Nye versjoner av en rekke InfoSphere programvareprodukter og utvidet støtte til IBMs partnere gir enklere sanntidstilgang til viktig informasjon i virksomheten.
IBMs konsulentdivisjon, Global Business Services, har også lansert nye tjenester for kunder som bruker InfoSphere. Disse omfatter blant annet tjenester innenfor banksektoren, hvor administrasjon av kundedata hjelper med å bekjempe hvitvasking.
Blant oppgraderte produkter og endringer er:
InfoSphere Master Data management Server for System z gir stormaskinkunder bedre administrasjon av data om kunder, produkter, regnskap, leverandører, ansatte, gjester, avtaler m.m. Programvaren har innebygd intelligens for å bruke data i forretningstransaksjoner og bedre salg, markedsføring og finansiering. Programvaren fungerer som en datahub for virksomheten.
InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse, C4000, er bygget på Cognos BI og InfoSphere Warehouse-programvare for å levere business intelligence (BI). Den kan støtte datavarehus med opptil fem terrabyte brukerdata. C-klassen av Balanced Warehouse tilbyr små og mellomstore bedrifter en enkel og komplett løsning for å integrere og vedlikeholde flere informasjonsressurser i et skalerbart datavarehus.
Cognos 8 blir integrert med InfoSphere programvaren. IBM Cognos Now!-brukere kan raskt respondere på hendelser og kontinuerlig overvåke forretningen ved hjelp av data streamet fra produksjonssystemene, uten at det kreves noen endringer av applikasjonene.
Forretningspartneres støtte til InfoSphere øker. For å møte kunders behov for avansert informasjonsstyring har IBMs partnere som Deloitte Consulting, Intelcom, Prolifics, Platon med flere utviklet nye løsninger for å utnytte egenskapene til IBMs InfoSphere programvare.
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ARMONK, NY, May 29, 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 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.
Global Business Partners Expand Support for InfoSphere Software
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 3 June, 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.
Business Partner Support for InfoSphere Software Grows
To address increasing customer demand for advanced information management capabilities, IBM Business Partners such as Alpine Consulting, 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 IBM WebSphere Product Center will join the InfoSphere product family and be known 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, so they can deliver it in real-time to the people, processes and applications that need it.
IBM InfoSphere software is available worldwide through IBM and IBM Business Partners.
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visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 3 June, 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, 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.
- 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 more effectively help partners 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 and 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.
For more information on IBM InfoSphere Software,
visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/ips/