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Create, manage and protect social content. Better yet, drive competitive business value from it by integrating enterprise content management solutions with IBM social software.
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Meet the experts
Connect and collaborate
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 - Director, Enterprise Marketing Management
Elana is an expert in interactive and relationship marketing, customer analytics and marketing technology.
Turn information into insight
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 - 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 - 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 - Executive Consultant Social Business
Executive Consultant in IBM Collaboration Solutions focused on promoting social business usage in enterprises.
Turn information into insight
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.
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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
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.*
Other ways to connect with Pierre
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
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.
Other ways to connect with Calvin
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
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
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.
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
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.*
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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
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
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.
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*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.