IBM Rational software podcast series

Electronics fuel innovations in many industries. As a result, electronics firms are under constant pressure to deliver this innovation on time and within budget, while contending with rapidly changing technologies, increasing product complexity and strict compliance and safety standards. Additionally, firms must typically coordinate project tasks across a global marketplace with an international supply chain. To help meet these difficult challenges, IBM Rational offers a set of solutions and products for several electronics industry segments, including: semiconductors, medical devices, consumer electronics, network equipment providers, industrial automation and office products. This podcast will discuss the comprehensive set of capabilities IBM Rational provides for the electronics industry. Paridhi Verma, speaker.

For most medical device companies, the design control requirements of the FDA, as defined in 21 CFR Part 820, are fundamental to the business of developing products. The challenge is how to ensure that you remain compliant to these regulatory needs while reducing the overhead in doing so. Ideally, you want to make compliance just part of "how we do business around here", and, in effect, invisible to the practitioners. This podcast will discuss approaches to make that possible. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Poor software quality is blamed for more major business problems than any other man-made product, and results in over 500 billion dollars of losses worldwide. Improving application quality is a high priority in virtually every industry. But traditional testing methods have become too costly and impractical to keep up with business demands due to the increasingly complex web of hardware, software and services. By automating the building and testing of z/OS application code in isolated environments using virtualized services, the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z helps significantly improve software quality while reducing delivery time and costs. Dave Myers and Cheri Bergeron, speakers.

Heavily regulated industries like automotive, aerospace and defence, and medical devices face issues like requirements management and traceability across the lifecycle to meet regulatory needs. While for lightly regulated industries like Telecom and consumer electronics key issues are being able to reuse components from product to product as development time frames get shorter. These industries have to address these pain points through their entire supply chain in developing both hardware and software. This podcast will focus on IBM Rational solutions for development of hardware/software co-design. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

First conceived in 2005, the founders of IBM Jazz asked the question "Can we do for teams what Eclipse did for individual developers?" Today, our mission for Jazz remains strong: to transform software and systems delivery by making it more collaborative, productive and transparent. In this podcast we chat with John Wiegand and Dan Griffin for the Jazz team. They will describe where we are with Jazz, and where we are going in the coming months and years.

Did you ever wish you could have a wizard at your fingertips, to help you make tough program and project decisions easier? IBM develops technical wizardry and makes it more accessible. One of the ways we do this is by encapsulating difficult problems into models, which can then be made available to those who need solutions in a more consumable way. Learn how IBM Rational helps make tough program and project management decisions easier. Murray Cantor and Brian Nolan, speakers.

Did you ever wish you could have a wizard at your fingertips, to help you make tough program and project decisions easier? IBM develops technical wizardry and makes it more accessible. One of the ways we do this is by encapsulating difficult problems into models, which can then be made available to those who need solutions in a more consumable way. Learn how IBM Rational helps make tough program and project management decisions easier. Murray Cantor and Brian Nolan, speakers.

Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the performance of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before their release at a lower cost? Join Dennis Moya as he shares IBM's point of view with key messages delivered during the IBM webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.

Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the performance of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before their release at a lower cost? Join Dennis Moya as he shares IBM's point of view with key messages delivered during the IBM webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.

Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends, but an inevitable one. And although most companies already have some type of a mobile strategy, to take it to the next level and offer those 5-star apps, they will have to extend to the back-end leveraging their databases and mainframe applications. This podcast highlights a few of the challenges and the unique solution that IBM offers which combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development featuresall integrated together in one package. Leigh Williamson and Pam Induni, speakers.

Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends, but an inevitable one. And although most companies already have some type of a mobile strategy, to take it to the next level and offer those 5-star apps, they will have to extend to the back-end leveraging their databases and mainframe applications. This podcast highlights a few of the challenges and the unique solution that IBM offers which combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development features—all integrated together in one package. Leigh Williamson and Pam Induni, speakers.

Reduce waste and increase business value by helping customers make more informed investment and delivery choices. By providing the ability to rigorously assess the value of new investments, deployed applications and delivery projects, customers can ensure that they obtain the greatest return from their organization's resources. Listen to how IBM's business partner Decision Focus have helped organizations overcome some of their biggest challenges and how this has lead to that organizations could reach true business value. Jon Tollerup, speaker.

Reduce waste and increase business value by helping customers make more informed investment and delivery choices. By providing the ability to rigorously assess the value of new investments, deployed applications and delivery projects, customers can ensure that they obtain the greatest return from their organization's resources. Listen to how IBM's business partner Decision Focus have helped organizations overcome some of their biggest challenges and how this has lead to that organizations could reach true business value. Jon Tollerup, speaker.

Hear the latest enhancements for the IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering, including: Systems Engineering Metrics, Cross Lifecycle Reporting, Quality Management tool mentors for the OSLC DOORS - RQM integration, Linked Lifecycle Data and the solution benefits from new product releases. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.

Hear the latest enhancements for the IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering, including: Systems Engineering Metrics, Cross Lifecycle Reporting, Quality Management tool mentors for the OSLC DOORS - RQM integration, Linked Lifecycle Data and the solution benefits from new product releases. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.