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July 2012
Mobile Security: Smaller Devices, Bigger Threats
With the rise of mobile technology, personal and business devices are merging, making Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) a very real phenomenon. Organizations need to accept this reality and devise a strategy that allows employees to use mobile devices securely. Read how IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices helps you safely embrace BYOD by safeguarding both company and personal data. |
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July 2012
Smarter Cloud Management: Look, Ma, No Hands!
Changing business requirements make knowing how best to develop and utilize a cloud for your own organization’s circumstances a challenge. Fortunately, SmartCloud Foundation from IBM provides an entry cloud solution that lets you add on more layers and capabilities over time. Find out more about leveraging cloud computing to create more value over time as your business changes. |
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July 2012
Tap Your Full Potential with POWERful Software Development
For those organizations that have invested in IBM Power Systems® as a service delivery platform, an even greater return can be realized by using Power for IT development. New capabilities with the recently released IBM Rational® Developer for Power Version 8.5 let you exploit AIX and Linux on Power to create and deploy better software faster and with fewer bugs. |
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July 2012
Six ways to make your information more trustworthy
Organizations today collect more data than ever before. But if business users don’t trust that information, they won’t use it, and as a result, they won’t capitalize on valuable insights from analytics and reports. To be trusted, information needs to be understood, clean, holistic, current, secure and documented. Learn more about these six pillars of governance and how your organization can get the most out of its information. |
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June 2012
Flip on your high-beams—smarter risk assessment at Vision 2012
Risk assessment and mitigation are central to all business strategies. Finance and risk professionals attending Vision 2012 last month saw how IBM advanced analytics solutions can deliver valuable insight and business intelligence to address volatility and risk. Read how business analytics can help your organization turn insight into better business outcomes. |
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June 2012
Smarter Workloads: Optimize the outcome, not the platform
IT departments need to switch their perspective—from a platform-prioritized outlook to one that is workload-prioritized—in order to provide a better customer experience. Try out these two free workload assessment tools to help you choose the best-fit platform for your organization’s workloads, and open the door to cost savings and a smarter data center architecture. |
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June 2012
"Jaw dropping." DB2 10 delivers the goods
Faster query processing—as much as 10 times faster with IBM DB2® 10 versus DB2 9 running on the same hardware, according to tests run by Intel—and storage-saving page-level compression are just two of the enhancements added to recently released DB2 10. Discover what these new performance optimizations can do for your organization. |
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June 2012
What, me worry? How to enjoy the full promise of cloud computing
Still wondering about moving to a cloud architecture, or adding new workloads to an existing cloud? Learn how IBM SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can help you determine and optimize how a private cloud will fulfill your organization’s workloads and turn the promise of cloud computing into a reality. |
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May 2012
Smarter Analytics: Actionable Insights from the Data Tsunami
A flood of company data is available to organizations today, but how is all that information being used? And to what benefit? Advanced analytic capabilities are part of the fabric of IBM’s products and services today. Find out how IBM Smarter Analytics solutions can help your organization transform big data into insights that can lead to a competitive advantage. |
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May 2012
Trusting technology and a few secrets to building systems that run systems
Modern life is chock-full of complex systems that rely on software running behind the scenes to orchestrate the functioning of the devices we simply trust to work—for example, smartphones, cars and airplanes. Read how IBM Rational® solutions help development teams and all stakeholders—even those at different companies and locations—methodically create and deliver ultra-complex “systems of systems.” |
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May 2012
Learning to run and discovering IBM PureSystems, the workload-aware cloud, at Impact 2012
A key topic at Impact 2012 was IBM PureSystems™, IBM’s new expert integrated systems family that delivers a next-generation service delivery platform with workload optimization capabilities. An exceptional foundation for private cloud computing, IBM PureSystems can help you accelerate cloud adoption, address dynamic business demands, streamline management and cut costs. Read what it’s all about. |
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April 2012
My grandmother — security intelligence pioneer
How does a protective grandmother watching over her possessions parallel the security practices of an organization? Rather closely, from a conceptual standpoint, but the tools are quite different. Find out how Q1 Labs’ solutions – powered by Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and log management – give you seamless visibility into your organization’s security posture via a single dashboard. |
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April 2012
There’s never been a better time to maximize the value of your application portfolio
For organizations, especially large ones, applications represent major investments. Too often, however, portfolio management focuses on project ROI instead of application ROI – even though an application can span multiple projects. Read how IBM Application Portfolio Management solutions help you not only create an application inventory (capturing value, costs, and risks), but also gather key data to inform application-related decisions. |
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April 2012
Cloud Integration: Discover the “productivity app” for the cloud
Hybrid cloud models offer the best of both worlds – put your cloud-friendly apps in the cloud and leave the rest on premise. But how does information flow between the two? IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration’s “configuration, not-coding” approach offers you a fast and cost-effective way to access critical business information across architectures. Learn how cloud integration can help you maximize your cloud investment. |
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April 2012
CRM’s Midmarket Comeback: Understand, Create and Serve Your Customers
The widespread popularity of social media, and the stream of data that it produces, make CRM a powerful tool for tracking customer satisfaction and emerging needs. Accessible via the cloud, today’s solutions are an affordable midmarket solution. Find out how CRM helps midsize businesses understand what their customers want and how to serve them. |
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March 2012
Smarter Provisioning: Self-Healing, Self-Managing Private Clouds
Private clouds have been deployed more slowly in recent years than pay-as-you-go public clouds, in part due to the need to create and maintain the cloud infrastructure in-house. Find out how IBM SmartCloud can simplify setup, maintenance and management of your private cloud so it can be up and running in less than a single business day. |
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March 2012
IBM Compilers: Faster Mainframe Services, No New Business Risks
Speeding up mission-critical software to deliver greater business benefit does not necessarily mean upgrading hardware, writing new code, or incurring service downtime. A more cost-effective approach is upgrading your compiler technology to achieve accelerated performance. Read how new IBM System z® compilers do just that. |
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March 2012
Smarter Data Protection: Link Security and Storage Management
When it comes to data protection, security and storage are two sides of the same coin. Learn how encryption and key management better protect your stored data, and how smarter solutions from IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager eliminate backup redundancy to provide a quick and cost-effective way to keep your data safe. |
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March 2012
Smarter Endpoint Management: IBM Goes Mobile
Managing mobile endpoints is something most organizations need to do better—but few have the right tools. Fortunately, there is an endpoint management solution that helps via both agented and ‘agentless’ control mechanisms, not to mention the option to create an enterprise-specific app store. |
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January 2012
The IBM CMO Study: Change, Measured Objectively
Read about how the role of the CMO is changing, what kinds of new problems they’re facing that they never faced before and how the smarter ones are coping and even thriving. Then you decide, does the C in CMO stand for Chief these days? Or Customers? |
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January 2012
IBM Workload Deployer: Snap Fingers, Get Application Infrastructures
Find out how the cloud has greatly simplified the process of deploying, running and managing application environments resulting in increased efficiency and automation. IBM Workload Deployer removes all the variability and complexity in rolling out app environments for a more agile, cost-effective response. |
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January 2012
Asset Management: Maximizing Your Return on Facilities Assets
Asset management solutions go beyond IT assets to include an organization’s entire physical infrastructure, such as facilities assets, mobile assets, field assets, among others. Learn how TRIRIGA’s Integrated Workplace Management Systems solution can help you reduce operational costs of facilities, increase return on real estate assets, and mitigate environmental regulatory risks. |
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January 2012
Electric Guitars and Updating Vintage Development Environments
Mainframe applications and the services they drive are central to many leading industries, so organizations are sometimes reluctant to make changes in this area. Read how IBM Rational Developer for System z can provide many advantages: faster build cycles, lower costs, higher System z business value and smarter utilization of commodity platforms. |
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December 2011
Data Warehousing: Getting Faster Answers
In this age of big data where critical analysis should inform an organization’s decision making and drive its agility in the marketplace, traditional transaction-based systems no longer fit the bill. The data analysis architecture of traditional systems was never designed properly for data analysis in the first place. It was intended for a fundamentally different purpose—business transactions. As a result, these systems cannot perform on the same scale as systems designed exclusively for advanced analytic processing. Appliances from Netezza, which was acquired in 2010 by IBM, were created with huge data volumes and advanced analytics in mind, and today help businesses with incredible speed and efficiency. Read how XO Communications used Netezza to improve business agility and create value from their data. |
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December 2011
Customer Web Experience: Making Smarter Connections
The face of a business today is the web, which puts company websites at the front line of customer engagement. Achieving better business outcomes now means engaging customers with a compelling web experience that focuses on value as they define it, not as you do. This puts the spotlight on providing a customer experience that is personalized, socially infused, and mobile-aware. Learn how the IBM Customer Experience Suite provides a platform that allows you to connect with customers, use the information that you gather to serve them better, and empower them to interact with each other. How engaging is your organization’s face? |
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December 2011
Enterprise Content Management: Orchestrating the Data Symphony
According to an IDC White Paper, unstructured data comprises some 80% of total data in a typical enterprise. Think of all the information organizations have in Word files, presentation decks, spreadsheets, PDFs, and collaborative social platforms—internal communities, forums and wikis, to name a few. Why does structured data, like core databases, usually get most of the attention? A new approach to Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is needed to help organizations leverage the wealth of unstructured data for maximum value and make them more informed, more competitive and more agile. As enterprise infrastructures, content types, strategies and goals continue to evolve, so must your ECM solution. Learn how a new approach to ECM, including social content management and information lifecycle governance, can help your organization increase its agility, creativity, innovation and responsiveness. |
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December 2011
Business Agility: Shifting into a Higher Gear
For most business executives, “business agility” means the power to change, quickly and effectively, to suit changing circumstances. For CIOs this means creating an IT infrastructure that supports the creation of new services, products and strategies in the least time using the least resources. The IBM Business Agility Executive Forum takes a look at what’s standing in the way of true business agility and how organizations can improve it. Organizations must be able to see what’s coming and react wisely at the right time. For IT, this means helping develop smarter ways to work by enabling collaboration across departments and teams, and delivering smarter services by leveraging new technologies, such as cloud computing. Learn how you can harness the change and volatility in today’s marketplace and turn it into a business advantage for your organization. |
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November 2011
Big Data: Transforming Raw Information Into Successful Strategies
According to recent IT analyst reports, enterprise data growth over the next five years is estimated to increase by more than 650 percent. Worse, a full 80 percent of that data is expected to be unstructured, making it significantly harder to assess and utilize. How can organizations optimize the business utility of this data tsunami and transform it into valuable insight? How can business leaders analyze the data to uncover trends, track down emerging problems, and establish more accurately what their employees, business partners and clients/customers actually need and want? Read how today’s big data analytics tools offer a solution. Then think about data at your organization. Is it seen as a problem looking for a solution? Or is it a rich source of insights waiting to be discovered and tapped? |
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November 2011
Smarter Commerce: Is Your Strategy as Smart as Your Customers?
The rise of social networking and mobile computing has given consumers new power. Today, customer information is available from far more sources than ever before. Consider that Twitter registers 155 million status updates daily. Any time a specific company, product or service is mentioned, that’s a data point worth considering. But do organizations really leverage that tremendous and freely available data—tracking customer interest and sentiment before and after the sale is made? Do their Smarter Commerce strategies put customer interests at the center of every stage of the commerce cycle? How about your organization? What’s your smarter commerce strategy? |
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November 2011
Business Analytics: Building a Smarter Game Plan
For every organization, data is a stockpile of valuable, but hidden, insights. Discovering those insights requires analytics tools capable of sifting through the stockpile and detecting trends and patterns. Then, based on the insights, business leaders can create strategies to help the business grow. But how do you identify and deploy an analytics solution? A number of important considerations must be taken into account. Learn more about how business analytics can help guide your organization to drive positive change. With analytics-driven insights, you’ll probably find that the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. |
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November 2011
Application Lifecycle Management: Creating Smarter Software
The more complex applications become—the more lines of code, the more development groups, the more elaborate the specifications, etc.—the more important a governed approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) gets. And the stronger the case for a best-in-class, integrated, ALM-focused suite of development solutions becomes. Read how Invensys Rail, a leading provider of trackside and on-board signaling systems used by railway operators in Spain and Portugal, chose one primary solution provider to deliver all the integrated capabilities needed for each stage of the application lifecycle. The IBM Rational solution enabled Invensys Rail to achieve very impressive results and put the company in a much stronger competitive position. |
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