architecture May 14  |  12:30pm-1:30pm >>Register

QUALITY Getting the Most out of Rational Quality Manager for Planning, Execution and Reporting  May 19  |  11:00am-12:00pm >>Register

JAZZ Leveraging Rational Team Concert Work Item Management  May 26 |  11:00am-12:00pm >>Register

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Understanding and Configuring DOORS Next Generation Architecture May 28 |  12:30pm-1:30pm >>Register

Supercharge your #WebSphere Investment w/ @ibmrational

Are you re-evaluating your 2013 strategic objectives to pursue the goal of increased sales, cutting cost and getting to market with maximum speed?

IBM Rational helps businesses with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) [WebSphere portal] to maximize their WebSphere Application Server investments.  IBM Rational Solutions, designed specifically for WAS and Portal to deliver higher quality applications faster at lower cost, can help businesses like yours to achieve optimum IT and Operational efficiency.

If you are interested in:

• Building higher quality applications faster
• Reducing the software cost of quality.
• Reducing cost of WebSphere Administration
• Testing end-to-end integrations earlier and continuously, by simulating dependent components

Then IBM Rational Software may have the right solution or best practices for you.

Feel free to contact me at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta to learn more about your environment and to discuss how IBM Rational can offer assistance to help you achieve your 2013 strategic goals.

Learn More: Download Supercharge Your WebSphere and Portal Business with Rational interactive PDF

Free Video-On-Demand: "13 Mistakes that Limit Portfolio Success and What You Can Do About Them"

On September 12th, IBM Corporation and Decision Innovation, Inc. hosted a Webinar entitled, "13 Mistakes that Limit Portfolio Success and What You Can Do About Them".  Today, we are pleased to offer this informative session in the video below - free of charge!  Feel free to share this with colleagues who may have an interest.

We invite you to watch the replay to learn about key decisions that support and drive product portfolio management and how strategic alignment can be achieved.

Decision Innovation presents a foundational approach that can help you:

• Manage the single largest source of costly hidden defects
• Enable and maintain alignment using a decision framework
• Use strategic decisions to drive product portfolios

In this highly relevant webinar you will learn:

• Common pain points/problems/mistakes in decision making
• What is a decision framework and why is it so fundamental
• How a decision framework creates alignment by design and provides a single version of the truth
• Benefits of a simple decision making process
• How IBM Rational Focal Point can support this approach

Presented by Decision Innovation, Inc. (An IBM Business Partner).  For more information, contact Gary DeGregorio at 1-224-795-7722 or gary.degregorio@decisioninnovation.com.

13 Decision Making Mistakes that Limit Portfolio Success

Listen to a replay of the webinar "13 Decision Making Mistakes that Limit Portfolio Success and What to do About it" co-sponsored by IBM Software Group and Decision Innovation, Inc. Learn about key decisions that support and drive product portfolio management and how strategic alignment can be achieved.

FREE #WEBINAR: 13 Decision Making Mistakes that Limit Portfolio #Success

USING A DECISION FRAMEWORK TO DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT

Wednesday, September 12th at 11:00 AM Eastern

FREE WEBINAR

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IBM Software Group and Decision Innovation, Inc. are pleased to invite you to join our FREE live webinar on September 12th to learn about key decisions that support and drive product portfolio management and how strategic alignment can be achieved.  Decision Innovation's Co-founders will introduce a decision management framework that can drive organizational alignment.

They will show how this foundational approach can help you:

• Manage the single largest source of costly hidden defects
• Enable and maintain alignment using a decision framework
• Use strategic decisions to drive the business applications and services portfolios

In this highly relevant webinar you will learn:

• Common pain points/problems/mistakes in decision making
• What is a decision framework and why is it so fundamental
• How a decision framework creates alignment by design
• How this approach provides a single version of the truth
• Benefits of a simple decision making process
• How IBM Rational Focal Point can support this approach

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Presenters:

• Gary DeGregorio, CTO and Co-Founder, Decision Innovation, Inc.
• Gary is CTO and co-founder of Decision Innovation, Inc. which is focused on providing services, tools, and techniques for more effective business decision making.  He has worked in the field of business system and software applied research for the past fifteen years with a focus on decision management, innovation, and collaboration frameworks.
• Keith Ten Brook, CEO and Co-Founder, Decision Innovation, Inc.
• As a co-founder of Decision Innovation, Inc, Keith bring an inquisitive and creative mind coupled with a successful executive business career in leading teams to develop new and innovative products.  He is a lifelong learner with the ability to focus on solving problems and developing innovative alternatives.

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Presented by Decision Innovation, Inc. (An IBM Business Partner)

For more information, contact Gary DeGregorio at

1-224-795-7722 or gary.degregorio@decisioninnovation.com

FREE WEBINAR Wed., Sept. 12th at 11am EDT: Using a Decision Framework to Drive Organizational Alignment

USING A DECISION FRAMEWORK TO DRIVE ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT

Wednesday, September 12th at 11:00 AM Eastern

FREE WEBINAR

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IBM Software Group and Decision Innovation, Inc. are pleased to invite you to join our FREE live webinar on September 12th to learn about key decisions that support and drive product portfolio management and how strategic alignment can be achieved.  Decision Innovation's Co-founders will introduce a decision management framework that can drive organizational alignment.

They will show how this foundational approach can help you:

• Manage the single largest source of costly hidden defects
• Enable and maintain alignment using a decision framework
• Use strategic decisions to drive the business applications and services portfolios

In this highly relevant webinar you will learn:

• Common pain points/problems/mistakes in decision making
• What is a decision framework and why is it so fundamental
• How a decision framework creates alignment by design
• How this approach provides a single version of the truth
• Benefits of a simple decision making process
• How IBM Rational Focal Point can support this approach

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Click HERE to register for this FREE live webinar!

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Presenters:

• Gary DeGregorio, CTO and Co-Founder, Decision Innovation, Inc.
• Gary is CTO and co-founder of Decision Innovation, Inc. which is focused on providing services, tools, and techniques for more effective business decision making.  He has worked in the field of business system and software applied research for the past fifteen years with a focus on decision management, innovation, and collaboration frameworks.
• Keith Ten Brook, CEO and Co-Founder, Decision Innovation, Inc.
• As a co-founder of Decision Innovation, Inc, Keith bring an inquisitive and creative mind coupled with a successful executive business career in leading teams to develop new and innovative products.  He is a lifelong learner with the ability to focus on solving problems and developing innovative alternatives.

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Presented by Decision Innovation, Inc. (An IBM Business Partner)

For more information, contact Gary DeGregorio at

1-224-795-7722 or gary.degregorio@decisioninnovation.com

Look Software Press Release: Look Software Bundles #IBM RPG Open Access FREE with Their Products

For Immediate Release
Melbourne, Australia – 29 September, 2011
http://www.mcpressonline.com/software-news/development-tools-utilities/looksoftware-bundles-ibm-rpg-open-access-free-with-products.html

looksoftware today announced that they will bundle IBM’s Rational Open Access: RPG Edition for free with every purchase of looksoftware’s Open Access products, having recently signed an agreement to distribute the software.

IBM i community interest in Open Access was ranked #1 in an independent 2010 market survey, and this move by looksoftware makes it even easier to get started with the technology. looksoftware will now provide a package that includes all of the components required to OA-enable existing applications or develop new applications using OA, and blend them seamlessly with non-OA applications.

looksoftware CEO Brendan Kay commented “Simplicity is one of our core values at looksoftware – we aim to shield our customers from the unnecessary complexity of using new technologies, and the requirement to purchase Rational Open Access separately has been causing unneeded confusion. In providing the product for free with every purchase of our Open Access products, our aim is to reduce the difficulty and cost of getting up and running with OA.”

Released in March this year, looksoftware’s Open Access support integrates directly with their existing developer tools, and delivers an infinite number of interfaces from a single modernization effort. Crucially however, developers have the ability to define and control every element and property of the graphical interface dynamically from the RPG code, removing the constraints of 5250 to deliver truly native interfaces.

Kay added “Our tools have delivered state of the art interfaces for the last 15 years, however Open Access enables us to go one step deeper and provide direct access to the interface from the RPG code. Our IDE will always be available to fine-tune the interface, but the resultant architecture will leave the DDS in the standard IBM format, as opposed to the vendor-specific nature of alternative architectures. If choosing to take advantage of Open Access leaves you locked to one vendor, then it won’t be very open”

IBM has endorsed the decision to package Rational Open Access with looksoftware’s support. ASL Account Manager Joe Gaeta commented “IBM is pleased to welcome looksoftware to the IBM Rational ASL program. We appreciate looksoftware’s efforts to promote application modernization with the integration of Rational products into its own solutions.”

For more information on looksoftware’s support for RPG Open Access, please access looksoftware's product page or contact: looksoftware in Australia at + 61 3 9535 4444 or looksoftware in the USA at + 1 678 354 1094.   Alternatively email marketing@looksoftware.com or visit their website at www.looksoftware.com

#IBMRational and #ASL: Value for You and Your Client

Fifth in my "Value for You and Your Client" series of posts. Here, I will focus on IBM's Rational software brand.

Rational Functional Tester and Rational Quality Manager:  Integrated testing of you applications at the time of deployment to ensure timely customer application acceptance, customer satisfaction and quick time to value.

• Ensure the quickest acceptance of applications and upgrades.
• Maximize customer satisfaction by including functional testing as part of their application deployment.

Rational AppScan Source Edition:  Ensure the security of your applications before, during, and after your customers' deployment.

• Ensure applications and upgrades, when customized and deployed by your customers, are safe and secure for web operation.

Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearCase, and Rational ClearQuest, Rational Doors:  Enable seamless configuration management of code changes during application customization and implementation.

• You can enable your customers to ensure the integrity of any and all changes made when customizing your applications for deployment.

Rational Software Architect + Deployment Extension + Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere:  Automate the deployment of complex applications (especially WebSphere-based apps) to optimize customer acceptance.

• Ensure the quickest and easiest acceptance of complex applications and upgrades to maximize customer satisfaction, by automating deployment

Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational AppScan: Provide Software as a Service offerings in three key target areas:  Software Collaboration, Software Testing, and Web Application Security Testing

• Build value-added hosted services offerings to complement your resale offerings and tap into new whitespace markets

Rational Compilers for z and Power:  Increase ROA (Return on Assets) and reduce capital expenditures for z and Power clients implementing new applications.

• In new and upgrade HW scenarios, customers are assured maximum processor utilization and application performance.