Information On Demand

IBM Information On Demand is a strategy that addresses the CEO's number one pain point — unlocking and extracting value from information to globalize and integrate their business processes and become more innovative. This strategy focuses on:

• Getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
  
  
• Addressing the need to integrate information horizontally.
  
  
• Integrating, analyzing, and optimizing heterogeneous types and sources of business information throughout its lifecycle to manage risk and create new business insight.
  
  

IBM’s Information On Demand approach is optimized for IBM software, hardware and services, but its components are designed around industry standards and work well with non-IBM components, helping customers to realize the value of their existing investments.

• Product offerings — Throughout the year, IBM has introduced several new product offerings that enable companies to address their most critical business initiatives—and create more business value from information. Read more.
  
  
• Solutions Portfolio — IBM provides a comprehensive solutions portfolio to help companies address their most information-intensive business initiatives. The portfolios provide integrated approaches to leveraging information assets, involving skills, methodology, information, and technology. Read more.
  
  
• Solutions by industry — IBM can help clients use existing information assets, while taking advantage of emerging information sources, providing a seamless flow of all forms of information regardless of format, platform or location. Read more.
  
  
• Information On Demand Center of Excellence — Staffed with Information On Demand experts, the Center of Excellence helps companies deliver business value through innovative uses of information. Read more.
  
  

Information On Demand demonstrates and consolidates IBM's commitment to On Demand Business, with dramatically increased investments in trained practitioners, technology, and research. In addition, our strategy provides customers with:

• A framework for understanding and measuring information management maturity and allows insight into the associated risks, costs and benefits of each maturity level.
  
  
• A set of solution portfolios to assist companies in addressing their most critical information-intensive business initiatives.
  
  

IBM Information Management Business Partners are excited about our Information On Demand strategy and the tremendous value that it offers their customers. Read what they are saying.

Fourth Millennium Technologies

"Information On Demand should be an imperative for almost any business that wants to remain competitive. More than just strategic positioning, Information On Demand can provide many companies in many industries a true tactical advantage. ROI should be relatively easily achieved based on employee productivity, up-selling, making better decisions from integration of pockets of data and reacting faster to market changes, responding to customer requirements and maintaining customer loyalty.

Fourth Millennium Technologies has embraced Information On Demand as the key to our customers future success."

Miracle Software Systems, Inc.

"Information is key to the success of any organization and availability of this in time has always been a concern to a lot of companies. Information On Demand strategy will definitely be a very successful strategy since it will strengthen IBM's leadership in infrastructure space by meeting growing demand for accurate and timely information. I'm sure this will improve the way companies function and enable them become extremely competitive in the market place."

"With Information On Demand customers will have a unified view of their information in a timely and cost-effective manner which will be a direct cost-saving compared to expensive and robust Data Integration/Application Integration tools. We see many existing and potential IBM customers in need of data management. Since IBM has a proven track record in DB management and Integration this will be a valuable extension to their existing product portfolio and a great sell for Business Partners."

One Point Solutions
IBM Information Management 2004 Partner of the Year

"One Point has been developing a Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing practice targeted at small and medium business (SMB) customers and I believe the Information On Demand strategy very closely matches our approach. I believe that IBM's approach will make it easy for SMB customers to understand and to start taking advantage of the great benefits that Information On Demand can offer their businesses."

"Our on-demand world calls for new ways of looking at the business model of One Point's customers — a way to see beyond the old corporate structures, business units, and processes. I believe IBM's approach will help these customers better understand — and buy into — these solutions. One Point uses this same methodology to deliver IBM Information On Demand strategies."

Silicon Plains Technologies
IBM 2004 Beacon Award for Best DB2 Information Management Solution

"IBM's Information On Demand strategy is on the mark. As an ISV of business process accelerators and system integrator we definitely agree that customers want to spend more time on solving business problems, not dealing with the technical plumbing."

Sirius

"Sirius is very excited about IBM's Information On Demand Strategy. Their focus on information integration across all IBM software brands will help our sales account executives better articulate IBM's Service Oriented Architecture and allow us to more readily identify and develop customer infrastructure solutions that meet our customers' requirements. This approach will help us sell more IBM Information Management and business integration software because it provides an easy to understand framework for customers to integrate processes, people, and information throughout their entire enterprise."