• Make Testing Simple: accelerate audit compliance
• Testing =Productivity = Profits
• How ALM Can Save You Money
• Managing IBM i and .net Development
• Managing SQL Development
• Improve Testing Productivity

Webinar: Make Testing Simple: accelerate audit compliance

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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Are you having trouble passing audits because of the way you test your software? Have you experienced downtime due to errors that have made their way into your production environment? Maintaining application reliability is always a priority, and to achieve that goal effectively, you need to make testing a structural part of change at your organization. The session explains how you can easily implement a strategy to:

• extract and maintain reliable test data,
• capture and automate program tests, and
• capture, present, and compare your test results – all with a reasonable investment in time, resources, and cost.

Webinar: Testing = Productivity = Profits

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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Given the critical nature of applications and the impact of a software malfunction on your organization, improving and maintaining application reliability is always a priority. To reach that goal effectively, you need a testing program. The session explains how you can put a program in place to:

• extract your test case data,
• define your test sequences, and
• capture, present, and compare your test results – all with a reasonable investment in time, resources, and cost.

For organizations with multiple projects and/or developers, setting up and conducting tests and keeping track of the results is a complex task. Testing is so demanding that you really need automated tools to accomplish it effectively. Fortunately, you can introduce and improve testing processes incrementally.

SOX compliance and Basel II auditors are focusing more and more on the COBIT objectives related to testing. The more routine it is, the more an auditor may rely on the results of your internal test process. Automated tools that help you create test data, develop and automatically run test plans, and analyze results are critical to reducing testing costs related to compliance.

Webinar: How ALM Can Save you Money in a tight economy

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software
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Times are tough and budgets are limited. In today’s tight economy, is it possible for an IT organization to maintain its current level of productivity or even increase it without adding overhead? This Webinar examines the benefits of “cost-saving” change management, analysis, and testing tools and quantifies the return on investment you should expect over time.

Companies that need to replace their existing change management systems due to rising maintenance costs or technology issues, as well as those who have yet to implement Application Lifecycle Management, can benefit from this session.

After the Webinar, you’ll understand how implementing ARCAD’s products can help you avoid issues and become more productive with existing staff while expanding your technical capabilities, and how the software can actually pay for itself in a short amount of time.

Webinar: Managing IBM i and .NET development

Speakers: Ray Bernardi and Jeff Tickner, ARCAD Software
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Can native IBM i and Visual Studio developers work comfortably in a single change management system? View this Webinar to find out. The fun begins when two opinionated developers go head-to-head to put change management through its paces.

Our highly interactive Webinar explores how a single CM process can keep IBM i and .net development teams in sync and ensure that all components are installed successfully. We show you ARCAD’s unique native and .net cross-reference features, including impact analysis for changes to SQL-derived databases – whether they are on the IBM i or external servers. You’ll also see how we handle the entire deployment process by allowing you to run scripts as a structural part of any deployment to any server.

After this Webinar, you'll understand the issues involved with multi-platform deployment and how to avoid potential pitfalls, and you’ll understand how ARCAD supports a Visual Studio developer.

Webinar: Managing SQL Development

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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As IBM i applications spread out and move onto other platforms, it just makes sense to implement SQL to increase their portability, simplify maintenance, and make development easier. If you are considering using SQL to create your applications, you will want to view this Webinar. It covers:

• the benefits of using SQL, with basic programming examples,
• how to create tables, views, indexes, and embed SQL code in your programs with ease,
• how, with a modern change management tool, you can transfer SQL items to testing and production using the same proven process that handles your native PF, LF, and RPG source, and
• complete cross reference support that automatically maintains your system’s referential integrity.

Webinar: Improve Testing Productivity

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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To rapidly construct a set of representative test data, or to reproduce an error in production, you need to extract production data. Extracting data manually can give rise to disk space problems, excessive processing times, and data integrity issues. This session focuses on:

• user-friendly tools for extraction of production data that ensure stable disk space and improve productivity in reproducing bugs, and
• practical tips for software testing that you can put to work today.

Webinar: Practical Test Automation

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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Automating software testing with state-of-the-art tools and integrating it with the development process is moving higher on IT's priority list. In this one-hour session, Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect at ARCAD Software, shows you:

• an approach to software testing that you can actually implement in a realistic timeframe,
• user-friendly software testing tools for regression test automation and extraction of production data, and
• how integrated analysis, change management, and testing tools can help you work more efficiently and meet auditors' requirements.

Webinar: Change Management for Application Modernization

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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Managing change as you modernize applications that have been implemented over many years on the IBM i means using new tools and bringing cross-platform development teams together. In this session, you will hear about:

• a practical, systematic approach to application modernization,
• how analysis and change management tools can help you organize development and work more efficiently, and - how change management software ensures the integrity of your multi-platform applications.

Webinar: Easy and Reliable Multi-platform Deployment

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software

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If you're in the process of modernizing your applications, you will need to install changes and execute commands on a variety of platforms. The challenge is keeping your IBM i and servers based on other operating systems in synch. You will also need a single place to go to know if all components were installed successfully. In this session, you will learn:

• how to manage modernization efforts involving different platforms,
• how to automate deployment of components to multiple platforms and roll back a deployment if necessary.

Webinar: Fast and Efficient Application Analysis

Speaker: Ray Bernardi, Solutions Architect, ARCAD Software
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If you are involved with application modernization, or just plain application maintenance, we can help you:

• gain an instant and complete view of the internal architecture of your multi-platform applications,
• save time analyzing legacy programs in depth and extracting business rules,
• and quickly bring your documentation up to date.