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IBM Software raises the bar on mobile
Some mobile users check their devices several times per hour. To keep up with this demand, IBM Software for System z connects, manages and secures applications to meet enterprise mobile requirements.
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Learn how to stay ahead of software trends. Listen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, Eric Ries, share technical and business insights at Innovate 2013, 2–6 June.
Thrive with cloud-based collaboration
The worldwide platform-as-a-service market is expected to surpass USD9 billion by 2015. See how IBM software and service solutions can help you improve application development and delivery to stay ahead of this trend.
Enable product innovation
Grady Booch - IBM Fellow, Research Scientist
Recognized internationally for software architecture, engineering, and collaborative development, Grady can help you innovate and improve your software delivery.
Turn information into insight
David Corrigan - Director, Product Marketing, InfoSphere
David is an expert in Information Governance and integration and governance technology.
Drive enterprise operations
Jay Henderson - Strategy Director, EMM
Jay is an expert in cross-channel marketing, digital and customer analytics and marketing technology.
Manage risk and security
Jack Danahy - Director for Advanced Security
Jack is an expert in application security, computer networks and data security, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. He is an active blogger and speaker.
Deepen engagements
Rod Martinez - Product Marketing Manager — Order Management
Rod Martinez is a product marketing manager with expertise in IBM Commerce solutions.
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.
Deepen engagements
Richard Douglass - Smarter Commerce Industry Lead, Distribution and Industrial Sectors
Richard’s expertise is in how manufacturers improve commerce and the supporting supply chains.
Connect and collaborate
Pierre Milcent - Executive Consultant Social Business
Executive Consultant in IBM Collaboration Solutions focused on promoting social business usage in enterprises.
Deepen engagements
Blair Reeves - Product Leader
Blair Reeves is a product leader in the IBM Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) organization where he focuses on digital analytics and marketing cloud software.
Deepen engagements
Chris Shaw - WW Industry Solutions Lead for Communications
Chris helps to set the global strategy for positioning IBM industry solutions for marketing, selling, fulfillment and B2B integration in the communications industry.
IBM Software communities
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IBM Software experts share their POV and discuss how they are solving tough problems. Add your voice to the conversation.
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LinkedIn - IBM Software group
Join our LinkedIn group to network with other software professionals. Make contacts and build relationships to help you drive greater value from your software.
Community - IBM Software community
The IBM Software community is the place to network with and learn from your peers and other IT professionals. Share ideas. Find answers. Get helpful hints, tips and techniques.
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Join us! Share your perspectives on software trends and business challenges. Post opinions and get involved!
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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
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Aerospace and Defense
Improve program excellence, worldwide collaboration and product line engineering while maintaining the level of quality and traceability that your industry demands.
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Automotive
Speed deployment of best practices to meet industry challenges in consumer demands, technology development, globalization, integration and collaboration.
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Banking
Reduce costs and effectively manage risk with banking-specific software, solution accelerators and best practices.
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Chemicals and Petroleum
Achieve real-time visibility and process collaboration to speed problem determination and optimize resources with an industry framework.
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Communications
Create a smarter communications infrastructure, enable new business models, differentiate the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies with a strategic software platform.
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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.
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Defense
Improve interoperability, resilience, flexibility and more with an SOA-based, network-centric operations framework.
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Electronics
Capture new market opportunities by developing flexible, visible and collaborative value chains while directly engaging users in your innovation process.
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Energy and Utilities
Drive business agility and intelligent network transformation with an industry framework that helps integrate and manage utility systems.
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Financial markets
Address front-, middle- and back-office processes and develop multiple solutions for critical needs with a core platform designed for financial markets.
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Government
Focus on improving citizen services, increasing transparency, enhancing public safety and achieving a sustainable environment with a unified software platform for government.
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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.
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Insurance
Increase your sales and profits with smarter insurance solutions for core insurance transformation, customer care and insight, distribution and integrated risk management.
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Media and Entertainment
Build smarter solutions and address a rapidly changing market using a powerful platform uniquely positioned for media and entertainment organizations.
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Mining
Enhance supply chain planning, optimize operations and improve production.
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Retail
Implement a strategic software platform with quick pay-back projects for the customer-focused retail enterprise.
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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.
Accelerate 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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Complex and embedded systems
A complete, collaborative approach across the engineering lifecycle helps you deliver differentiated, more competitive products.
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Enterprise modernization
Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.
Deepen engagement with customers, partners and employees
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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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Enterprise marketing management
Engage buyers in relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social and traditional channels.
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Procurement
IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management solutions help companies maximize savings, drive improved supplier performance and mitigate risk.
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Smarter City Operations
Leverage information. Anticipate problems. Improve resource management. Make city life more livable.
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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.
Deliver enterprise mobility
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Mobile development and connectivity
Develop HTML5, hybrid and native applications for mobile platforms. Connect to back-end systems and the cloud.
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Mobile management and security
Gain control, visibility and guarantee enforcement of an effective security posture for mobile initiatives.
Manage security, risk and compliance
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Security
Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.
Enable the agile business
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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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Connectivity, integration and SOA
Gain fast, flexible and reliable access to processes, applications and information and thrive in the interconnected world.
Optimize IT and business infrastructure
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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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Cloud and IT optimization
The cloud can help you balance cost, risk and the need for innovation to improve your IT agility.
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Enterprise endpoint management
Combine endpoint and security management to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints. From servers to smart phones.
Turn information into insights
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Big data
Transform the exploding volume, velocity and variety of data into opportunity with analytics, visualization and more.
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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 integration and governance
Achieve a single version of the truth, protect databases and enable regulatory compliance.
IBM Software Events
In this era of interconnected industries, businesses and consumers, a new kind of leadership is required to turn opportunity into business outcomes. Smarter businesses are capitalizing on information as a bountiful resource and using technology as the catalyst for unleashing innovation.
IBM Software hosts global conferences for customers, business partners, analysts and industry experts to enable sharing of best practices, exploring new technology solutions, and networking with business and technical decision-makers.
Join us at one or more of our premiere events.
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.
Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments. He has devoted his life's work to improving the art and the science of software development.
David is an expert in Information Governance and integration and governance technology. He leads the InfoSphere portfolio of software, which includes information integration, data quality, master data management, data lifecycle management, and privacy and security software.
Jay leads the product strategy team for IBM Enterprise Marketing Management. His team is responsible for market analysis, customer insight and product innovation functions. Jay joined IBM through its acquisition of Unica and has over 15 years of experience in cross-channel marketing and customer analytics with companies such as SPSS, NetGenesis, and ClearForest.
Jack Danahy is Director for Advanced Security, IBM Security Systems. Prior to joining IBM Jack was founder and CEO of Qiave Technologies and Ounce Labs. Jack is also a holder of patents in a variety of security technologies. He is a contributor to industry and national security groups in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, cyberthreats, critical infrastructure protection, and has contributed to legislation on cybersecurity in both the US House and Senate. Jack has led several industry working groups, served on the board of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Vendor Alliance, and is a distinguished fellow at the Ponemon Institute.
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.
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.
Richard focuses on smarter commerce for manufacturers, especially in the electronics industry. He identifies leading practices that manufacturers can use to improve customer insight - whether B2C or B2B customers, drive profitable growth and synchronize their supply chains to ensure reliable, optimal service.
Rod Martinez is a product marketing manager with expertise in IBM Commerce solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in sales support and product and industry marketing roles with several software organizations. Throughout his career, Rod has focused on customer relationship management, order management and customer support strategies.
An area expert in digital analytics and data-driven marketing, Blair is an evangelist for many IBM digital marketing optimization offerings. In this role, he is responsible for messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategy for IBM marketing cloud software. Blair also leads the social media strategy for IBM Enterprise Marketing Management and advises on the development and deployment of the IBM next-generation mobile marketing platforms.
Chris helps to set the global strategy for positioning IBM industry solutions for marketing, selling, fulfillment and business-to-business integration in the communications industry. He has developed and implemented ordering solutions with some of the largest CSPs and led enterprise software sales organizations focused on the communications industry. Chris is a regular speaker at IBM industry events around the world.
