Solutions by Industry - Information On Demand powers your industry.
Banking and Financial Services
IBM's Information On Demand solutions help banking and financial markets organizations extract more business value from their information assets by leveraging enterprise information to generate deeper insights that drive profitable revenue, improve efficiency and enable higher levels of customer satisfaction.
Retail
The pace of change in the retail industry is driving retail enterprises to find new, more flexible, and innovative strategies for merchandising, selling to and creating loyal customers, all while keeping costs in check as they look to drive revenue growth. Among the forces driving this change is the consumer. Access to vast amounts of information is raising the bar on what customers expect retailers to provide in the shopping experience (choice, pricing and services). And consumers need to be assured that their identity and financial data is protected. Growth and success in the retail industry demands that retailers must innovate their business processes to deliver a shopping experience that earns customer loyalty and creates customer advocates.
Government
In the global economy, information is critical for competitive success. But all levels of government struggle to free information from departmental silos and deliver it to the right person, at the right time, in the required context with the integrity that can help satisfy national security, public safety, citizen services, ultimately delivering business clarity for optimization and performance gains along with better strategic planning. IBM Information On Demand can directly address these government client business needs.
Telecommunications
Pressures to improve margins. Reduce time to market. Compete for and retain customers. These challenges demand a consistent, reliable, unified view of your business. Think about how your organization could enhance revenues, control costs and streamline operations by eradicating barriers to information. IBM's Information on Demand Solution for Communications Service Providers enables you to tap into important customer, product and network information to help gain better insight into your business. It also makes previously untapped information accessible for strategic business imperatives such as business transformation, service innovation, service assurance, and providing a high quality, differentiating customer experience.
Energy & Utilities
Consolidation, deregulation, new technologies, competitive pressures, and new customer service demands affect the energy and utilities industry on a daily basis. To maintain leadership, major energy and utility companies must differentiate themselves by proactively exceeding customer demands and lowering operational costs, while increasing customer satisfaction and shareholder value. IBM's Information on Demand Solution for Energy and Utilities enables you to more effectively manage the most important element of your business, your information. It is this information that is used to manage the grid, the assets and service to the customer. All this has to be done in a manner that meets the requirements of the utility leadership, the regulators and the shareholders. It is used to achieve improvements in operations, efficiency, reliability and service, and it is critical to be able to access, analyze and control information, within time frames that are required for a utility to manage and operate a real-time electrical grid. This level of challenge and coordination can only be achieved through a common information management strategy.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
IBM Information on Demand solutions help Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage. IBM understands the complex challenges Healthcare Life Sciences organizations face, and today's rapidly changing environment drives need for innovation. IBM helps Healthcare organizations differentiate for competitive advantage by leveraging trusted, real time information for single, enterprise-wide view of critical clinical & business data. Deep LS/ Pharma domain expertise coupled with innovative solutions enables IBM to help pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations to comply with regulatory requirements, drive market share and revenue, improve product development, and increase operational performance.
Industrial Solutions
IBM's steady investment in Information On Demand since 2006 has yielded an unrivaled portfolio of offerings and expertise that allows us to assist manufacturers in unlocking the business value of their information for growth and competitive differentiation. The addition of Cognos strengthens the Information on Demand portfolio for the Industrial Sector through the addition of the Cognos' Sales and Operations Planning blueprint. The combination of the strong Sales and Operations Planning performance management capabilities and blueprints of Cognos with IBM's extensive manufacturing industry expertise will allow manufacturers to meet customer demand, maintain appropriate inventory levels, balance production with a focus on schedule achievement, and achieve financial goals.
Insurance
IBM's Information On Demand solutions enable insurance organizations to positively impact revenue, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction by leveraging enterprise information and providing deeper enterprise insight from their information assets.
