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Analyst reports
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for use with SAP NetWeaver®
Learn why IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management software and solutions are best suited to drive maximum value from investments in the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2Q07
In its Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management Software, Gartner positioned IBM as a "Challenger" for its WebSphere Product Center 5.3.2 software. IBM believes WebSphere Product Center has helped position the company as a "Challenger" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and as a leader with its ability to execute.
Last updated: 21 Jun 2007
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Integration Hubs 2006
IBM Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Customer Data Integration Hubs.
Last updated: 06 Jul 2006
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management 2005
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management, 2005 provides insight into the evolving PIM market. Vendors are evaluated based on their ability to execute, as well as their vision for PIM.
Last updated: 07 Apr 2006
Books
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data provides insight into the portion of the packaged MDM solution that focuses on managing product data. It positions technology providers on the basis of their completeness of vision relative to the market and their ability to execute on that vision.
Last updated: 09 Sep 2009
Brochures
Jump Start Mid-Sized Warehousing and Departmental Reporting Implementations with IBM InfoSphere™ Balanced Warehouse™ C-Class Offerings
When it comes to business and technology, one size doesn’t fit all. Mid-sized businesses simply do not have massive IT teams and multi million dollar budgets. You need flexible, out-of-the-box technology solutions that are easy to implement and provide immediate value. IBM is listening!
Last updated: 01 Apr 2009
IBM and Amdocs: A joint solution for managing customer and product data
Amdocs embedded IBM's InfoSphere software platform into its Enterprise Customer Hub (ECH) and Enterprise Product Center (EPC) solutions. Learn how communications providers can manage data effectively to obtain a single view of the customer and product, differentiate themselves from competitors and drive profitable growth.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Financial Markets Industry Models General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for insurance.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server Overview
Learn about the business issues Master Data Management solves as well as the value that MDM generates for the business.
Last updated: 08 Feb 2008
Fighting Theft and Fraud in Financial Services With Innovation that Matters from IBM
IBM's innovative Threat and Fraud Intelligence solution for Banks and Financial Markets provides a global, integrated repository for threat and fraud that serves as a single source of information and deep analysis into your key identity assets.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2007
Data sheets
IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server, V2.5
IBM InfoSphere™ Traceability Server enables enterprises to capture, manage, and share track and trace information about products and assets for real-time analysis and decision making. It helps companies optimize their critical business and supply chain processes and thereby gain competitive advantage.
Last updated: 26 Sep 2009
IBM Industry Models Quick Start
The Industry Models Quick Start offering is a rapid, fast paced, mentoring program intended to get customers up and running, trained, and into a position to sustain themselves on a particular industry sector model as quickly as possible.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
IBM Industry Models Quick Start Offering
The Industry Models Quick Start offering is a rapid, fast paced, mentoring program intended to get customers up and running, trained, and into a position to sustain themselves on a particular industry sector model as quickly as possible.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Information Quality Assessment (IQA)
This is a deep dive offering into the complete Information quality lifecycle, surpassing just an analysis of data sources.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
InfoSphere Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau
The Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau (VS IAB) offering was designed to analyze, validate, and verify source system data before it is used in information management implementations, to ensure accuracy and mitigate the risks associated with poor-quality data.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
InfoSphere Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau Offering
The Virtual Services Information Assessment Bureau (VS IAB) offering was designed to analyze, validate, and verify source system data before it is used in information management implementations, to ensure accuracy and mitigate the risks associated with poor-quality data.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Implementation Service Desk (ISD)
ISD is a consulting hot line providing clients and partners with an alternative to full-time onsite resources.
Last updated: 30 Dec 2008
PIM for Commerce
The PIM for Commerce Services offering is a pre-defined deployment offering for customers looking to deploy a product information management solution which supports their Commerce solution.
Last updated: 30 Dec 2008
Rapid Deployment Package for Master Data Management Services Offering
This services offering combines pre-integration of InfoSphere software with a prescriptive implementation approach to significantly reduce the cost of MDM implementations as well as reducing overall risk.
Last updated: 30 Dec 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture and InfoSphere Replication Server solutions
This white paper explains the IBM model for achieving data governance success, including new IBM software and services solutions to help make governing data easier, and offers concrete actions you can take today to help increase revenue, cut costs and reduce the risks associated with managing information.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Product Information Management for Commerce: Leverage product data to gain competitive advantage
Gain insight into the product information management challenges and requirements for multi-channel initiatives, based on IBM experience with retailers.
Last updated: 14 Feb 2008
IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center: Controlling product data to minimize risk
This solution sheet highlights IBM's capabilities around track & trace, shipment notification and product authentication for the Pharmaceutical industry. IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Center standards-based EPCIS product offering is also highlighted.
Last updated: 18 Dec 2007
IBM Real-Time Candidate Intelligence: Help prevent threats at customs, ports and borders
Homeland security relies on identifying and stopping threats from entering national borders. The IBM risk management approach helps illuminate anomalies and identify otherwise imperceptible threats to facilitate efficient resource management and meet security needs.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2007
IBM Real-Time Collaborative Criminal Investigation and Analysis: Identify criminal and terrorist threats
The IBM Real-Time Collaborative Criminal Investigation and Analysis solution provides an end-to-end criminal intelligence platform that features technology for handling cases, risk management and privacy, sharing information securely, global name recognition, identity recognition and relationship resolution.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2007
Demos
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture Demo
This demo shows how to use DataMirror Transformation Server, acquired by IBM and renamed IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture, to create a project to replicate data between databases.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2008
Tracking Pharmaceuticals through the Supply Chain
This demonstration shows how RFID, or radio frequency identification technology, is used to track pharmaceuticals throughout their supply chain. It is done so that the history, or pedigree, of a pharmaceutical can be queried at any point in time in order to prevent counterfeiting and other supply chain irregularities.
Last updated: 18 Dec 2007
Information centers
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management, Version 6.0 information center
This information center includes product information for Version 6.0 of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management for Product Information Management.
Last updated: 08 Aug 2008
IBM WebSphere Product Center information center
This information center includes product information for IBM (R) WebSphere (R) Product Center version 5.3.2.
Last updated: 22 Nov 2006
Newsletters
Performance Perspectives Newsletter
Your source for news, trends and opinions on Information On Demand and the Information Agenda, bringing original, insightful content and exclusive interviews to decision-makers in IT, Finance and a wide spectrum of industries.
Last updated: 20 Jun 2009
Presentations
Data Governance Assessment Tool
This short self assessment will help provide a thorough evaluation of your organization's data governance capabilities.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Solution sheets
Customer care for the airline industry
IBM presents a customer care for aviation solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Customer care for the hospitality industry
IBM presents a customer care for hospitality solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
IBM Customer Care Solutions for Healthcare Payers
IBM Customer Care Solutions for Healthcare Payers help healthcare insurers transform their businesses by providing trusted information to people, processes and systems across the enterprise, in real time.
Last updated: 04 Apr 2008
Videos
NXP Slashes document creation time by 95 percent using IBM WebSphere Product Center
NXP’s information management initiative separates content from the publications themselves.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2008
Transform Customer Care in the Communications Market
This video describes IBM's Customer Care offerings which enable Telecommunications Service Providers to gain a competitive edge in today's converging communications market.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2008
White papers
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management Version 6.0
Designed to achieve and maintain a single version of truth across the enterprise and establish a single repository for products and services that can be used to address strategic business initiatives throughout an organization.
Last updated: 09 Feb 2009
IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server 2.0 – A performance profile
This paper describes the performance characteristics of IBM's InfoSphere Traceability Server V2.0. InfoSphere Traceability Server is an implementation of the EPCglobal Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS 1.0) specification.
Last updated: 18 Dec 2008
IBM Master Data Management strategy: Leveraging critical data to accomplish strategic business objectives
This white paper examines 2 key IBM solutions deliver on IBM Multiform MDM requirements across business needs.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Getting Started with Data Governance
Achieve data governance success and learn concrete actions you can take today to help increase revenue, cut costs and reduce the risks associated with managing information.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM NameWorks
Learn about the capabilities that IBM NameWorks provides to combine individual functions into a high-level interface. It is implemented above individual GNR components, combining related functions into meta-functions and providing a unified and consistent programming interface.
Last updated: 09 Sep 2008
Enabling right-time insight for performance management
Learn how IBM’s change data capture technology can be used in conjunction with IBM’s performance management solutions from Cognos to provide access to the trusted information that systems and employees need to make informed decisions at the speed of business.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization
Address customer demands for increased flexibility in handling data transformations as well as maximize their investment in parallel database systems.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
The Case For Data Profiling
Learn compelling reasons for why data profiling is a critical activity that should take place in the IT enterprise. Learn about reactive vs proactive data quality and the critical importance of Metadata as well as data profiling -why it's important and the steps it involves.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
GNR version 3 name scoring and phonology-based name matching
Learn the high level process behind the merger of two distinct technology streams in the development of Global Name Recognition's high performance name matching engine; matching algorithm differences between v2 and v3 of GNR; and the steps behind embedding of MetaMatch functionality into Global Name Scoring.
Last updated: 08 Aug 2008
IBM Global Name Recognition Version 3.1 Migrating MetaMatch phonetic capabilities to NameHunter
The purpose of this document is to indicate the migration of MetaMatch capabilities to IBM Global Name Scoring. In addition, partners and customes will continue to receive the best-in-class capabilities that MetaMatch has to offer – embedded in GNR's name matching engine.
Last updated: 08 Aug 2008
IBM Master Data Management strategy: Leveraging critical data to accomplish strategic business objectives
This white paper provides an overview of IBM's Master Data Management strategy including use case scenarios for its MDM products, InfoSphere MDM Server and InfoSphere MDM Server for PIM.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2008
Information as a Strategic Asset
The paper presents the case for Trusted Data to SAP centric enterprises. It outlines a trusted information strategy and characteristics of a trusted information platform to help customers leverage their data as a strategic asset.
Last updated: 31 Jul 2008
InfoSphere MDM Server v8 functional whitepaper
Leading organizations today are undertaking initiatives to break down information silos and gain control of their most important and commonly-shared enterprise information assets, or master data.
Last updated: 09 Feb 2008
Operational MDM: Getting Started
This 12 page white paper explores the relationship between operational MDM and customer data integration (CDI) and outlines how CDI can be a logical starting point for an operational MDM project.
Last updated: 06 Dec 2007
A GreenPaper: Customer Benefit Study: Using Process and Service Models to Help Transform Business Processes in Financial Services Organizations
Financial services organizations faced with increasing competitive pressures are looking for innovative approaches to leverage strategic assets. Hurwitz & Associates recommends that organizations select routes to business innovation by improving efficiencies based on identifying common processes.
Last updated: 13 Nov 2007
A proactive approach to Medicaid fraud, abuse and error detection IBM Fraud Intelligence Solutions
This white paper describes the challenges and trends facing Medicaid organizations. Learn how IBM Fraud Intelligence Solutions (FIS) offers a proactive approach to help reduce fraud, abuse and error.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2007
Is Soundex Good Enough for You? The Hidden Risks of Soundex-Based Name Searching
This whitepaper provides an excellent introduction into Soundex - what is it, what does it offer as well as its limitations in the area of name matching. Patented in 1918, Soundex-based technologies are prevalent in global applications that search for names.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2007
IBM Master Data Management: Effective data governance
This white paper describes how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data--specifically master data--and achieves maturity in key categories of the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model.
Last updated: 23 Jun 2007
Harness the Power of Master Data Management - IBM white paper
This executive white paper can be used to enable one's understanding of Master Data Management (MDM). Topics covered include: the need for Master Data Management, detailed description of MDM and SOA, building best practices for an MDM strategy, what to look for in an MDM solution and what IBM MDM solutions can offer.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2006
IBM Master Data Management strategy: Leveraging critical data to accomplish strategic business objectives
IBM Master Data Management strategy: Leveraging critical data to accomplish strategic business objectives
Last updated: 06 Apr 2000
