WEBCAST - Without effective requirements engineering practices that keep all your engineering teams (systems, software, electrical/electronic, mechanical), product stakeholders  and your partners/suppliers on the same page, you run the risk of experiencing quality issues in design and development, or worse, product recalls. Watch this webcast for solutions.
Posted: September 1, 2010 | Premiered: September 1, 2010


Topics:  Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Engineers | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - As more and more software is embedded into both consumer and industrial electronics, the electronics industry is being challenged with ensuring rigor within its software development process, often a new core competency, and the integration of hardware and software. Read this paper to learn about solutions that address these complex challenges.
Posted: September 1, 2010 | Published: March 19, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Electronic Components | Electronics Industry | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - IBM Rational software - the market-leading provider of platforms for software lifecycle management - is teaming with Wind River - the global leader in the embedded and mobile industries - to help companies take the risk out of multicore software development.
Posted: September 1, 2010 | Published: May 25, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Software | Mobile Device Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

EZINE - When new platforms or technologies appear, data center managers must consider the impact on applications and drive the software development efforts that will keep their businesses competitive. Find out how a more efficient re-design can vastly improve an application's performance when run within a virtual machine.
Posted: September 1, 2010 | Published: August 31, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Applications Management Services | Cloud Computing | Co-Location Services | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | High Availability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Software Development Life-Cycles

EGUIDE - This expert resource examines lean software development and how this agile style of development minimizes the high risk of mistakes and the high cost of change associated with application lifecycles and emphasizes extensive planning and design early in the project.
Posted: August 27, 2010 | Published: August 16, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Applications Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - In most software projects, the importance of testing Requirement specifications is often ignored. Requirements must be clearly specified, completely described and unambiguously defined. Several techniques are available to test requirements. One such technique is 'Ambiguity Testing' and is implemented at the inception phase of requirement gathering.
Posted: August 25, 2010 | Published: August 25, 2010


Topics:  Project Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Test Results | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Automating testing frameworks and maintaining quality software releases is critical to business performance. This paper presents the benefits of different Test Automation Frameworks, their design components, governance models, maintenance considerations and a checklist of the five key elements to maintain a successful Test Automation Framework.
Posted: August 25, 2010 | Published: August 25, 2010


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Risk Management | ROI | Scripting | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Test Results | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Today software development necessitates a great emphasis on quality. At the same time, the software quality assurance process forces development managers to make tradeoffs between the costs of additional software testing and the expected cost of fixing bugs after they have reached the field. Read this paper for tips on balancing quality and cost.
Posted: August 19, 2010 | Published: July 25, 2010


Topics:  Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WEBCAST - Join us for this webcast and learn how you can make your software harder to hack.
Posted: August 19, 2010 | Premiered: May 24, 2010


Topics:  Cybersecurity | Hackers | Security Software | Security Threats | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Vulnerability Management

WEBCAST - While the capabilities of technology continue to expand beyond expectations, far too many software development projects are still failing to meet quality measures, exceed delivery and cost expectations -- to the point where it can no longer be ignored -- organizations must turn this trend around. View this webcast to learn more.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: August 17, 2010


Topics:  Project Management | Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WEBCAST - Join us for this webcast to learn how integrated requirements, change and configuration management can empower your business by helping to establish predictability and control over complex software development requirements.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: June 24, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Change Management | Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WEBCAST - Listen as Dan Rasmussen, an IBM expert in quality management, discusses how integrating your requirements engineering and quality management processes can help you meet the elusive, yet obtainable dual goal of both producing higher quality products and reducing your development costs.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: December 8, 2009


Topics:  Quality Control | Quality Control Standards | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WEBCAST - Join us for this first part of a two-part series discussing how IBM® Rational® helps teams use requirements to create better business driven solutions.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: June 29, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Reporting Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Testing

WEBCAST - Join us to learn how IBM® Rational® helps teams use requirements to create better business driven solutions.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: June 29, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Reporting Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WEBCAST - Join Sue Green, Market Manager for IBM Rational Systems at this webcast as she shows you a structured approach to seizing opportunity and managing change amid the fast pace world and complexity of smarter product development.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Premiered: August 17, 2010


Topics:  Change Management | Enterprise Systems | Quality Control | ROI | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - Despite criticism of application development methodology over the years, some fundamental problems haven’t been addressed successfully. This paper examines a new direction supported by the IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools. These tools provide a coordinated approach well-suited to the special needs of contemporary information-centric development.
Posted: August 16, 2010 | Published: August 13, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Business Intelligence | Data Analytics | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Quality | ETL (Software) | Master Data Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Project Management

RESOURCE CENTER - New! The IBM® agility@scale™ e-Kit contains white papers, case studies and videos that show how the IBM Rational group's technology, practices and expertise can assist your efforts to adopt and tailor your agile practices. 
Posted: August 12, 2010 | Published: August 12, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - IBM Rational® software has helped thousands of companies worldwide improve their agility with software best practices, tools and services. IBM understands that a single-size solution does not fit all. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: August 6, 2010 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Collaborative Product Development | Open Source | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Selection

WHITE PAPER - This paper introduces the Presto Manifesto as a basis for guiding software development and achieving business results. It outlines the symbiotic relationship between software development activities and development tools - where one without the other makes your project like a deck of cards waiting to fall. Read this paper to learn more!
Posted: August 6, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Selection | VMware

ASSESSMENT TOOL - IBM Rational® Software delivery services for cloud computing can help reduce the overall costs associated with your software deployment projects, by enhancing the agility, governance and flexibility of your current software delivery process.
Posted: August 3, 2010 | Published: August 3, 2010


Topics:  Agile Manufacturing | Cloud Computing | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Implementation | Software Virtualization

PRODUCT DEMO - Take Two minutes to determine the value your organization could attain. The IBM Rational software delivery automation value estimators illustrate how your organization can be positively impacted by the use of Rational automation software solutions. Try this demo out today.
Posted: August 3, 2010 | Published: August 3, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Infrastructure | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Application Security | Applications Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Selection

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how development managers can help their teams create better software by making sure they feel valuable and valued, giving them the tools they need to be effective, and ensuring they don’t write code in isolation.
Posted: July 20, 2010 | Published: July 20, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Code Management | Database Management | Regression Testing | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

EBOOK - Managing an application release and its distribution is a complex part of development. A release may pass every QA test and then quickly go haywire in production. Components get left behind, targets are missed or files get installed in the wrong locations. Download this e-book from Aldon and learn how to how to make your efforts feel like a walk.
Posted: June 28, 2010 | Published: June 25, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Code Management | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Engineers | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - This IDC White Paper demonstrates how enterprise customers can achieve significant return on investment (ROI) for their SAP software quality management strategies by implementing effective automated testing solutions.
Posted: June 23, 2010 | Published: June 23, 2010


Topics:  ERP | Performance Testing | Quality Control | ROI | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Quality Assurance

WEBCAST - In this webcast, hear from IBM Rational thought leaders talk about the experiences and challenges they encountered when requirements were not defined and managed properly or when change management processes weren’t in place, and how quickly the dreams of business can become nightmares for the software delivery team.
Posted: May 26, 2010 | Premiered: May 26, 2010


Topics:  Business Management | Change Management | Configuration Management | Project Management | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Project Management