en-tc Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 2001, 2008. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/tc/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com webmaste@us.ibm.com Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:43:07 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/tc/ BOSTON, MA - 10 Jun 2008: Enterprise 2.0 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the next wave of social networking tools for business. Lotus Connections 2.0 and IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections feature a mix of new capabilities that blend IBM's expertise in business software with the Web 2.0 capabilities popular in consumer social networking Web sites. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24423.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24423.wss ARMONK, NY - 11 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the results of a client survey that concludes that businesses around the world are quickly moving from the adoption phase of a service oriented architecture (SOA) strategy to the actual deployment of SOA technologies and services. According to the survey, the rate of SOA deployments is on the rise, an indication that business leaders are seeking the benefits of SOA for today's challenging business environments. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24436.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24436.wss ARMONK, NY - 13 May 2008: Driven by growing commercial need in areas such as financial services, digital media creation and medical imaging, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today expanded its High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities for businesses with the introduction of the IBM® BladeCenter® QS22 -- a new, economical supercomputing technology inspired by advanced scientific research facilities. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24180.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24180.wss ARMONK, NY - 13 May 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced two new advances in the insurance industry -- a solution for improving operational efficiency and a framework for process acceleration -- that are designed to help insurance providers lower costs and increase customer satisfaction by handling core functions, such as claims and policy processing, more efficiently. Once implemented insurance companies will be able to automate and optimize their business tasks; allowing employees to focus more attention on customer-facing matters. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24181.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24181.wss LOS ANGELES & IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference - 30 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help clients establish energy efficiency goals, optimize for energy efficiency and measure and verify their green IT progress across the enterprise. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24100.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24100.wss ARMONK, NY - 28 Apr 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new version of its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) software designed to help companies better manage and utilize the deluge of data generated from global operations while increasing effectiveness and reducing data management costs by one-third. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24028.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24028.wss ARMONK, NY and NASHVILLE, TN - 02 Apr 2008: At the COMMON User Group Conference today in Nashville, IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced the first of a new generation of IBM(R) Power(TM) Systems that will provide IBM System i(TM) and System p(TM) clients a single, unified line of servers with simplified pricing, increased application choice and reduced energy and administration costs. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23795.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23795.wss BANFF, AB - 31 Mar 2008: The world's most talented and creative information technology (IT) students will gather April 6-9, 2008 in Alberta, Canada for the 32nd annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The competition will be hosted by the University of Alberta, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23784.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23784.wss ORLANDO, FL - 18 Mar 2008: Today at VoiceCon, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that Lotus Sametime software has been named the 2007 Product of the Year by Unified Communications magazine. The award honors companies that brought ground-breaking advancement to UC technologies within 2007. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23708.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23708.wss NEW DELHI, INDIA and BANGALORE, INDIA - 17 Mar 2008: Researchers at IBM's (NYSE: IBM) India Research Laboratory have developed advanced software technology that uses sophisticated math algorithms to extract and deliver business insights hidden within the avalanche of information gathered by companies during customer service calls and other interactions. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23703.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23703.wss HANOVER, Germany - 04 Mar 2008: Today at CeBIT, the leading European trade fair for information technology, IBM announced the iF International Forum Design has awarded IBM four iF product design awards for superior design, innovation and development around its Systems and Technology Group products and solutions. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23640.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23640.wss ARMONK, NY - 28 Feb 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today extended the reach of its Maximo asset management software to the public sector by announcing a new offering that helps government agencies and their contractors improve the monitoring of goods and services they deliver to the public. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23609.wss http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23609.wss http://www.ibm.com/legal/tc/ http://www.ibm.com/legal/tc/