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Turn customer insight into action. Enable new processes that improve how you buy, market, sell, and service your products and services.
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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.
Bridge the gap between your goals and the capabilities needed to meet them. The IBM Software products and brands you may already know are included in these capabilities and solutions.
Connect and collaborate
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Social collaboration
Twenty-two percent of time online is spent on social networking. Integrate social capabilities into your business.
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Unified communications
Create a unified communication and collaboration environment that’s easy for IT to manage and users to use.
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Web experience
The face of your business is the web. Deliver an experience that helps you market, sell, operate and manage.
Drive business integration and optimization
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Application infrastructure
Deliver applications efficiently. Boost performance. Maximize security. Control costs.
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Business process management
Leverage processes to exceed expectations, anticipate change, control costs and become more agile.
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Commerce
Commerce is more complex and customers are in control. Improve their experience in the age of the empowered customer.
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Connectivity and integration
Integrate processes, applications, people, information and systems to improve business agility.
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Enterprise marketing management
Engage buyers in relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social and traditional channels.
Enable product and service innovation
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Application lifecycle management
Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information to build better products and services and control costs.
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Business planning and alignment
Align your business with your planning and strategy. Transform strategy into prioritized execution, optimize performance and mitigate risk.
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Complex and embedded systems
A complete, collaborative approach across the engineering lifecycle helps you deliver differentiated, more competitive products.
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Design, development and deployment
Turn innovative ideas into reality. Bring diverse, distributed teams together to deliver new products and services faster.
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Enterprise modernization
Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.
Manage security, risk and compliance
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Security
Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.
Optimize the impact of business infrastructures and services
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Asset and facilities management
From truck fleets to power plants -- maximize the value of your assets and operate more efficiently.
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Data protection and storage management
Understand, classify, protect and retain data according to its purpose and value. Manage the storage infrastructure.
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Business service management
IT is part of your business. Gain visibility, control and automation to ensure service availability, reduce costs and improve performance.
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Cloud management
Automate and intelligently manage cloud and virtualized environments, and do it all securely.
Turn information into insights
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Business analytics
Recognize trends and patterns that help you respond and anticipate events and changes to achieve breakthrough results.
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Data management
Lower the cost of data while improving insight to enable better business decisions.
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Data warehousing
Designed exclusively for advanced analytic processing to get answers fast and keep costs low.
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Enterprise content management
Unstructured information makes up 80 percent of the world’s information. Maximize its value and improve decisions.
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Information governance
Quality, protection and lifecycle management. Create a source of trusted information for better decisions and business outcomes.
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Information integration and federation
Gain a holistic view to understand how your information impacts processes and informs decisions.