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December 20, 2005, Volume 2, Issue 12

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Welcome to the December 2005 edition of the IBM Software Newsletter. If you experience any difficulties viewing this newsletter, you can access it online here.

In this issue, we reflect a bit on the past year and look forward to the next. We also have a special focus on IBM collaboration and productivity solutions.

One of our top stories looks back at the software organizations that IBM acquired in 2005 and explains how they deliver specific capabilities to address your needs. You can also catch up on things you might have missed like the 2005 IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 7 Live! events. Get an online recap through a special Webcast with Ferris Research.

Looking forward, it’s time to gear up for Lotusphere® 2006, the premier industry event on collaboration technologies. Learn about the many new technical sessions for 2006, see what else is in store and register if you haven’t already.

Also on the topic of productivity and collaboration solutions, we are featuring an interview with Mike Rhodin, IBM Software Group, Lotus General Manager Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software. Learn how IBM Workplace™ is changing how people work in today’s financial services organizations and creating a new frontier for competitive advantage. You will also see how one IBM client is using IBM Workplace solutions to dramatically cut regulatory compliance costs.

Enjoy this month's newsletter!

Dan Galvan
Vice President Marketing Programs
IBM Software

	Software Feature Article

IBM Workplace delivers value to financial services companies. IBM General Manager Mike Rhodin talks about the new frontier for competitive advantage.
In this executive interview, IBM General Manager Mike Rhodin shows you how IBM Workplace is delivering a competitive advantage in the tough proving ground of financial services.

Find out how role-based workplace environments can help cut costs, boost productivity and improve customer service. You'll see what's driving the need for these collaboration and productivity solutions and how banks, insurance companies and financial markets firms are leveraging new advances in training, portals, electronic forms and more to develop innovative advantages over the competition.
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	Top Stories

Looking back. See how IBM 2005 software company acquisitions deliver specific capabilities to help you win. Take a revealing look at IBM's acquisition of software companies over the past year. You will see how in every case these acquisitions deliver real capabilities to help you and your business develop on demand capabilities. These acquisitions enable you to: see how changes you are planning for your IT infrastructure can impact your systems before you implement them; get a complete view of your customers; make sure you are working with the most accurate and timely information available; compare external data sets without breaking privacy rules and more. [More]

		New technical BootCamp triples technical sessions at Lotusphere 2006. "Each year, the number one piece of feedback we receive from Lotusphere attendees is a request for more technical content," says Kristin Keene, who has led Lotusphere content development for nearly ten years. The new Lotusphere BootCamp will triple the technical content by providing a parallel, purely technical program within the regular conference. Attendees can participate in the BootCamp and nothing but the BootCamp or mix and match with other Lotusphere sessions. Every BootCamp session will be led by product managers or developers, or by a subject expert sought by the Lotusphere content team specifically for his or her expertise. Learn more and access the BootCamp session descriptions. [More]

	Customer Spotlight

Microalgae harvester Cyanotech reaps reduction in Sarbanes-Oxley costs with IBM Worklpace solution.
"With IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting, our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts are going to cost us about two to three percent of our annual revenue," calculated Jeff Sakamoto, Chief Financial Officer at Cyanotech. "Conservatively, that is a 50 percent reduction in our initial estimates of cost of compliance."

Cyanotech is a successful harvester of high-value natural products derived from microalgae in Hawaii. It's not a big company. Fewer than a 100 employees and less than $US25 million in annual revenue. "As a small company, we try to focus on the adoption of appropriate technologies that help us solve real business problems," said Sakamoto. Read this case study and see how IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting is helping Cyanotech reduce the cost and effort of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as well as other regulatory demands. The role-based Workplace solution enables Cyanotech to accumulate, coordinate and view all of the internal controls and their impact on financial information in a single place.
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	On Demand Business

Webcast -- IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution: Turning good strategy into great execution.
Studies show that due to breakdowns in planning and execution a mere 10 percent of organizations are actually able to realize the business value of their strategies.* Attend this Webcast and learn how IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution provides the tools and information to put business strategy into action. It can help organizations of any size become an On Demand Business and execute strategies effectively and respond to emerging business opportunities or threats.

The new software announced in October 2005 helps you convert strategy into business objectives, align actions throughout the organization to achieve those objectives, monitor progress through scorecards and dashboards and provides you with the collaborative capabilities to help resolve performance gaps.

Join Larry Bowden, Vice President, IBM Vertical Products as he hosts an on demand Webcast featuring Paul Niven, Founder, Senalosa Group and Suzanne Minnasian, IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution, Domain Engineer. Paul provides an overview on the critical need for performance management solutions in the on demand world. Suzanne takes you into the core capabilities of IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution and shows you the features and functions that transform strategy into decisions and actions that can help you meet your business objectives.
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	Other areas of interest

		Webcast -- Ferris Research and IBM review Lotus Notes and Domino 7 features and TCO. If you missed the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Live! events, here is another opportunity. Join David Ferris, President of Ferris Research, and Ken Bisconti, Vice President of IBM Workplace, WebSphere Portal and Lotus Software in a keynote Webcast about the TCO improvements of the new IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7. Live streaming video presentations show you how Ferris defines TCO and how the new release might measure up. Plus you will get a comprehensive view on how new features and capabilities can help you work smarter by improving collaboration and productivity. [More]

		Webcast -- Monitor all of your IT resources from a single portal. Attend this Webcast and learn how IBM Tivoli® Availability Management solutions are taking the mystery out of detecting, isolating and resolving availability problems. Take aim and target problems faster and easier than ever before. IBM Tivoli solutions are faster and easier to use with pre-defined policies and best practices right out of the box, while still providing you with the customization you need. Get the big picture and be able to drill down to the details. Attend the Webcast to learn more. [More]

Fast and easy. IBM Training Direct to You 2005 Winter Catalog now available. IBM provides 26 curriculum areas in IT education. That's a lot of courses on a lot of topics, but the new electronic Winter 2005 catalog makes it easy to find the courses that are right for you and your teams. With just a click on your area of interest you're inside the catalog. From there, training paths show the recommended sequence of courses along with money-saving promotions. You can plan an entire training sequence just by clicking through the catalog. Click on course titles and get detailed descriptions, class dates and locations. [More]

Webcast -- Focus on autonomic computing so you can focus more on your business.
The self healing powers of autonomic computing can help improve the manageability and flexibility of your IT infrastructure so that you can focus on higher value tasks that support business goals. "Autonomic Computing Revealed - An Industry Perspective" brings you experts from IBM, Enterprise Management Associates and SAS Institute, Inc. in a streaming video, roundtable discussion that shows you how the rapidly changing IT landscape is driving autonomic adoption. Find out what solutions are being delivered and how they are being used. Gain insight into how autonomic capabilities can help you drive down maintenance costs while improving speed and flexibility.
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Get ready. 2006 IBM Technical Conferences schedule. Staying current on technology and product changes can be tough. That's where IBM technical conferences can help. Sessions and topics are updated with the newest versions and release information so you leave with new techniques that help immediately. See what's in store for 2006. [More]

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* Source: Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step, Paul Niven, Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002