Products by business need

Harness the collective creativity of employees, partners and customers.

• Improve productivity

  Keep everyone in touch with e-mail, calendar, collaborative applications and mobility.

  • Advanced Messaging
  • Device Software
  • Mobile & Enterprise Access
  • Real-time & Team Collaboration

• 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.

  • Real-time & Team Collaboration
  • Social Software
  • Portals

• Collaborate in real time

  Bring teams together with integrated unified communications and collaboration software and solutions.

  • Real-time & Team Collaboration

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.

  • Traditional Programming Languages & Compilers
  • Software Development Suites
  • Other Software Development

• 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.

  • Application Integration & Connectivity
  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Other Business Integration & Optimization

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

  • Transaction Connectors
  • Transaction Servers
  • Transaction Tools

  Networking

  • Enterprise Connectivity
  • Host Access
  • Other Networking

  Data Management

  • Data Management Solutions
  • Data Servers (Database Management Systems)
  • Database Management Tools
  • Other Data Management

  Operating Systems

  • AIX family
  • Linux family
  • i family of operating systems
  • z/OS family
  • z/VM family
  • z/VSE family

• Enhance application integration

  Link applications and services for operational efficiency and cost savings.

  Application Servers

  • Distributed Application & Web Servers
  • Other Application Servers

  Business Integration & Optimization

  • Application Integration & Connectivity
  • Business Rules & Optimization
  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Other Business Integration & Optimization

• Manage application transformation

  Use your existing applications and information in new business processes.

  Business Integration & Optimization

  • Application Integration & Connectivity
  • Business Rules & Optimization
  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Other Business Integration & Optimization

  Software Development

  • Analysis, Modeling, Design & Construction
  • Change Configuration & Release Management
  • Enterprise Architecture Management
  • Mashup Development
  • Other Software Development
  • Problem Determination Tools
  • Process, Project & Portfolio Management
  • Requirement Management
  • Software Development Suites
  • Software Quality Management
  • Traditional Programming Languages & Compilers

Improve business agility and ROI with end-to-end process management.

• Enhance business process management

  Integrate people, content and systems.

  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Document Centric Business Process Management
  • Portals

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.

  • Change & Configuration
  • Enterprise Asset Management
  • Other Systems & Asset Management

• Manage business applications

  Manage composite applications and optimize application performance and service levels.

  • Application Performance and Availability
  • Event Management Automation
  • Job Scheduling
  • Network Management & Performance
  • Service Level Management
  • Systems Performance
  • Transaction Management
  • Other Systems & Asset Management

• Ensure IT security

  Ensure compliance to identity and access control policies for IT resources and services.

  • Access
  • Identity Management
  • Security Compliance & Vulnerability Management

• Manage servers, networks and other devices

  Optimize performance and automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure resources.

  • Application Performance and Availability
  • Change & Configuration
  • Event Management Automation
  • Network Management & Performance
  • Service Level Management

• Ensure service level agreements are met

  Optimize and manage the business of enterprise IT through innovation, execution and leadership.

  • Application Performance and Availability
  • Network Management & Performance
  • Service Level Management
  • Systems Performance
  • Transaction Management

• Manage all aspects of storage assets

  Back up, restore, protect and optimize your storage infrastructure and data.

  • Data Protection
  • Mainframe Storage Management
  • Storage Area Network (SAN) Management
  • Storage Resource Management
  • Storage Virtualization Management
  • Tape & Optical Systems Management
  • Other Storage Management

Organize your infrastructure for better capacity utilization and more effective transactions.

• Improve business integration

  Connect applications and data to help simplify infrastructure.

  • Application Integration & Connectivity
  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Other Business Integration & Optimization

• 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 & Optimization

  • Application Integration & Connectivity
  • Business Rules & Optimization
  • Dynamic Business Process Management
  • Other Business Integration & Optimization

  Data Management

  • Data Management Solutions
  • Data Servers (Database Management Systems)
  • Database Management Tools
  • Other Data Management

  Host Transaction Processing

  • Transaction Connectors
  • Transaction Servers
  • Transaction Tools

  Operating Systems

  • AIX family
  • Linux family
  • i family of operating systems
  • z/OS family
  • z/VM family
  • z/VSE family

• Streamline systems management

  Manage storage, assets and infrastructure with more security and efficiency.

  Security

  • Access
  • Identity Management
  • Operational Security
  • Security Compliance & Vulnerability Management

  Systems & Asset Management

  • Application Performance and Availability
  • Change & Configuration
  • Enterprise Asset Management
  • Event Management Automation
  • Job Scheduling
  • Network Management & Performance
  • Other Systems & Asset Management
  • Service Level Management
  • Systems Performance
  • Transaction Management

  Storage Management

  • Data Protection
  • Mainframe Storage Management
  • Other Storage Management
  • Storage Area Network (SAN) Management
  • Storage Resource Management
  • Storage Virtualization Management
  • Tape & Optical Systems Management

• Reduced development cost

  Improve bottom-line numbers for design, testing and project management.

  Software Development

  • Analysis, Modeling, Design & Construction
  • Change Configuration & Release Management
  • Enterprise Architecture Management
  • Mashup Development
  • Other Software Development
  • Problem Determination Tools
  • Process, Project & Portfolio Management
  • Requirement Management
  • Software Development Suites
  • Software Quality Management
  • Traditional Programming Languages & Compilers

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.

  • Database 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.

  • Document Centric Business Process Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Content Management
  • Enterprise Content Management Platform
  • Search & Discovery

• 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
  • Information Integration Platform