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Reduce costs while you boost performance

Smart moves in tough times, part 1



There are strategies for success in today’s challenging economic environment. According to a recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, businesses that are performing well employ three common strategies: focus on value, maximize opportunities and act quickly.

This first in a series of solution profiles from IBM identifies specific software solutions that can help you focus on value and better manage existing resources to reduce costs while improving performance. You’ll see what IBM has to offer as well as how other organizations are putting the solutions to work.

 

Information and data management

No paper weight

Too much paper can weigh down your organization and hurt your bottom line. Get more value from your information through electronic records and content management. Reduce costs by eliminating printing needs. Reduce risk (and further costs) through improved compliance and decreased exposure to litigation. Boost productivity by providing fast access to information.

Manage your data growth at the source

Overgrown databases can impair the performance of your software and systems. Solve the data growth problem at the source by better managing your enterprise application data. Archive historical transaction records, storing them securely and cost-effectively. Speed reporting and complete mission-critical business processes more efficiently.

Accelerate implementation of enterprise applications

Upgrading or deploying new applications across your business is critical. It can also be costly. Many times, implementing applications is inefficient because the data the applications need is scattered and untrustworthy. IBM InfoSphere™ Information Server profiles, cleanses and integrates information from heterogeneous sources across you business to boost the performance of your applications while lowering the costs of implementing and integrating them.

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Systems and servers

Consolidate your systems management software

You know you have too much complexity and cost when the software you use to manage your systems becomes as complex as the systems and software you’re managing. What if you could consolidate and centrally manage networks, operations and performance through a single “pane of glass?” IBM Tivoli® Netcool® solutions can help you do it. Reduce complexity and boost availability and performance. Reduce costs in terms of license, labor and integration.

Automate your data center to cut costs and focus on your business – not your data

In today’s data centers, many IT resources are spent correcting problems introduced by changes in the infrastructure, rather than delivering services to help organizations, innovate, compete and win. Automating data center operations with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager can help you optimize server utilization and lower equipment costs while you automate tasks to reduce labor costs and focus resources on business-driven goals.

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Application virtualization and service reuse

Increase service reuse and reduce redundancy

One of the big advantages of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the ability to reuse services across your enterprise, rather than duplicating applications for separate departments and functions. Doing so effectively requires managing services across their lifecycle. IBM WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository enables you to easily and quickly publish, find, enrich, manage and govern services and policies. Increase reuse while you reduce costs, and improve application maintenance productivity.

Lower sever utilization costs and improve application performance

IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise enables you to virtualize your applications across server resources to gain full utilization and maximize value from your application servers. Reduce energy and administrative costs. Consolidate up to 30 workloads and ensure resources are delivered to high priority applications.

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Collaboration and productivity

Lower license fees and TCO with open-source desktop productivity solutions

What if you could reduce office productivity software license fees, and at the same time, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve performance and flexibility. You can with IBM Lotus® Symphony and associated IBM software products. Voted the office productivity software of the year for 2008 by Datamation Magazine,1 Symphony provides word processing, presentation and spreadsheet capabilities. When combined with IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino® and the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution and other IBM collaboration software, you have an approach to productivity software almost custom-built for a challenging economic climate.

Unify your communications and collaboration to get more done for less.

IBM Lotus software for Unified Communications and Collaboration delivers enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing, point-to-point video, Internet telephony and much more. Integrating all of your collaboration and communications into a unified experience makes it easier for your teams to access each other and collaborate. More gets done faster and you can dramatically cut costs associated with disparate IT and telephony infrastructures.

Optimize processes with electronic forms

It’s more than electronic forms. It’s a way to accelerate process automation and really boost performance, while saving time and cutting operational costs. Reduce transaction times. Reduce costly errors. Extend process efficiencies to customers and across your supply chain.

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SOURCES:

  1. Datamation Announces 2008 Product of the Year Winners, James Maguire, February 12, 2009

NOTICE: This information is provided to you as an example of potential benefits which could be obtained through the use of IBM products. They are provided for illustrative purposes only. Actual results achieved are dependent on a variety of factors and may vary substantially from those described in these materials This information is provided with no representations or warranties of any kind either express or implied. IBM disclaims all warranties, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. IBM does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use, validity, accuracy or reliability of the example or the results of the use of the statements of cost savings. In no event shall IBM be liable for any damages, including those arising as a result of IBM's negligence, whether those damages are direct, consequential, incidental, or special, flowing from your use or inability to use the cost savings examples or information provided herewith or results of the information use even if IBM has advised of the possibility of such damages. The ultimate responsibility for achieving the calculated results remains with you.

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Smart moves in tough times

Part 2:
Improve the value and productivity of existing resources

Part 3:
Software to help you focus on customers and business relationships

Part 4:
Software to help you analyze customer needs and opportunities