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DESCRIPTION
RTCp enables collaborative application development on System i. Combine multiple version control systems into one wether it be RPG, COBOL, Java, .NET, or C++. Execute build and promotion from a centralized interface, move to iterative development planning,and keep track of tasks and defects with work item tracking. View the whole project scope from a central dashboard.TRANSCRIPT
Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software V2.0
Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management for IBM Power Systems
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Power = i + p
Power Systems family
System i family (AS/400, iSeries)
System p family (pSeries)
Unified Hardware & Virtualization Technologies
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Rational’s Value for Power Systems
Extend the software stack with Power Tools
Compilers
Exploit the hardware with compilers, especially in multi-core & parallel environments
Common developer desktop across operating systems and languages
Common development infrastructure for Power and the world around Power
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IBM Rational Solutions for Power Rational Developer for Power
One integrated family of development tools Support for IBM i, AIX*, and Linux on Power
– RPG, COBOL*, C/C++* Support for multiplatform development
– Java, Java Script (Rational Application Developer)– EGL (Rational Business Developer)
– EGL Rich UI
Rational Team Concert for Power Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management Native repository support for IBM i and AIX on Power Governance documentation and project dashboards Integration with other Rational Software Delivery solutions
on the Jazz platform
*IBM plans to add C/C++ and COBOL development tools for AIX to the Rational Developer for Power family in the future
Announcing……..the Rational Vision for Power
Enabling you to unleash the power of innovation on your Power Systems
*All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
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IBM Power Systems
Rational Developer for Power Family Enhanced RPG and COBOL features for IBM i
Visual Screen Designer Visual Report Designer
Multiplatform development Java, Java Script (Rational Application Developer) EGL (Rational Business Developer)
– EGL Rich UI
Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software New IBM i build capabilities Change management on AIX platform Collaborative ALM and cross project dashboards
Statements of direction* IBM plans to add C/C++ and COBOL development tools
for AIX to the Rational Developer for Power family in the future, extending the benefits of having an integrated Eclipse development environment to teamsto teams developing C/C++ and COBOL applications for AIX.
What’s announcing now?
Enabling you to unleash the power of innovation on your Power Systems
*All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
RPGDeveloper
C/C++ Developer
COBOL Developer
JavaDeveloper
IBM Rational Solutionsfor Power Systems
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Today’s IT Challenges
Increased Regulation Demands for rapid response
to business requirements Demands for new technologies
such as Web 2.0 Globally distributed operations
and systems Integration with 3rd party systems
Lack of qualified people Need to reduce operating costs
Key regulatory acts affecting IT application development
Sarbanes-Oxley Act – United States
Bill 198 — Ontario, Canada, equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
J-SOX — Japanese equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
German Corporate Governance Code (at the German Wikipedia)
CLERP9 — Australian corporate reporting and disclosure law
Financial Security Law of France ("Loi sur la Sécurité Financière") — French equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
L262/2005 ("Disposizioni per la tutela del risparmio e la
disciplina dei mercati finanziari") — Italian equivalent of Sarbanes-Oxley Act for financial services institutions
King Report — South African equuvalent on corporate governance
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Easily extend and automate short iteration cycles to meet
hot business needs
Top down and the low level views linking configuration,
bug and cost trackingProject status and cost
analysis anytime for all business sponsors
Easy triggers to catch licensing issues early
Onboard team members across the world across
projects in a day not months
Seamless access to highest risks and
security vulnerabilities
Agile work flows automating and
smoothing execution
Empower team members to collaborate using up to date information “in context” of
the work they are doing
Automated synchronization of project artifacts
Customer Speak: What they would like to see possible
CIO
Project Manager
Developer
LegalCounsel
ComplianceOfficer
QAManager
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Traditionally, each tool came with its own UI - Web and desktop
presentations of views and tasks
Logic – Workflow, process, search, query, scale, security and collaboration
Storage – Availability, traceability
Privacy, backup/archive
Resulting in... Brittle integrations
Silos everywhere
High cost to maintain and administer
Proprietary API's
Tool ESCM
UI
LOGIC
DB
UI
LOGIC
DB
UI
LOGIC
DB
UI
LOGIC
DB
UI
LOGIC
DB
Tool BPlanning
Tool DBuild Management
Tool CReporting
Tool AWork Items
How do you solve this?
Our customers have invested in a diverse set of ALM tools...
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But with Rational Team Concert, you get...
Unified Work Items, Agile Planning, SCM, Build Mgmt, Reporting
Single UI, storage and process
Reduces Cost of Ownership Administrative costs
Training/Adoption
Customizations
LOGIC
UI
DB
Planning
Build Management
Reporting
Work Items
SCM
A unified client
With unified storage
One Tool!
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IBM Rational Team Concert
Introducing IBM Rational Team Concert Software innovation through collaboration
transparent integrated presence
wikis OPEN real-time reporting chat automated hand-offs Web 2.0 custom dashboards automated data gathering EXTENSIBILITY Eclipse plug-ins
services architecture FREEDOM TO CREATE
Open and extensible on Collaborate in contextRight-size governanceDay one productivity
Integrates source control, work item, reporting and build capabilities which “think and work in unison”
Enables “real-time, in-context” collaboration for distributed project teams – making software development more automated, transparent and predictive
Provides real-time project health information and transparency of status through automated data gathering
Supports out-of-the-box and custom defined processes which break down functional & organizational barriers
Allows choice of client tools and extends the value of ClearQuest & ClearCase in enterprise deployments
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QueryStorage
Collaboration
Discovery
Administration: Users, projects,
process
JAZZ SERVICES
Business Partner Extensions Your Extensions
Rational Developer for z
Rational Software Architect
Rational Systems Developer
Rational Business Developer
Rational Developer for Power
Eclipse Clients Web Clients
Visual Studio
Microsoft .NET Clients Rational Desktop Clients
Rational Team Concert
Web 2.0Jazz Client Extensions
Eclipse Platform
IBM Rational Extensions
Best PracticesPresentation:
Mashups
Rational Team Concert: An open, extensible architectureSupporting a broad range of desktop clients, IDE’s and languages
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Jazz is… A scalable, extensible team collaboration platform
A community at Jazz.net, where you can see Jazz-based products being built
An integration architecture, enabling mashups and non-Jazz based products to participate
Rational Team Concert is based on Jazzan open platform with a shared set of services
c
Existing Rational Offerings
New Rational/ IBM Offerings
Business PartnerOfferings
Product & Project
Management
Compliance&
SecurityCollaborative
Lifecycle Management 3rd-Party
JazzCapabilities
FutureIBM
Capabilities
Storage
Collaboration
QueryDiscovery
Administration: Users, projects, process
Best Practice Processes
Presentation:Mashups
Design&
Development
Business Planning
& AlignmentYour
Existing Capabilities
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Rational Team Concert For Power
Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions
AIX and IBM i build system toolkits
SCM for C/C++ and COBOL for AIX
SCM for RPG and COBOL on IBM i
New IBM i build and promotion support
RD for Power provides the Eclipse project models and RTC Integration
Expanded application server, database, and server platform support
Extends Rational Team Concert to support development on AIX and IBM iRational Team Concert
Consolidates the team’s assets and activities on a Team Server
Optimized for Agile development teams
In-place collaboration between team members
Support and enforcement for development processes
Transparency of status and trends through automated data-gathering and reporting
Low administrative footprint
ClearCase & ClearQuest Connectors
A New Family of Products based on Jazz Technology
Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software
Enables teams to collaborate in real time in the context of their work with integrated software delivery lifecycle tools
Provides visibility into accurate current project health information drawn directly from actual work across the team
Automates traceability and auditability by managing artifacts and their inter-relationships across the lifecycle
Enables custom process enactment via process automation & definable checkpoints
Provides an extensible technology platform for building products & adapters
The Jazz Platform:An Open, Services Oriented Architecture that
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Rational Team Concert for IBM i 1.0
Rational Team Concert for i (RTCi) 1.0 was released in November, 2008
RTCi 1.0 was built on RTC 1.0. It contained IBM i extensions to RTC
RTCi server and build system toolkit were installable only on IBM I
RTCi 1.0.1.1 was released that added support for Visual Studio client and fixed APARs
Two editions: Express and Standard
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Rational Team Concert for Power 2.0
Focus changed from IBM i to all operating systems on Power (IBM i, AIX and Linux)
RTC Power server can be installed on IBM i, AIX and Windows
“superset” of RTC
RTC Power can not be installed on x86 Linux
RTC Power build system toolkit can be installed on IBM i, AIX and Windows
On IBM i: has extensions for IBM i specific builds
On AIX: supports only RTC build definitions
On Windows: supports only RTC build definitions
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Rational Team Concert for Power 2.0 … Some detail
RTC Power client requires RD Power 7.5 to be installed
RTC Power 2.0 is built on RTC 2.0.0.1
Three editions of RTC Power: Express, Standard and Enterprise
New features in RTC for Power: Dependency based builds for IBM i Audit support for builds on IBM i Enhancements to the IBM i Scrum template Ability to run makefile based builds on AIX (using build definition for command line)
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RTCPower Scalability Small - Mid Sized Teams
• Project Dashboards
• Collaborative ALM
• Commercial Middleware
Corporate Teams• Customizable
workflow• Advanced
Reporting• Departmental
Scaling
Enterprise Teams• Customizable
Workflow• Advanced
Reporting• High Availability• Unrestricted
scaling based on hardware
Maximum developers/contributors 50 / unrestricted 250 / unrestricted Unrestricted / unrestricted
Source Control •Builds•Project Milestone Tracking & Status•Cross repository dashboards
Customizable Dashboards 1 per project unlimited unlimited
Advanced Reports and Customization
Customizable work item workflow
Floating Licenses Available
High Availability*
ExpressStandard
Rational Team Concert
Enterprise
* Entitles installation of a second copy of the server in an idle standby application server failover configuration. Requires WebSphere Application Server and optional high availability database configuration (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server).
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Entitlements
Rational Team Concert for Power replaces Rational Team Concert for i
Existing Rational Team Concert for i customers with active support will be entitled to corresponding parts in Rational Team Concert for Power
Rational Team Concert for i Rational Team Concert for PowerEntitlement
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UniCreditImproves developer productivity and testing efficiency for IBM i developmentThe challenge Modernize its development platform for core financial
business software Development and testing efficiency for new and existing
applications Make traditional development more attractive to younger
programmers
Business value Similar development environment for traditional
and Web applications — attractive to younger developers Estimated 15% increase in development
and 10% increase in testing productivity
Solution“Our approaches are consistent throughout the entire software development life cycle, from planning, definition and implementation to test and configuration”
“We at UniCredit Leasing Austria have opted for the combined toolset of Rational Team Concert for IBM i and Rational Developer
for IBM i because they provide us with the best support for modern approaches to software
engineering for the IBM i platform.”- Mircea-Dan Antonescu
IT Leader, UniCredit Leasing Austria
One of Europe’s largest financial services organizations
9,000 branch locations 40 million customers Employing over 170,000 people
EmpowerPeople
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AAA Cooper TransportationImproves developer productivity and time to marketThe challenge Development efficiency for 12 green-screen
programmers
Company wanted to improve the time to market
They wanted a “source control" solution that integrated IBM i and PHP platforms
Business value Within a month they were seeing between
10 - 20% productivity improvements
Solution Rational Developer for i
Rational Team Concert for i
“Within a month the use of the green screen development was almost completely gone, and our team was excited
about working entirely on the new IDE.…My advice, try it. You will never go back.”
- Bruce CollinsManager of Systems Administration
EmpowerPeople
Family owned trucking firm 78 terminals 4,000 employees
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Rational Team Concert For Power v2.0Application Lifecycle Management for Power Systems
Single solution to manage development activities for ALL Power environments and more Web user interfaces Integrated with Eclipse and Rational
Developer for Power Visual Studio client
Team collaborative support for distributed project teams, providing Project planning and tracking Work item tracking Software configuration management Software builds Process support
Transparency and project status through automated data gathering
• Team and individual dashboards
• Reports
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To learn more visit: ibm.com/software/rational/announce/modernization
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Additional Information
blog.strongbackconsulting/label/search/rational www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtcp/ (family or
product line overview page) www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtcp/express/ www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtcp/standard/ www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtcp/
enterprise/
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The IBM Rational CafésThe IBM Rational Cafés
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a community of industry leaders in modernization technology
trials of new technology
to take full advantage of the latest tools
knowledge through forums, blogs and wiki documents
•Partners •John’s Corner - Learn•Rich UI •for IBM i •Migration/Transformation•Japan Street
•Partners •RDi •RDi SOA•RTCi
•Commercial Computing•Parallel and Multi-Core Computing•Scientific Computing•Standards
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