New technologies and customer demands are transforming the delivery of IT services. Over the next few years, more and more transactions will take place on mobile devices. The adoption of cloud computing will expand rapidly. Composite applications that integrate services across domains will have the most impact on the business.

These changes will dramatically affect the characteristics of traditional IT workloads and the teams that develop and maintain them. Your IT infrastructure will need to manage larger spikes in demand, support software development for multiple platforms, and securely integrate transactions from the phone to the cloud.

To ease this transition, IBM software accelerates the development of multiplatform applications, and deployment in the cloud with elastic scaling. It uses a service-oriented approach that helps you optimize information delivery for mobile, web and cloud.

IBM Rational® Developer Family V8 helps to streamline the development and delivery of applications across multiple platforms, languages and technologies. Use of collaborative multiplatform development improves existing skills while attracting new skills and can increase developer productivity up to 40%, reducing development and administration costs. Developers without mainframe skills can build multiplatform applications in a matter of days.

IBM WebSphere® MQ V7.1 software provides unmatched integration with guaranteed delivery of messages and files, regardless of platform, language or device. WebSphere MQ now has a more flexible security model, extended publish-and-subscribe capabilities and a simplified process of implementing new versions.

To make it easy for you to quickly dispense new application images into the cloud, IBM provides a secure appliance with intelligent management capabilities. IBM Workload Deployer V3.1 delivers preconfigured, integrated patterns within private clouds so you can easily deploy and dynamically manage middleware environments.

With IBM software, you can use your existing hardware and software more effectively, while you meet new demands with innovative solutions.