Business challenges:
- Disparate, unconnected databases bottleneck to reveal crucial business information in relations to consumers, products, partners and retailers. It slows down responding to the changing market environment and hinders to create innovative offerings, ideas and products in time.
- Inefficient use of IT systems, software and electronic storage space result in IT overspending and under-utilization.
- Limited view of operational information inhibits to gain insight in cost structures and to find opportunities of well-thought cost reductions in the right area.
- Lack of single and up to date view into assets does not allow to reduce inventory, work orders, and time to respond and extend the life of an asset.
- Not integrated communications channels including IM, VoIP, video, and telephony keep telecommunications expenses high.
- Huge paper archives consume human resources and office space.
Cost reduction and efficiency are priorities for all kinds of business but companies and institutions still throw a great amount of money out of the window because of outdated operating processes and because many of them utilize their IT systems, data and applications far below the capabilities. According to IBM, the biggest money eaters are: not knowing crucial business data, not connecting isolated IT systems and applications, not using the capabilities of the existing IT infrastructure, and not automating repetitive manual processes.
Software
Gain real-time insight into all your cost structures
Your Challengers
- Limited view of operational information found in disparate data stores, with different analytics tools and interfaces
- Can see budgets, but unable to tie those back to KPI & business drivers
- Analysis and reports from business teams are not consolidated nor connected into a holistic view
Solution
IBM Cognos TM1 Financial Performance Management
- Plan, forecast and adjust enterprise resources. Manage profits & service levels
- Reduce labor costs and inventory levels
- Easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy (4-6 months)
- Compact data storage & fast performance
- Built-in data integration capabilities to access IT-managed systems of record
Cutting your data storage management cost
Your challenges
Spiraling costs of data storage and performance degradation due to:
- Rapid data growth
- Compliance requirements
- Historical data kept in production databases
Solution
IBM Optim
- Transparent archival of historical data
- Reduces production database size
- Ensures consistent SLA performance
- All major ERP, CRM, HMR apps
- All major databases
- Intuitive single-view administration
Eliminating your costs of handling and storing paper docs
Your challenges
Costs of manually handling and physically storing documents:
Solution
IBM FileNet
- Transforms paper processes into electronic documents management
- Automates compliance controls
- Advanced back-up and security reduce the risk of loss and disaster
- Provides enterprise class scalability
Squeezing your costs outs of your assets
Your challenges
Hidden costs due to lack of single and up to date view into your assets:
- Disparate systems used to track assets in different departments
- Overlapping terminology
- Proliferation of complex spreadsheets
Solution
IBM Enterprise Asset Management
Delivers comprehensive holistic view of all assets across your enterprise.
Allows you to reduce hidden costs
Getting more of your existing storage capacity
Your challenges:
Inefficient use of your existing storage capacity due to:
- Spare capacity held for each server
- Rapid growth in storage and servers
- Shortage of skilled administrators
Solution:
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Manages storage as one large pool reducing the total spare capacity
Spending less on keeping your IT apps in sync
Your challengers
High portion of IT budget spent on maintaining application connectivity:
- Each point-to-point connection is manually maintained on its own
- Dozens of apps need to connect
- Increasing complexity of integration
Solutions
WebSphere DataPower XI50
- Integration appliance, ESB standards-based
- Transforms disparate data formats
- Protects customer data with built-in security
- Up to 80% faster integration of new apps
- Up to 10x increase in connection speed
- Governance of connection security
Reducing your costs of handling process exceptions
Your challengers
Delayed response to business events causes waste and even missed sales:
- Manual and slow exception handling
- Ineffective inventory management
- Poor response time to prospects slows or even prevents sales
Solutions
WebSphere Business Events
- Automates the handling of business events
- Detects, decides, and dynamically reacts based on user-defined relationships b/w people, events, and information
- Business users define the events that require timely and proactive actions
- Works with existing apps and BPM tools
Spending less on keeping your IT apps secure
Your Challengers
Runaway costs of Web application security and compliance:
- On-going manual security tests
- High consulting fees
- Growing number of Web sites
- Breach notification expenses
Solution
IBM Rational AppScan
Automates Web application security and compliance assessment:
- Nearly eliminates manual testing
- Reduces risk of security breach
- Integrates security handling end-to-end, from design to deployment & operation
Cutting your product management costs
Your challengers
Unable to align project and product value to business initiatives due to:
- Vague portfolio decision criteria
- Lengthy time-to-market
- Poor cost/benefit diligence
Solution
IBM Telelogic Focal Point
Transparent view across entire portfolio:
- Identify customer value & product costs
- Visualize value to aid decision making
- Analyze multiple scenarios
- Balance the investments
Cutting your travel and phone expenses
Your challenges
- Reduce travel and telephony costs
- Increase employee productivity
- Provide superior services & support
- Connect employees, partners, and vendors in real-time
Solutions
IBM Lotus Sametime
- Integrates IM, meetings, VoIP, video, telephony in seamless user interface
- Allows you to find, reach, collaborate with anyone, in real-time, anywhere
- Integrates unified communication with business processes, desktop apps, packaged apps, portals and web apps
Reduce operational costs by automating forms handling
Your challenges
Handling forms manually keeps your on-going expenses high due to:
- Mailing, storage, processing costs
- Slow, error-prone approval chains
- Repeated, inaccurate data entry
- Semi-manual data reconciliation across multiple IT apps
Solutions
IBM Lotus Forms
- End-to-end electronic forms processing
- End-to-end auditable record
- Built in business rules eliminate errors
- Exceptional ease of use, via browser
- Industrial strength security
- Data integration with existing apps
