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This table shows descriptions for all of the sessions offered at the IBM Rational Innovate comes to you briefing. See the agenda for dates and times.
Session descriptions
| Session | Description | Duration | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote: IBM Executive Introduction and Innovate highlights | An IBM executive welcomes attendees and shares key video highlights from the keynote presentations during the IBM Rational Innovate 2011 Conference in Orlando. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Managing IBM WebSphere Environments with the IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere | The IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere is an extremely powerful framework for managing IBM WebSphere family product installations, maintenance, configuration, and application deployments. With over 775 actions, this framework provides an incredibly broad set of functionality. This presentation demonstrates various ways to effectively leverage this framework to manage IBM WebSphere environments. The scenarios include monitoring environments for configuration drift, promoting configuration across the environments that make up the software lifecycle, application deployment management between development/operations, and migration of IBM WebSphere versions. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Model Driven Development for Mobile Applications | With embedded product designs becoming more complex and product lifecycles shrinking, development efficiencies are essential. The emergence of model-driven development (MDD) has provided the opportunity to accelerate the development process. With MDD, software engineers can more clearly understand and analyze requirements, define design specifications, test systems concepts using simulation, and automatically generate code for direct deployment on the target hardware. This session presents several aspects where using MDD can help developers quicken the delivery of Android-based devices and applications. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Get the most out of your Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Synergy, and Change Investment | As a Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Synergy, or Change customer, you know change happens. Teams are going agile, new regulations are driving the need to govern and automate new processes, and people and projects constantly move around.
This session is for Rational Change and Configuration Management (CCM) customers to learn about:
| 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Systems and Software Engineering Solution Demonstration | Developing high-quality systems and software is a demanding process. As industries create more software intensive systems, the execution of systems and software engineering takes a larger role in driving the quality and success of the product. A set of core processes underlies both systems and software engineering. These processes include requirements management, architecture and design, change and configuration management, and test and quality management. This presentation discusses the IBM Rational Workbench for Systems and Software Engineering which supports the collaboration, workflows, tasks, and management of the work products essential to systems and software engineering. The Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering is comprised of the following tools: IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Rhapsody, IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Team Concert. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Agile Planning and Development with IBM Rational Team Concert Hands-on Workshop, Parts 1 and 2 | This workshop dives into the developer and project lead roles of the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution powered by IBM Rational Jazz. It introduces the out-of-the-box support for scrum and agile development available from IBM Rational Team Concert. A hands-on component covers all the major benefits of IBM Rational Team Concert through a scrum/agile development scenario. These include planning and project/team management, project/customer collaboration, individual planning, collaborative software configuration management, continuous integration, metrics, dashboards, and transparency. The session outlines practical considerations when implementing scrum and agile development practices such as multi-level planning, factoring risk into projects, and managing scrum of scrums (multiple teams). Attendees receive a copy of the workshop materials so they can replicate it within their companies or share it with colleagues. | Half day | Presentation |
| Introduction to IBM Rational DOORS and IBM Rational Publishing Engine Hands-on Workshop, Parts 1 and 2 | This workshop shows the principles of requirements data migration and setup in IBM Rational DOORS. The session highlights many of the best practices to achieve the best importing results and data configuration inside of the IBM Rational DOORS requirements repository. Presenters outline requirements management, which includes an overview of the concepts for review processes, traceability, and milestone management. Attendees learn how current requirements and attributes data can be published to final deliverable documents/PDF based upon company or industry standard templates directly from IBM Rational DOORS and with the IBM Rational Publishing Engine. | Half day | Presentation |
| Feeling Trapped? Automated Conversion of Legacy Applications: A Modernization Strategy That Works | Come learn how businesses are reducing costs by minimizing or eliminating software licensing expenses, deploying to lower cost environments, and eliminating duplicate development tools and processes using IBM Rational solutions. IBM Rational Migration Extension and related services automate the conversion of legacy code and data to a modern language, development tool set, and database. Application transformation is low risk, highly maintainable, and highly flexible. This solution also increases responsiveness and time to market by reducing development time and enables reuse of proven applications. This session spotlights how other businesses have successfully migrated away from Software AG Natural/ADABAS, CA technologies, and legacy user interfaces to dramatically increase business agility, improve user productivity, and reduce costs. | 1 hour and 45 minutes | Presentation |
| Strategies to Ensure Applications are Secure by Design | Security managers worldwide have been tasked with a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their collaborative business infrastructures. Application security plays a significant role in achieving that goal. Join this session to hear how organizations can protect themselves against application security threats, IBM's vision and roadmap, trends in application security, and how to deliver high-quality software in a secure and cost-effective way. | 1 hour and 45 minutes | Presentation |
| Leveraging the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilties Framework (SAFE) to Accelerate Solutions for Smarter Energy and Smarter Water | IBM's solution architecture for energy and utilities framework (SAFE) is a powerful software platform, uniquely positioned to provide network visibility and control, process automation, and business collaboration for solutions across the energy and utility value chain. It is a platform to integrate, manage, and optimize utility systems, inclusive of assets, devices, networks, servers, applications, and data, which drives business agility and intelligent network transformation. It combines the industry knowledge and standards, best practices, IBM software, and solution accelerators that energy and utility companies need to bridge the gap between their business and IT requirements. This session provides a basic overview of SAFE and discusses how it is evolving, including the addition of capabilities from IBM Rational and other software group brands, to provide more value to utilities. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
| Why Cloud Computing Matters for Development and Test | Cloud computing is more than just the latest buzzword. The combination of technologies that make up "the cloud" can dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development and test organizations. This session explains IBM Rational's view of what cloud computing is and why it matters for an organization. Presenters introduce IBM Rational's cloud-based solutions that can help whether users responsible for development, test, or deployment. They also lay out the company's vision and roadmap for the future of cloud computing. | 90 minutes | Presentation |