Duration : 0:9:39

Technorati Tags: ibm, Rational, SOA, SoaML, UML

Pat Weakley Colgate-Palmolive
Everyone in our company says they want a wiki and I really want to make sure that they use it for the right thing. And its about being able to collaborate and to really work on policies and procedures. I see great opportunities for it in our manufacturing area where our plants can really share information on how to run the plants more efficiently across the geographies. These people dont work togetherbut theyll be able to kind of update the policy manuals and the procedures associated with the equipment, in real time.

Duration : 0:0:35

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Duration : 0:2:51

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Nicholas Parry of Nedbank speaks about how Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) has automated provisioning to improve resource utilization and enhanced service delivery–ultimately offering his clients faster, less expensive services. TPM helps clients reduce manual steps to better automate the changing demands for IT resources — a key element of IBM’s version of cloud computing, called Blue Cloud. By having more time to focus on their work, Nedbank’s employees are able to efficiently provide the code and functionalities that their clients demand. TPM allows Nedbank to differentiate itself on client service.

[Nicholas Parry, Nedbank]
I’m Nicholas Parry. I work for Nedbank. I’m an executive in the enterprise architecture and design team. I have the accountability for application integration and security as well as leading the SOA center of excellence.

The business strategy we’ve got is to be client-centric. We really want to differentiate ourselves on client service. At the same time we need to reduce costs and make sure that have a lot of efficiency and productivity in the system.

One of the complaints we get from the business units we’re supporting is that we are too expensive and too slow,

We have to spend a lot of time supporting projects, and every time we have to provision a new environment, we take the time away from the project, and we have to go in and build a DR environment or an additional test environment, and whilst we’re doing that, the projects are suffering. So in order to make that a use of those, using TPM, we can provision the environment overnight. The resources come, can come in the morning, check a couple of things, make sure that it’s all OK, and get back onto the project work.

When we started our TPM journey, I wasn’t quite sure what we were going to get out of it. And I went to the lab a couple of times and had a look at it, and it still took a while to get my head around it, but having seen it last week, I’m really excited about what, the possibilities of it are, particularly when we look at our, broader organization and look at the Wintel environment and thousands of servers that we have in there to apply patch management, to make changes for projects, whatever it might be. There’s huge opportunity in this product.

Duration : 0:1:54

Technorati Tags: application security, automation, Blue Cloud, cloud computing, compliance software, compliancy, ibm, IT service management, Nedbank, Nicholas Parry, provisioning software, Pulse, SOA, software automation, Tivoli, TPM

[Randy Wyatt, US Navy]
Randy Wyatt, US Navy, Memphis Tennessee; my title is application engineering branch head.

What we do is essential for the Navy mission; we put the right people with the right skill set in the right place. Okay, so that means ships, planes and subs.

My group supports these Legacy systems, there are three major systems, 45 applications, or sub-systems of those applications from three disparate geographical locations; thats Pensacola Florida, Memphis Tennessee and New Orleans Louisiana.

Now, you have to understand that the Navy has been around for a long time and corporate mainframe systems still exist; these are Cobol mainframe applications that run personnel systems from years past. What were trying to do is take them into the next generation, or fourth generation software systems.

The great thing about the Rational Team Concert and how its helped me do my work is, its actually brought this team together, and not only from the collaborative point of view where we have a lot of good tools like the Sametime and project management tools, but its brought the lines of business to the IT shop, whereas before what we had was we had a lot of business analysts; wed go out and have stake holder meetings and wed get requirements and theyd put them into RequisitePro, which is a tool that we used before, theyd be handed off to the development team and they really didnt understand the customers lines of business. They really didnt know the process, and because of the Rational Team Concerts ability to translate that to our IT or development shop, theyve actually seen more involvement into the workflow process with the stake holders.

Its been a more tightly integrated group, not only from the business analyst and quality managers and testing units, but from the stake holders; the actual lines of business owners, and theyve gotten more involved into the development process, whereas before it was just a hand-off to my shop.

Duration : 0:2:26

Technorati Tags: agile development, Cobol, collaboration, ibm, Jazz, Randy Wyatt, Rational Team Concert, RequisitePro, Samtime, US Navy, workflow

Charles Krueger of BigLever Software speaks about how his company integrates IBM Rational tools into its framework. It uses Rational tools to consolidate processes into a single set of activities, reducing the duplication of efforts. For example, the company is able to help a client build a single product and to customize duplicates as necessary, producing one system that can be configured easily in different ways for different systems. The streamlined process has yielded very high levels of productivity, efficiency, scalability, and time to market improvements.

“[Charles Krueger, BigLever Software]
My name is Charles Krueger. I work with BigLever Software. I’m the CEO and founder, and we’re a business partner of IBM.

So BigLever Software is an ISV. We’re in the emerging space of software product lines or, more specifically, systems and software product line engineering. We help companies create product lines of similar products with slight variations in features and functions. We focus on the soft assets, such as requirements, designs, source code, test cases as part of the embedded software or stand-alone software within a product line.

Therefore, we integrate the IBM Rational tools into our framework, allow those tools to support the product line variations and the full product line development life cycle.

In a product line approach, we tend to consolidate that into a single set of activities, reduce the duplication of effort, and and activities, and as a result we get very high levels of productivity, efficiency, scalability and time to market improvements, and we’re not talking 10 or 20 percent. These are more of business transformation levels of improvement that can be factors of 3 to factor of 15 improvements in each of those big four areas.

So a good example of this is Lockheed Martin, and we’re working with them in their ship systems group. They produce the cruisers and destroyers for the U.S. navies and other navies around the world. So the traditional way they’ve done that for several decades is to create each one of those ship systems as a unique configuration and it’s built as a, a single product of one off or a customization for each one of those. What we’re doing now is creating a consolidated, single system view of that, then saying what they really want to do is produce one system for all of those ships that can be configured easily in different ways for different systems.

And by treating it that way, then we can gain those benefits of efficiency, lack of duplication and divergence, gives us higher productivity, higher scalability, much higher degrees of automation in the process of creating each of those ship systems.”

Duration : 0:2:25

Technorati Tags: BigLever Software, Charles Krueger, ibm, IBM Rational, Lockheed Martin, product line engineering, quality management, soft assets, source code

Duration : 0:2:45

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Epilio:
OK. Weve grown to nine employees. Were actually virtually located. Were spread across the country and our customers are located in different regions of the world. So having a central location for such a small company actually didnt make sense to us. So, using IBM technologies were actually able to be a virtual company, working remotely when we need to. By actually being able to work remotely, we can handle more customer issues in a single day, versus seeing one customer in a two-day period. So by avoiding the costs of the flight, were not only obviously helping the planet, were also helping ourselves, and the customer, save money.

Duration : 0:0:39

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Chris O’Connor of IBM discusses how companies are often hampered by the time-consuming assembly of different IT components. Many need help organizing IT delivery to use IT effectively. With CloudBurst, companies can consolidate multiple components and simplify their environment. By integrating service management software with servers, storage, and services to enable a private cloud, businesses can get their IT in a single complete system, transforming the data center into a dynamic infrastructure that can deliver IT without the complex hardware. Ultimately, it will deliver improved service while reducing costs and increasing business productivity.

[Chris OConnor, IBM]
“My name is Chris OConnor. Im the Vice-President of Strategy and Product Management for Tivoli brand and IBM Software Group. Our clients today tell us that they want to be able move workloads on demand, they want to be able to vary where workloads are placed, and they want to be able to turn them off and on. CloudBurst is designed to fit that environment whether its application dev test, production, or for those that provide services.

One of our real differentiation points is, you dont have to assemble it yourself you dont just order a platform and then go look at all the other components you want to buy. Weve built you a complete system one price, one purchase order, one delivery, of the platform, the software and the services that go along with it to make you productive immediately. We think that this is a tremendous advantage for you, and we think its unique in the industry today.

The CloudBurst offering specifically includes all the elements of the platform. Think of it as your networking fabric, your storage fabric, and your compute fabric tightly integrated together. In addition to that, it includes service management. It includes the ability to create a service catalog to be able to allow you to attach directly to the line of business owners and their application needs without having to understand the deep componentry of how the processes and hardware actually work, as well as it includes integrated services to be able to come in and on day one enable you to use the platform for your business benefit.

Were excited about the new IBM CloudBurst capabilities you can take advantage of.

For more information, go to IBM.com/cloud/cloudburst, or contact your IBM representative.”

Duration : 0:1:45

Technorati Tags: Chris O'Connor, Cloud Burst, cloud computing, CloudBurst, dynamic infrastructure, ibm, IT service management, Pulse, software automation, software delivery, Tivoli

Duration : 0:0:31

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