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Turn information into insight

George Parapadakis

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.


Manage risk and security

Calvin Powers

Calvin Powers - Security Architect, IBM Tivoli

Calvin's experience can help you take a comprehensive approach to security, risk management and compliance.


Connect and collaborate

Jacques Pavlenyi

Jacques Pavlenyi - IBM Collaboration Solutions, Market Segment Manager

Worldwide market manager for IBM Collaboration Solutions, focusing on unified communications and social collaboration.


Enable business service

Grady Booch

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.


Drive enterprise operations

Doug McClure

Doug McClure - Enterprise Architect, IBM Tivoli

Doug is an expert in business service management. Contact Doug to gain greater insight into your services, processes and transactions.


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Pierre Milcent

Pierre Milcent - Executive Consultant Social Business

Executive Consultant in IBM Collaboration Solutions focused on promoting social business usage in enterprises.


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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

 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Insurance

    Increase your sales and profits with smarter insurance solutions for core insurance transformation, customer care and insight, distribution and integrated risk management.

  • Retail

    Implement a strategic software platform with quick pay-back projects for the customer-focused retail enterprise.

  • Telecommunications

    Create a smarter communications infrastructure, enable new business models, differentiate the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies with a strategic software platform.

Industrial strength

Industries bring the challenges and opportunities of a smarter planet to life. Energy, automotive, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, banking and others thrive on the competition and innovation that is helping to build a better world. IBM leads the industry in helping clients implement business solutions that deliver quantifiable business results and support their strategic roadmap to achieve increased innovation, agility and competitive advantage.

 

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

 

  • Enterprise Architecture

    Align IT investments with business priorities. Translate strategy into change..

  • IT Cost Management

    Explore cost-effective ways to deliver on key stakeholders' current and future needs.

  • Information Governance

    Adopt a supply chain approach to sustain growth, reduce risk, and anticipate trends

  • Security

    Enable innovation, protect your enterprise and meet compliance demands

  • Workforce Productivity

    Improve efficiency, find answers, make decisions and complete tasks.

 


Jacques Pavlenyi

IBM Collaboration Solutions, Market Segment Manager

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Since joining IBM in 1998, Jacques Pavlenyi has launched web-based data services to the chemical industry, marketed WebSphere products to SMBs, supported the telecom and M&E industries, and is currently market manager for IBM collaboration solutions. He is passionate about the intersection of IT, marketing, and social media.


Jacques' blog - The SametimeBlog

Get a direct line into the IBM Lotus Sametime Product team! Join our bloggers as we discuss the unified communications marketplace and technology trends, where Sametime is going, and what's new with our partners, clients and more.*


Jacques also recommends - The Collaboration Soapbox

This community is about furthering adoption of social software. Our members share their insight, experiences, and best practices encouraging the use of Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Sametime.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Pierre Milcent

Executive Consultant Social Business

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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.*


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

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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.


Calvin's Blog: Visible IT

Improving transparency and control in IT.*


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.

Doug McClure

Enterprise Architect, IBM Tivoli

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Doug is a Solutions Architect in Tivoli software development where he leads the architecture, design and implementation of large Business Service Management deployments for IBM worldwide. He is an industry recognized thought leader and subject matter expert in the area of BSM and publishes a widely followed blog on the subject.


Doug's Blog - BSM & ITSM

Doug shares his thoughts, ideas and commentary about Business Service Management and Information Technology Service Management and offers insight on how businesses can map their way towards getting to the next level in their quest for continuous improvement. He also comments on industry activity and assorted success stories.*


Other ways to connect with Doug

Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/dmcclure


Doug also recommends the following communities:


*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

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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.


George's blog

George's opinions, thoughts, news and trivia around Information Management*


Other ways to connect with George:


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

Grady Booch

IBM Fellow, Research Scientist

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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.


Grady's Blog - Handbook of Software Architecture

Grady blogs about software architecture and more.*


Rational's Executive Blog - The Invisible Thread

Igniting your passion for innovation with Rational Software


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.