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Connect and collaborate

Ed Brill

Ed Brill - Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions

Ed is a recognized expert in collaboration solutions for the enterprise. He's a thought leader, popular blogger and speaker.


Drive enterprise operations

Elana Anderson

Elana Anderson - Director, Enterprise Marketing Management

Elana is an expert in interactive and relationship marketing, customer analytics and marketing technology.


Turn information into insight

Eric Naiburg

Eric Naiburg - Program Director, Information Governance Solutions

Eric is co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals. He is an expert in information governance and leads InfoSphere Optim, InfoSphere Guardium and Information Governance solution marketing.


Manage risk and security

Calvin Powers

Calvin Powers - Security Architect, IBM Tivoli

Calvin's experience can help you take a comprehensive approach to security, risk management and compliance.


Enable product innovation

Brian Bryson

Brian Bryson - Technology Evangelist, IBM Rational software

Brian is an expert in software quality management, development, and delivery and is an "insider" at IBM Innovate conference.


Connect and collaborate

Pierre Milcent

Pierre Milcent - Executive Consultant Social Business

Executive Consultant in IBM Collaboration Solutions focused on promoting social business usage in enterprises.


Turn information into insight

George Parapadakis

George Parapadakis - ECM Business Value Advocate

Over 15 years specializing in ECM and leading the ECM Strategic Innovation Council, George can help you turn content into strategic advantage.


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Smarter software is the muscle behind IBM solutions for industries. It’s powered by expertise gained from tens of thousands of client engagements, and it’s transforming the way industries – and the planet – work. Use the list of industry software solutions and locate yours. Then discover software that’s ready to work the way you do.

IBM Software industry solutions

 

  • Aerospace and Defense

    Improve program excellence, worldwide collaboration and product line engineering while maintaining the level of quality and traceability that your industry demands.

  • Automotive

    Speed deployment of best practices to meet industry challenges in consumer demands, technology development, globalization, integration and collaboration.

  • Banking

    Reduce costs and effectively manage risk with banking-specific software, solution accelerators and best practices.

  • Chemicals and Petroleum

    Achieve real-time visibility and process collaboration to speed problem determination and optimize resources with an integrated information framework.

  • Communications

    Create a smarter communications infrastructure, enable new business models, differentiate the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies with a strategic software platform.

  • Consumer products

    Increase sales by building direct relationships with consumers and optimizing retailer collaboration. Capitalize on your data to build smarter supply chains and make better, more informed decisions.

  • Electronics

    Capture new market opportunities by developing flexible, visible and collaborative value chains while directly engaging users in your innovation process.

  • Energy and Utilities

    Drive business agility and intelligent network transformation with an industry framework that helps integrate and manage utility systems.

  • Financial markets

    Address front-, middle- and back-office processes and develop multiple solutions for critical needs with a core platform designed for financial markets.

  • Government

    Focus on improving citizen services, increasing transparency, enhancing public safety and achieving a sustainable environment with a unified software platform for government.

  • Healthcare

    Improve safety and quality of care, process efficiency and patient and member satisfaction with industry solutions for healthcare providers, health plans and life sciences organizations.

  • Insurance

    Increase your sales and profits with smarter insurance solutions for core insurance transformation, customer care and insight, distribution and integrated risk management.

  • Media and Entertainment

    Build smarter solutions and address a rapidly changing market using a powerful platform uniquely positioned for media and entertainment organizations.

  • Military

    Improve interoperability, resilience, flexibility and more with an SOA-based, network-centric operations framework.

  • Retail

    Implement a strategic software platform with quick pay-back projects for the customer-focused retail enterprise.

  • Travel and Transportation

    Strengthen your brand, optimize the traveler experience and improve performance -- while reducing costs - with solutions that address marketing, operations and management.

Industrial strength

Industries bring the challenges and opportunities of a smarter planet to life. An electric utility outmaneuvers severe weather with advanced modeling and sensors to become more efficient and improve service. A city government repairs things before they break using an advanced infrastructure management solution that helps control costs and reduce risk. A hospital proactively prevents infections and other health issues by capturing and analyzing information in real time. A car manufacturer brings one of the world's first plug-in hybrid electric cars to market with global, collaborative design processes and advanced simulation. An audio equipment maker solves problems fast and improves the sound of concerts by connecting customer support representatives, audio engineers and experts from around the world.

 

You are asked to undertake complex IT projects driven by your business priorities. Learn how other businesses are framing these core issues. Explore IT solutions that address them. Find the tools you need to make decisions. Help your team understand the challenges, so you can start solving them, together.

Solving your IT Issues

 

  • Business process management

    Improve effectiveness of the systems and services that connect customers, partners and suppliers.

  • Collaboration software

    Connect your people to information, experts and each other. Explore unified communications, Web 2.0, business social software, and group productivity solutions.

  • Compliance

    Best practices protect business assets; ensure business continuity, confidentiality, and security standards.

  • Content management

    Transform enterprise information into business value. Capture, manage, integrate and deliver all forms of content across the enterprise.

  • Data management

    Deliver data on demand to optimize business usage and governance across the enterprise.

  • Distribution management

    Promote speed and accuracy through demand-driven processes.

  • Enterprise application integration

    Link applications, services, databases and legacy systems.

  • Enterprise architecture

    Align IT investments with business priorities. Translate strategy into effective change.

  • Information governance

    Adopt a supply chain management approach to meet compliance, sustain growth, reduce risk and anticipate future trends.

  • IT cost management

    Assess the most cost-effective way to deliver on key stakeholders’ current and future needs.

  • Security

    Enable innovation, protect your enterprise and meet compliance demands with a holistic, business-driven security approach.

  • Virtualization

    Simplify your IT infrastructure, reduce costs, increase utilization, improve management.

  • Workforce productivity

    Drive business value with Web portals. Improve efficiency, find answers, make decisions and complete tasks.

 

Pierre Milcent

Executive Consultant Social Business

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Responsible for promoting social business and collaboration solutions in enterprises. He developed business value approach to demonstrate to customers how social business can provide innovation, knowledge sharing and better cooperation inside and outside the firewall. Pierre has been involved in many workstation projects since 20 years, from the desktop to portal technologies. He is present in many conferences and forums about social networking and its impact in organizations.


Pierre Milcent's blog

The blog is related to all news informations about enterprise 2.0 and social_networking transformation in the organizations.*


Pierre also recommends: The Collaboration Soapbox


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Calvin Powers

Security Architect, IBM Tivoli

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Calvin Powers is a technology project manager in the IBM security strategy team. His current focus is on applying IT security technologies to IBM's Smarter Planet initiative and on cybersecurity projects for the IBM Institute for Advanced Security. He's a member of IBM's risk management community and has a special interest in risk management methods applied to IT environments. Previously he worked on privacy management, public key infrastructure, and network security projects in IBM.


Calvin's Blog: Visible IT

Improving transparency and control in IT.*


Calvin also recommends:

IBM Security Community Online community to discuss IT security issues.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Eric Naiburg

Program Director, Information Governance Solutions

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Eric is co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals. He is an expert in information governance and leads InfoSphere Optim, InfoSphere Guardium and Information Governance solution marketing. Previously Eric held several roles within the Rational Software group including program director and product manager for Rational Rose. He also spent several years with Logic Works Inc. as product manager for ERwin.


Eric Naiburg’s Blog

This blog reflects on the experiences that Eric has when working with customers and IBM experts around Information Governance.*


Eric also recommends: IBM Information Governance Council

The InfoGov Community was founded in 2010 as a global expansion of the IBM Data Governance Council. This community enables an international dialog among practitioners on topics including Data and Information Governance on Maturity Models, Assessments, and Best Practices. Members learn, share ideas and contribute to the evolution and understanding of one of the most important and challenging trends confronting the world: How we plan for and manage the accelerating impact of data for the benefit of individuals, corporations, countries and the worldwide economy.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Brian Bryson

Technology Evangelist, IBM Rational software

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At IBM Rational, Brian Bryson is a member of the team that plans and delivers IBM Rational's software and systems solution portfolio. Prior to joining the IBM in 1995, Brian spent several years in Software Development and Delivery, where he studied and developed the best practices required to deliver software and systems on time and within budget. A Certified Management Accountant and former IT instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Brian has delivered IBM Rational's message of software and systems delivery to both students and 0rofessionals worldwide.


Rational Tester

A blog focused on software testing solutions from Rational Software.*


Other ways to connect with Brian


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Ed Brill

Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions

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Ed Brill is responsible for IBM Lotus end-user messaging and collaboration products, including Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes, Lotus Notes Traveler, Lotus Symphony, and Alloy by IBM and SAP. He has been a part of the Lotus Notes/Domino product team since 1998 and is a frequent speaker at IBM and industry events.


Ed's Blog - Collaboration, technology, travel, and more

Visit Ed Brill's personal weblog for regular insights into Lotus software, the messaging and collaboration marketplace, industry trends, and Ed's interests and travels. Ed's weblog, www.edbrill.com, is visited by thousands of IBM clients and partners daily.*


Ed also recommends:

PlanetLotus A community website highlighting the latest blogs from hundreds of IBMers, customers, and business partners.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Elana Anderson

Director, Enterprise Marketing Management

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Elana Anderson, an expert data-driven marketing, is responsible for developing product strategies and guiding product development and go-to-market activities for IBM's Unica portfolio of products. Prior to her current role, Anderson was vice president of products at Unica Corporation, acquired by IBM in October 2010. Anderson joined to Unica with nearly 20 years of marketing and technology consulting experience. Before joining Unica, Anderson served as vice president and research director of the marketing practice at Forrester Research. A highly regarded marketing technology expert, Anderson directed Forrester’s marketing practice while focusing her own research agenda on customer marketing strategy, relationship marketing, interactive marketing, customer analytics, and marketing technology. Prior to joining Forrester, Anderson spent nearly 15 years in various roles exclusively focused on marketing strategy and technology.


NxtERA Marketing Blog

Elana Anderson’s musings, ideas, and — sometimes — random thoughts about data-driven marketing.*


Other ways to connect with Elana


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

George Parapadakis

ECM Business Value Advocate

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George Parapadakis is an ECM Business Value Advocate in the ECM segment team in the UK and is founder and leader of the ECM Strategic Innovation Council in the UK. His role is focused on supporting IBM customers in maximising the value from their investment in ECM technologies, and in providing insight into new market trends such as Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media technologies. Previously, George has specialised in the use of ECM technologies to support Risk & Compliance solutions. George holds a BSc (Honours) in Computing Science and an MSc in Interactive Systems Design. He sits on the management committee of Intellect UK’s Document Management Group and is certified as “ECM Practitioner” as well as being awarded the title of “Master of Information Technologies (MIT)” by AIIM. He is a frequent speaker in conferences and regular writing contributor in various industry publications.


George's blog

George's opinions, thoughts, news and trivia around Information Management*


Other ways to connect with George:


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.