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SPECIAL SOA - A l’occasion de son événement IMPACT, IBM annonce :

- Le 1er portefeuille de mashup pour le monde de l'entreprise
- De nouveaux investissements sur le marché des logiciels de Business Event
- Un nouveau framework SOA pour la banque
- La création d'un réseau social sur les SOA

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IBM Showcases Strategy, Software and Services at Industry's Largest Customer Conference Dedicated to Advancing the $160 Billion SOA Market

LAS VEGAS, NV - 07 Apr 2008: At IBM's (NYSE: IBM) IMPACT 2008 conference, the company today unveiled its present and future strategy, products and services designed to gain a larger share of the $160 billion* service oriented architecture (SOA) market while also reflecting on the milestones that have influenced the business and information technology (IT) community since the introduction of WebSphere ten years ago.

Kicking off the company's IMPACT 2008 annual customer and business partner conference, IBM has made further investments in a burgeoning software industry category, introduced new industry-specific services, and launched new software across the company's entire SOA portfolio. Now, with more than 6,550 customers and 5,000 Business Partners, IBM has doubled its SOA client and partner base in less than one year.

The IBM IMPACT 2008 event is host to more than 6,000 customers and business partners, including both business and IT leaders from all levels of the organization. This year's conference features more than 250 client testimonials including Aetna, Harley-Davidson, Osaka Gas, and SwissRe, making IMPACT 2008 the largest worldwide conference created to meet the growing demand for an educational forum around SOA.

It's hard to believe that this is only the second annual IMPACT conference because the sheer volume of customers has grown by nearly 50 percent in the past year while interest in SOA among companies of all sizes in all industries continues to rise at an increasingly rapid pace, said Robert LeBlanc, general manager, IBM Global Services and SOA. Working alongside clients all over the world, and helping them realize true business value through an SOA strategy, further validates IBM's commitment and investments in the service oriented architecture market.

SOA is a business strategy that helps a company reuse existing technology to more closely align with business goals resulting in greater efficiencies, cost savings, agility, and productivity. The first new offering, WebSphere Business Events, is built on technology acquired from AptSoft in January 2008. WebSphere Business Events helps business professionals directly identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships among events in real time and identify possible opportunities and threats by automatically initiating a trigger when a trend emerges among the millions of random and scheduled events that occur in companies every day.

WebSphere Business Events complements IBM's newly enhanced BPM Suite. Collectively, IBM now offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio designed to automatically track, analyze and respond to changing business conditions whether events are planned or unplanned.

IBM is also introducing WebSphere Virtual Enterprise software which allows companies of all sizes to lower operational and energy costs associated with enterprise applications and SOA environments, while increasing business flexibility and process integrity. These benefits are realized by allowing virtualization of the software infrastructure that supports the applications and services critical to today's business processes.

Additionally, IBM is expanding its industry frameworks portfolio with the introduction of the IBM Banking Framework for Customer Care and Insight. This new framework is designed to help banking industry clients better manage and use customer information in order to increase revenue and customer retention, reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and increase flexibility to support existing and new business strategies.

IBM has also enhanced its ability to help ensure the success of its SOA customers. The company offers a new Agility Benchmark Wizard and industry-specific offerings to support the human capital and financial management sectors through IBM Global Services.

To address SOA security, IBM is also introducing the first IBM security management software designed for SOA environments. IBM will begin recruiting customers for its beta program for the first release of IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager, which is new software that delivers standards-based security policy management, with WS-Policy & XACML, for SOA. Interested parties can contact their IBM sales representative or business partner for further details, or visit http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/SOAsecuritybeta to register.

In order to take advantage of all of these new products and services, and establish a successful SOA strategy, IBM is encouraging the development of interdisciplinary skills through peer-to-peer sharing and community building. To drive this, IBM today announced the SOA Social Network which brings together a community of thought leaders, IT and business professionals, professors, students, and solution providers interested in advancing SOA through both on-line and in person forums. IBM kicked off the global SOA Social Network at IMPACT 2008 with a 72 hour on-line jam providing participants the opportunity to discuss issues, challenges and ideas related to SOA

For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/press/impact2008

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IBM Expands Business Events Software Portfolio; Technology Uncovers Trends Among Millions of Business Transactions

LAS VEGAS, NV - 07 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new additions to its business events processing software portfolio, which allows business professionals to directly identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships among events in real time to make proactive business decisions. Additionally, IBM announced a new Business Process Management (BPM) suite.
The new flagship software product, IBM WebSphere Business Events, is built on technology acquired from AptSoft in January 2008 and is designed to establish connections between events and identify possible opportunities and threats by automatically initiating a trigger when trends emerge.
More than 10 million random and scheduled events occur in companies every day. With WebSphere Business Events, business users can sift through these millions of events flowing per second throughout their company to more immediately sense and respond to opportunities and risks. The new product is available through a free, limited-use trial download and a fully supported, commercially licensed version. In a future release, IBM will add linkage to WebSphere eXtreme Scale and technology from Solid Information Technology, which was acquired in December 2007.
Business events processing is becoming more important as it enables companies of all sizes and in all industries to proactively analyze and respond to minute market changes that can significantly impact their businesses,said Tom Rosamilia, general manager, IBM WebSphere. By expanding our BPM arsenal with the addition of WebSphere Business Events, IBM is helping clients identify critical business opportunities and mitigate risk.
For example, in the massive multi-player online gaming industry -- a market expected to reach $13.1 billion* by 2012 -- there are anywhere between 20,000-30,000 player movements per second with an inherent risk that perhaps one of the million game players in a single game are conducting phishing expeditions. The total dollar loss from online payment fraud is growing 20 percent per year with an estimated $3.6 billion lost in 2007. These industries are using business events software to uncover trends among the millions of transactions that occur each day that can compromise their business due to fraud, inventory management, and compromised customer service. When coupled with IBM's Tivoli IT event management capabilities, WebSphere Business Events customers can quickly correlate IT and business events to detect and isolate issues such as firewall outages.
ActiveCare Network (ACN), the nation's largest and first nationally integrated service network for administering chronic infusible and injectable medications, is using IBM business events processing software to accurately keep track of tens of thousands of patients and their treatments, new medicines and thousands of doctors and nurses working in 1,400 credentialed clinics throughout the country -- all in real time, saving time and money and improving healthcare for chronic conditions. IBM business events software provides ACN with automatic sense and respond processing that is critical to ensuring patients receive the right therapy from the right resource at the right time.
IBM is also announcing the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) Suite, an integrated set of role-based, SOA-enabled software that provides customers with the ability to design, execute, and optimize core business processes. The suite brings together capabilities from across IBM and includes a choice of two foundational 'Starter Sets' that make it easier for customers to get started with BPM. The Starter Sets are designed to address typical customer scenarios involving systems, applications, content, people, and decisions. Additional offerings expand the value of the suite and include advanced analytics, BPM repositories, and collaboration tools.
The IBM BPM Suite helps companies improve business processes across heterogeneous environments, which include high-volume transactions, extensive human interaction, and broad uses of content, data and information. The suite empowers business users to take advantage of BPM capabilities without additional reliance on IT staff. Further, IBM is continuing its partnership with the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) to build industry process models and best practices to accelerate projects and facilitate collaboration.
The BPM Starter Sets and WebSphere Business Events complement IBM's enhanced BPM software suite, making it the industry's most comprehensive portfolio that automatically tracks, analyzes and responds to changing business conditions -- whether events are planned or unplanned. The combination of BPM and event processing software enabled by SOA helps customers make quicker and smarter business decisions. Finally, IBM Global Technology Services is also introducing a new event management and monitoring offering.

For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/press/impact2008

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23821.wss

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Mashups Go Mainstream: IBM Launches Industry's First Mashup Portfolio for Business

IBM Makes Web 2.0 Accessible to Users at Every Technical Level

LAS VEGAS, NV - 08 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the industry's first complete mashup portfolio for business, empowering individuals to create situational applications, or mashups, and to help them do their jobs more effectively and meet the needs of the emerging real time enterprise. Innovative companies of every size are beginning to realize the value of service oriented architecture and possibilities of Web 2.0.

Today's Information Technology departments are under enormous pressure to allow business users to interact with information on demand, including text, audio, video and data from the Web -- but must often prioritize enterprise-wide issues ahead of the needs of individual departments and end users. This balancing act frequently leads to frustration and missed opportunities, and causes increasingly tech-savvy business users to embrace new, simpler technologies, in some cases bypassing central IT departments.

IBM understands the challenges of both sides, and has created a mashup portfolio to help all types of individual users and teams get the information they need. The portfolio is centered around two key products: IBM Mashup Center and WebSphere sMash. Together, these new products enable everyone from the non-technical business user to the IT Manager to develop dynamic applications to satisfy an immediate need.

IBM Mashup Center -- for the non-technical line of business user
IBM Mashup Center allows non-technical users -- anyone in a business -- to literally drag and drop mashup components from personal, enterprise and Web sources to easily create, deploy and share customized Web applications in minutes. In addition to the ease-of-use, the product also includes the management, security and governance capabilities that IT departments require. The IBM Mashup Center is planned to begin Beta on April 15, 2008.

An early Mashup Center customer is already using these capabilities to improve their sales force effectiveness. The company is combining core enterprise ERP and CRM data with a line of business application to show accounts by region, sales history, customer service incidents and projected sales pipeline by product line. Sales reps can then upload their own planned travel and spreadsheets of account forecasts into IBM Mashup Center which generates feeds to allow them to plan their most effective customer engagement strategy with better insight about the account including external Web-based information on the customer's business environment and even competitor activity.

Business users interact with IBM Mashup Center's browser-based tool to provide easy assembly of new mashups. The software includes a set of out-of-the-box, business-ready widgets, as well as a catalog for finding and sharing widgets and mashups. To create new widgets, IBM Mashup Center includes an easy-to-use development environment to access enterprise systems and the Web. Users can also take advantage of built-in Web 2.0 community features like ratings, tagging and commenting.

It also provides the environment for unlocking, transforming and mixing enterprise, departmental, Web and personal systems while enforcing enterprise-class security and governance. IBM Mashup Center stores information feeds from enterprise sources in RSS, ATOM or XML formats to maximize the types of information that can be unlocked and remixed. With the ability to merge, transform, filter, annotate or publish information in new formats, the software helps create a single view of disparate sets of information in minutes.

The new IBM Mashup Center Product is powered by intuitive user mashup capabilities from Lotus Mashups, and information access and transformation capabilities provided IBM InfoSphere MashupHub.

According to research firm Gartner, more than 30 percent of Global 2000 organizations will enter a new era of end-user computing via user-assembled, composite applications created with enterprise mashup environments by 2010. IBM is building on nearly three years of leadership in the mashup space, and working with clients, partners and industry organizations to help unlock the value of the Web.
"The power of the Web is now in each person's hands," said Kristof Kloeckner, Vice President, Strategy & Technology, IBM Software Group. "And businesses are made up of individuals who can be innovators and problem solvers on their own, without waiting for, and straining IT support."

IBM WebSphere sMash -- development environment for the technical developer
WebSphere sMash provides an agile development environment that supports today's hottest dynamic scripting languages, enables rapid aggregation of disparate services and feeds, and employs RESTful approaches to unleash critical information and services found within a company. This powerful combination allows companies to use technology to extend the reach of SOA, better align with business goals and uncover new opportunities to boost productivity or reach new markets. IBM WebSphere sMash can easily be used to create widgets for IBM Mashup Center.

For example, a U.S based retailer can use the WebSphere sMash to help accelerate the start-up of new stores opening overseas. The retailer has new local partners and employees that need a combined view of internal SOA services, such as pricing and inventory levels, and external services, such as currency exchange rates, and external carrier shipment verifications. This consolidated view of information helps the local partners and employees quickly uncover new business insights, more effectively communicate and provide consistent and accurate reporting of sales and inventory levels to headquarters at the end of each quarter.

A developer's version of WebSphere sMash will continue to be available from www.projectzero.org as a free download, while the commercial platform will be sold on a per license basis and will be available in the second quarter direct from IBM and its partners.

IBM's deep history in open standards, information integration and emerging Internet technologies, make the company an undeniably strong partner in a new technology era. To learn more about IBM's Web 2.0 initiatives, please visit: www.ibm.com/software/info/web20

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IBM Takes SOA to the Bank, Driving the Future of Financial Customer Service

LAS VEGAS, NV - 07 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new industry framework for financial services that will help banks better manage and use information to increase revenue and customer retention, reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and increase flexibility to support existing and new business strategies.

The IBM Banking Framework for Customer Care and Insight is powered by a service oriented architecture (SOA) that fully exploits the capabilities of Information On Demand to develop more efficient marketing, sales and compliance strategies while providing consumers with better, faster and more personalized service.

Many financial services organizations are focused on improving relationships with their customers in order to differentiate themselves and capture market share. The new IBM Banking Framework for Customer Care and Insight enables clients to do this by helping financial organizations gain deeper insight into the customer relationship. For example, it can help identify which customers are most open to buying additional services, provide knowledge for creating multi-channel, personalized marketing campaigns, or help deliver new products and services to market quickly and efficiently.

“The success of IBM's industry frameworks for retail and healthcare clearly illustrates the importance of industry specialization and its ability to deliver tangible and real business results to our clients, said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. By combining the agility of an SOA environment with a proven and integrated industry framework, IBM is able to provide our banking and financial services clients with a powerful offering that is unmatched in the industry.”

IBM's industry frameworks enable clients to improve time-to-value for critical projects by building on their existing infrastructures through standards-based, proven, industry-specific expertise. As a result of this integrated framework environment, banking clients will be able to drive innovation through best practices that are shared among an established ecosystem of SOA-validated IBM Business Partners.

The new banking framework joins previously announced frameworks for the retail and healthcare sectors, which IBM unveiled in 1Q 2008. These frameworks can have an immediate impact in helping clients improve customer efficiency and service. For example, clients who have deployed the retail framework have reported that they have cut inventory shrinkage by 20 percent, increased total inventory stock and reduced out-of-stock items by 25 percent.

The new IBM Banking Framework for Customer Care and Insight is based on IBM Business Partner and IBM Global Services expertise in the financial services industry and is built on IBM software from WebSphere, Information Management, Lotus, Rational and Tivoli.

IBM's leadership in the SOA market is further illustrated by a thriving community of greater than 120,000 architects and developers, more than 134 universities advancing the SOA curriculum, and more than 5,000 Business Partners building SOA skills, solutions, and practices. As part of its overall industry frameworks strategy, IBM is expanding this partner community with the development of a new Industry Solutions partner program. The program will allow partners to validate their applications on IBM's industry-specific frameworks and build industry solution components that target key industry needs.
For more information, visit www.ibm.com/press/impact2008

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23822.wss

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IBM Creates Global Social Network to Advance SOA

LAS VEGAS, NV - 07 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new social network focused on advancing service oriented architectures (SOA). IBM's SOA Social Network brings together a like-minded, global community of thought leaders, information technology (IT) and business professionals, university professors and students, and other interested parties through both online and in-person forums designed to help members build skills and share best practices.

As part of IMPACT 2008 -- the industry's largest SOA customer and business partner conference -- IBM is hosting a 72 hour online jam for the global SOA social network to discuss issues, challenges and ideas related to SOA. The SOA jam is being moderated by industry leaders, academics, analysts, IBM Business Partners and employees from around the world. These moderators include Dr. Bob Chu, research director at Kingdee, one of China's fastest growing enterprise software providers and Richard Welke, director of the Center for Process Innovation and Professor of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Anyone with an interest in SOA is encouraged to participate at http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/SOAJAM.

Currently, we have a thriving SOA community with more than 120,000 architects and developers, over 134 universities contributing to our SOA curriculum, and over 5,000 Business Partners building SOA skills, solutions, and practices to help our clients, said Sandy Carter, vice president, WebSphere and SOA strategy, channels and marketing, IBM. Building on our successful pilot program in China, IBM is expanding its SOA social network as a way to share best practices, accelerate SOA projects and bring together the business, IT and academic worlds across roles and industries.

IBM's SOA social network spans more than 120 countries, including rapidly developing markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the Middle East. Virtual interaction is made possible through IBM Lotus Connections technology as well as integration with top social networking communities including Facebook and Twitter.

As an academic and consultant, the SOA social network will help meet the needs of a growing community of IT and business professionals seeking additional, free resources to further navigate their SOA journeys, said Brian Blake, associate professor and chair, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University.

The IBM SOA social network is growing beyond a thriving population of developers and architects to include business analysts and line of business (LOB) executives. Specifically, these groups will be able to host virtual meetings in Second Life as well connect face-to-face with other members in the SOA social network through local chapter meetings that are being coordinated by IBM. The SOA social network also aligns members according to their role in the organization which results in powerful subgroups of developers, CIOs and architects, for example, across the world collaborating on the future of SOA.

Business analysts and LOB executives attending IMPACT will also notice an increased focus on industry-specific education sessions, workshops, and software and services offerings that address the specific business and IT challenges inherent in vertical industries.

To further support the members of the IBM SOA social network by building both business and technical skills, IMPACT attendees will be able to test in any of 189 certifications. Interestingly, IBM has recognized a 258 percent growth in its SOA certifications since IMPACT 2007. Additionally, IBM has enhanced its serious game, Innov8 with Web 2.0 capabilities to teach students and professionals core business and IT skills related to business process management (BPM) and business events, two hot growth areas that will be critical to the future of IT.

The IBM SOA social network is open to any customers, partners, academics and interested parties aiming to advance and share SOA knowledge and best practices. Membership is free and not restricted to the IBM community.
For more information about IBM IMPACT, visit:
www.ibm.com/press/impact2008

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