Stories In Detail
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 | | IBM unveils the next generation of social business
in the cloud
IBM announced several new social software products – headlined by IBM Mail ‘Next,’ a web-based, next-generation solution that will radically simplify email and reduce information overload. Other new products include IBM Connections ‘Next,’ (which incorporates Sametime® 9 video), Domino® Applications in the Cloud, and more. Read the press release. Watch the IBM Connect keynote, ‘Social Next’
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 | | New IBM Kenexa Talent Suite taps big data to energize today’s workforce
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering combines IBM social business, Watson Foundations, and workforce science technologies to give Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) and C-Suite executives the insights they need to modernize hiring, increase workforce productivity, and connect employees in ways that impact business results. Learn more
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 | | Inspire experts to share what they know with IBM Social Learning
Powered by Kenexa learning and IBM social collaboration and analytics, IBM Social Learning makes it easy for experienced employees to share their knowledge and skills – and for new hires or people in new roles to seek out and find expertise. Read the announcement letter
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 | | IBM Digital Experience portfolio enhanced for faster time-to-market, faster ROI
Announcements include new versions of IBM WebSphere® Portal and Web Content Manager (see beta below), and new offerings including IBM Web Content Manager for WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Portal Integration for Enterprise Marketing Management, and Digital Experience Patterns for IBM PureSystems™. Watch this IBM Connect keynote to learn more
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 | | Download the IBM Digital Experience beta
The beta – which includes ‘Next’ versions of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager – lets you test-drive new capabilities that expand the community of people who can contribute to the management and control of the digital experience. Learn more and get the beta
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 | | New global consulting practice fuses strategy, data, and design to drive deeper personalization
IBM Interactive Experience combines design and user experience expertise from the IBM Interactive digital agency with the innovation and data expertise of the IBM Customer Experience Lab – and helps clients create irresistible user experiences that lead to high-value relationships with customers, employees, partners and prospects. Read the announcement. Learn more about IBM Interactive Experience
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 | | Notes and Domino V9.0.1 now available
IBM Notes® and Domino 9.0.1 Social Edition includes a series of quality and usability enhancements to help power social business – plus additional accessibility support for IBM Domino, and enhancements from the latest release of IBM Notes Traveler. Find out more
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 | | Chosen for savings, SaaS delivers real competitive advantage: Read the study
A new IBM Global SaaS Study shows that nearly half of the businesses using Software as a Service (SaaS) are achieving competitive advantage, rather than simply reducing costs – and that pacesetting SaaS adopters report increased collaboration, improved customer experience, and accelerated time-to-market. Learn more and download the study
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 | | There’s much more: Go to the video library!
Hear the news, see the demos, get inspired! Head to the IBM Software channel on Livestream for video recordings of IBM Connect 2014 general sessions and breakout sessions – plus episodes of the Sandy Carter Live Show from the Connect Exhibit Floor. Tune in and start watching
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 | | Join “Breaking Bad,” Elvis Costello, Fall Out Boy and David Pogue at Pulse 2014!
Find out how "Breaking Bad" became the hottest show in the cloud – from series creator Vince Gilligan and actress Anna Gunn! Party with Elvis Costello and Fall Out Boy at the third annual Pulse Palooza! And let emcee David Pogue be your guide to four days of unmatched cloud education at IBM Pulse 2014 – The Premier Cloud Conference. See how Pulse delivers 3X ROI – download the infographic. Be there Feb. 23-26 in Las Vegas – register NOW
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 | | IBM commits $1.2 billion to expand its global cloud footprint
The investment will include a network of cloud centers (see the infographic) designed to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage their data, run their businesses, and deploy their IT operations locally in the cloud. Read the full announcement
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 | | IBM completes its acquisition of Fiberlink
The acquisition extends IBM’s MobileFirst portfolio to provide organizations of all sizes the ability to securely manage the full diversity of mobile – including devices, apps, users, content, BYOD, networks & transactions. Read Forrester Research’s Quick Take on the acquisition (PDF, 71KB). Learn more
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 | | Act now to put your business in motion – and save! Impact 2014 Early Bird ends February 21.
IBM Impact 2014 (April 27-May 1 in Las Vegas) delivers four days of best practices, technical education and roadmaps for business transformation – and deep insights into topics like the mobile enterprise, cloud, big data and analytics, and more. Register by February 21 to save US$300
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 | | Webcast February 13: Death to Manual Deployments in 2014
Do your projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? Join IBM’s Erik Minick for a frank and insightful discussion of the pitfalls of manual software deployments, the cultural barriers to improving deployment processes, and best practices for consistent deployment across environments. Register and attend live
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 | | NEW: Cloud-delivered Watson services for industrial R&D, big data insights, and analytics exploration
The services – including Watson Discovery Advisor, Watson Analytics, and Watson Explorer – will be offered by the newly-formed IBM Watson Group. All three services will be fueled by IBM Watson Foundations, a comprehensive, integrated set of big data and analytics capabilities. Read the announcement
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 | | System z in a Mobile World – an IBM Redbooks Point-of-View publication
Explore how IBM System z™ plays an important role in today’s mobile enterprise – by providing the secure and stable platform you need to meet the specific challenges of extending enterprise data and transactions to mobile users. Learn more and download the publication
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 | | Ready to use: IBM Business Process Manager on Cloud, SoftLayer release
Announced in December and available now, this new release of IBM’s market-leading business process management (BPM) solution offers improved self-service, performance and reliability – with rental plans starting at US$199 per user per month. Get the details
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 | | Free eBook excerpt: How your company can win by embracing mobile technologies
In Mobile Strategy from IBM Press, IBM’s Dirk Nicol offers insights critical to evaluating mobile technologies, and presents proven best practices and real-world case studies from his extensive experience with IBM’s enterprise customers. Download the first three chapters
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 | | Innovate 2014 is closer than you think – Early Bird savings end February 28
Innovate 2014, The IBM Technical Summit, puts you face-to-face and code-to-code with 4,000 of your peers – and with industry experts, IBM thought leaders, and global business partners. Save US$200 when you register by February 28. Want to speak at Innovate? Submit your proposal TODAY! Join us at Innovate 2014
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 | | Watch ‘Understanding DevOps’ – starring the author of DevOps for Dummies
IBMer Sanjeev Sharma, author of DevOps for Dummies, talks about the origins of DevOps – which began as a philosophy to help development and operations work better together – and about DevOps’ potential to improve product quality, customer satisfaction and the deployment process itself. Watch on YouTube
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 | | Dispatches from the front: What does it take to deploy IBM Security QRadar?
Ease of deployment, results within days or hours, superior visibility via a single customizable and intuitive dashboard - learn how these and other IBM QRadar® characteristics lead to total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) advantages over competing solutions. Attend the webcast February 13
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 | | Must-read security intelligence: Alleged malware behind the Target data breach
An IBMer charged with examining Kaptoxa/BlackPOS – malware believed to have been used in the massive Target data breach – shares what he learned about how the malware works, and how to detect its network activity. Read on the Security Intelligence blog
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 | | Peer into IBM’s crystal ball: Big data predictions for 2014
In InformationWeek.com, Inhi Suh, IBM Vice President of Big Data, Integration, and Governance, shares six (6) of the big data trends she sees emerging in 2014, based in part on feedback from IBM’s enterprise clients. Plus, IBMers James Kobielus and Michael Karasick Ph.D. offer their predictions for the year ahead, on the Big Data and Analytics Hub. Read the InformationWeek.com article
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 | | Turbo-charge your SAP OLAP workloads with IBM DB2 BLU on Power
Discover how IBM DB2® with BLU Acceleration can increase the performance of SAP OLAP business intelligence (BI) workloads on Power Systems. IBM BLU Acceleration's in-memory columnar processing, actionable compression, and data skipping capabilities allow queries to be answered in seconds, and lower your storage costs. Watch the video
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 | | Get more impact from your investment in analytics
At the IBM Business Analytics Summit 2014 – a complimentary event offered in 40 cities around the world – you’ll learn how to get more from your existing analytics deployments, and how to apply analytics to address core business imperatives and drive game-changing results. Events start in March – find one in a city near you
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 | | Analyst: Is agile development on System z keeping up with your business?
Stephen D. Bartlett of The Clipper Group writes about how the DevOps approach can speed adoption of business processes, and provide for continuous delivery of new software features in response to user demand – in a cycle that’s measured in days and weeks, not months and years. Register and download the report
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 | | Get the most from IMS 13 – attend a no-charge migration workshop near you
This two-day, complimentary workshop takes you through the key steps of migrating to IBM IMS® 13 – and shows you how IMS 13 innovations, coupled with Day 1 support from IMS tools, can lower your operating costs and extend your IT capabilities. Find workshop details, locations and dates
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Scott Adams on failure and success
