One of the most awaited software events, Rational Innovate India 2011 kicks-off at Bangalore and Delhi in August 2011. The VoICE event would happen on Aug 9th at Bangalore followed by Innovate sessions in Bangalore (Aug 10, 11) and Delhi (Aug 11).
Be present at the event to know latest offerings by Rational Automation Framework in its forthcoming release. Meet some of the lead RAF developers in person at the Innovate 2011 after the session on Deployment Planning and Automation: Aligning Business and IT with a Model-Driven Approach.
The list of new features is quite exhaustive and we bet you do not want to miss on any of these.
See you soon at the event!
Systems engineering is the key to driving innovation in the product development process, helping organizations deliver smarter products by enabling collaboration and integration across the product lifecycle. SE is focused on leveraging the discipline of systems engineering to successfully manage innovation of software intensive products, product lines, and systems. Track Attendees gain in-depth knowledge from experienced IBM experts and customers on the tools, methods, and best practices that can be leveraged to deliver smarter products in less time and with higher quality. The track focuses on integration of engineering disciplines, alignment of business and engineering objectives, innovation management, and “systems of systems.”
This track is for systems engineers, product development executives, engineering executives, embedded systems developers, program managers, and other stakeholders concerned with developing market leading products and systems.
The tracks session speaker will be some of the most distinguished members of the IBM Rationals Systems Engineering IBM Team .
Expect to gain insights on new offerings such as the Design Manager
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rhapsody/designmanager/
New Relations such as www.INCHRON.de
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/inchron/
New Trends such as Integration of Software, Electronics, and Mechanical Domains
and much more …
Over the next weeks I will blog about the agenda and topic covered so you can plan you time best at the conference .
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I am pleased to inform you that the Rational’s VoiCE of the Client Event (VoiCE), which is planned to be held on Tuesday, August 09th in Bangalore , a one-day event hosted by Rational’s Client Program team will provide you with the opportunity to meet directly with key leaders and decision makers from IBM. You can take advantage of this opportunity to influence the direction of Rational products, and interact with other clients from the Rational community.
The event takes place immediately preceding IBM Innovate 2011: The Rational Software Conference (August 10 – 11 in Bangalore and Aug 11 in Delhi).
The VoiCE sessions center on candid discussions with Rational clients who are forward-thinking, innovative, and have a desire to influence Rational’s products, strategy, and business decisions. The sessions provide you with the following benefits:
· Significant input into steering product direction
· Access to key decision makers within IBM Rational
· Influence over product capabilities, enhancements and support
· Insight into IBM Rational development plans
This will be an interactive session to discuss and get feedback on the latest releases and roadmap for Rational Rhapsody . We will introduce Rational Design Manager which focuses on aspects of how we are integrating design and development into the overall application lifecycle using the Jazz platform to improve collaboration, sharing and oversight of application architectures. The session will be a technical deep dive for MDD and MBSE with Rational Rhapsody and giving an overview of the product roadmaps, with discussion of user scenarios, requirements, integrations, and use cases.
The session will be conducted by Eran Gery IBM Distinguished Engineer for Systems Solutions Development and a senior development manager and the principal architect of the Rhapsody product at IBM Rational Software.
Eran has over 20 years of experience within the modeling and embedded systems domains. Eran has also taken a key role in the UML and SysML specification teams in the OMG. Eran’s main focus areas are Systems Engineering, Model Driven Development, and Engineering Lifecycle Management. Early in his career Eran was an embedded software engineer at a major defense supplier. Eran holds an MSc degree in computer science from the Technion , Israel Institute of Technology.
Date: Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Location: The Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore
Room: Additional information will be posted on the private VoiCE community closer to the event.
These VoiCE sessions will focus on the future direction of Rational products and product requirements. We will also include follow-up information from previous VoiCE discussions. Because of the confidential nature of the topics discussed at VoiCE, you can only attend VoiCE after a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) is in place between client company and IBM. The VoiCE team will assist with this process as soon as we receive a registration.
If you are interested you can confirm your participation in the VoiCE event by registering for the event at the VoiCE Registration Web site before Friday, July 29th.
Registration URL: https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp005.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=2C597DES&locale=en_IN
Be sure to choose Architecture Management – Rational Software Architect & Rational Rhapsody as your session.
We have also made a provisions for attendees to input any enhancements or ideas you have around the Rational solutions you use today.
If you have any questions regarding VoiCE , please send us a quick e-mail (voiceibm@us.ibm.com) to let us know.
The VoiCE event is free of charge, however, you will need to cover your own travel and lodging expenses.
The detailed VoiCE agendas will be posted on the private VoiCE Community. One can access the Community site by using your IBM userid and password, once the NDA is in place. We will use this Web site to post any product-specific prep work, agendas, presentations and follow-up discussion items (following the event). If access to this URL is not possible or have other questions, please email us at voiceibm@us.ibm.com. We will continually update the Web site as more information becomes available.
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The ever increasing challenges of modern day enterprises demand organization to design of effective Enterprise Architecture (EA) for them to succeed and stay alive in the competition. For EA to be effective, it requires collaboration from many professionals, some of them directly designing/modifying the EA and while others are stakeholders who use the EA to make critical strategic decisions. These decisions in turn define the direction of the organization.
To deliver effective EA, many users have to collaborate. It then becomes equally important to have proper “Visibility” to all users to avoid “reinventing of wheel”. However at the same time it opens the doors for accidental modifications from inexperienced users creating inconsistency in the system. The after-effects are hard to imagine/foresee and sometimes unexpectedly destructive.
Now in this critical environment where “Visibility” and “Security” form two faces of the same coin, how do you manage effective delivery of EA? While there are many tools which allow creation of EA, IBM Rational System Architect (SA) comes bundled with answers to many more questions than just EA. While Rational System Architect gives you the platform and also forms the tool to design the EA, the Catalog Manager with its “Instance Level” and “Type Level” access Control capabilities complements, completes and addresses the key requirements of “Visibility” and “Security”. There is more that catalog manager helps you with. Rational System Architect also offers a thin client known as System Architect XT (Extended Team) which helps sharing EA through browser. For an encyclopedia that contains EA artifacts to be made accessible by Rational System Architect XT, it must be an Enterprise encyclopedia controlled by Rational System Architect Catalog Manager.
For more demos and sessions on Rational System Architect, be there at Innovate 2011!!!!
Regards
Mirtunjay
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You can register for Innovate 2011 here.
It is said “Birds of the same Feather flock together” . Such is the binding force of our endeavors that thousands of us like minded individuals are gearing to connect at the next Rational next Innovate conference in India this August . Planned to be held at Bangalore and Delhi . As usual there is a lot planned in terms of content will encourage you to check the conference site at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/in/rational/innovate/ for the most current updates .
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Apart from this usual stuff the coolest is the Developer Rock Challenge
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/in/rational/innovate/rockchallenge/
So if you have your tubes anywhere close and know the chords donot hesitate to participate !
Going forward in the spirit of what I do , I will share more on what Systems Engineers can expect to see this conference . Who they can look forward to meet , what they will get hear , what new product innovations will they be able to experience.
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Innovate2011 is here in Bangalore and its really kicking up a lot of excitement around. This year’s Innovate is special as this comes immediately after the CLM 2011 release and comes at a time where more and more products are moving onto Jazz platform. CLM is a big release indeed, which sees the 3.0.1 releases of Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager and Rational Requirements Composer.
I will be writing about some exiting and compelling features of RTC Client for Microsoft Visual Studio in next few (?? ) posts in this space (No, not a promise though ! ).  This will probably excite you to visit the workshops and demo booths on RTC at the Innovate 2011, Bangalore.
There is a Coding Challenge that’s taking place right now which promises you tons of goodies. If you are music lover (who loves both the Jazz(s) !!), then , here is Developer ROCK competition where you have a chance to get your band on the Innovate Hall of Fame. Also, if you’re a student, you can also win free passes to Innovate by blogging or tweeting about rational products (use hashtag #innovateindia)
The ALM or Application Lifecycle Management Track is a hot one to look forward to in the 2011 edition of the premier software conference – IBM Rational Innovate. The Innovate website says
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) manages the flow of people, process and information across the software lifecycle. IBM tools, best practices and services are designed to help customers leverage a collaborative, whole-team approach to Application Lifecycle Management. ALM that can help reduces communication inefficiencies, improve delivery time and enhance overall quality. The Rational ALM solution integrates requirements definition and management; modeling, architecture and construction; quality management; change and configuration management; and automation, build and asset management. This stream will showcase a broad variety of ALM disciplines and solutions that are advancing the state-of-the-art of software delivery.
IBM in the past couple of years has spent a considerable amount of time to try and reinvent ALM in ways so that products constituting an ALM solution can interact with each other more seamlessly, without being tied down by each other’s limitations or expectations, and can integrate even if they are from different parties. With Open Services for Lifecycle Management (OSLC) and tools built on an open, extensible Jazz-based architecture, Rational has successfully managed to create a neat ALM solution which we call Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), because it focuses on collaborative development in a team. Rational products – IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM Rational Asset Manager, IBM Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Insight, Rational Build Forge now all use a jazz based architecture and OSLC services to communicate with the Jazz server. So, not only can all these tools be used seamlessly in a ALM (or CLM as we call it) workbench, but also integrate with other OSLC based tools.
There are several really good talks and demos at IBM Innovate 2011.
On Day 1, we have Shivank Arya talking about
IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Solution in ACTION using an implementation example – “Money that Matters”
On Day 2, Pradeep Balachandran talks about
Lifecycle Project Management for IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management that talks about new administration features for creating and managing lifecycle projects
Also on Day2, you can catch me and Markus Keller from Zurich demoing the Agile development capabilities of Rational Team Concert at the solutions center.
There are many more cool sessions to catch up on. So hurry up and register for Innovate 2011.
Innovate is just around the corner and the software community is eagerly waiting to see what’s in store in the 2011 edition of the premier software conference. Not just because I’m a Rational guy, but also because I’m a software developer. As the planet gets smarter, the software and systems involved in even trivial day to day activities such as banking, automobile, traffic management, pollution control, etc. are becoming increasingly complex in both, size and logic. Add to that privacy concerns and scalability issues, and the software developers seem to have their hands full. In this scenario, it becomes increasingly important to have smart tools that make the whole development experience simpler, coherent, and that make intra-team processes easy. Rational tools have matured over the years and some new ones have grown out of incubation phases. All of them aspire to solve the many problems that plague software developers today. At Innovate, we get to see how, and that too, straight from the knowledge experts involved in the making of the product.
The 2010 Innovate was a great educational experience in terms of not just what’s brewing at Rational, but also what the software industry and clients out there are looking for. It was also great to hear about how clients have successfully deployed/used Rational solutions to give their business a fillip and fill the gaps in good software tooling. Since the past couple of years, Rational products have taken a fresh direction with the launch of the Jazz platform and the flagship offering – Rational Team Concert. With this, Rational products such as Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer and RTC itself are coming together to constitute a comprehensive solution for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), called Collaboration application Lifecycle Management (CLM). The first release of this solution was out this year and its immensely interesting to know how this applies to different industry scenarios and watch live demos of the same. The conversations that were started around this in the Innovate 2010 are thus going to reach a critical mass at Innovate this year. With applications across multiple industrial sectors, this year’s Innovate seems to be poised to give a lot of weight to the CLM solution. Even products such as Rational Rhapsody, Rational Application Developer are venturing into new uncharted waters, pioneering solutions for relatively newer industries such as the mobile software industry. Ofcourse, it is at conferences such as these that one clearly gets to see how software tools make an impact from the keyboard to the world. The IBM Smarter Planet strategy fits logically in that sense. All this makes me look positively forward to the conference.
The Rational India blog gives a neat roundup of motivating reasons if you’re unsure about attending Innovate. Or if you’re already convinced, you can register on the Innovate website.
The premium Software event, Rational Innovate India 2011 kicks-off at Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi in August, 2011. The VoICE event would happen on Aug 9th at Bangalore, followed by Innovate sessions in Bangalore on Aug 10th, 11th, sessions in Delhi on 11th and sessions in Chennai on 12th.
The VoICE event presents a unique opportunity to a select group of customers to meet up with the development organization and discuss about the products, their requirements and pain-areas.
The Change and Configuration management sessions would be the one to watch out for with the track kick-off by Rolf Nelson, Product Manager, IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC). In a separate sessions, Rolf would also talk about what’s new in RTC 3.0.x.
The other topics presented around RTC would be:
- Using IBM Rational Team Concert with other Software Configuration Management Systems – Presenter would talk about how to use RTC with other Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems IBM / non-IBM, like ClearCase, Synergy, Subversion and Git. This would make a lot of sense for customers who would like to keep their existing investments, but would like to reap the benefit of using RTC for its planning or Change Management capabilities.
- Leveraging Rational Team Concert’s build capabilities for Continuous Integration
- Best Practices for Tailoring IBM Rational Team Concert Work Items and Process for Your Environment
- Aligning IT Strategy and Execution with IBM Rational Focal Point and IBM Rational Team Concert
- Bringing Applications Together: Leverage Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) for integrating 3rd party tools with IBM Rational Jazz – The benefits of moving away from point-to-point integration to an integration using RESTful architecture which would even allow 3rd party tools to integrate with Jazz.
In the other topics being presented in the Change and Configuration Management track, the folks from IBM Rational ClearCase (CC) and IBM Rational ClearQuest (CQ) would talk about what’s new with these products. The session on ClearCase / ClearQuest would be conducted by a senior architect from ClearCase lab in the US and senior developers from the India lab. Some of the topics that would be discussed in this forum would be around CC/CQ support for OSLC, Requirement/ Change Request traceability through CQ / DOORS integration, Dashboard support for CQ, Jazz integration with CC Dynamic Views, Providing codevelopment and verification management solutions for electronic and software design through the integration between CC and Cadence Design Systems.
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Part 1- What is Enterprise Architecture?
So, for some reason that shall not be discussed – I have started bloggin 
Honestly this is a good thing. Writing something down kinda lets you process your thoughts better… so I am glad I did start.
So, I am going to try to articulate (primarily to myself) on what this discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is and how can businesses put it to work in a actionable way. So, if you are passionate about EA, or you think I could use some grown up advice – feel free to leave a comment or send me a personal message
Im planning to do one post per week…..So here goes…….
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline of describing a Enterprise as a whole in a structured format. Enterprise Architecture is not software architecture – or system architecture – or Service oriented architecture (SOA).
Grady Booch compares EA and Technical Architecture (TA) in one of his blog posts as “EA attends to the architecture of a business that uses technology; TA attends to the architecture of the software-intensive systems that support the business”.
An Enterprise can be a business corporation, a government entity such as a town municipality, or a defense organization like the Army, Navy or Air force of a country. An Enterprise can be composed of
1. Business objectives
2. Targets and goals
3. Business processes
4. People
5. Software applications
6. Computer hardware
7. Networks
8. Business specific assets (War ships, hotel rooms, books, electronic parts etc)
This discipline has existed since the late 1980s. But, 2 decades later, its still nascent in its broader adoption particularly in the commercial world (Other wise I would not need to write this post). The Defense world has been using EA for some time now.
Once the Enterprise is described, various methodologies and tools can be used to analyze the structure of the enterprise, visualize transformation scenarios, depict interconnections and dependencies; pictorially or simply list in a table.
Charts, lists, graphs, drawings, models are artifacts of an Enterprise Architecture exercise. Enterprise Architecture is not modeling in itself. These artifacts put together can “describe” an enterprise and help in understand and communicate business impact in transformation scenarios. It also serves to build a search-able inventory of business aspects (business divisions, work groups, business applications, business processes, business services, machines etc)
BTW – I will be probably be talking about this at Innovate Bangalore – so if you want to participate in this discussion be at Innovate Bangalore 2011 where you will also see the new version of IBM Rational System Architect in action – this is a EA tool that IBM offers.
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You can register for Innovate 2011 here.
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