Manufacturers everywhere are being asked to deliver a new generation of smarter products. Companies need to deliver flawless products and software with fewer resources and shorter timeframes. Effective integration of software engineering with electronic and mechanical engineering is becoming an even more critical success factor.Please join IBM to discuss how we can help you deliver smarter products that are more interconnected,instrumented, and intelligent. With the IBM Rational Platform for Systems and Software you can improve both your software engineering and your systems engineering, and can more effectively connect your products to the Internet, back-end IT systems, and each other.A smarter planet needs smarter products. Join us to learn how to leverage IBM's software, hardware and services to achieve competetive advantage.

As Systems Engineering problems and solutions become more complex, it is harder for engineers to describe them and harder for reviewers and other stakeholders to understand the descriptions. By carefully combining textual requirements and the visual representation of these requirements using an industry standard graphical notation, more accurate and complete system descriptions are possible that are easier to understand and communicate. What is the relationship between requirements management and system modeling? How should they work together? And what are the potential benefits for different stakeholders? This Webinar and telebriefing take a process perspective to answer these questions

During this webcast, you will hear from Alyssa Dver, Author of "Software Product Management Essentials", who will examine how and why product managers need to be more creative and strategically focused. She'll uncover some typical traps that Product Managers fall into and give you tips to avoid them - or how to get out if its too late! Specific benchmarks and exercises will be provided so participants can leave and immediately assess and improve their own performance as a product manager or manager of PMs.

Every successful organization engages in strategic planning;yet too often the best laid plans remain just that: plans. Scott McBride explains how enterprise architecture (EA) can help you 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

Chris Sibbald talks about Telelogic® Harmony/SE™, which incorporates overall project flow with efficient design iterations to improve stakeholder requirements definitions and analysis, design synthesis, and interface definition. Early validation via executable models minimizes risk and helps you meet the needs of your customers. Learn how all this works by joining the webseminar.