Today’s dynamic business climate is increasingly application-powered, and as a result the need for code to address change is accelerating. Even businesses that have already adopted agile development and deployment processes and DevOps strategies are struggling with many challenges including:

• Requirement for significant IT involvement to deliver functionality
• The increasing challenge of “multi-speed” IT and connecting front-end and back-end systems, exacerbated by application and data siloes
• Application development, testing and QA backlogs due to increasing user demands driven by consumerization of IT

to name just a few. Attend this TechBytes video series sponsored by IBM to learn how organizations of all types and sizes are now addressing these myriad challenges by adopting new development and execution platforms that accelerate the entire application lifecycle while creating substantial savings. These bite-sized webinars will cover the latest market conditions in the application development arena, with a particular focus on mobile; dive into the greatest challenges facing development and deployment teams today, and present strategies and tactics that can reduce workload, deliver more, faster, while getting more out of your IT dollar.

About the Presenter:

Soloman Barghouthi is IBM's Application Platform and Cloud Specialist and a Senior Technical Staff Member. Over the years he has held several development, architecture, and leadership positions in the WebSphere Application Server product. Soloman holds many patents and has published numerous papers and videos covering a wide range of technology topics. From his involvement over many years in the development of enterprise software, he has a deep understanding of all aspects of producing software from inception to market.

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Organizations of all kinds need data scientists. Accordingly, as part of its commitment to data science, IBM is making available technology, almost 10 years in incubation, designed to help organizations apply machine learning through Apache Spark. Doing so can bring significant benefits to the analytics industry as companies increasingly make space for machine learning in the enterprise.

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By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

IBM Spectrum Storage simplifies your storage infrastructure and optimizes data economics. Managing 2,500 petabytes of data created daily presents new opportunities and storage challenges for organizations. IBM® Spectrum Storage™ is the new family of software defined storage that conquers the data explosion with flexible data center infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more!

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In the final of three segments, Swami will show you a demonstration app called Watson Films. This application leverage multiple Watson services available today on Bluemix. Powered by a natural language processing system, Watson, this application is a fun demonstration of how Watson can interact with the user. Join us for the live demo of the application, but you can also read and play with the code here . Join us to see a Watson powered application in action and check out the Watson Services available today for any one on Bluemix.net

We want your great application ideas! Join us for this deep dive into the 7 Watson Services available for any user to start using on Bluemix. We'll talk about the new services available for users to start with today. These are foundational components of the Watson machine, new technologies, and improved services that we've discussed in the past. Leveraging these services in your application can: help you understand your user's needs based on the words they use, help you use words that resonate with a particular community, visualize your data in new, interactive ways, and much, much more. Join us to find out more on these services, partners using them today, and check them out for yourself at Bluemix.net