Rational software podcast series

The IBM Rational Quality Management portfolio released updates to two core products on April 28th, 2008: IBM Rational Performance Tester v7.0.2 and IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality v7.0.2. In this podcast, IBM Rational technology evangelist Brian Bryson will discuss the new features and advancements that will help testers in their performance testing and SOA/Web Services testing efforts.

Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition is a static analysis solution that enables developer-level static analysis code reviews and bug identification very early in the development cycle. In today's podcast we'll learn about one of the newest offerings from IBM Rational from Mike O'Rourke, the Vice President of Rational Product Development.

Traditional process adoption often becomes an unfocused -boil the water effort-. We will discuss a set of tools that help you determine how well you are doing today and incrementally approve a practice at the time "called assessment" driven adoption.

Steve Weaver, Rational Architecture Management Marketing Engineer, discusses how the combination of Rational Asset Manager and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository can help organizations govern the service lifecycle, from business requirements through design, development and testing to deployment. Rational Asset Manager is used to govern service assets at development time, while WebSphere Service Registry handles the run time management of the services. Together, they form a powerful solution for managing service assets across the lifecycle.

Miss the action? This 3 minute clip of Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and IBM Rational co-founder and Theresa Quatrani, IBM Rational Evangelist. summarizes the celebration on CODESTATION in Second Life of the evolution of Rational. It's the 5th Anniversary of Rational Software joining the IBM team.

Dave Myers, Rational Enterprise Tools Product Line Manger, will be talking about Enterprise Modernization and how Rational Developer for System z (RDz) and Rational Business Developer (RBD) can assist. The session will address what Enterprise Modernization entails, how RDz helps move applications toward a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for CICS, IMS, and other System z workload, and provide an introduction to EGL -- IBMs newest business langauge -- and how RBD makes creating Web, Web 2.0, and Web user interface to CICS/IMS applications easy. Key features and future direction of the products will also be discussed.

Raj Daswani, Product Line Manager for Rational Transformation Workbench, joins us to talk about what the Rational Transformation Workbench (RTW) provides developers and how it helps to accelerate asset reuse. He will also discuss how customers are already using the tool to enhance their development process.

John Douglas, Host Integration Product Line Manager, discusses HATS, what it is, and how it can help you modernize your enterprise. This short session will address both the products green-screen transformation capability and its ability to generate Web Services from mainframe applications. We'll also discuss key features and functions of the latest release, how customers use the product enhancements, and the future of HATS.

In this podcast, Stefano Sergi, IBM Rational Product Line Manager for EGL and Rational Business Developer, talks about "EGL", IBM newest business language for accelerating Web and SOA development for i5/OS.

George Farr from Rational is the Product Line Manager for System i Tools. He will be discussing IBM Rational solutions for i5/OS application development.