Globalize your On Demand Business

The IBM Software portfolio can enable your e-business on demand initiative and help manage and optimize your business in the face of change and uncertainty. IBM distinguishes itself by providing:

• A global vision, plan, and roadmap for its software portfolio and decades of experience delivering and supporting products all over the world. These products support a full set of languages and locales, with translated user interfaces and documentation, and multiple languge versions are generally released simultaneously worldwide.
• Leadership and experience with integrating your existing multilingual/multicultural systems while introducing new capabilities based on open standards such as Unicode and open source software like ICU.
• Software solutions that:
  • Take advantage of collective knowledge, whenever and wherever users work, across languages, cultures, business practices and organizational boundaries
  • Facilitate the access and integration of vast amounts of multilingual heterogeneous information to provide greater insight and value to businesses
  • Offer easy access to information through culturally personalized interfaces that are accessible on any device, anywhere, anytime, with consistent linguistic and cultural behaviors.
  • Reduce worldwide deployment and management costs
  • Manage the on demand IT environment securely, with focus on reliability, availability, stability and resiliency.
  • Model, integrate, connect, monitor, and manage your worldwide business processes so that they can provide real-time information and respond dynamically to market changes.
• Expertise to help integrate and optimize your global software infrastructure using open standards while remaining positioned to take advantage of emerging technologies for the future
• Services to design, develop, and translate global applications and content, as well as organizational and change management services to help you develop a global strategy that overcomes corporate and cultural barriers.