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Threats and opportunities. Get your global strategy going.
For businesses of all sizes, the reach of the Internet means that you can access more customers. It also means your competitors can access them, too. To grow your markets while fending off competitors, you need a globalization strategy and process. Read this online feature about expanding to global markets to understand the challenges and learn three key steps to success. It includes resources for those just beginning to build a global strategy and information for organizations already entering global markets. Learn how you can speak your customers' language and conduct business using local standards and practices. Plus, see how IBM has established a Globalization Architecture Imperative to help you go global.
Share data without breaking privacy rules. Business intelligence breakthrough.
When it comes to privacy and protecting identity information, you have to play by the rules. But IBM has introduced software to help you change the game. IBM DB2® Anonymous Resolution lets you compare different data while keeping personally identifiable information hidden. Collaborate with other organizations and compare customer lists and develop new leads. Cross-reference identity records and boost security. Determine the amount of customer overlap in a merger and improve customer relations. Get more from your information. Without breaking the rules.
Improve your information integration now with IBM Project Serrano-Hawk preview and beta programs.
The aim of IBM Project Serrano-Hawk is to simplify information integration and bring substantive improvements to business intelligence, enterprise applications, storage, and search and access capabilities so you can drive greater value from your information. It is the result of combining two of IBM's most important information integration development projects into a single effort. IBM is introducing two beta programs so that you can preview the software and explore its capabilities. Register for the programs and start taking advantage of the new capabilities now. IBM Project Serrano-Hawk release is planned for November.
The business of IT. IT and business converge to help you optimize performance.
From business performance management to IT portfolio management, business and IT are converging to improve IT value. Read four examples of how IT is innovating by borrowing ideas and approaches from business and how business is leveraging IT capabilities to achieve critical efficiency and productivity. In each case IT is included as a central driver of value and is enabling businesses to bridge critical gaps between development and operations as well as manage IT services more effectively in an overall business context. The result is a new way of managing and measuring IT and a transformation to On Demand Business.
Webcast—Merger and acquisition impact: hangover or makeover.
For many of today's Communication Service Providers (CSP), mergers and acquisitions fuel their growth. But they are not just merging companies; they are merging customers. Without a comprehensive view of customer information, mergers may negatively impact customer service and operational efficiency, and cause organizations to miss up-selling and cross-selling opportunities.
This Webcast is of value to organizations in any industry involved in mergers and acquisitions. It demonstrates how gaining a single customer view can help you make the most of mergers. Aaron Zornes, Chief Research Officer at the Customer Data Integration (CDI) Institute reviews highlights from a recent survey, "ROI Strategies for CSP Mergers and Acquisitions." DWL's Brian Rowatt discusses how IBM and DWL CDI solutions can improve the effectiveness of mergers and acquisitions in terms of service, operations and revenue opportunities. Attendees receive a complimentary white paper.
Find training fast. "Training Direct to You" US Summer catalog now available.
School might be out, but information on IBM training is definitely in session. The Training Direct to You catalog is the fast way to get details on the training you need. It's .pdf format let's you page though it like a regular print catalog, but the content is linked to the Web so you can get the details you want fast. Start clicking and learn more about new and updated courses, upcoming technical conferences, money-saving options and other exciting programs.
From vision to value. New white paper shows you how to leverage your information for improved performance.
Extending your information management strategy can bring a tremendous competitive advantage. But how do you integrate your data and unstructured content and tie it to your people and processes?
A new white paper from IBM, "Information Infrastructure: Delivering the advantage of information integration today," shows you. Learn how IBM WebSphere® Information Integrator software supports a comprehensive information infrastructure strategy.
Then, through federation, replication, enterprise search, event publishing and data integration capabilities, it helps you gain greater insight into your information to reduce costs while improving service and business performance.
Get quality. Get the software quality survival guide.
Managers and testers are continually challenged to improve software quality and performance. Now IBM brings you a software quality survival guide to help you improve the functionality, usability, reliability and scalability of the software you create. A white paper focused on the business value of software helps you define quality to make it more achievable. A report from Forrester Research rates the latest automated testing tools. Plus, Webcasts on load testing Web sites and bridging the data gap between development and operations teams round out the package to help you achieve better quality more productively.
Webcast—TransAlta uses portal to power business value.
In this Webcast, power generation and wholesale marketing company TransAlta shows you how to apply portal technology to deliver business value and leverage your technology investments from the boardroom to the plant floor. Take away lessons learned and gain valuable tips on how to put portals to work in your own organization to enable better decisions, optimize business processes and realize productivity gains. John McGrath, Program Director of Portals at TransAlta, shows how they achieved one view into TransAlta systems by exploiting various vendors' technologies for business value.
Executive Brief—Make ITIL best practices practical.
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has evolved into an important set of best practices. ITIL is focused on aligning IT and business, improving service quality and lowering the cost of IT. It's a key piece of the IT services management initiative to transform IT into business-focused management of IT services. This executive guide will help you leverage the knowledge and experience of ITIL in your IT service management efforts. The guide goes beyond outlining the components ITIL recommends for IT service management; it points to solutions to help you implement and integrate ITIL practices and make them actionable in an IT services management environment.
Webcast—Why WebSphere? Get the right solution for your application server needs.
Join Gary Barnet, Research Director with Ovum, as he explores the role of application servers in today's IT infrastructure. Gary examines the criteria Ovum uses to help clients select the right application server platform to meet their requirements.
His analysis is followed by IBM's presentation of WebSphere Application Server offerings. You will learn that in a world where offerings exist from open source to vendor provided solutions, WebSphere Application Server is a leading choice in terms of J2EE and Web services. And you will hear how WebSphere Network Deployment addresses the need for a robust, scalable, highly available, flexible and secure deployment of your Web applications.
Better. Faster. Smarter. Tool try-outs available for Rational software.
Software development is typically a race against the clock. But now you can get a head start. See how you can create higher quality software faster and smarter with IBM Rational® software. IBM is offering trial versions of its IBM Rational Software Modeler and IBM Rational Software Architect. Learn firsthand how these UML-based tools can help you document and communicate system views and unify all aspects of software design to boost development precision and productivity.
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