In these difficult economic times, every company is challenged by shrinking markets, fierce competition and expense challenges. We hear from many IT organizations that to help their companies remain viable and competitive they need to

• modernize their aging systems to make their users more productive and their business processes more efficient
• reduce costs, both application development costs and cost of application operation, expanding solutions to new distributed platforms.
• staff projects with new developers as the RPG experts retire

IBM has created technologies and services to help transform your heritage green screen applications into cross platform solutions with new user interfaces that take advantage of the latest technology initiatives like Web 2.0, and to help improve the productivity and the collaboration of your development teams.

The IBM i Modernization Summit, is a workshop sponsored by IBM Rational directed to leading professional software development organizations and designed to help us understand and validate how our solutions can truly help these organizations achieve their goals.

The event will take place on April 16-17 at the Executive Briefing Center in Research Triangle Park in NC, and attendance will be limited to 30 Senior Executives, Principals or Development Managers.

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Agenda

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Day 1: April 16 - 8:30 am

- Welcome and Introduction
- Enterprise Modernization Strategy and Application Development Solutions
- Developing Web 2.0 UI
- ISV Experience

Lunch and Roundtable Discussion

- Modernization Strategies Introduction
- Modernization Methodology & Discussion
- Case Study of an RPG Migration
- Demonstration of a legacy system converted to Web 2.0

Dinner

Day 2: April 17 - 8:30 am

- Team work innovation: Rational Team Concert for i
- RTC Case Study: IBM labs use of Rational Team Concert

Coffee

- Securing Web Applications: AppScan
- Managing Requirements : Requirement Composer
- Automating Build Process : BuildForge

Lunch and Roundtable Discussion

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Registration

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To participate in this conference please register by clicking here: IBM i Modernization Summit Registration

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Proceedings

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Copy of all presentations discussed at the Summit are available here (user name=swgebc, password=swgebc): IBM i Modernization Summit Proceedings