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Business Gets Social 2012 road shows make social business real. Share experiences with your peers and get the tools, tips and strategy to help you succeed.
DB2 10 is here
IBM DB2® 10 and IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse 10 deliver new features to help improve performance, ease database administration, ease development and lower data management costs.
Oracle to DB2
Wes Simonds asks if you are solution blinkered. If not, maybe you should look at moving from Oracle Database to IBM DB2. It’s easier than you think. Smarter too.
Meet the experts
Connect and collaborate
Ed Brill - Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions
Ed is a recognized expert in collaboration solutions for the enterprise. He's a thought leader, popular blogger and speaker.
Enable product innovation
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.
Turn information into insight
Eric Naiburg - Program Director, Information Governance Solutions
Eric is co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals. He is an expert in information governance and leads InfoSphere Optim, InfoSphere Guardium and Information Governance solution marketing.
Drive enterprise operations
Elana Anderson - Director, Enterprise Marketing Management
Elana is an expert in interactive and relationship marketing, customer analytics and marketing technology.
Manage risk and security
Jack Danahy - Director for Advanced Security
Jack is an expert in application security, computer networks and data security, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. He is an active blogger and speaker.
Connect and collaborate
Pierre Milcent - Executive Consultant Social Business
Executive Consultant in IBM Collaboration Solutions focused on promoting social business usage in enterprises.
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.
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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
Aerospace and Defense
Improve program excellence, worldwide collaboration and product line engineering while maintaining the level of quality and traceability that your industry demands.
Automotive
Speed deployment of best practices to meet industry challenges in consumer demands, technology development, globalization, integration and collaboration.
Banking
Reduce costs and effectively manage risk with banking-specific software, solution accelerators and best practices.
Chemicals and Petroleum
Achieve real-time visibility and process collaboration to speed problem determination and optimize resources with an integrated information framework.
Communications
Create a smarter communications infrastructure, enable new business models, differentiate the customer experience and improve operational efficiencies with a strategic software platform.
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.
Electronics
Capture new market opportunities by developing flexible, visible and collaborative value chains while directly engaging users in your innovation process.
Energy and Utilities
Drive business agility and intelligent network transformation with an industry framework that helps integrate and manage utility systems.
Financial markets
Address front-, middle- and back-office processes and develop multiple solutions for critical needs with a core platform designed for financial markets.
Government
Focus on improving citizen services, increasing transparency, enhancing public safety and achieving a sustainable environment with a unified software platform for government.
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.
Insurance
Increase your sales and profits with smarter insurance solutions for core insurance transformation, customer care and insight, distribution and integrated risk management.
Media and Entertainment
Build smarter solutions and address a rapidly changing market using a powerful platform uniquely positioned for media and entertainment organizations.
Military
Improve interoperability, resilience, flexibility and more with an SOA-based, network-centric operations framework.
Retail
Implement a strategic software platform with quick pay-back projects for the customer-focused retail enterprise.
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 with advanced modeling and sensors to become more efficient and improve service. A city government repairs things before they break using an advanced infrastructure management solution that helps control costs and reduce risk. A hospital proactively prevents infections and other health issues by capturing and analyzing information in real time. A car manufacturer brings one of the world's first plug-in hybrid electric cars to market with global, collaborative design processes and advanced simulation. An audio equipment maker solves problems fast and improves the sound of concerts 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.
Connect and collaborate
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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.
Drive business integration and optimization
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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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Commerce
Commerce is more complex and customers are in control. Improve their experience in the age of the empowered customer.
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Connectivity and integration
Integrate processes, applications, people, information and systems to improve business agility.
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Enterprise marketing management
Engage buyers in relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social and traditional channels.
Enable 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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Business planning and alignment
Align your business with your planning and strategy. Transform strategy into prioritized execution, optimize performance and mitigate risk.
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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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Design, development and deployment
Turn innovative ideas into reality. Bring diverse, distributed teams together to deliver new products and services faster.
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Enterprise modernization
Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.
Manage security, risk and compliance
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Security
Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.
Optimize the impact of business infrastructures and services
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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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Data protection and storage management
Understand, classify, protect and retain data according to its purpose and value. Manage the storage infrastructure.
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Business service management
IT is part of your business. Gain visibility, control and automation to ensure service availability, reduce costs and improve performance.
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Cloud management
Automate and intelligently manage cloud and virtualized environments, and do it all securely.
Turn information into insights
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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 governance
Quality, protection and lifecycle management. Create a source of trusted information for better decisions and business outcomes.
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Information integration and federation
Gain a holistic view to understand how your information impacts processes and informs decisions.
Pierre Milcent
Executive Consultant Social Business
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.
Pierre Milcent's blog
The blog is related to all news informations about enterprise 2.0 and social_networking transformation in the organizations.*
Other ways to connect with Pierre
Pierre also recommends: The Collaboration Soapbox
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Eric Naiburg
Program Director, Information Governance Solutions
Eric is co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals. He is an expert in information governance and leads InfoSphere Optim, InfoSphere Guardium and Information Governance solution marketing. Previously Eric held several roles within the Rational Software group including program director and product manager for Rational Rose. He also spent several years with Logic Works Inc. as product manager for ERwin.
Eric Naiburg’s Blog
This blog reflects on the experiences that Eric has when working with customers and IBM experts around Information Governance.*
Eric also recommends: IBM Information Governance Council
The InfoGov Community was founded in 2010 as a global expansion of the IBM Data Governance Council. This community enables an international dialog among practitioners on topics including Data and Information Governance on Maturity Models, Assessments, and Best Practices. Members learn, share ideas and contribute to the evolution and understanding of one of the most important and challenging trends confronting the world: How we plan for and manage the accelerating impact of data for the benefit of individuals, corporations, countries and the worldwide economy.
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Ed Brill
Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions
Ed Brill is responsible for IBM Lotus end-user messaging and collaboration products, including Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes, Lotus Notes Traveler, Lotus Symphony, and Alloy by IBM and SAP. He has been a part of the Lotus Notes/Domino product team since 1998 and is a frequent speaker at IBM and industry events.
Ed's Blog - Collaboration, technology, travel, and more
Visit Ed Brill's personal weblog for regular insights into Lotus software, the messaging and collaboration marketplace, industry trends, and Ed's interests and travels. Ed's weblog, www.edbrill.com, is visited by thousands of IBM clients and partners daily.*
Other ways to connect with Ed:
Ed also recommends:
PlanetLotus A community website highlighting the latest blogs from hundreds of IBMers, customers, and business partners.
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Jack Danahy
Director for Advanced Security
Jack Danahy is Director for Advanced Security, IBM Security Systems. Prior to joining IBM Jack was founder and CEO of Qiave Technologies and Ounce Labs. Jack is also a holder of patents in a variety of security technologies. He is a contributor to industry and national security groups in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, cyberthreats, critical infrastructure protection, and has contributed to legislation on cybersecurity in both the US House and Senate. Jack has led several industry working groups, served on the board of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Vendor Alliance, and is a distinguished fellow at the Ponemon Institute.
Ways to connect with Jack
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Elana Anderson
Director, Enterprise Marketing Management
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.
NxtERA Marketing Blog
Elana Anderson’s musings, ideas, and — sometimes — random thoughts about data-driven marketing.*
Other ways to connect with Elana
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
George Parapadakis
ECM Business Value Advocate
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.
Other ways to connect with George:
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Grady Booch
IBM Fellow, Research Scientist
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.
Computing: The Human Experience, the story of the technology that changed humanity
A transmedia project engaging audiences of all ages in the story of the technology that has changed humanity.*
Other ways to connect with Grady
*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.