Stories In Detail
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 | | Start planning your Connect 2014 agenda – and register by December 13 to lock in your discount
IBM Connect 2014 (January 26-30 in Orlando) is just weeks away – register by December 13 to get the Early Bird discount! Connect combines in-depth tracks and sessions, the Kenexa® World Conference, the Lotusphere® Technical Program and more. Start building your agenda with the Session Preview Tool, and make plans to attend.
Don’t miss out – register NOW
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 | | Build cognitive apps, powered by Watson: Announcing the IBM Watson Ecosystem
For the first time, IBM has opened up Watson as a development platform in the cloud – to fuel a new ecosystem of entrepreneurial software app providers building next-generation applications infused with Watson's cognitive computing intelligence. Read about the very first ‘Powered by Watson’ apps. Learn more about the Watson Ecosystem
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 | | 24 of the top 25 Fortune 500 companies trust the IBM Cloud. Find out why.
The highest-performing companies thrive on higher-performing technology. And simply put, more and more of today’s top companies are staying on top by tapping into the 100-plus Software as a Service (SaaS) business solutions in the IBM Cloud. Learn more
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 | | IBM announces intent to acquire Fiberlink for mobile management and security
With Fiberlink’s enterprise mobility management solutions, IBM will help clear away the obstacles to integrating mobile apps with existing systems, and implementing end-to-end mobile security. IBM’s Kristin Lauria explains Fiberlink’s three key benefits for mobile enterprises. Read the Mobile Business Insights blog
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 | | Data security in the cloud – webcast TODAY December 11 at 11 a.m. ET
Learn about solutions you can use to protect cloud-based customer information and intellectual property from external and internal threats, prevent unauthorized changes to sensitive cloud-based data by privileged users, and much more. Register NOW and attend live
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 | | IBM recognized as a leader in application development life cycle management tools
Gartner, Inc.’s new report, 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life cycle Management Tools, describes the current state of the market for application development life cycle management (ADLM) tools, and the vendor positioning within that market. Learn why IBM was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Download the report
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 | | Nationwide embraces DevOps – and improves software quality by 50 percent
The insurance and financial services giant engaged IBM to support its agile transformation, and enable a DevOps approach to application development and delivery across its distributed and mainframe environments. Results included a 50% improvement in code quality, and a 70% reduction in user downtime over the last three years. Read the case study. Watch on YouTube
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 | | IBM PureData System for Transactions T1500 adds a new Extra Small size
The Extra Small system includes two database nodes and more than nine terabytes (9TB) of usable storage. Extra Small offers the same benefits as larger T1500 systems, including simple deployment and management, and optimized performance for transaction processing workloads. Learn more about the IBM PureData™ Systems for Transactions family – download the data sheet (PDF, 969KB). Read the Extra Small announcement
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 | | How COOs help their companies put customers first – read Gearing up for growth
The IBM Center for Applied Insights talked to chief operating officers (COOs) across multiple industries to find out how they’re uniting the back office with the front office to make their operations more customer-centric. Read the report (PDF, 1.4MB)
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 | | Harness the power of ‘Socialytics’ – replay this on-demand webcast
‘Socialytics’ sits at the convergence of social business, big data, and advanced social analytics software. Learn why socialytics is such a powerful business intelligence tool – and how it lets you tap the full range of global social media for insights that can help you improve customer intimacy, customer satisfaction, and competitive intelligence. Replay the webcast
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 | | Act now for Early-Bird savings on Pulse 2014 –
the Premier Cloud Conference
IBM Pulse 2014 (February 23-26 in Las Vegas) brings you four days of top-notch education – including hundreds of sessions covering the latest tools, technologies, and best practices for realizing the limitless possibilities of cloud computing. Register by December 31, 2013 to save US$300 off the standard conference fee. Learn more, register now and save
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 | | Why does your business need a mobile development platform? Here are four reasons.
Writing in InformationWeek.com, IBM’s Jerry Cuomo gives four reasons that a company needs a comprehensive mobile app development platform to innovate rapidly and remain competitive in an increasingly mobile society. Read the article
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 | | The results are in: IBM shines in latest NSS Labs testing
In recent NSS Labs tests, IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System GX7800 scored a 95.7% exploit block rate. Read the test report to learn about all the test results, and how they apply to real-world scenarios. Download the NSS Labs report
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 | | White paper: The ABC’s of continuous release and deploy in a DevOps approach
Bottlenecks in the release and deployment of software often start in the hand-off from development to operations. Read about three DevOps best practices that help you reduce and eliminate bottlenecks – for streamlined, continuous release and deployment that keeps pace with business demands and market trends. Register and download the paper
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 | | Improve your System z availability – become an OMEGAMON power user
Attend this teleconference to learn about the powerful usage, navigation and customization capabilities in each of the core OMEGAMON® interfaces (Classic, Enhanced 3270UI, and Tivoli® Enterprise Portal) – and how to optimized OMEGAMON to find and fix problems before they become outages. Join us December 12 (TOMORROW)
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 | | Learn the compelling IT economics of upgrading to DB2 10.5
Make more optimal use of your existing hardware resources. Improve system reliability and performance. Take advantage of in-memory innovations. Learn all the reasons why upgrading to IBM DB2® 10.5 can be the most economical and intelligent decision you’ll make for years to come. Replay the webcast on demand
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 | | IT operations: The next frontier for analytics
IBM’s Deepak Advani blogs about a new category of software – IT operations analytics - that can sift through terabytes of IT operations data in real time, spot the trends most critical to IT health and performance, and help systems adapt to changing business and performance conditions. Read the blog
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 | | Build high-quality System z and zEnterprise applications, and build them faster
Hear how the latest capabilities in IBM’s Integrated Solution for System z™ Development – including automated code review, unit test, and code coverage for mainframe applications – can help you streamline and optimize your development processes and reduce your costs. Listen to the podcast
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 | | Convert big data and analytics insights into results – replay the on-demand webcast
The IBM Institute of Business Value surveyed 900 business and IT executives from 70 countries to dive deep into the role of analytics and data in the rapidly changing marketplace. The resulting study – Analytics: A blueprint for value – reveals nine levers that differentiate top performing analytics organizations from their competitors. Learn more about the study – replay the webcast
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 | | IDC report: The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions
Customer and employees expect an exceptional digital experience – and according to this study conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC), delivering that experience using IBM tools yields hard dollar savings. Companies who participated in the study realized an average ROI over 500% and payback within 7 months. Register and read the report
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 | | From space ships to heart monitors: Why leading companies rely on Rational DOORS
Replay this Dr. Dobb’s webinar to learn how IBM Rational® DOORS® enhances the quality of systems engineering, safety, business and mission-critical projects – by improving the communication and visibility of business objectives, customer needs, technical specifications, and regulations. Register and replay on demand
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 | | Mobile Design Patterns: Push, Don’t Pull – an IBM Redbooks Point-of-View Publication
Authors and IBM experts Jerry Cuomo and Robert Villa argue that in many cases, pushing data to users as it changes can consume far fewer resources than a conventional pull pattern. They also describe how usage data and analytics can help enterprises determine which cases are best handled by push or pull models. Download the publication
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 | | Share your mobile expertise – the Impact 2014 Call for Speaker is open
Being a mobile-first enterprise is about more than compatibility. Putting mobile at the core of your business can help you reach new markets, gain competitive advantage and unleash innovation. Tell us how putting mobile first has helped you uncover hidden opportunities and create new, differentiating products and services. Submit your proposal by January 17 – learn more
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 | | Accelerate the integration of retail applications, data and systems
With out-of-the-box patterns and connectors, and a web-based UI, the IBM Integration Bus Retail Pack simplifies and accelerates integration of many retail application types and data formats – and enables retailers to extract additional business value from data by interpreting it in near real-time. Learn more
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 | | Empower knowledge workers with advanced case management – read the Aberdeen study
Learn how advanced case management is helping companies arm their employees with relevant and timely knowledge - leading to superior results in such key areas as staff utilization and quality of service. And get key recommendations for successfully deploying and growing your own case management program. Register and download the report
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Over 10 billion connected devices – and counting
