IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Enterprise and Team Editions help companies manage performance and better execute their strategies
IBM United States Software Announcement 205-298November 15, 2005
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Workplace for Business Strategy Execution helps companies:
- Make sure each employee understands the strategy and how their contribution affects success
- Ensure organizational alignment and focus by cascading and interlocking on objectives and targets
- Visualize status of objectives and respond to exceptions through intuitive status maps
- Speed response to threats or opportunities by delivering accurate status and integrated collaboration tools
- Receive real-time monitoring of internal and external dependencies or changes
- Use intuitive navigation through scorecards and dashboards with drill down and roll-up capabilities to monitor progress and risk
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| Overview |
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Companies often feel that they have the right strategies, but fail to execute those strategies to the fullest extent possible. This shortfall happens for a myriad of reasons. However, some of the most common are lack of alignment among business units or processes, lack of accountability among decision makers, and a lag between the recognition of a problem and actions to resolve that problem.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution solutions allow companies to manage performance and execute their strategies. For additional information regarding Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, refer to Software Announcement 205-265 , dated October 18, 2005.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Team Edition helps companies manage performance better by aligning organizational objectives. Employees can execute their strategies and targets based on the needs of departments and small- to medium-sized businesses. It features rapid installation, and an embedded Workplace Services Express platform. Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Team Edition integrates intuitive collaborative tools to facilitate action once an issue is raised.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Enterprise Edition software makes it simple to communicate business objectives and align employees to the organizational objectives that are the most important. It helps increase visibility across functions to help better predict, prevent, and resolve issues. Packaged with the powerful WebSphere® Portal Extend V5.1.0.1 platform, this new offering delivers the infrastructure and tools to help companies meet business objectives.
WebSphere Portal Extend delivers one of the most complete portal offerings in the market. In
addition to portal application services with advanced search and analytics function, WebSphere
Portal Extend delivers collaboration services such as instant messaging and team rooms. These
services allow portal users to dynamically interact with each other and with business processes to
help improve productivity of their on demand business.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the
Hardware requirements
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Software requirements
sections of this announcement.
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| Planned availability dates |
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- November 15, 2005, electronic software delivery
- December 16, 2005, media and documentation
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| Description |
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Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Team and Enterprise Editions help solve those difficult problems by allowing organizational objectives to be cascaded down an organization to ensure alignment. A company may have a series of high level objectives towards which everyone in the company should be working. Workplace for Business Strategy Execution allows those objectives to be defined and cascaded down an organization in order to provide alignment to those objectives. Additionally, objectives can be linked to each other to show a holistic view of how a strategy impacts different parts of the organization.
By delivering detail on organizational objectives and access to back end systems to provide metrics to employees, Workplace for Business Strategy Execution lets employees be more accountable to those goals and make better decisions faster. Typically, only executives have access to robust scorecards and dashboards. IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution makes creating and rolling out role-based work environments simple and cost effective for any level employee.
Finally, with the tight integration of a myriad of collaborative tools, Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Team and Enterprise Editions make it simple to react once a problem is highlighted in order to solve it quickly.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Team Edition also includes the Workplace Services Express platform. Workplace Services Express V2.5 delivers the flexibility and choice in the way you access and interact with your company's applications and content by allowing you to do so from a browser. The browser could be one on your work PC, or in a branch office, or in some other location.
In the past, you might have had to use different clients, visit different Web sites, and use different IDs and passwords to work with the variety of applications and content that you need. Workplace Services Express includes an integrated portal that delivers one location to visit, with a single sign-on across multiple applications all from a browser.
In addition to team spaces (online work areas), document management, and instant messaging, your e-mail, calendar, and other business applications and content can be integrated into Workplace Services Express and accessed from a browser. You are not limited by the constraints of being required to use a unique PC with traditional PC-centric software installed on it. Workplace Services Express' portal pages are also customizable. This means you can choose which applications and content appear on which portal page, and how they are arranged on the page. Drag-and-drop technology allows you to simply drag applications from one area of a portal page to another. You wind up with a portal that is more comfortable to use and has the information on it that you need.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Enterprise Edition also includes the powerful WebSphere Portal platform. WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.1.0.1 is designed for businesses that face pressure to reduce costs and improve revenue in this tight economy. Reducing employee costs while improving productivity and retaining satisfied employees is also a challenge most organizations face today.
Building a sense of loyalty and greater degree of satisfaction with existing customers opens new opportunities for lower cost up-sell or cross-sell revenue for the organization. Attracting new customers, with lower marketing acquisition costs, can both help increase revenue and increase your organization's reach. WebSphere Portal offerings can not only enable improved customer care, acquisition, and retention, but can also help improve business relationships with your suppliers, business partners, channels, and service organizations.
WebSphere Portal delivers a single point of interaction with dynamic information, applications, processes, and people to help build successful business-to-employee, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer portals. WebSphere Portal also supports a wide variety of pervasive devices enabling users to interact with their portal anytime, anywhere. It delivers the IBM unified portal strategy while providing solutions to address the unique portal requirements of an on demand business.
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Team Edition targets the needs of Departments and Small to Medium sized businesses. It features rapid installation, and an embedded copy of the IBM Workplace Services Express platform.
Note:
Users are responsible for identifying the business goals and objectives tracked by Workplace for
Business Strategy Execution. Users are also responsible for ensuring that the data supplied to
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution by a user's other systems are accurate and adequate to
track the progress of the user's business against its goals and objectives. IBM does not represent
or warrant that use of Workplace for Business Strategy Execution will yield specific business
results or that the goals and objectives identified in any demonstration of Workplace for Business
Strategy Execution are appropriate for implementation by users.
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| Statement of direction |
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IBM continues to demonstrate its commitment to the growth of the Workplace family of products by leveraging IBM's technical innovations. We are providing and will continue to provide additional business value to the Workplace customer.
All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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Hardware requirements
Intel™-based systems
- Processor: Dual-processor 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium™ 4 or equivalent processor
- Physical memory: 2 GB minimum
- Disk space: 10 GB minimum
The specific details of a company's planned usage such as the percent of the users that are concurrent, and which capabilities of Workplace Services Express are being utilized will affect the workplace sizing for a server. Consult with your IBM representative or Business Partner on your specific requirements.
One of the following LDAP servers:
- IBM Tivoli® Directory Server V5.2
- Lotus® Domino® Enterprise Server V6.5.x
- Microsoft™ Windows™ Active Directory 2000
For more information about WebSphere® Portal, including how this powerful product can be used in addition to its use with IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, visit
To learn more about Workplace Services Express, visit
Software requirements
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
For more information about WebSphere Portal, including how this powerful product can be used in addition to its use with IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, visit
To learn more about Workplace Services Express, visit
Planning information
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances customer productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging: Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Team Edition will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Team Edition media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Team Edition Product CDs
- Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
- The LI form number for Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Team Edition is L-JDIS-6GWRJE
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Enterprise Edition will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Enterprise Edition media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Enterprise Edition Product CDs
- Soft copy product documentation, with README files, — Included on the product CDs
- The LI form number, L-JDIS-6GWT3H, for Workplace for Business Strategy Execution Enterprise Edition
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function
title Product group Product category
IBM Workplace IBM Workplace WkPlc Business
Business Strategy Strategy Execution
Execution Enterprise
Edition
IBM Workplace IBM Workplace WkPlc Business
Business Strategy Strategy Execution
Execution Team
Edition
Charge unit
Program name PID number description
IBM Workplace 5724-N26 Processors
Business Strategy
Execution Enterprise
Edition
IBM Workplace 5724-N27 20 Users
Business Strategy
Execution Team
Edition
Charge metrics definitions
Processor
In Full Capacity charging — Proof of entitlements (PoEs) must be acquired for all activated "processors" (available for use) that are on the server where the Program or a component of the program is run.
- If there are program components included in the offering whose function is not to be included in the charge metric, these must be listed in the program-unique terms of the License Information.
- IBM defines a physical processor in a computer as a functional unit that interprets and executes instructions. A physical processor consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more arithmetic and logic units.
- Multicore technology allows two or more processors (commonly called "cores") to be active on a single silicon chip. Unless otherwise announced, with multicore technology, IBM considers each "core" to be a physical processor. For example, in a dual-core chip, there are two physical processors residing on the single silicon chip.
- In the zSeries® Integrated Facility for Linux™ (IFL) environment, each IFL engine is considered a single "physical processor."
- Threading, a technique which makes a single processor seem to perform as two or more, does not affect the count of physical processors.
- Where "blade" technology is employed, each "blade" is considered a separate server and charging is based upon the total number of processors on the blade on which the program is run.
20 users
Registered User: A Registered User also known as a named user (user) is an individual, machine, program, or device with a specific identity (ID) within or outside your enterprise which is recorded in a registry (table, directory, and so on.
A Proof of Entitlement (PoE) is required for each 20 users accessing the program or any program component either directly or indirectly through any means on behalf of the users. An example of "indirect" access would be through a multiplexing program, device, or application server.
The program can be accessed by multiple users provided that a user authorization has been obtained for each 20 users.
- Access to the program is restricted to users recorded in the registry.
- Users have a unique specific identity and IDs cannot be shared.
- When multiple, unique registries exist, the registries will be additive for charging purposes even if a specific ID exists in both registries.
- An ID can establish one or more connections and count as a single User.
Passport Advantage program licenses
Part
Description number
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution (WBSE)
Enterprise Edition
WBSE Enterprise Edition Proc D56U6LL
Processor(s) License & SW
Maintenance 12 Mont
WBSE Enterprise Edition Proc E02BWLL
Processor(s) SW Maintenance
Annual Renewal
WBSE Enterprise Edition Proc D56U7LL
Processor(s) SW Maintenance
Reinstatement 12
Workplace for Business Strategy Execution
Team Edition
WBSE Team Edition User 20 Users D56U8LL
License & SW Maintenance 12 Months
WBSE Team Edition User 20 Users E02BXLL
SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
WBSE Team Edition User 20 Users D56U9LL
SW Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Description number
WBSE Enterprise Edition Proc
V1.0.0
Media Pack English International BU01JIE
Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003
CD ROM Digital Disk -- ISO
9660 Standard V1.0.0
WBSE Team Edition User V1.0.0
Media Pack English International BU01KIE
Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003
CD ROM Digital Disk -- ISO
9660 Standard V1.0.0
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
WBSE Team Edition User V1.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs Part
offerings description description number
Workplace for WBSE Team Edition BU01KIE
Business Strategy User English
Execution Team International Windows
Edition User 2000, Windows Server
2003 CD ROM Digital
Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
WBSE Enterprise Edition Proc V1.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs Part
offerings description description number
Workplc Business WBSE Enterprise BU01JIE
Strategy Execution Edition Proc English
Enterprise Ed International Windows
Processor 2000, Windows Server
2003 CD ROM Digital
Disk — ISO 9660
Standard
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Licensing: IBM International Program License Agreement. PoE are required for all authorized use.
Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only and do not include Software Maintenance.
This software license includes Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support.
License information form numbers
Program
Program name number Form number
Workplace for 5724-N26 L-JDIS-6GWT3H
Business Strategy
Execution EE
Workplace for 5724-N27 L-JDIS-6GWRJE
Business Strategy
Execution TE
On or near the planned availability date, the License Information will be available for review on the IBM Software License Agreement Web site
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Copy and use on home/portable computer: No
Volume orders (IVO): No
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Software maintenance applies: Yes
Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support, is included in the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations.
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While your Software Maintenance is in effect, IBM provides you assistance for your routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to) questions; and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via telephone and, if available, electronic access, only to your information systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift hours) of your IBM support center. (This assistance is not available to your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, every day of the year. For additional details, consult your IBM Software Support Guide at
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iSeries™ Software Maintenance applies:
No
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IBM Electronic Services news page provides you with a single Internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry points traditionally used by customers to access IBM Internet services and support. The news page enables you to gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems.
The IBM Electronic Service Agent is no-additional charge software that resides on your IBM eServer system. It is designed to proactively monitor events and transmit system inventory information to IBM on a periodic, customer-defined timetable. The IBM Electronic Service Agent tracks system inventory, hardware error logs, and performance information. If the server is under a current IBM maintenance service agreement or within the IBM warranty period, the Service Agent automatically reports hardware problems to IBM.
Early knowledge about potential problems enables IBM to provide proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance. In addition, information collected through the Service Agent will be made available to IBM service support representatives when they are helping answer your questions or diagnosing problems.
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