EDITOR'S NOTE: AN E-BUSINESS SOLUTION TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS

iT-AUSTRIA (featured in this issue's cover story) is the IT subsidiary for two major banks in Austria. Time Warner Cable provides cable television service to 12 million subscribers in the United States. Although one company helps ensure that your financial transactions go smoothly and the other helps you relax with a classic movie, these very different enterprises have something in common: both are using IBM security and networking solutions to extend the range of their businesses.

Both iT-AUSTRIA and Time Warner Cable came to IBM with special e-business requirements. iT-AUSTRIA needed a high-volume, high-availability system that would support aggressive growth. Time Warner Cable needed a wireless solution that would improve its technicians' on-time service record. Today, both companies are excelling with IBM solutions that have effectively met their requirements.

We've featured a variety of customer success stories in recent issues—in such diverse industries as manufacturing, transportation, Internet services, and government. In fact, IBM's security and networking solutions are being used throughout the insurance, utility, publishing, telecommunications, airline, health care, petroleum, law-enforcement, retail, and other industries.

We've catalogued several of these success stories for you at http://www.ibm.com/software/network/casestudies/. The enterprises you'll read about have found that IBM provides the right solutions for their e-business needs. Without a doubt, some of these enterprises have a great deal in common with yours.

Even though we've served thousands of customers in dozens of industries, we know that you don't want a solution that works for someone else. You want the solution that will help you seize the opportunities and meet the challenges that are unique to your business. That's why IBM offers a wide range of custom services to help you select and build the solution that’s exactly right for you. For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/network/services/.

No matter what kind of business you're in—no matter whether you compete globally or locally—IBM’s solutions are powerful and flexible enough to meet your particular e-business needs. Even if they are needs that no one else has.

To learn more about how IBM eNetwork Software can be a part of your e-business solution, I invite you to visit http://www.ibm.com/software/network/. If you have ideas or suggestions about SecureWay Connection, you can reach me at secure@us.ibm.com.

Larry Kunz
Editor, SecureWay Connection