Information On Demand Business Catalog

Utilizing IBM's best-in-class software and consulting services, this approach is designed to help your business develop a customized implementation roadmap in a matter of weeks. What's more, our solutions can also help you reduce IT spending by leveraging existing investments.

The IBM Information Agenda Guide for Industrial Products Manufacturing can help direct businesses as they develop their own information agenda in amatter of weeks through IBM Information Agenda workshops.

The Information Agenda Guide for Banking can help direct organizations as they develop their own information agenda in a matter of weeks through IBM Information Agenda workshops.

The IBM Information Agenda Guide for Insurance can help direct businesses as they develop their own information agenda in a matter of weeks through IBM Information Agenda workshops.

This white paper defines the information agenda, describes key considerations and best practices in creating and implementing an information agenda and sets forth how IBM can help you to deliver trusted information enterprise wide.

You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant information no matter where it originated, no matter what its format, and no matter where it resides to help your organization innovate, compete, provide service and grow. You need to understand the value of your information and to recognize and act on the importance of information quality. This white paper explains how.

Businesses today need to deliver trusted information in context to people, processes and applications. They need to cost-effectively manage that critical information. Perhaps most importantly, they need to leverage information to maximize its business value throughout its lifecycle.

IBM Information On Demand helps you unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage. How? By freeing information from silos. By transforming it from conflicting and overlapping data points to accurate, integrated information you can trust.

This whitepaper offers insight on IBM's acquisition of DataMirror and how this acquisition strengthens IBM's Information On Demand initiatives. It provides an overview of how the integration of Change Data Capture technology extends IBM's industry-leading information integration platform - IBM Information Server.

According to analyst Tom Davenport, we have largely won the transaction war, and a new front is necessary in the war to manage information: using the accumulated information from transaction systems to optimize the management of the business.

A cliché long-embraced by the IT industry is that business information carries inherent value. But information is only as valuable as it is accessible, usable and manageable. That is the essence of Information On Demand - leveraging the value of business information for competitive advantage.

IBM can claim what is arguably the industry's broadest portfolio of unified information management (UIM) software, services and industry-specific solutions. All of these offerings fall under IBM's Information On Demand (IOD) initiative, which the vendor launched in early 2006. IOD is a cross-IBM effort, spearheaded by the Information Management division, and supported by both IBM-developed and IBM-acquired properties. Analyst: Ovum

Information resides in many different repositories including custom applications, e-mails, digital images and reports. You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant information no matter where it originated, its format, or where it resides to help your organization innovate, compete, provide service and grow. Analyst: Hurwitz & Associates

A special online event with live webcasts featuring the key trends and innovations that are shaping the next generation of Data Management products. Chat with industry experts and IBM innovators about the evolution of traditional Data Management practices in the age of SOA, Web 2.0 and the continuing data explosion into new smarter practices and paradigms for managing information.

Today organizations spend lots of time and money on systems and applications that support multiple business processes and transactions and in many cases these investments lead to cost savings, increased productivity, resource efficiencies and other advantages. An information agenda helps.

This eSeminar explores the key information requirements that your organization should address now and how you can leverage information to optimize business results.

Companies today are realizing that competitive advantage is harder to sustain when based solely on gains in productivity and cost efficiency. The focus is shifting to invest more in business optimization initiatives which rely on trusted information to develop new insights that deliver better business results. But how can this be done efficiently in a business environment across multiple applications and processes? The answer is an Information Agenda - an innovative approach to transforming business information into a strategic asset for competitive advantage.

Learn how IBM Optim provides proven data masking techniques can help you comply with PCI DSS requirements and protect privacy in non-production (development, testing and training) environments.

Learn how you can manage data growth, retire or consolidate redundant applications, protect data privacy and improve data management across your new enterprise.

If you've ever wanted to make your information work harder, this webcast will show you how to plan for the future by transforming data into business insight with dynamic warehousing – and one retailer who took the plunge will explain what the challenges and business benefits can be.

Information On Demand (IOD) is a comprehensive vision for unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage by enabling organizations to establish and leverage trusted information to optimize business performance.

Market disruptions, mergers and acquisitions, global competition, information spread across the enterprise - all are concerns and challenges that are very real today in banking. Banks realize they must address three key business imperatives.

Only IBM has the end-to-end capabilities to help you manage your data and content, pull together trusted information that cuts across diverse silos, and also gain valuable insights to optimize your business.

See how IBM can help you unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage. Whether you are planning an initiative that requires master data management (MDM), information integration, enterprise content management (ECM), data warehousing and business intelligence, an SAP information infrastructure, or data server innovations; or whether you're interested in learning more about the IBM Information On Demand portfolio, use the modules of this video as a launch-pad to get started.

Dr. Ambuj Goyal discusses how the Information Agenda accelerates your ability to share and deliver trusted information across all applications and processes. The information agenda integrates strategy, information governance and enterprise information infrastructure with a comprehensive implementation roadmap.

Retailers are grappling with evolving buying behavior, a more demanding consumer, issues of environmental impact, social responsibility, global supply chains, compliance and information security. These forces are driving companies to develop new business models. See how an information agenda can help.

Marc Andrews, director of Business Intelligence Strategy at IBM, and Bob Picciano, Vice Preisdent, Worldwide Information Management Sales, discuss Information On Demand's increased value to clients in light of the recent Cognos acquisition.