Business Analytics: Data Trends Let Businesses Spot New Opportunities
See how smarter analytics and the insights derived from it, lets various industries and businesses spot new opportunities, and uncover hidden connections.
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Turn information into insight
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.
Drive enterprise operations
Elana Anderson - Director, Enterprise Marketing Management
Elana is an expert in interactive and relationship marketing, customer analytics and marketing technology.
Connect and collaborate
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 - 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 - Enterprise Architect, IBM Tivoli
Doug is an expert in business service management. Contact Doug to gain greater insight into your services, processes and transactions.
Connect and collaborate
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
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Aerospace and Defense
Improve program excellence, worldwide collaboration and product line engineering while maintaining the level of quality and traceability that your industry demands.
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Automotive
Speed deployment of best practices to meet industry challenges in consumer demands, technology development, globalization, integration and collaboration.
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Banking
Reduce costs and effectively manage risk with banking-specific software, solution accelerators and best practices.
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Chemicals and Petroleum
Achieve real-time visibility and process collaboration to speed problem determination and optimize resources with an industry framework.
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Communications
Create a smarter communications infrastructure, enable new business models, differentiate the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies with a strategic software platform.
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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.
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Electronics
Capture new market opportunities by developing flexible, visible and collaborative value chains while directly engaging users in your innovation process.
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Energy and Utilities
Drive business agility and intelligent network transformation with an industry framework that helps integrate and manage utility systems.
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Financial markets
Address front-, middle- and back-office processes and develop multiple solutions for critical needs with a core platform designed for financial markets.
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Government
Focus on improving citizen services, increasing transparency, enhancing public safety and achieving a sustainable environment with a unified software platform for government.
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Healthcare
Improve safety and quality of care, process efficiency and patient and member satisfaction with industry solutions for healthcare providers, health plans and life sciences organizations.
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Insurance
Increase your sales and profits with smarter insurance solutions for core insurance transformation, customer care and insight, distribution and integrated risk management.
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Media and Entertainment
Build smarter solutions and address a rapidly changing market using a powerful platform uniquely positioned for media and entertainment organizations.
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Military
Improve interoperability, resilience, flexibility and more with an SOA-based, network-centric operations framework.
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Mining
Enhance supply chain planning, optimize operations and improve production.
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Retail
Implement a strategic software platform with quick pay-back projects for the customer-focused retail enterprise.
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Travel and Transportation
Strengthen your brand, optimize the traveler experience and improve performance -- while reducing costs - with solutions that address marketing, operations and management.
Industrial strength
Industries bring the challenges and opportunities of a smarter planet to life. An electric utility outmaneuvers severe weather (US) with advanced modeling and sensors to become more efficient and improve service. A city government repairs things before they break (US) using an advanced infrastructure management solution that helps control costs and reduce risk. A hospital proactively prevents infections and other health issues (US) by capturing and analyzing information in real time. A car manufacturer brings one of the world's first plug-in hybrid electric cars (US) to market with global, collaborative design processes and advanced simulation. An audio equipment maker solves problems fast and improves the sound of concerts (US) by connecting customer support representatives, audio engineers and experts from around the world.
Bridge the gap between your goals and the capabilities needed to meet them. The IBM Software products and brands you may already know are included in these capabilities and solutions.
Accelerate product and service innovation
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Application lifecycle management
Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information to build better products and services and control costs.
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Complex and embedded systems
A complete, collaborative approach across the engineering lifecycle helps you deliver differentiated, more competitive products.
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Enterprise modernization
Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.
Deepen engagement with customers, partners and employees
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Commerce
Commerce is more complex and customers are in control. Improve their experience in the age of the empowered customer.
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Enterprise marketing management
Engage buyers in relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social and traditional channels.
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Smarter City Operations
Leverage information. Anticipate problems. Improve resource management. Make city life more livable.
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Social collaboration
Twenty-two percent of time online is spent on social networking. Integrate social capabilities into your business.
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Unified communications
Create a unified communication and collaboration environment that’s easy for IT to manage and users to use.
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Web experience
The face of your business is the web. Deliver an experience that helps you market, sell, operate and manage.
Deliver enterprise mobility
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Mobile development and connectivity
Develop HTML5, hybrid and native applications for mobile platforms. Connect to back-end systems and the cloud.
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Mobile management and security
Gain control, visibility and guarantee enforcement of an effective security posture for mobile initiatives.
Manage security, risk and compliance
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Security
Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.
Enable the agile business
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Application infrastructure
Deliver applications efficiently. Boost performance. Maximize security. Control costs.
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Business process management
Leverage processes to exceed expectations, anticipate change, control costs and become more agile.
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Connectivity, integration and SOA
Gain fast, flexible and reliable access to processes, applications and information and thrive in the interconnected world.
Optimize IT and business infrastructure
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Asset and facilities management
From truck fleets to power plants -- maximize the value of your assets and operate more efficiently.
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Cloud and IT optimization
The cloud can help you balance cost, risk and the need for innovation to improve your IT agility.
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Enterprise endpoint management
Combine endpoint and security management to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints. From servers to smart phones.
Turn information into insights
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Big data
Transform the exploding volume, velocity and variety of data into opportunity with analytics, visualization and more.
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Business analytics
Recognize trends and patterns that help you respond and anticipate events and changes to achieve breakthrough results.
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Data management
Lower the cost of data while improving insight to enable better business decisions.
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Data warehousing
Designed exclusively for advanced analytic processing to get answers fast and keep costs low.
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Enterprise content management
Unstructured information makes up 80 percent of the world’s information. Maximize its value and improve decisions.
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Information integration and governance
Achieve a single version of the truth, protect databases and enable regulatory compliance.
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. 
Elana Anderson, an expert data-driven marketing, is responsible for developing product strategies and guiding product development and go-to-market activities for IBM's Unica portfolio of products. Prior to her current role, Anderson was vice president of products at Unica Corporation, acquired by IBM in October 2010. Anderson joined to Unica with nearly 20 years of marketing and technology consulting experience. Before joining Unica, Anderson served as vice president and research director of the marketing practice at Forrester Research. A highly regarded marketing technology expert, Anderson directed Forrester’s marketing practice while focusing her own research agenda on customer marketing strategy, relationship marketing, interactive marketing, customer analytics, and marketing technology. Prior to joining Forrester, Anderson spent nearly 15 years in various roles exclusively focused on marketing strategy and technology. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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.