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Set your applications and business processes free. New IBM software helps you adopt SOA for greater flexibility.
Many businesses still struggle in a world where processes and applications are dedicated to specific business units and functions—never to be re-used across functions to improve business speed and flexibility or reduce costs. SOA has emerged as the dominant approach to freeing these assets and leveraging them across the enterprise. IBM has announced new and enhanced products, such as IBM WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Process Server, Rational® Software Architect and Tivoli® Composite Application Manager, as well as services to help you model, assemble, deploy and manage SOA.
IBM is ready to help you get started now with software built on its leading SOA capabilities. In addition, IBM is announcing greater levels of integration between its WebSphere, Rational and Tivoli software along with reusable SOA assets tailored for specific industries.
The result is newfound flexibility that can help you speed new products and services to market, respond to competitive threats faster and reduce development and operational costs.
Knock out information insanity. Attend the upcoming IBM Webcast on master data management.
Not having control of your master data means working with information that is incomplete or unreliable—a shaky foundation for supporting business processes and critical decisions that has many businesses on the ropes.
IBM has solutions, and you can learn more about them by attending an upcoming Webcast: “Master Data Management: Providing a Single View of Your Company's Critical Information.” Join Andrew White, Research Director, Gartner Research and experts from IBM and hear real-world examples of gaining control of master data. You will see how IBM solutions can help you reduce costs, solve compliance issues, integrate information with partners, consolidate applications, implement new applications and more. Learn about the emerging trends and take away recommendations that will put you in control.
Improve productivity while controlling costs. Learn how at IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Live! events.
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 are now available! The new software provides a comprehensive platform for integrating and managing collaboration capabilities. It helps increase organizational productivity and responsiveness, reduce total cost of ownership and improve rapid application development. The result is a solution for improving productivity and responsiveness that can also help you control costs.
You can get all the details at an event near you where you will gain an understanding of the relationship of Lotus Notes and Domino within the IBM Workplace strategy and learn about the new features of the client, server and administrator components. Plus, the events will highlight the new application’s designer enhancements and showcase some of the Lotus Domino Extended products. You will even get a sneak peak at Hannover, the next release of IBM Lotus Notes. And you will hear several customer and partner success stories. While you wait for an event to come to you, check out our other resources, including a Ferris Research report on how the new software can help lower your email costs.
Standard Life improves distribution channels’ loyalty and saves £3 million with SOA solution.
Success for Standard Life in insurance and financial services meant improving how it worked with its critical channel of Independent Financial Advisors (IFA). Read this case study and see how this leading European insurer used a Service-Oriented Architecture to improve their business processes so they could provide reusable services to IFAs. The cost-savings associated with this approach improved Standard Life’s competitive standing with IFAs by improving their margins and making it easier and faster for them to recommend and sell Standard Life’s products.
The result was a significant competitive advantage. Transaction rates are up 900 percent without increases in operations staff. See how Standard Life and its partners are able to reuse nearly 51 percent of business services and save millions in development costs while accelerating responsiveness to changing market conditions.
Becoming an On Demand Business pays off. Don’t miss IBM at upcoming Gartner Symposium ITxpos worldwide.
According to an IBM study, companies with more advanced capabilities for On Demand Business improved gross profit margin 1.3 points better than their peers.* Join us at Gartner Symposium ITxpo events in Orlando, Cannes, Sydney or Tokyo to gain insight into IBM solutions that will enable your business to become an On Demand Business.
Integrate your IT environment more flexibly and securely. Get started with SOA projects. Leverage the power of your information. Turn resilience, security and compliance issues into competitive advantage, and much more. Companies that are farther along on their on demand journey show stronger business results when compared to their peers. Don't miss the chance to learn how you can grow your business and move ahead of your competition through solutions from IBM.
Conquer the flexibility challenge. IBM General Manager Robert LeBlanc gives you the inside track on the IBM SOA announcement.
Reusing your IT and business process assets across your operations is the key to speed, flexibility and ultimately your success. Join a Webcast led by Robert LeBlanc, General Manager, IBM Application and Integration Middleware, as he answers your questions and explores IBM’s SOA platform and demonstrates how it can help you meet the flexibility challenge. Get an overview of the announcement. Hear how Wachovia and other companies have benefited from implementing an SOA framework. Find out about free-of-charge offers to help you get started. Meet the flexibility challenge head on and win.
The Webcast will be broadcast live on Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time.
Make SOA solutions smarter, stronger and more efficient. It's called IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0.
High transaction volumes and performance goals. Fast-paced changes in the business. Cost challenges. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment offers the combined capabilities of autonomic and grid computing to help you win in a demanding world.
The software enables a dynamic, scalable and high performance SOA foundation, further enhancing the ability of the WebSphere platform to deliver exceptional performance, flexibility and responsiveness. Autonomic capabilities improve resource utilization. Improve your transaction reliability, performance and scalability. Sense and respond capabilities enable you to seamlessly accommodate fluctuations in workload across the application infrastructure. And that's only the beginning. WebSphere Extended Deployment is especially relevant to financial services companies and provides a level of performance, flexibility and reliability previously possible only with more expensive, high-end systems. Learn how you can improve your application infrastructure and your SOA efforts.
Tired of software that doesn’t work? Get the IBM Rational Requirements and Analysis Info Kit.
Requirements and analysis practices can make or break the success of software projects. Will it be a costly and lengthy exercise in futility or a direct hit with satisfied users and big returns?
It takes more than documents, e-mails and phone calls. Find out how you can manage requirements and analysis better than ever when you download a specialized information kit from IBM. The kit features a paper that shows you how investing in requirements management tools can provide a big payback. See a demonstration on writing better user scenarios and cases. Two Webcasts show you how your software success can benefit from leveraging requirements and modeling tools. You will see how IBM Rational software can help you manage the constant change of requirements and keep projects on track from start to finish. Learn more and register for the kit.
Reduce risks. Control costs. Get an online guide to good storage.
Storage management is about managing risk. If your data isn't reliable, accessible or compliant, it can harm your productivity, reputation and revenue. It’s also about managing costs and resources. Storage management expenses are projected by International Technology Group to be more than 22 percent of IT budgets in 2007.
Read this online guide to storage management solutions and see how you can improve your storage management and in turn improve your business. Optimize your storage resources to control costs. Develop an end-to-end strategy that ensures business critical continuity. See how storage can play a role in information lifecycle management and incorporate corporate governance policies, business processes and compliance guidelines.
The online guide offers trial code for IBM Continuous Data Protection for Files and IBM Tivoli System Automation software and other resources.
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* IBM White Paper, Becoming an On Demand Business: Innovation Breaks New Ground, John Hagel, III, February, 2005
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