Hurwitz & Associates
"IBM is doing an excellent job presenting the 'umbrella' of IOD and all its components. One of those key components is IBM's business partners, and they are showing their amazing breadth and depth of capabilities."
Pund-IT
"IBM has created a means for its customers to successfully transform themselves in real time."
Merv Adrian, IT Market Strategy
"IBM's Information-Led Transformation continues the long-term agenda of redefining the nature of information delivery...very important."
Computerworld
Cognos is now one of four parts of its "Information On Demand" strategy, and IBM says revenue growth for the business in 2008 was a healthy 18%.
CFRA News Talk Radio
One of the rare but welcome bits of good news in the business world came from IBM which posted better than expected earnings for this latest quarter and perhaps more importantly a bullish forecast for the months ahead. It's been a year since IBM acquired business software darling Cognos and it seems the two companies have come together quite nicely as one.
Intelligent Enterprise
"We had a strong move, while our main competitor moved the other way," said Rob Ashe, apparently referring to Gartner's downgrade of SAP division, Business Objects.
NetworkWorld
"After a year, nothing has happened to remove Cognos' focus on me as a customer; if anything, it's stronger than before," said Paul Vallee, CIO of Papa Gino's Inc. "I am very, very happy."
Computerworld
"I was happy to see Cognos become a part of a huge organization like IBM," said Nihad Aytaman, director of business applications at Elie Tahari Ltd. The privately held company, which does about $500 million in sales a year, credits Cognos with helping to cut its shipping costs by 30% and boosting sales by 10%.
Database Trends and Applications
IBM's Information Management software saw revenue gains of 18 percent during the previous quarter, driven by client demand to manage huge volumes of data being generated across global enterprises.
Hurwitz & Associates
"IBM is doing an excellent job presenting the "umbrella" of IOD and all its components. One of those key components is IBM's business partners, and they are showing their amazing breadth and depth of capabilities."
Charles King, Pund-IT
"The healthcare projects at IBM Research's Advanced Technology Demos showed that IOD and the Information Agenda are not just marketing ploys, but provide the foundation for next-generation solutions that will improve and save people's lives."
Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc.
"...IBM's new Information Agenda qualifies as the fifth "entry point" for the company's broader Information on Demand initiative. Taken with the other four--managing data over its lifetime, optimizing content-based processes, delivering trusted information, and optimizing business performance and knowledge--the initiative is designed to help organizations fully transform themselves into Information Based Enterprises..."
The Clipper Group
"...Since 2006, IBM has amassed a stockpile of software capabilities to support Information on Demand. Now it has integrated those capabilities into an open, standards-based platform that supports a vast array of third-party and IBM products.... it now offers an Information Agenda implemented by tools for appraisal and triage of the existing situation and roadmap development assists. It uses metadata controls to make efforts cumulate, not just to more projects, but also into a more comprehensive information use strategy..."
Ovum Analysts
"…Any weaknesses IBM's Information Management may have are more than compensated by its extraordinary software, services, Research & Development and partnership strengths. The company will continue to face stiff competition from major players including Microsoft, EMC, Oracle and others. But at this stage of the game, IBM can fairly claim to hold the most powerful position in this high-growth marketplace, and it's difficult to see how any competitors will be able to knock it from its throne anytime soon..."
eWeek
This represents a maturation of IBM's Information On Demand strategy, focuses on getting enterprises to accelerate enterprise access to data and the governance of information as a strategic business asset. The initiative shows the maturity of IBM's Information On Demand Strategy.
Computerworld
When you ask (customers) about their ability to feed trusted information into these applications, you will begin to see them struggle...I like to call it enterprise cholesterol – it’s been built up to where the trusted information can’t flow," said Inman...Obviously the ‘I’ in the CIO’s title is information, but they’ve been consumed with data centre issues, we’re bringing the ‘I’ back.
Smart Money
Because Michelin deals with so many parties in its supply chain -- distributors, wholesalers, consumers, and suppliers -- gaining visibility across all those relationships on the whole can be a challenge,” said Todd Jefferson, enterprise architect for business intelligence at Michelin. “Michelin’s agenda includes objectives to establish an enterprise view of information, while enabling unified global analytics and establishing a more formalized data governance and quality strategy.
CIO
Since launching our cross-company Information on Demand initiative in 2006, IBM has gained thousands of new customers and generated strong revenue growth. This growth is fueled by their ability to provide industry-specific solutions, enabled by a combination of internally-developed technologies, partnerships and strategic acquisitions. The combination of IBM middleware, consulting expertise and technical integration skills puts IBM in the best position to lead in this high-growth space.
Noel Garry, Executive Manager, Irish Life
Now that we manage our customer information as an asset, the opportunities for innovation and optimization are endless. We can respond to the dynamics of our business twice as fast.
Wang Daonan, CIO of Taikang Life
Information On Demand, IOD, is IBM’s vision for the future development of information management. Under this strategic objective, IBM has formed real complete information management solution architecture, thanks to continuous technical innovation and M&A. The so-called IBM Information Agenda provides important, instructive road maps to help clients realize IOD. On the basis of IBM database technical platform, Taikang has deployed information management service applications such as information consolidation, business intelligence, and enterprise content management/process consolidation. Front end application, business process and logic, as well as the notion of separating key information access, which we recognize, conform to IOD’s Information As Service strategy. Therefore, Taikang Life is more than willing to choose IBM as a long-term partner.
Mr. Xie Yun, Director of Digital China Software Institute
This year is the 25th anniversary of DB2. We have noticed the information that IBM passed through many marketing activities. That is the information of "innovating Database technology and realizing IOD vision". While seeing the continuous development of DB2, IDS and other core database technologies, we also witness the fast development of IBM information management including master database management, business intelligence, performance management, content management, process management, etc. In fact, the cooperation between IBM Information Management and Digital China has been expanded from DB2 database to many areas and also received more and more positive feedback from customers. We are confident for the further cooperation between the two sides and thus providing better solutions and services to Chinese customers.