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Help people collaborate, promote better teamwork and faster decision making
Harness the collective creativity of employees, partners and customers.
- Improve productivity
  Keep everyone in touch with e-mail, calendar, collaborative applications and mobility.
- Improve efficiency by integrating data with existing IT systems
  Bring together people, processes and applications, speed access to data and reduce costs with a combination of Lotus Forms and WebSphere Portal.
  - Forms Management
  - Portals
- Create business value with compelling Web-based user experiences
  Access information more easily and reduce inefficient processes.
  - Portals
- Integrate Web 2.0, business-grade social software and team-based decision making
  Enable better communications among employers, customers and partners.
- Collaborate in real time
  Bring teams together with integrated unified communications and collaboration software and solutions.
  - Real-time & Team Collaboration

Develop and deliver better-quality software more quickly and at a lower cost
Explore IBM products for the end-to-end management of your software development process from requirements analysis to deploying applications.
- Manage projects
  Align business goals, best practices and projects for improved productivity and predictability.
  - Process, Project & Portfolio Management
- Manage requirements
  Define and manage requirements, and provide traceability and alignment with business processes.
  - Requirement Management
- Model and design software
  Model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures for SOA, systems and applications.
  - Analysis, Modeling, Design & Construction
- Modernize existing applications
  Update your existing applications cost-effectively and incrementally, while reducing your maintenance burden and freeing up more of your resources to develop new business requirements and capabilities.
- Ensure software and site quality
  Ensure software functionality, reliability and performance in development and production.
  - Software Quality Management
  - Problem Determination Tools
- Manage change
  Improve software delivery and life cycle traceability from requirements through deployment.
  - Change Configuration & Release Management
- Integrate applications and business processes
  Link applications and services for operational efficiency and cost savings.

Integrate and transform applications on a solid infrastructure
Establish a strong foundation and effective network for your applications.
- Manage application and transaction infrastructure
  Build, deploy and run applications in an established, secure and flexible environment.
  Application Servers
  - Distributed Application & Web Servers
  - Other Application Servers
  Host Transaction Processing
  Networking
  Data Management
  Operating Systems
- Enhance application integration
  Link applications and services for operational efficiency and cost savings.
  Application Servers
  - Distributed Application & Web Servers
  - Other Application Servers
  Business Integration
- Manage application transformation
  Use your existing applications and information in new business processes.
  Business Integration
  Software Development

Model, integrate and manage business processes
Improve business agility and ROI with end-to-end process management.
- Enhance business process management
  Integrate people, content and systems.

Manage IT infrastructure and applications more effectively
Ensure that your mainframes, networks, servers and other enterprise assets are secure, running optimally and used to maximum effectiveness.
- Manage enterprise assets
  Manage production and transportation equipment, facilities and IT assets that are critical to the business.
- Manage business applications
  Manage composite applications and optimize application performance and service levels.
- Ensure IT security
  Ensure compliance to identity and access control policies for IT resources and services.
- Manage servers, networks and other devices
  Optimize performance and automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure resources.
- Ensure service level agreements are met
  Optimize and manage the business of enterprise IT through innovation, execution and leadership.
- Manage all aspects of storage assets
  Back up, restore, protect and optimize your storage infrastructure and data.

Reduce IT costs and optimize IT resources
Organize your infrastructure for better capacity utilization and more effective transactions.
- Improve business integration
  Connect applications and data to help simplify infrastructure.
- Consolidate workloads
  Use a common set of IT resources to utilize capacity more efficiently and manage resources more effectively.
  Application Servers
  - Distributed Application & Web Servers
  - Other Application Servers
  Business Integration
  Data Management
  Host Transaction Processing
  Operating Systems
- Streamline systems management
  Manage storage, assets and infrastructure with more security and efficiency.
  Security
  Systems and Asset Management
  Storage Management
- Reduced development cost
  Improve bottom-line numbers for design, testing and project management.
  Software Development

Make the most of enterprise information
Manage and store data more effectively for better use and governance of information
- Optimize your database servers
  Build the foundation for information on demand.
  - Data Servers (Database Management Systems)
- Enhance data management
  Reduce total cost of ownership by maximizing IT staff efficiency with a comprehensive suite of data management tools that respond to today's top IT challenges.
  - Data Management Tools
- Create dynamic data warehousing and business intelligence
  Gather, manage and analyze data to generate business and customer insight.
  - Data Management Solutions
- Manage enterprise content
  Manage data volume and capture the value of unstructured content.
- Improve enterprise data management
  Deliver data on demand to optimize business usage and governance throughout your enterprise.
  - Master Data Management
- Integrate information and master data more effectively
  Promote and facilitate innovation with a single view of data and real-time access to information.
  - Master Data Management

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