Alison Butterill
Alison is the Application Development Offering Manager for i5/OS and works in the Power Systems Team. She is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist; certified in Application Development, WebSphere and System i. In her present position, Alison is working with a wide variety of teams to develop strategic direction and offerings for developers on the System i. One of the System i key initiatives, the System i Developers Road Atlas is a main component of her current responsibilities.
Alison has worked in the mid-range area for more than 25 years holding a wide variety of positions at IBM, always specializing in the areas of application development and database. She has held a variety of positions from being a field Systems Engineer to being an instructor in Customer Technical Education, to national support for IBM Canada, to Worldwide Technical Marketing support for the development tools and compilers from the IBM Toronto Laboratory.
Alison is a regular speaker at technical conferences and COMMON conferences around the world and holds numerous Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON North America.
Alison can be reached at butteril@ca.ibm.com
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Why PHP and IBM i
PHP is a new and exciting language for developing/deploying Web-based applications. In 2006, IBM introduced PHP for Web application development for IBM i. Is PHP the right tool for you to extend your current IBM i application suite, or to extend your company’s reach to new customers? This session will explore typical uses of the language and review implementations where PHP makes sense.
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IBM i Integrated Application Server and Integrated Web Services
Do you want to start running Web applications including Web Services, but you think that your system is too small? Is creating and administrating a web server to complicated and confusing? Would you like to learn how SOA and Web services really work with IBM i? The Integrated Web Application Server integrates a Web-servlet container into IBM i. This Web container includes the basics for getting servlet and JSP applications up and running quickly and effectively on the Web. And the integrated web services server greatly simplifies the process of externalizing ILE business logic as a service via the IBM i Web Administration GUI. This presentation will demonstrate the simplicity and power of the IBM i integrated Web services technologies.
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Moving RPG to an SOA Framework: A Step by Step Approach
SOA is an architecture. It has become an industry standard to allow business function to be located in the most appropriate place - distributing as business requirements dictate. SOA can be implemented using a variety of languages and a variety of techniques. Learn how to exploit the strengths of existing applications, while creating agile applications and positioning your business for the future. This session will demonstrate a step-by-step approach for taking existing applications and implement a Services Oriented Architecture.
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Change Management and Source Control Made Easy with Rational Team Concert for Power
Rational Team Concert for Power is the next generation of team collaboration products for developers on Power platform. Based on IBM Rational's Jazz technology, RTC Power can significantly improve the productivity of your development team. RTC Power provides project planning, automated data collection and reporting that reduces administrative overhead and provides real-time insight required to effectively govern software projects. Other capabilities such as source configuration management (SCM), work items (change management) and build into the team's process are also provided. RTC Power can be used to support teams on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems and multiple languages.
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IBM i Application Development Strategy and Update
The world of application Development is evolving very quickly. New tools, new technologies, and new languages are coming forward at an incredible rate. IBM i developers are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the new advancements while capitalizing on their existing investments. This session will review some of the hottest industry trends and the latest announcements from IBM and look at how they all tie together.
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IBM’s Investment in RPG IV – Past, Present and Future
RPG IV is alive and well. Each release adds new function and enhances existing ones, keeping the language modern by anyone's programming standards! This session will provide a quick review of the enhancements made to the RPG IV language in previous versions and then focus specifically on the 6.1 and 7.1 announcements, including IBM Rational Open Access: RPG Edition. This is your chance to hear about what’s been happening lately in the world of RPG IV
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