Products by business need

I need to make better use of my company’s information. That means my company has to do a better job managing data and content. With timely access to clean data, we could devise new ways to serve our customers.

• Business Analytics

  Enable organizations to better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes through the ability to spot and analyze trends, patterns and anomalies; compare “what-if” scenarios and predict potential threats and opportunities; and plan, budget and forecast resources.

  • Analytic applications
  • Business intelligence
  • Performance management
  • Risk management
  • Predictive analytics

• Data Management

  Deliver proven capabilities for reducing the cost and complexity of managing your data, improving business agility, and leverage data as a core asset.

  • Database administration
  • Database design and development
  • Database management

• Data Warehousing

  Provide a robust and scalable foundation for rapid deployment of real-time analytics and reporting, while reducing operating costs.

  • Data warehouse tools and models
  • Data warehousing systems and appliances
  • Data warehousing software

• Enterprise Content Management

  Turn content into business insight using industry-specific solutions that capture, manage, analyze and share content throughout its lifecycle.

  • Advanced case management
  • Content analytics
  • Document imaging and capture
  • Information lifecycle governance
  • Social content management

• Information Governance

  Ensure compliance and reduce risk of data threats, while reducing the cost of managing increasing volumes of data by proactively managing information across heterogeneous information supply chains.

  • Data lifecycle management
  • Data quality management and testing
  • Data security and privacy

• Information Integration and Federation

  Improve existing business applications and establish new business process with the creation and distribution of trusted information.

  • Data integration
  • Master data management

I need to create the processes and flexible infrastructure our organization needs to react more quickly to changing market conditions.

• Application Infrastructure

  Efficiently deliver applications and services with robust performance, transactional integrity and maximum security and control while optimizing costs. Drive down operational costs with a virtualized or cloud-based application infrastructure.

  • Application foundation
  • Application optimization
  • Cloud platform and application virtualization
  • Elastic caching
  • Transaction processing

• Business Process Management

  Through robust and flexible software capabilities and industry expertise, enable customers to discover, model, execute, rapidly change, govern, and gain end to end visibility on their core business processes, rules and events.

  • Business monitoring
  • Operational decision management
  • Industry process accelerators
  • Process automation and integrity
  • Process discovery and design

• Commerce

  Enhance the customer experience with customer centric shopping and across all channels with optimized supply chains based on insights from customer demand across the value chain.

  • Decision optimization
  • Order management
  • Selling solutions
  • Supply chain management

• Connectivity and Integration

  Deliver fast, flexible and reliable access to processes, applications and information regardless of platform, device, or data formats; increase visibility and improve governance of services, processes, files, and events; and connect to customers, partners, and suppliers and extend processes through messaging infrastructure, ESBs, or appliances.

  • B2B integration
  • Cloud integration
  • Integration foundation
  • Managed file transfer
  • Messaging

• Enterprise Marketing Management

  Understand what makes customers tick and leverage that understanding to engage buyers in highly relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social, and traditional marketing channels.

  • Cross-channel campaign management
  • Web analytics
  • Marketing performance optimization
  • Digital marketing optimization

I need better ways to connect my team to improve their productivity and ability to make timely decisions. By connecting key processes and enhancing collaboration, we can be more responsive to our customers and partners

• Social Business Application Development

  Design, develop and deploy social collaboration applications with servers, mash-up toolkits, software development toolkits (SDKs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) built on open architecture - on premises or in the cloud.

• Social Collaboration

  Engage people across the business network by integrating business-focused solutions -- including profiles, blogs, wikis, bookmarking, tagging, activities, communities, shared files, team spaces with content management tools, enterprise IM, online meetings, audio and video chat, e-mail and calendaring – delivered on premises or in the cloud.

  • Mobile collaboration
  • Office productivity suites and web editors
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Social business applications

• Unified Communications

  Integrate real-time communications services, including voice, data, video, messaging and social communications, to find, reach, meet and collaborate with colleagues, customers and business partners so business is free to occur when and where it delivers the greatest value.

  • Unified communications middleware

• Web Experience

  Provide people with access to critical information and applications via the Web that is personalized to their needs – available anytime, on any device – to deliver a exceptional experience.

  • Customer web experience
  • Employee web experience

Deliver smarter products, services and capabilities more efficiently and reduce cost and risk across the product and application lifecycle, while also providing better service experiences to my end customers.

• Application Lifecycle Management

  Manage the flow of people, process and information in an iterative cycle of software delivery activities that provides the foundation for end to end measurable process improvement, ability to scale, and enhanced team collaboration, automation and reporting.

  • Architecture and design
  • Build and deploy
  • Quality management
  • Requirements management
  • Software change and configuration management

• Complex and Embedded Systems

  Efficiently develop complex products and systems by managing requirements, modeling complexity, automating collaboration and ensuring quality.

  • Product line engineering
  • Real-time and embedded software development
  • Systems of systems engineering

• Design and Development

  Empower diverse, distributed teams to deliver new business products and services faster through collaboration, automation and leveraging of existing assets, skills and infrastructure, reducing the cost of development and deployment across multiple platforms.

  • Application development
  • Compilers

• Business Planning and Alignment

  Deliver on enterprise strategy by ensuring resources, including IT, are deployed to maximize business value, while managing the risk and impact of change.

  • Portfolio strategy and management
  • Enterprise and business architecture
  • Product portfolio management

• Enterprise Modernization

  Modernize and streamline the design, development and deployment of multiplatform applications including z/OS, AIX, IBM i, Linux and Windows.

  • Application modernization
  • Application portfolio management
  • Multi-platform development

• Security

  Help organizations grow and innovate in a secure environment, staying ahead of the threats while meeting higher service expectations in a rapidly changing and connected world.

  • Application security

I need to create more efficiency within our existing infrastructure. That starts with greater visibility, control and automation across all of our operations— both IT and enterprise—and better management of our overall resources.

• Asset and Facilities Management

  Gain real time visibility into asset and space usage, govern assets, asset lifecycle, energy consumption and return on assets.

  • Enterprise asset management
  • Facilities management

• Business Service Management

  Gain visibility, control and automation needed to assure service quality, service availability and reduce operations costs.

• Cloud and IT Transformation

  Automate virtualized infrastructure and the delivery of the services that run on it.

  • Scheduling and systems automation
  • Provisioning and orchestration

• Data Protection and Storage Management

  Automate data backup and restore functions, centralize storage management operations and ensure efficient data placement, movement and retention/expiration.

  • Storage mangaement backup and recovery

• Network and Service Assurance

  View and manage service availability, performance and quality across network operations, business operations and IT domains.

• Security

  Help organizations grow and innovate in a secure environment, staying ahead of the threats while meeting higher service expectations in a rapidly changing and connected world.

  • Application security
  • Data protection
  • Identity and accesss mangement
  • Infrastructure protection
  • Security intelligence and compliance analytics

• Systems Management

  Gain visibility and control over the performance data center systems.

I need to ensure that my organization is pro-actively identifying all the different types of risks to our business, and that we have security and resiliency plans in place to address any threat or disruption

• Security

  Help organizations grow and innovate in a secure environment, staying ahead of the threats while meeting higher service expectations in a rapidly changing and connected world.

  • Application security
  • Data protection
  • Identity and accesss mangement
  • Infrastructure protection
  • Security intelligence and compliance analytics