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Free Education On IBM Technology
Register Today For An IBM developerWorks Live! Briefing
In a fast changing world, skills and education are two of the main priorities in the IT space. Through the developerWorks Live! Briefings, IBM offers free-of-charge education on open standard based technologies.
In 2006 more than 60,000 people participated in more than 650 briefings across the world.
The developerWorks Live! Technical Briefings allow participants to inform themselves about new trends, technologies and developments. These jam-packed sessions will shorten the learning curve, and improve the quality and results of the most difficult software projects.
IBM offers these briefings in cities all around the world at no charge. The participants get the chance to experience extensive technical demonstrations, and enjoy direct contact with leading technology experts.
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Accelerating Global Software Delivery
There are many challenges in responding to the needs of improving Global Software Delivery. IBM supports and enables these requirements by: Closed loop software delivery management: Faster, higher quality build and production cycle time. Developing flexibility: Incorporates proven best practices, integrated requirements management, and an open role-based team environment. Controlling risk and change: Such as, lifecycle changes, asset management, built-in audit and status information plus service-level monitoring. This briefing starts with an overview of business driven development that includes such topics as software delivery challenges, compliance, and monitoring. Next you'll learn about IBM Rational Software Development Platform's team products and how they can help you enable business critical innovations. Finally, hear detailed discussions on the following Rational products and how they relate to managing value, developing flexibility, and controlling risk and change.
1st May, Riyadh
2nd May, Kuwait City
6th May, Doha
8th May, Edinburgh
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Architecture, Design, and Construction using the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform
Software development is a business process. Rational recognizes that it takes many different talents to make a development project successful. Every development team has a mix of roles and responsibilities that work toward project success. This briefing demonstrates the latest version of the IBM Rational Software Development tools, their broad range of functionality and their use throughout the entire software development process, focusing on application modeling, design, development, coding, and testing. The attendee will get an understanding of the breadth and depth of the Rational tools, how well they're integrated, and how easy they are to use.
24th May, Dusseldorf
31st May, Budapest
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Eclipse: Empowering the Universal Platform
If you thought Eclipse was used as merely a Java development environment, then this briefing will expand your definition. Eclipse has evolved into a universal platform for anything and everything related to software development and beyond. You now have the ability to do things like geographically distributed collaboration, rich client development, and even application runtime analysis all within Eclipse. The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This briefing will take a deep dive into some of the most important and feature rich projects that the Eclipse community is developing.
Future briefings to be confirmed
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Information on Demand Live! - Building the Next Generation of Database Applications
Information is everywhere. Delivering the right information to the decision makers at the right time is critical to achieving business results. Information can reside in existing relational databases, Web service providers, or within files. The nature of information is changing as more and more information is readily available as XML formats. These XML data sources can be integrated with ease using the pureXML® data server from IBM. DB2® 9 (formerly codenamed "Viper") is the industry's first hybrid data server providing the fabric for delivering information on demand. DB2 9 is ideal for building Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions using open standards and development interfaces, including: SQL, XQuery, JDBC, .NET, Ruby, and PHP. Attend this briefing and learn how to efficiently handle XML and relational data with ease to build agile applications faster.
24th April, Hamburg
26th April, Munich
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Open Source Development: Tools and Open Standards
The attractiveness of solutions built on an open source stack has driven open standards for Web applications since the Internet gained popularity. Apache HTTP Server continues to be the most popular Web server on the Internet since April of 1996, validating the viability of open source software. Open source solutions have now evolved with rich, advanced functionality available through two offerings from the Apache Software Foundation: Apache Derby and Apache Geronimo. This briefing contrasts these open source solutions with the IBM open source based commercial offerings of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and IBM Cloudscape. The discussion illustrates the features and functions of WAS CE, Cloudscape, Geronimo, and Derby when used in an open source development environment to create and deploy Web applications. In the briefing you'll see demonstrations of open source environments to highlight the power of open source tools combined with Eclipse. By attending the workshop you'll get a hands-on experience to "build" the open source environments using Linux as the platform to install and configure WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, Apache Derby, Tomcat, Geronimo, and Eclipse with the Web Tools Platform Version 1.0.1.
Future briefings to be confirmed
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Get Started on SOA with WebSphere's Proven, Flexible Entry Points
IBM's flexible approach to SOA with the lifecycle approach comprising of Model, Assemble, Deploy and Manage paradigm with Governance and best practices has proven to be successful in most enterprises adopting SOA to innovate. This briefing will provide a unique opportunity to understand why IBM's solutions are superior in both the breadth of offerings and the depth of function provided when compared with the competition. The deficiencies in offerings of competitors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP NetWeaver, TIBCO and Mercury (HP) in the appropriate sections of the seminar, will be covered. Attendees will understand why IBM's unique approach to SOA with flexible entry points provide business flexibility that is unmatched by the competition. Plus you will have the opportunity to see, experience and learn how to use SOA entry points to create an SOA lifecycle that fosters innovation within your organization. Practical examples coupled with live product and capability demonstrations help you understand SOA concepts and enable you to start implementation projects in your enterprise immediately.
24th April, Madrid
26th April, Athens
14th June, Ankara
19th June, Rome
21st June, Lisbon
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Effective software testing - tools and strategies for project success
Shortening the time to market of new software systems without compromising their quality is a challenge that every company faces. Time-to-market pressures, building new service-oriented architectures, complying with regulatory requirements, and working with geographically distributed teams add additional complexities that can derail software testing projects that aren't ready for these challenges. In this briefing, you will learn how you can use best practices and tools to keep your testing teams aligned with business priorities; reduce rework costs by finding defects and architectural flaws early; leverage distributed or outsourced testing teams without compromising schedules, processes, or the flow of information; minimize hardware costs and ensure system scalability through rigorous load and performance testing, and much more.
8th May, Copenhagen
10th May, Oslo
11th May, Helksinki
22nd May, Moscow
24th May, Stockholm
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SOA Governance: Implementing the IBM method
The SOA governance briefing provides an in-depth look at the IBM SOA Governance and Management Method and the Rational Method Composer, IBM's tool to facilitate the development of a governance framework. It begins with an overview of IT governance concepts, including specific areas of business process governance, development governance, and now SOA governance. The SOA governance extensions focus on service lifecycle governance; that is, how to plan, define, enable and measure the service lifecycle in an SOA. The briefing closes with a review of SOA governance best practices, resources, and calls to action.
8th May, Edinburgh
24th May, Brussels
25th May, Amsterdam
1st June, Paris
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Achieving enterprise application security
Application security is a must-have for successful e-commerce, yet it is hard to achieve. The goal is to make the cost of breaking into a system or stealing data more expensive than the value of the system contents or data in question. In this briefing we will cover application security end-to-end, starting by examining the goals of application security, followed by a review of the basic security concepts. Next we will see how these basics are applied as we build our security stack, adding additional layers of defense, and using Java and J2EE as our programming language and environment to illustrate technologies and techniques.
9th May, Madrid
10th May, Barcelona
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IBM Middleware on Linux
The future of Linux is upon us and it's time to take advantage of its many features. Using Open Standards allows for choice, flexibility and security when developing cutting edge software. In this briefing you will hear from IBM® about their plans, products and perceptions about deploying open technologies. This briefing will start with an overview of Linux as the premier open computing platform and how it adds value to any business. The next sections will introduce key IBM middleware products that run on Linux. Each section will first define IBM's suite of products in a particular development space, then focus on a single product, with examples and demos illustrating product functionality.
Future briefings to be confirmed
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Open community tools: an open stack development platform
Today open source development tools based on open standards such as Eclipse, Apache Tomcat, and Apache Geronimo provide an attractive, robust, free of charge development environment for creating and deploying web applications. However, an alternative development environment has emerged that embraces the innovation of the open source development model while providing the stability of commercial development tools. "Open Community" development tools from IBM are based on the same open standards as open source tools while providing enhanced functional capabilities and broader platform support. These tools provide greater flexibility and choice for application developers by providing a free of charge development environment or an optional supported environment for a fee. This briefing explores the innovation of Open Source solutions available from IBM and illustrate the power and flexibility of an open community development environment. Discussion includes IBM's open source strategy, the "Open Computing" environments and its components, as well as an in-depth discussion of IBM's Open Community development tools. This discussion will provide details on the features and functions of RAD CE, WAS CE, and DB2 Express C and their integration for an robust development environment to create and deploy Web applications.
17th May, Tallinn
20 May, Israel
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Experience the power of information management solutions
When it comes to capitalizing on your information assets to improve business flexibility and responsiveness, IBM Information Management delivers the power of integrated information, realtime access, insightful analysis and seamless sharing of diverse and dispersed information for today's on demand business. This briefing provides an in-depth look at how Information Management Solutions are created using Database Management, Enterprise Information Integration, and Content Discovery. Experience first hand how IBM Information Management software solutions can help your business become an on demand business. IBM experts will demonstrate and explain in technical detail how IBM can help you improve your business flexibility and responsiveness while showcasing how IBM's software products have competitive advantages over other vendors. Throughout the briefing you will see not only discussion of IBM capabilities, but also competitive comparisons to Oracle and Microsoft. Live demonstrations built around real-world business scenarios will demonstrate the value of Information Management Software.
1st June, Paris
5th June, St Petersburg
8th June, Moscow
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The Modern Mainframe at the Heart of Your Business
Are you familiar with the mainframe environment and its full capabilities and advantages? This briefing will provide you a fresh look at the mainframe platform and will illustrate why its role continues to grow in the IT environments of today's most competitive companies, providing enduring value to the business. At this briefing, you will learn about exciting new development technology that promises to deliver double or more programmer productivity. You will see how the mainframe plays a crucial role in SOA environments and how CICS now supports native SOA capabilities. We will demonstrate how the mainframe is the best platform to store data and why DB2 is better than Oracle RAC. This seminar will review the mainframe's superlative capabilities of high reliability, availability, scalability and security. You will witness exciting new monitoring capabilities using OMEGAMON technology, and you will see how the mainframe is very successful in running new workloads including WebSphere, Linux and SAP. We will also review the competitively priced associated processors of zIIP, zAAP and IFL. Finally, we will point out the sea change that has occurred in data centers with labor now being the highest cost factor over hardware and software due to distributed server scale out. You will learn how the mainframe provides leadership in minimizing staffing costs.
23rd May, Montpellier
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SOA Connectivity Technical Briefing
IBM delivers the most connected SOA. WebSphere connectivity offerings allow you to connect and integrate everything inside and outside your company, enabling your SOA to deliver reliability and security with high performance and high availability, spanning newly developed web services together with complex heterogeneous environments. Unlike the competition, only IBM WebSphere can deliver an 'ESB without limits' - a complete set of connectivity capabilities that link together all types of data, applications, protocols and platforms, from sensors, handheld devices and appliances to the mainframe. This technical briefing is geared towards an IT audience and will provide a technical, practical overview of SOA Connectivity including the benefits and importance of an ESB in creating and maintaining a flexible IT infrastructure. Presenters from IBM will include key developers and technical specialists and will provide the audience with practical information and valuable next steps to enable SOA across the enterprise. Complimentary follow-up workshops will be available to all attendees.The next sections in the briefing will introduce or re-introduce you to WebSphere connectivity offerings and services to show how they can help you develop or extend your current strategy for SOA.
10th May, Milan
15th May, Stockholm
1st June, Paris
18th June, Petach Tikva
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Innovations in People Productivity: The IBM Lotus Advantage
Companies need workers to quickly embrace and adapt to change if they are to be successful in an on demand world. It's difficult for people to change, however, when their work environment has remained the same for over twenty years: one-size-fits-all PC's running Microsoft Windows and Office. Despite access to more resources (e.g. people, applications, data, and tools) than ever before, productivity gains have been minimal as workers struggle to figure out how to best make use of all of them during the course of their everyday job. Providing workers with newer PCs running the latest versions of Windows (Vista) and Office (2007) will only compound, not fix the problem. What's needed instead is a transformation of the work environment, one that is role-based and dynamically weaves together all of the resources necessary to empower people to be more effective, responsive, and innovative in the context of the work they perform every day. Come hear how the IBM Lotus collaboration portfolio of products and services is uniquely positioned to deliver on this new work environment. You will learn about the upcoming release of Lotus Notes and Domino 8, an integrated collaborative environment that promises to change the way you look at traditional e-mail and calendaring solutions. We will also showcase the latest version of Lotus Sametime (7.5), an open and extensible real-time collaboration platform unmatched in the industry. For team collaboration and document-centered workers, we will introduce the new Lotus Quickr offering that supports multiple styles of interaction - including Microsoft Office! More importantly, you will learn about how to foster innovation and reap the benefits of social networking in a business setting with the new Lotus Connections solution, an industry first. Finally, we will discuss how WebSphere Portal can help companies be more flexible and responsive to the needs of their customers, employees, and partners. There will be live demonstrations of these products, as well as comparisons with other vendor alternatives like Microsoft throughout the day.
3rd May, Istanbul
8th May, Amsterdam
10th May, Brussels
15th May, Milan
17th May, Ljubljana
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Choosing the best Rational solution to optimize software quality
IT organizations are under increasing pressure to increase their contribution to the business. Gartner expects that "by 2012, IT contribution will be cited in the top three success factors by at least half of top performing businesses (0.7probability)." To achieve optimal software quality, IT leaders need to govern IT as an integrated lifecycle rather than a set of individual silos with disconnected processes. Effective IT lifecycle management depends upon an organization's ability to integrate the management of key processes - IT strategy, application delivery and operations management - in a cohesive manner. Through the use of live demos, this briefing clearly demonstrates the advantages of the IBM IT lifecycle solutions. You will see the following principals in action: 1) IBM Rational and Tivoli solutions are fully integrated across the entire lifecycle allowing IT business, development and operations to optimize software quality. 2) Best practices and automated repeatable processes are built into the Rational and Tivoli solutions which enable practitioners to be more productive.
22nd May, Stuttgart
27th May, Milan
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Rational's Business Developer Extension
With the emergence of web and service oriented solutions, software development teams are faced with a growing array of middleware layers and complex interfaces that slow down the adoption of these powerful computing models and delivery of business solutions. To address this problem IBM Rational has introduced a new extension to the IBM Software Development Platform, the Rational Business Developer Extension (RBDE): based on the Enterprise Generation Language, RBDE provides a simplified yet modern and power application and services development approach that shields developers from the technical intricacies of different platforms and middleware. Eliminating the need for tedious and error prone low level coding, EGL allows developers to focus on the business requirements and rapidly build services and applications for a broad variety of platforms regardless of their current programming skills. EGL is extremely easy to learn, promotes reuse through a modern modular development paradigm, promotes iterative and agile development, and supports direct inter-operability with the broadest variety of existing application and other programming languages. The concise but powerful programming approach and the rich and productive Eclipse based workbench, help accelerate development and deliver higher quality web and service oriented solutions that quickly addresses the need of business users. In this technical briefing we will explore, in detail, through presentations and demonstrations, the capabilities and power of EGL.
21st June, Rome
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