Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank.

IBM solutions offer practical application modernization roadmaps to help your IT organization overcome the challenge of managing both your legacy and modern systems. Please join us for the IBM Rational webcast series: Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank.

This webcast series will provide real-world best practices to implement.

Topic 1: Modernization approaches to reduce the total cost for multi-platform enterprise applications
Attend this webcast for an overview of the solutions that matter and learn how you can leverage your existing software assets and skills to deliver new business solutions, manage change, quality and reduce the total cost for multiplatform application development and delivery.

Topic 2: Three steps tor effective multi-platform development
Learn tips and tricks on how to manage change and automate software delivery across the lifecycle to dramatically cut your maintenance costs.

Topic 3: Moderrn quality management for efficiency and speed to market
Learn how our quality management solutions help solve multi-dimensional, cross-platform, software quality lifecycle challenges of modernization projects.

Upcoming Rational Web Events.

Here are couple of upcoming Rational Web events. If you are unable to attend these events, the replays will be available within 24 hours of the live event.

Turn your IT plan into a competitive advantage in an uncertain market
Harnessing the power of Enterprise Architecture
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 11:00 a.m. (New York)
Integrated with Enterprise Architecture (EA), portfolio management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

Streamlining roles (webcast series)
Episode 1 - Collaborate with your stakeholders thru requirements-driven quality
Date: Thursday, May 28
Time: 11:00 a.m. (New York)
Hear from Michael Lundblad, program manager for IBM Software Requirements and Quality Management, on how the IBM Rational requirements-driven quality solution provides ways to evolve projects with agility based on changing requirements, acquire seamless real-time data on project health, and gain early and often project team consensus of requirements.

IBM Rational Software Conference 2009, May 31-June 4, 2009, in Orlando, FL.

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	See the return on investment and why you can't afford to miss this year's conference

Get ready to uncover how Real insights plus Real teams equals Real results, at the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009, May 31-June 4, 2009, in Orlando, FL. With over 400 sessions in 19 tracks, 28 technical and hands-on workshops, IBM Certification Testing at no cost, and an inspiring line-up of keynote speakers, this is the educational event of the year. Register today. IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 Dates: May 31 - June 4, 2009 Location: Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando FL 4 Real reasons to attend this year's conference! It's time to Get REAL. See a preview of "As Real as It Gets:" the world's first software reality show. Get a year's worth of education in one week: See your return on investment and why you can't afford to miss this conference. Inspiring keynotes with industry-leading experts and IBM leaders including Steve Mills, Dr. Danny Sabbah and Grady Booch, plus Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of MythBusters. Validate your technical and sales expertise by certifying your skills with on-site IBM Professional Certification exams! Attendees of the IBM Rational Software Conference are entitled to take one IBM Rational Certification exam at no cost while on-site at the conference. We hope to see you in Orlando! Find us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Sincerely, The IBM developerWorks team