News Home page Caribbean en-bm © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2010. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/bm/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com Andrew Linton/Markham/IBM Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/bm/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/bm/en/ ARMONK, NY - 02 Mar 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the findings of a major new study of over 1,900 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and senior finance executives from 81 countries and 35 industries worldwide, which reveals that more than 60 percent of CFOs plan major changes to respond to the new economic climate. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29566.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29566.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 02 Mar 2010: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today introduced the first systems that shatter technical barriers to offer dramatically more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform. The company’s new eX5 servers are the result of a three-year engineering effort to improve the economics of operating enterprise-sized, x86-based systems. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29570.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29570.wss ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced major enhancements to its performance management software designed to help CFOs and finance managers accelerate the adoption of business analytics and drive smarter decisions for better business outcomes. The new analytic finance solutions can reduce customer planning cycles in half and reduce reporting cycles from days to minutes. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29373.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29373.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 08 Feb 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new POWER7™ systems designed to manage the most demanding emerging applications, ranging from smart electrical grids to real-time analytics for financial markets. The new systems incorporate a number of industry-unique technologies for the specialized demands of new applications and services that rely on processing an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data while analyzing that information in real time. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29315.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29315.wss ORLANDO, FL - 20 Jan 2010: At the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today previewed new enhancements with IBM social collaboration software, IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM Lotus Connections, that will help organizations improve efficiency and increase collaboration. With new partner integrations demonstrated at Lotusphere, IBM is delivering on its vision to expand the number of users that can access IBM social software at anytime and from anywhere. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29233.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29233.wss ORLANDO, FL & LOTUSPHERE - 18 Jan 2010: IBM ( IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of rich, new social networking applications for BlackBerry smartphones. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29208.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29208.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 24 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) is being recognized as the No. 1 Global Company for Leaders, in a study released this month by Fortune magazine and to be featured in its December issue. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28897.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28897.wss ARMONK, N.Y. - 23 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously translate electronic documents and Web pages -- even live, instant messages exchanged on smartphones. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28887.wss http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28887.wss