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In this issue: IBM Rational March 2015 Credentials Professional Certification Newsletter | Connecting you with your career Welcome to the IBM Certification Newsletter, Credentials. Our newsletter is designed to be your monthly source for certification news, events, conferences, promotional opportunities, and select topics to help you navigate the IT world as an IBM Certified professional. Over the next couple of months, we will be featuring the many products of the IBM Certification Program. This edition will focus on IBM Rational. It is important for all professionals to be aware of the certification options that awaits in their career path. Whether you are just starting out in a new career or stuck in a career position which you are unhappy with, it’s important to be aware of your options. Make sure to keep up with us for up 3 March 2015– 5 March 2015 to date news, technical certification IBM Systems Technical Symposium [Cairo, Egypt] talk, and promotions. 21 April 2015 – 24 April 2015 IBM Systems Technical University [Prague, Czech Republic] Follow us on Twitter 11 May 2015 – 15 May 2015 Like us on Facebook Edge 2015 [Las Vegas, Nevada] 11 May 2015 – 13 May 2015 Amplify 2015 [San Diego, California] 18 May 2015 – 22 May 2015 IBM z Systems Technical University [Dublin, Ireland] Have you completed your Member Profile Page? Want to show your friends that you are proud to be cer- On our new Marketplace website, you'll find Vouchers, eBooks and more to help you with tified? your certification! We have vouchers of different values, books to help you with your certification preparation and acquire new knowledge. Visit us today to take advantage of the In every issue of Credentials, we will great offers and deals. select one Member to feature in the newsletter. We are looking for Mem- Every large IT supplier offers a Cloud ser- ber Profile Pages with great success stories. vice. It was important for me to validate my skills in Cloud computing and ensure I was capable of keeping up in this ever evolving area If your profile is complete with great success stories, you may be featured in our next edition! March 2015 Issue Did you know there are over 27 certifications available within the IBM Rational program? What is IBM Rational? Rational Software helps you collaborate more effectively, develop flexibly, and control risk and change, leading to successful project delivery. This results-oriented focus helps you to innovate, differentiate your products and maximize return on investment by increasing efficiency and selecting the right initiatives aligned to your business strategy. What are the featured products within this program? Rational Team Concert: Helps companies build better software and products with an all-in-one Agile development environment for teams, which includes agile, formal and hybrid planning and reporting, all on a common platform. Rational DOORS: A requirements management application for optimizing requirements communication, collaboration and verification throughout your organization and supply chain. This scalable solution can help you meet business goals by managing project scope and cost. Rational DOORS lets you capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to information while maintaining compliance to regulations and standards. Rational Quality Manager: A collaborative hub for business-driven software and systems quality across virtually any platform and type of testing. This software helps teams share information seamlessly, use automation to accelerate project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. Rational Change: A web-based change management solution that offers comprehensive change tracking and change control. Rational Change unifies software change management and configuration management repositories through a centralized change server. Rational Change improves consistency and accountability when managing software changes. Rational Rhapsody Developer: A visual development environment for embedded, real time or technical application software development based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It helps to improve productivity throughout the embedded software development lifecycle—from requirements capture to implementation, test and deployment. Now you can reduce time-to-market of new products with automated software development processes, early validation and enhanced model testing. Rational Software Architect: A comprehensive design, modeling and development tool for end-to-end software delivery. It uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for designing enterprise Java® applications and web services. Rational Software Architect is built on the Eclipse open-source software framework and is extensible with a variety of Eclipse plugins. You can also enhance functionality for your specific requirements with separately purchased Rational extensions. Rational System Architect: An enterprise architecture solution for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating enterprise architecture and business process analysis. This solution provides decision support, process optimization, and integration into solution delivery. Rational System Architect addresses all aspects of your organization’s enterprise architecture, including modeling, publishing, analysis, and execution. Rational ClearCase: A software configuration management solution that provides version control, workspace management, parallel development support, and build auditing. You can integrate Rational ClearCase with other IBM solutions, including IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Asset Manager, and IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software. Rational ClearCase scales to any size team from small workgroup to large, geographically distributed teams. Rational ClearQuest: Application lifecycle management (ALM) software that provides flexible change and defect tracking, customizable processes, real-time reporting and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle. This solution provides scalable, multiplatform support to any size organization, so you can continue to use your customized processes as your organization’s needs evolve. Rational ClearQuest supports the IBM AIX®, HP-UX, Linux®, Sun Solaris and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Rational Focal Point: Focal Point provides product and portfolio management driven by market needs and your business objectives. This comprehensive solution helps you prioritize and select the right investments, balance change with business demands and align resources to deliver the right products at the right time. Now your executives and teams can make decisions that deliver greater value to your customers and your business. Source: IBM Certification Program (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ca/en/rational/) March 2015 Issue Your IBM Certification Member Profile Page can help you get closer to your next job or your promotion, and it can be a way to share your accomplishments with your friends and peers. Your IT certification shows to the world that IBM PartnerWorld® has expanded You Pass We Pay to include IBM Certified Solution Advisor sales certifications. The Certified Solution Advisor certifications will provide you with important benefits: Match your skills to IBM’s strategy for solutions and big plays Position you as a trusted advisor with skills to match the buying cycle for our customers Provide a significant competitive differentiation in the field Include a designation in your e-mail signature and other materials to promote your you are an IT professional and a specialist in credentials your field or technology. Certification announces your professional competence to your clients, employer, peers, and customers; it also certifies that you have demonstrated knowledge and experience in a tech- For any other information regarding the program please visit www.ibm.com/certify or check us out on Twitter and Facebook. Let us know what you’d like to see in our next issue. Tweet us, post on our wall, or as always contact our support team at [email protected]. nology. Learn more New on 1/26/2015 IBM is proud to announce the newest additions to the IBM certifica- IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Endpoint Manager V9.2 tion portfolio New on 1/29/2015 IBM Certified BPM Application Developer—Business Process Manager New on 12/31/2014 Express or Standard Edition V8.5.5 IBM Certified Administrator - Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1.1 New on 2/09/2015 New on 12/22/2014 IBM Certified Solution Implementer—SmartCloud Notes Hybrid IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Security Directory Server Configuration & Onboarding Data Transfer V2 V6.3.1 IBM Certified System Administrator—SmartCloud Notes V1 New on 12/29/2014 New on 2/13/2015 IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional—IBM Security for IBM Certified Specialist—Rhapsody for Systems V8 Static and Dynamic Applications New on 2/17/2015 IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Security Qrader QVM IBM Certified Solution Designer—Content Collector V4.0 V7.2.1 New on 2/18/2015 New on 1/05/2015 IBM Certified System Administrator—Websphere Commerce V7 IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Sub Capacity Licensing Tools & Processes V9 Withdrawn on 1/31/2015 New on 1/07/2015 IBM Certified Specialist—Cognos 8 Controller IBM Certified Implementation Professional - Tealeaf Customer Ex- IBM Certified System Administrator—PureApplication System V1.1 perience Management V9.0 New on 1/14/2015 To be withdrawn on 3/31/2015 IBM Certified System Administrator—MQ V8.0 IBM Certified Specialist - IBM solidDB and IBM solidDB Universal Cache New on 1/15/2015 IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Rational UrbanCode Re- To be withdrawn on 5/31/2015 lease IBM Certified Solution Implementer—SmartCloud Notes Hybrid New on 1/23/2015 Configuration & Onboarding with Data Transfer IBM Certified Application Developer—DB2 11 for z/OS As always, we encourage you to validate your skills through certifications, and keep current with the latest offerings.
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