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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2Q07
In its Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management Software, Gartner positioned IBM as a "Challenger" for its WebSphere Product Center 5.3.2 software. IBM believes WebSphere Product Center has helped position the company as a "Challenger" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and as a leader with its ability to execute.

Last updated: 21 Jun 2007

Communications Service Providers - MDM Scorecard for 2006-07
Aaron Zornes, Chief Research Officer of the CDI-MDM Institute developed this paper. It is a comprehensive, objective view of criteria for telecommunications providers to apply master data management to achieve competitive advantage in today's convergent communications market.

Last updated: 01 Apr 2007

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management 2005
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2005 provides insight into the evolving PIM market. Vendors are evaluated based on their ability to execute, as well as their vision for PIM.

Last updated: 07 Apr 2006

IBM WebSphere Product Center V5.3 delivers a single, reliable product information repository
WebSphere Product Center gives companies a flexible and highly scalable repository for managing and linking information about product, location, trading partner, organization, and terms of trade.

Last updated: 18 Apr 2006

IBM Multiform Master Data Management Business Overview
Learn about the business issues Master Data Management solves as well as the value that MDM generates for the business.

Last updated: 26 Sep 2007

IBM Product Information Management for Commerce: Leverage product data to gain competitive advantage
Gain insight into the product information management challenges and requirements for multi-channel initiatives, based on IBM experience with retailers.

Last updated: 14 Feb 2008

Harnessing More Value from your Master Data: An Introduction to Multiform Master Data Management by IBM
Watch a high-level conceptual introduction of IBM's Multiform Master Data Management offering.

Last updated: 20 Sep 2007

IBM WebSphere Product Center information center
This information center includes product information for IBM (R) WebSphere (R) Product Center version 5.3.2.

Last updated: 22 Nov 2006

WebSphere Insider
Written and produced by ebizQ, the WebSphere Insider is an electronic newsletter that provides best practices, tips and tricks, and real-world case studies on building, managing, and deploying applications on the IBM WebSphere Software platform.

Last updated: 03 Sep 2004

Transform Customer Care in the Communications Market
This video describes IBM's Customer Care offerings which enable Telecommunications Service Providers to gain a competitive edge in today's converging communications market.

Last updated: 01 Jan 2008

Customer Care Solution Transforms Order Processing for Communication Service Providers (CSPs)
Simple Order is an IBM Customer Care solution to streamline order processing. Learn how using Master Data Management (MDM) technology, WebSphere Customer Center, and WebSphere Product Center, it enables CSPs to tailor products, promotions, bundles and services to customer preferences and profiles.

Last updated: 01 Aug 2007

Business value of Master Data Management and Product Information Management
Learn how IBM Master Data Management can help address the challenges of information management in Manufacturing.

Last updated: 20 Sep 2007

IBM Multiform Master Data Management: The evolution of MDM applications
IBM Multiform Master Data Management manages master data domains - customers, accounts, products - that have significant impact on the most important business processes and realize the promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Learn about IBM's integrated MDM product that manages the complete data lifecycle.

Last updated: 01 Aug 2007

IBM Multiform Master Data Management: Harnessing the value of enterprise data
Learn how IBM Multiform Master DataManagement moves beyond previous attempts at centralizing control of data by allowing users to fully manage data with multiple domains and multiple styles. Multiform MDM centralizes both the master data and the functionality that manages the master data.

Last updated: 01 Jul 2007

Best practices for new product introduction
Streamlining the collection and management of product information to support the new product introduction (NPI) process is essential. Get an an in-depth look at the reasons why current systems and processes for gathering and maintaining product information are broken and best practices for fixing them.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007

Extend the value of SAP ERP with SOA and IBM Master Data Management
Although SAP ERP is widely regarded as the predominant ERP product, combining its robust capabilities with implementing your SOA objectives can be a challenging task. IBM Master Data Management solutions can provide the answer.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007

IBM XYZ Framework for retailers, Best practices for a strategic master data management solution
The IBM XYZ Framework for retailers provides best-practices recommendations to help optimize downstream systems and address business challenges with a single, reliable repository of product information.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007

Product Information Management for e-commerce
Learn how implementing a PIM solution for e-commerce can help manage product information by improving business processes, consolidating existing information, reducing IT personnel dependency and eliminating the need to maintain product information in multiple applications.

Last updated: 01 Jun 2007

Customer Care Solutions for the Communications Industry - Driving Business Value with Master Data Solutions
This whitepaper provides an overview of master data management concepts and business challenges relevant to Telecommunications providers. Focusing specifically on the issues of providing differentiated customer care in an increasingly challenging market, this paper gives an overview of IBM's Master Information Solutions.

Last updated: 01 Apr 2007