IBM dévoile de nouvelles solutions logicielles pour aider les entreprises à utiliser aux mieux l’information à la demande
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IBM Unveils Resources to Help Clients Accelerate Access to Information on Demand
ARMONK, NY - 30 May 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new industry workshops, expanded solution centers and business partner resources to help clients plan and execute enterprise-wide information on demand strategies that will allow them to use information to innovate, compete and grow their businesses.
The new offerings unveiled today are derived from a powerful combination of market leadership, technical know-how and industry expertise developed in hundreds of software, IT services and consulting engagements. They are designed to help clients address industry-specific business needs such as customer loyalty, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, cost efficiency and risk and compliance, and to accelerate their business optimization efforts.
"Organizations today face business challenges that require more effective use of information," said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, IBM Information Management. "To succeed, they must make information a strategic asset before they can begin optimizing their business for competitive advantage. IBM's approach to delivering Information on Demand helps organization unlock the business value of their information and brings value to organizations of all sizes."
The industry workshops are designed to enable organizations to jumpstart the development of a personalized "Information Agenda," a comprehensive, enterprise-wide plan that helps them achieve both short-term and long-term strategic changes. The goal is to transform the organization and unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage, enabling organizations to deliver trusted, accurate information to optimize business performance.
IBM is already working with retailers to establish an Information Agenda that will address their need for better integrated, dynamic merchandising and supply chains driven by consumer insights. Similarly, IBM also is helping telecommunications service providers create a strategic roadmap for the use of information to provide targeted services to clients while managing line of business convergence in a market that is going through numerous consolidations.
IBM today also announced the expansion of the IBM Solutions Centers in Barcelona, Spain; La Gaude, France; Rome, Italy and Bangalore, India to showcase industry-specific Information on Demand solutions that clients can use to address their growing information management challenges.
For example, the solution center in Barcelona has been extended to help banking and financial services organizations learn how to improve financial risk insight and deliver enhanced customer care through the use of Cognos, InfoSphere software and other Information on Demand offerings. The solutions center at La Gaude is now providing government and law enforcement agencies with the ability to see the value of IBM's proven Real-Time Crime Center solution, and helping telecommunications service providers get more insight into how they can enhance the customer experience, improve operational efficiency and address convergence and consolidation challenges. Industry solutions that use IBM's Information on Demand capabilities will also soon be accessible from the IBM Solution Center in Rome, Italy.
The new Information on Demand Technical Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India joins two other Centers recently opened in Germany and Japan. The Centers enable clients to work with local technical and industry experts to promote more successful IT projects, and deliver better access to information within their organizations.
Information on Demand Business Partners Accredited
With rising demand for information management projects for business intelligence, data warehousing, information integration, master data management and enterprise content management, organizations are increasingly relying upon IBM Business Partners to help them get more value out of their business information. Last fall, IBM responded to this need with the Information on Demand Specialty Program, which combined with the Information on Demand Community Program now consists of more than 2,200 partner members.
Several IBM Business Partners have recently qualified for the IBM Information on Demand Specialty Program designed to provide accreditation of partners across multiple IBM Information on Demand product offerings. Among these partners are Fourth Millenium Technologies, Highweb & Page Group, Novell, Triton Consulting, and xkoto.
In the areas of content and discovery, two partners -- McLaren Software and Thunderhead -- have qualified for the Information on Demand Specialty program. McLaren was recognized for its successful delivery of Enterprise Engineer, a suite of applications for managing engineering documentation and associated business processes on the IBM FileNet P8 content management platform, Thunderhead was certified for its XML-based solution for multi-channel document composition, which is integrated with the IBM suite of content management and business process management products. In addition, Alpine Consulting and independent software vendor Telesis Global Solutions have been recognized for their offerings around a variety of IBM Information Management products.
These and other new industry-specific capabilities to provide clients better insight from their data, improved decision-making and optimized business performance will be unveiled at the Information on Demand EMEA Conference, June 2-6, 2008, the Hague, Netherlands.
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IBM Extends Enterprise Content Management Software Portfolio With Business Content Services
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - 03 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled an integrated approach to managing enterprise content with software that helps customers control and derive value from all types of content created and shared by workgroups across an organization.
IBM's new Business Content Services strategy helps businesses of all sizes to address the explosive growth of content, including business documents created individually and collaboratively across diverse, and often global, workgroups. As part of the company's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software portfolio, this approach combines IBM's market-leading ECM capabilities with a variety of collaboration and social software options.
Organizations can select the convenience of a complete solution from IBM featuring the social software and collaboration capabilities of Lotus Quickr and also use IBM's ECM offerings to manage business content created in a variety of applications, such as IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, in a secure, scalable ECM platform.
"IBM's commitment to delivering market-leading ECM infrastructure solutions allows workers to create content in familiar desktop applications and document collaboration tools, while enabling organizations to more efficiently and cost-effectively meet their content management and compliance goals," said Lee Roberts, general manager, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "Our Business Content Services approach is focused on bridging the gap between the simple management of business documents and a comprehensive ECM infrastructure."
AMEC Paragon, the oil, gas and pipeline subsidiary of AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, relies on IBM ECM offerings to improve management of its project document lifecycle.
"Today, we populate Microsoft SharePoint with documents controlled and managed by our IBM ECM infrastructure, then use the SharePoint interface to collaborate on these engineering and design documents with other groups in AMEC, outside agencies and partners," said Marc-Henri J. Cerar, Project IT & Information Systems Manager, AMEC Paragon. "IBM's strategy for extending SharePoint will enable AMEC to address current business content management needs within our ECM infrastructure and allow us to meet upcoming challenges -- including integrated records and email management -- while streamlining business processes."
The flexibility of IBM's ECM strategy also represents a significant opportunity for IBM Business Partners. Ascendant Technology, a leading technology integrator, is ready to help their customers bring together key collaboration and social networking features within their larger enterprise content management strategy.
"The advanced Web 2.0 capabilities and easy-to-use interface of Lotus Quickr combined with IBM's world class ECM capabilities will offer businesses unmatched flexibility and features set," said Jim Deters president of Ascendant Technology. "We expect tremendous demand from our customers for this type of flexible ECM strategy."
IBM's Enterprise Content Management Offerings
IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr will enable customers to collaborate on business content, leveraging IBM ECM for business process optimization, auto-classification and regulatory compliance. The new services allow IBM customers to mix the Web-based collaboration and desktop integration of Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, and Windows Explorer with IBM ECM capabilities. The IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr are the subject of a Design Partner Program with customers and Business Partners and are available in beta release today.
Also introduced today are IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2, which allow a seamless flow of content between IBM ECM repositories and Microsoft SharePoint servers. Content can be automatically moved or copied from Microsoft SharePoint to IBM ECM repositories and business processes can be accessed from SharePoint using IBM Web Parts. The IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint version 2.2 will become generally available June 6.
To help customers develop a plan to effectively deploy these new offerings in conjunction with existing collaboration technologies and applications, and to educate customers on how to effectively advance ECM technologies throughout their organizations, IBM is offering design and consulting services. Led by knowledgeable and experienced architects, these services help customers expedite the implementation of ECM products across the enterprise, supporting ECM technologies in a way that helps ensure a cost-effective, flexible business solution.
For more information on IBM's Business Content Services, visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/business-content.html.
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IBM Enhances InfoSphere Software Portfolio to Extend Access to Trusted Information
Global Business Partners Expand Support for InfoSphere Software
Netherlands - 03 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced enhancements to its InfoSphere software portfolio, which is designed to make it easier for clients to combine and use information from across their businesses to quickly and easily improve performance and better compete in the global market.
Today’s announcement features new versions of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse, as well as expanded IBM Business Partner support, solutions and resources to help customers more easily use the software to reconcile and manage data, and ensure consistency around how information is defined and used across their organizations.The InfoSphere software and solutions unveiled today provide real-time access to trusted information, enabling companies to make better business decisions and achieve flexibility in the use of data throughout the enterprise.
InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for System z
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for System z will help IBM mainframe users better manage master data on customers, products, accounts, suppliers, citizens, employees, prospects, guests, agents, items, product bundles, parts, agreements and more. The product provides sophisticated functionality and security rules to create, view and edit data. It also features built-in intelligence and insight from the data that can be injected into business transactions for improved operations across sales, marketing and finance. Running natively on Linux on System z, Master Data Management Server provides an enterprise data hub using the power of the mainframe.
Additionally, InfoSphere Master Data Management Server 8.0 offers advanced deployment options that give customers the flexibility to use it for both entry-level master data management projects and high-volume SOA master data management systems in one platform that allows for incremental, non-disruptive growth.
InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse
The new IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse, C4000, accelerates delivery of business intelligence by incorporating Cognos 8 BI and InfoSphere Warehouse software. It also expands InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse C-class offerings to support warehouses up to 5TB of user data. InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse offerings provide pre-tested, scalable and fully integrated system components of IBM data warehouse software, server and storage technologies. The C-Class Balanced Warehouses offer small and medium-sized businesses a simple, complete solution for integrating and maintaining multiple data and information resources in a scalable and versatile data warehouse.
InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse features an updated interface to Cubing Services which provides a multidimensional view of data stored in a relational database. With Cubing Services, users can create, edit and deploy cube models over the relational warehouse schema. The new interface supports business queries generated from business intelligence tools or desktop software to the InfoSphere Warehouse allowing users to visualize and analyze data directly from the warehouse. By using the warehouse directly, users are always working with current data delivering more intelligence to more end-users, and in turn, enabling companies to make more insightful business decisions to stay ahead of the competition.
Cognos 8 Integrated with InfoSphere Software
IBM continues to build on its commitment to enable Cognos customers to reap the value of trusted information delivered by IBM InfoSphere software. In addition to providing business metadata and end-to-end data lineage from IBM Information Server to IBM Cognos 8 BI users, IBM is delivering best practices and integration between Information Server IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager to ensure that business intelligence and performance management data mart structures are populated with trusted information as one continuous process. Using IBM InfoSphere Changed Data Capture, IBM Cognos Now! clients can readily respond to business events and continuously monitor their businesses using data streamed from production systems without requiring any application changes.
Business Partner Support for InfoSphere Software Grows
To address increasing customer demand for advanced information management capabilities, IBM Business Partners such as Alpine Consulting, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Edifixio, Intelcom, Perficient, Platon, Prolifics, Satyam and Zystems are delivering new data integration and master data management solutions that take advantage of the capabilities of the IBM InfoSphere software portfolio.
IBM is helping global business partners accelerate their ability to create solutions based on InfoSphere software by introducing a new FlexLearning Program that provides self-paced education and enablement on IBM InfoSphere Software. The program allows partners to build new skills without reducing the availability of the practitioners being trained.
In addition, IBM Global Business Services has introduced new services for customers using IBM’s InfoSphere software, a unified software platform designed to help clients reconcile and manage data, and ensure consistency around how information is defined and used across their organization. New offerings include customer data management services that help banks combat money laundering and a data integration service for the IBM Banking Data Warehouse and industry models for banking.
IBM’s InfoSphere product family is a key element of the company’s broad portfolio of Information on Demand software offerings that are helping companies of all sizes and industries to optimize their businesses and ensure that their information is accurate, complete, in context and actionable. Upcoming releases of IBM Information Server and IBMWebSphereProduct Center will join the InfoSphere product family as IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management, respectively. With this approach, IBM is enabling global organizations to achieve competitive success by delivering industry-leading integration and product information management capabilities, allowing delivery of real-time information to the people, processes and applications that need it.
IBM InfoSphere software is available worldwide through IBM and IBM Business Partners.
For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere
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IBM Adds Extreme Speed to Data Management Software Portfolio
Netherlands - 03 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced availability of IBM solidDB, in-memory relational database software to deliver performance-critical data at extreme speeds -- up to 10 times faster than conventional database software.
Whereas conventional database technology stores data on computer hard disks, IBM solidDB keeps data in main memory at all times, making it an order of magnitude faster. solidDB can be deployed as a cache to IBM DB2 data server or Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), or as a standalone in-memory database to allow applications to quickly access performance-critical data using the familiar SQL programming language. The solidDB architecture can support tens of thousands of transactions per second with predictable response times measured in microseconds.
The introduction of IBM solidDB supports IBM’s global Information on Demand business strategy, which is allowing clients to rapidly use information to accelerate business growth by responding to changing demands in real-time, and enabling the rapid delivery of new business services at lower cost. IBM’s approach enables businesses to use technologies like solidDB to access, manage and deliver information more efficiently, as well as to capture and integrate information in real-time across their enterprises.
“Real-time information availability is becoming increasingly critical to our clients and solidDB answers the challenge with real-time performance and uninterrupted data access at a low cost,” Inhi Cho, vice president, IBM Data Management Marketing. “The addition of solidDB also allows IBM’s DB2 and IDS clients to deliver new services to their customers and gain real-time insight by maximizing their existing information management technology investments.”
solidDB’s extreme speed is a vital resource for clients in many industries, such as ticketing and reservation service providers, web retailers, telecommunications companies and capital market firms which require instant and reliable handling of dynamic business information. Data from DB2 or IDS can be cached in solidDB to support peak workloads experienced by such applications as web collaboration, on-line mobile phone charging and stock trading. This fast access to information can also provide web retailers with the ability to personalize their sites for targeted audiences and maximize up-selling and cross-selling opportunities.
“Iskratel has been using solidDB in-memory database as a core technology for its leading SI3000 Multi Service Control Node product line,” said Franc Dolenc, Director of Products and Solutions, Iskratel. “Having the ability to process 1 million busy-hour call attempts (BHCA) per CPU, and to also have Carrier Grade availability, was a major challenge for our NGN/IMS fully featured Call Server. The extreme performance and data resilience of solidDB has proven to be a solid foundation for our extreme requirements. We are excited to continue this collaboration with IBM and their highly focused team, in evolving the solidDB technology to meet our growing needs as we extend our offerings further into multi-media and Web solutions.”
IBM solidDB represents the first in-memory software technology to be integrated in the Information on Demand portfolio as part of the acquisition of Solid Information Technology.
IBM solidDB, solidDB Cache for IDS and solidDB Cache for DB2 will be available starting June 24.
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IBM Business Partners Introduce New Solutions Based on IBM InfoSphere Software
The Hague, Netherlands - 03 Jun 2008: IBM today announced new solutions and services based on IBM InfoSphere software are now available from IBM Business Partners. Driven by increasing demand from clients who want to use information as a strategic asset and ensure consistency around how information is defined and used across their business, IBM Business Partners such as Alpine Consulting, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Edifixio, Intelcom, Perficient, Platon, Prolifics, Satyam and Zystems are delivering new data integration and master data management offerings.
Built upon IBM InfoSphere Software, which is designed to help customers aggregate and manage data and other content from across the enterprise, the solutions announced today are designed to deliver trusted business information quickly and in a context appropriate to the people, applications, and business processes that rely on it.
InfoSphere Software supports IBM’s Information On Demand strategy by combining and reconciling information from various applications and sources to provide decision-makers access to knowledge once locked away in the data center. It also enables organizations to use existing information assets more effectively and to better incorporate disparate internal and external information sources, providing a seamless flow of information regardless of format, platform or location.
"With the explosion of data growth, many organizations are data rich, but information poor,” said Ariel Aubry, partner, Edifixio consulting and business solutions practice. “IBM InfoSphere software provides a complete portfolio for the management and delivery of trusted business information to help companies turn data into powerful insight. IBM InfoSphere software is the key solution used in our master data management practice to help customers achieve an integrated view of all their information."
The new Business Partner solutions unveiled today for InfoSphere software, include:
• Alpine Consulting, an IBM Premier Business Partner, offers master data management and integration solutions based on the InfoSphere family of products as well as support for identity and relationship software from IBM. The company has developed a complete information infrastructure based on IBM Information Server to provide a summary level view of the health of the Information Server environment.
• Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Enterprise Information Management service line is now offering comprehensive information management services as part of its SAP implementation related service offering. The cornerstone of the offering is IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and IBM Information Server.
• Edifixio has expanded its current master data management practice with a team of business consultants and solutions experts dedicated specifically to customer data integration. The practice is addressing the needs of customers in the insurance, retail, manufacturing and services industries. The company also announced today the release of a new retail template for IBM WebSphere Product Center in Russian and Italian to help small and medium sized retailers speed up their master data management implementation projects. The template is preconfigured to deliver a retail industry data model, business rules, and a graphical user interface designed for business users.
• Intelcom has built a set of best practices to speed up the development of data integration projects. Intelcom is also a Center of Excellence for IBM Information Server and provides consulting and training for the IBM InfoSphere family of software throughout Norway. With numerous clients within the banking, insurance and manufacturing sectors, the company also provides expertise within master data management, data quality and metadata management. Perficient, Inc. has recently added IBM InfoSphere software to its information management, business integration, service oriented architecture and security and risk management practice.
• Platon provides business intelligence and master data management advisory and implementation services based on a comprehensive information management methodology. As the largest independent Information Management consulting firm in the Nordics, Platon serves clients throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. Over the past six years, it has built a substantial practice based on IBM InfoSphere software.
• Prolifics created an information management practice including master data management, information integration, data transformation, content management, business intelligence and data cleansing - all to better deliver secure, end-to-end SOA and Portal solutions.
• Satyam has introduced a dedicated practice for InfoSphere Master Data Management Server with a special focus on customer data integration and product information management. The company provides strategic planning, consulting and master data management services for customers worldwide.
• Zystems, based in Sweden, offers the Zeal Information Delivery Platform, based on IBM Information Server. It provides a scalable information architecture for all types of electronic data exchange and for treating information as a strategic asset. It includes master data modules called Zeal OneView, best practices for master data management and information integration.
Business Partner Marketing and Training Programs Introduced
Today IBM also unveiled its Information Platform Solutions Business Partner Marketing Program to help partners deliver InfoSphere software to their clients. The program, which includes technical education, sales enablement, marketing services support and an exclusive online partner community, draws on and extends IBM’s PartnerWorld and Information On Demand Specialty programs. Its aim is to give partners greater marketing support and enablement tools aligned with IBM’s portfolio of Information Management software. IBM expects the program to help partners more effectively address customers’ information integration needs.
“As more organizations work to derive value from their information, we’ve seen rising demand in the financial services, manufacturing, retail and government industries for integration projects as well as new initiatives to deliver a master view of all product and customer information,” said Jim Welch, vice president, IBM Information Platform Solutions. “Our Business Partners offer the solutions and expertise needed to help organizations reduce costs, improve business insight, enhance data governance and drive successful customer loyalty and new product programs.”
Last week, IBM introduced a new FlexLearning Program that provides self-paced education and enablement on IBM InfoSphere Software. The program allows partners to build new skills without reducing the availability of the practitioners being trained.
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IBM Unveils InfoSphere Change Data Capture Software to Help Clients Make Timely Business Decisions via Real-Time Data Analysis
Technology From DataMirror Acquisition Boosts Information on Demand Portfolio
ARMONK, NY - 03 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced InfoSphere Change Data Capture, new software that allows organizations to react faster to changing business conditions, improve response time and access the most current information for decision-making.
Having up-to-the-minute information has never been more critical. Retailers need it to stock store shelves and satisfy shoppers, manufacturers need it to maintain supplies, and financial services organizations need an immediate view of the market and their clients. This requires a real-time view of what information has been changed and updated in order to make timelier decisions about customers, inventory and transactions.
InfoSphere Change Data Capture software, derived from the company's acquisition of DataMirror in 2007, recognizes when data, such as a customer address or product code, has changed and then immediately transmits that change to the systems that rely upon the data. This helps bring real-time data analysis closer to actual business processes, and supports operational reporting, business intelligence, and synchronization of applications, allowing organizations to be more competitive and generate more value from their information.
Today's announcement supports IBM's cross-company Information on Demand business initiative, aimed at capturing the growing market opportunity for enabling customers to use information as a strategic business asset. At the core of Information on Demand is IBM's services and consulting expertise, combined with software that accelerates the delivery of trusted information to improve the way organizations do business.
Retailers can use the technology to provide customers the most up-to-date pricing information. Manufacturers can use it to provide real-time inventory levels to ensure maximum efficiency. It can also be used to consolidate customer data in real-time across multiple regions, departments and business units to help organizations more effectively react to customer demands and make better, more accurate decisions.
InfoSphere Change Data Capture enables high volume, two-way replication of massive amounts of data while maintaining the integrity and performance of the source applications. This ensures critical systems are always available and provides users access to the most accurate information from every system. It does this by accessing and integrating data in applications or production systems at all times, lightening the load on batch windows.
When used in combination with IBM Information Server to help analyze and cleanse the data, it helps detect and respond to relevant business changes to deliver timely trusted data for better business decisions. It is also widely used for scalable, high performance heterogeneous data movement among databases such as IBM DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata and Informix. IBM clients often use the software for high-performance, bidirectional integration in Oracle and DB2 environments that can scale to replicate massive volumes of data and information-intensive projects such as loading real-time information into IBM System z servers.
"The new software announced today adds to IBM's existing replication solutions providing our customers real-time capabilities for both information integration and dynamic warehousing," said Jim Welch, vice president, IBM Information Platform Solutions. "Today's announcement is indicative of IBM's ability to quickly integrate new technologies from strategic acquisitions to bring real value to customers and help them optimize their business."
IBM's Change Data Capture software is already in use by more than 2,200 clients and partners globally across such industries as manufacturing, financial services and banking, telecommunications, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The software, part of the IBM InfoSphere portfolio of products designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted business information, is now available from IBM and IBM Business Partners.
For more information visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/change-data-capture/
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