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IBM

Overview: At IBM, we strive to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics.

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2009 AIIM BPM Industry Watch Report by IBM May 25, 2010 - In this report, AIIM International set out to explore these challenges – what are the motivations, what are the factors for success and what return on investment (ROI) is being achieved. We also measure planned levels of spend.

  view 2009 AIIM BPM Industry Watch Report research abstract

Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM Solutions Designed for Rapid Deployment by IBM January 15, 2010 - With IBM products, services and programs, businesses can develop business process management solutions to support their business priorities and objectives, both now and in the years ahead. Read this paper to learn how.

  view Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM Solutions Designed for Rapid Deployment research abstract

Adding Mainframe Focus to End-to-End Application Performance Management by IBM June 2008 - Enterprise organizations need to take a serious look at end-to-end application performance management.

  view Adding Mainframe Focus to End-to-End Application Performance Management research abstract

Application Peformance Monitoring Demo by IBM July 23, 2010 - IBM Tivoli for all the Monitoring Needs of Your Enterprise: this menu interface provides a high-level overview, product demonstration, expert interviews, and resource links for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products.

  view Application Peformance Monitoring Demo research abstract

Application Quality Management and Testing Tools by IBM June 2008 - As As companies implement SOA and extend their mainframes applications as web services, it is important that all applications be maintained and enhanced appropriately.

  view Application Quality Management and Testing Tools research abstract

Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z by IBM March 01, 2008 - This white paper is intended to inform the reader of what business process management (BPM) is about, the benefits that can be obtained from its implementation, how to place BPM into operation and why IBM WebSphere® Process Server should be deployed on the IBM System z™ mainframe.

  view Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z research abstract

BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone by IBM April 23, 2009 - This white paper explores how today's advanced business intelligence solutions can put powerful, informative BI information into the hands of more users.

  view BI for Business Users: How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone research abstract

BPM for HLCS Provider Treatment Decision Process by IBM July 06, 2010 - Check out this presentation for an in-depth examination of business process management and SOA solutions as they pertain to the healthcare industry.

  view BPM for HLCS Provider Treatment Decision Process research abstract

Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes by IBM June 24, 2010 - This webcast explores how WebSphere and IBM Rational work together to help businesses achieve strategic objectives with reduced risk and cost and also for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change.

  view Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes research abstract

Business Process Management: Banking by IBM January 15, 2010 - Banks can address operational challenges and differentiate themselves through business model innovation and business process optimization. Read this paper to learn more.

  view Business Process Management: Banking research abstract

Business Process Management: Healthcare by IBM January 15, 2010 - Healthcare organizations need to build flexibility into operations to support excellence in clinical and business practices. With BPM from IBM, healthcare payers, providers and life sciences organizations can automate crucial business processes and integrate key systems to reduce costs and increase agility.

  view Business Process Management: Healthcare research abstract

Closing the Data Privacy Gap: Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-production Environments by IBM March 24, 2010 - By downloading this complimentary White Paper, you'll gain insight into the requirements for protecting privacy in non-production environments and what to look for in an effective data privacy solution.

  view Closing the Data Privacy Gap: Protecting Sensitive Data in Non-production Environments research abstract

Creating and Managing Value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z by IBM October 27, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service.

  view Creating and Managing Value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z research abstract

Customer Success Story: GTS Service Management Flash Demo by IBM July 23, 2010 - This service management flash demo from GTS takes you through the overall service management landscape, client success stories, the GTS Service Management portfolio, benefits as outlined by industry analysts, and reasons to choose IBM.

  view Customer Success Story: GTS Service Management Flash Demo research abstract

Deduplication Enabled Disaster Recovery: An Overview of the Breakthrough ProtecTIER Replication Offering by IBM by IBM August 11, 2009 - This paper describes the native replication feature of ProtecTIER®, IBM’s enterprise-class deduplication solution, and demonstrates that deduplication-enabled replication provides dramatic improvements to Disaster Recovery operations.

  view Deduplication Enabled Disaster Recovery: An Overview of the Breakthrough ProtecTIER Replication Offering by IBM research abstract

Deliver smarter products and services by aligning IT development and operations: How IBM can bridge the gap between development and operations by IBM September 14, 2009 - A dynamic infrastructure is one that is designed to enable today’s instrumented and interconnected world, helping clients integrate new smarter components of their business with a flexible, secure and seamlessly managed IT infrastructure. Read this paper for more.

  view Deliver smarter products and services by aligning IT development and operations: How IBM can bridge the gap between development and operations research abstract

Demo: Rational Performance Tester and ITCAM by IBM July 22, 2010 - This 3 minute video demonstration discusses the three integration scenarios between IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager.

  view Demo: Rational Performance Tester and ITCAM research abstract

Dynamic Business Process Management for Banking: Enabling Banks to Optimize Cost and Improve Process Agility by IBM September 14, 2009 - Getting business and IT together to deliver what customers want despite budget constraints is the key to delivering business value to clients and stakeholders alike. Read this paper for a discussion of business process management strategies that enable banks to meet business objectives and foster innovation.

  view Dynamic Business Process Management for Banking: Enabling Banks to Optimize Cost and Improve Process Agility research abstract

Dynamic Case Management - An Old Idea Catches New Fire by IBM December 28, 2009 - Interest in case management is growing. This white paper includes five explanations as to why dynamic case management

  view Dynamic Case Management - An Old Idea Catches New Fire research abstract

Enterprise Reporting: A Sound Step to Superior Performance Management by IBM June 15, 2009 - Enterprise reporting offers a single platform starting point for performance management. Combining performance management with an enterprise BI reporting system yields exponential benefits across the organization and does so more cost-effectively than point solutions implemented by individual lines of business and functions.

  view Enterprise Reporting: A Sound Step to Superior Performance Management research abstract

Examining Business Resiliency Management Best Practices by IBM June 17, 2010 - Today, organizations that aren’t able to respond to IT disruptions or rapid market changes can find themselves left behind. Read this paper and learn how  to effectively manage people, process, and technology within a business resilience strategy.

  view Examining Business Resiliency Management Best Practices research abstract

From Fear to Value: CIO strategies for propelling business through the economic crisis by IBM March 17, 2009 - Your aspiration: As a CIO, drive change, innovation and efficiency to help build a smarter enterprise that will prosper amidst global competition. Your daily challenge: As a CIO, deliver business results faster and better–with less. This whitepaper outlines key strategies for CIOs to drive business results through the economic crisis.

  view From Fear to Value: CIO strategies for propelling business through the economic crisis research abstract

From Reporting to Performance Management – A Roadmap: How IT Can Drive Better Business Performance by IBM July 25, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how IT decision makers can drive better business performance through strong strategic, tactical, and advanced reporting.

  view From Reporting to Performance Management – A Roadmap: How IT Can Drive Better Business Performance research abstract

Getting Requirements Right: Avoiding the Top Ten Traps by IBM October 30, 2009 - This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget.

  view Getting Requirements Right: Avoiding the Top Ten Traps research abstract

IBM Executive Brief on Advanced Case Management by IBM May 25, 2010 - In this executive brief, you’ll read about case management and how its traditional approach is no longer meeting the needs of organizations faced with today’s challenges. It will also explain the concept of advanced case management and address the IBM strategy for using it to optimize case outcomes.

  view IBM Executive Brief on Advanced Case Management research abstract

IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers by IBM December 21, 2009 - Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.

  view IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers research abstract

IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments by IBM June 17, 2010 - Craft an IT infrastructure that allows you to create and sustain market leadership. This brochure will get you started with the IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments. This analysis will give you in-depth insight into your current application performance and the levels of performance that can be achieved. Get the brochure.

  view IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments research abstract

Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles by IBM July 22, 2010 - This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.

  view Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles research abstract

Increasing Business Performance: Using Virtualization for SAP Applications on IBM System p Servers by IBM June 16, 2010 - This white paper captures the experiences of six large companies running SAP applications using IBM® System p™ virtualization.

  view Increasing Business Performance: Using Virtualization for SAP Applications on IBM System p Servers research abstract

Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers by IBM September 23, 2009 - Increasing energy efficiency with x86 servers. Robert Frances Group (RFG) explains why Intel/IBM is a winning combination.

  view Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers research abstract

InfoTrends white paper: ECM, From Strategy to Solution, March 2010 by IBM March 17, 2010 - Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become an important infrastructural technology.  Organizations implementing an ECM strategy should consider IBM’s ECM offering as it meets the requirements of a comprehensive Enterprise Content Management solution.

  view InfoTrends white paper: ECM, From Strategy to Solution, March 2010 research abstract

IT Quality Health Assessment Tool by IBM September 09, 2009 - This one minute survey consists of ten questions to assess your software quality environment. When complete, you will receive custom recommendations that you can view and print out to help plan your QA strategy; complete with next steps, and thought leadership guidance and papers.

  view IT Quality Health Assessment Tool research abstract

IT Service Management Self Assessment Tool by IBM January 30, 2009 - The IBM IT Service Management Self-Assessment will help you better understand how your IT infrastructure can more effectively and efficiently deliver IT services.

  view IT Service Management Self Assessment Tool research abstract

Leverage the IBM Tivoli Competitive Advantages in Storage Management by IBM September 14, 2009 - IBM delivers unified storage management that is superior to legacy solutions, resulting in greater efficiency that reduces costs, improves performance, delivers unmatched scalability to better meet service levels and offers a higher level of reliability to manage risk.

  view Leverage the IBM Tivoli Competitive Advantages in Storage Management research abstract

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations by IBM March 05, 2010 - New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.

  view Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations research abstract

Mid-Market CEO Study by IBM July 30, 2008 - Explore the study, The Enterprise Of The Future: Implications For Midsize Organizations, to learn about the core traits shared by these successful midsize organizations.

  view Mid-Market CEO Study research abstract

New CA Application Performance Management Flash Demo by IBM June 2008 - Traditional, manual intensive approaches to application performance management are no longer adequate. In this demo watch the proactive solution set of CA Mainframe Application Performance Management

  view New CA Application Performance Management Flash Demo research abstract

Optimizing Web-to-Mainframe Performance of Critical Business Services by IBM June 2008 - Sign up today for this valuable webcast to learn how integrated Web-to-mainframe performance management can help you achieve higher levels of availability, performance and customer success rates.

  view Optimizing Web-to-Mainframe Performance of Critical Business Services research abstract

Rational Insight ROI Calculator by IBM June 16, 2010 - IBM Rational Insight, a performance measurement and management solution, provides visibility into your data across projects, products, and geographical boundaries to monitor status and progress in a single view. This extensible solution aligns resources, and helps drive greater performance at all levels of the organization.

  view Rational Insight ROI Calculator research abstract

Real World Disaster Recovery by IBM July 01, 2006 - In preparation for disasters, it's critical to have a backup site that can be used if your primary location goes down. Download this article about a new enterprise data center and learn more about protecting your IT infrastructure.

  view Real World Disaster Recovery research abstract

See how IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management Can Help Optimize Energy Consumption by IBM July 23, 2010 - Make the most of your IT budget by managing energy consumption effectively. By monitoring energy usage and heat levels in your data center and facilities, you can see how and where to optimize for maximum performance and savings. Try IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management now.

  view See how IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management Can Help Optimize Energy Consumption research abstract

Seeding the Clouds: Key Infrastructure Elements of Cloud Computing by IBM February 24, 2009 - This paper describes a high-level cloud computing infrastructure services framework and the underlying technology enablers, such as virtualization, automation, self-service portal, monitoring and capacity planning. It also discusses examples of, and the value propositions for, certain data centers that have been built in this manner to date.

  view Seeding the Clouds: Key Infrastructure Elements of Cloud Computing research abstract

Staying Aloft in Tough Times: Why Smart, Innovative Businesses are Turning to Cloud Computing by IBM April 15, 2009 - As IT budgets continue to be stretched, cloud computing is enabling CIOs to do more with less. Virtualization, standardization and other fundamental features of cloud computing are lowering the cost of IT, simplifying IT service management and accelerating service delivery. 

  view Staying Aloft in Tough Times: Why Smart, Innovative Businesses are Turning to Cloud Computing research abstract

Strategic Considerations for Evaluating Enterprise Performance Management Solutions by IBM October 22, 2009 - Read this paper to learn about current market trends in Enterprise Performance Management solutions. There are many investment strategies organizations must evaluate in order to best take advantage of the technological innovations.

  view Strategic Considerations for Evaluating Enterprise Performance Management Solutions research abstract

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance by IBM February 14, 2008 - Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

  view The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance research abstract

The State of Database Management by IBM June 2008 - Data managers are concerned about managing the explosion of data, and are looking for ways to manage the process. In this survey from IDUG, learn about improving database performance and overall corporate performance.

  view The State of Database Management research abstract

Trust, But Verify: How to Manage Risk In Outsourced Applications by IBM December 01, 2009 - Outsourcing can be a cost effective and efficient solution to the demand for new and specialized applications in today’s Internet-based marketplace. It is absolutely critical, however, that the team responsible for evaluating the outsourced application makes security one of its principal criteria prior to acceptance of each release.

  view Trust, But Verify: How to Manage Risk In Outsourced Applications research abstract

Webcast: Automating Change Management Responsibly by IBM July 22, 2010 - Meet Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner of Accenture and hear about how Tivoli Automation solutions help Accenture's customers to reduce costs and create operational efficiencies. Also hear from analyst, Dennis Drogseth of EMA about how these solutions can help you, too.

  view Webcast: Automating Change Management Responsibly research abstract

Webcast: How IBM Stacks Up in Service Delivery for Data Centers  by IBM July 23, 2010 - How does IBM Service Delivery stack up against other vendor's products? This webcast will take a fact based approach to help you understand the difference between hype and help, revealing the five key points to remember when selecting a Service Delivery platform.

  view Webcast: How IBM Stacks Up in Service Delivery for Data Centers  research abstract

Webcast: Why Unify IT Development and Operations?   by IBM July 22, 2010 - The integration of development and operational tools is vital to reducing costs, improving service and enabling automation and management of lifecycle tasks. How closely aligned are these roles in your organization? Join EMA Research Director Julie Craig and IBM to better understand strategies to help businesses unite these two groups.

  view Webcast: Why Unify IT Development and Operations?   research abstract



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