From: IBM Software Group Subject: IBM Software Newsletter Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:59:30 +0000 (CUT)

September 19, 2005, Volume 2, Issue 9

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Welcome to the September edition of the IBM Software Newsletter.
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This month brings you information on new IBM software for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as the new IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® Version 7.

IBM has invested $1 billion dollars in SOA, Web services and related software to help organizations achieve greater flexibility and responsiveness. More than 70,000 developers worldwide have participated in building these offerings.* Now IBM is introducing additional SOA-focused software, services and initiatives to help you succeed with this emerging application model. Learn more in our feature story. And see our customer spotlight for a look at how Standard Life saved Ł3 million with an SOA solution.**

Another exciting area for IBM software this month, and a top story in our newsletter, is the launch of the latest version of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino. A series of upcoming events delivers all the details. These events tell you not only what’s new, but also what’s to come, so I encourage you to attend an event near you!

Another important series of events is the upcoming Gartner Symposium ITxpo series. IBM will have a strong presence at these events in Orlando, Cannes, Sydney and Tokyo. I invite you to visit us and hear how an on demand approach is helping your peers increase profitability and improve their businesses. See the On Demand Business section for more information.

Enjoy the newsletter!

Dan Galvan
Vice President Marketing Programs
IBM Software

	Software Feature Article

		Set your applications and business processes free. New IBM software helps you adopt SOA for greater flexibility. Many businesses still struggle in a world where processes and applications are dedicated to specific business units and functions--never to be re-used across functions to improve business speed and flexibility or reduce costs. SOA has emerged as the dominant approach to freeing these assets and leveraging them across the enterprise. IBM has announced new and enhanced products, such as IBM WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Process Server, Rational® Software Architect and Tivoli® Composite Application Manager, as well as services to help you model, assemble, deploy and manage SOA. IBM is ready to help you get started now with software built on its leading SOA capabilities. In addition, IBM is announcing greater levels of integration between its WebSphere, Rational and Tivoli software along with reusable SOA assets tailored for specific industries. The result is newfound flexibility that can help you speed new products and services to market, respond to competitive threats faster and reduce development and operational costs. [More]

	Top Stories

		Knock out information insanity. Attend the upcoming IBM Webcast on master data management. Not having control of your master data means working with information that is incomplete or unreliable--a shaky foundation for supporting business processes and critical decisions that has many businesses on the ropes. IBM has solutions, and you can learn more about them by attending an upcoming Webcast: "Master Data Management: Providing a Single View of Your Company's Critical Information." Join Andrew White, Research Director, Gartner Research and experts from IBM and hear real-world examples of gaining control of master data. You will see how IBM solutions can help you reduce costs, solve compliance issues, integrate information with partners, consolidate applications, implement new applications and more. Learn about the emerging trends and take away recommendations that will put you in control. [More]

		Improve productivity while controlling costs. Learn how at IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Live! events. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 are now available! The new software provides a comprehensive platform for integrating and managing collaboration capabilities. It helps increase organizational productivity and responsiveness, reduce total cost of ownership and improve rapid application development. The result is a solution for improving productivity and responsiveness that can also help you control costs. You can get all the details at an event near you where you will gain an understanding of the relationship of Lotus Notes and Domino within the IBM Workplace strategy and learn about the new features of the client, server and administrator components. Plus, the events will highlight the new application's designer enhancements and showcase some of the Lotus Domino Extended products. You will even get a sneak peak at Hannover, the next release of IBM Lotus Notes. And you will hear several customer and partner success stories. While you wait for your event to come to you, check out our other resources, including a Ferris Research report on how the new software can help lower your e-mail costs. [More]

	Customer Spotlight

Standard Life improves distribution channels' loyalty and saves Ł3 million with SOA solution. Success for Standard Life in insurance and financial services meant improving how it worked with its critical channel of Independent Financial Advisors (IFA). Read this case study and see how this leading European insurer used a Service-Oriented Architecture to improve their business processes so they could provide reusable services to IFAs. The cost-savings associated with this approach improved Standard Life's competitive standing with IFAs by improving their margins and making it easier and faster for them to recommend and sell Standard Life's products. The result was a significant competitive advantage. Transaction rates are up 900 percent without increases in operations staff. See how Standard Life and its partners are able to reuse nearly 51 percent of business services and save millions in development costs while accelerating responsiveness to changing market conditions. [More]

	On Demand Business

Becoming an On Demand Business pays off. Don't miss IBM at upcoming Gartner Symposium ITxpo events worldwide.
According to an IBM study, companies with more advanced capabilities for On Demand Business improved gross profit margin 1.3 points better than their peers.*** Join us at Gartner Symposium ITxpo events in Orlando, Cannes, Sydney or Tokyo to gain insight into IBM solutions that will enable your business to become an On Demand Business.

Integrate your IT environment more flexibly and securely. Get started with SOA projects. Leverage the power of your information. Turn resilience, security and compliance issues into competitive advantage, and much more. Companies that are farther along on their on demand journey show stronger business results when compared to their peers. Don't miss the chance to learn how you can grow your business and move ahead of your competition through solutions from IBM.
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	Other areas of interest

		Conquer the flexibility challenge. IBM General Manager Robert LeBlanc gives you the inside track on the IBM SOA announcement. Reusing your IT and business process assets across your operations is the key to speed, flexibility and ultimately your success. Join a Webcast led by Robert LeBlanc, General Manager, IBM Application and Integration Middleware, as he answers your questions and explores IBM's SOA platform and demonstrates how it can help you meet the flexibility challenge. Get an overview of the announcement. Hear how Wachovia and other companies have benefited from implementing an SOA framework. Find out about free-of-charge offers to help you get started. Meet the flexibility challenge head on and win. The Webcast will be broadcast live on Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time and will be available for replay. [More]

Make SOA solutions smarter, stronger and more efficient. It's called IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0.
High transaction volumes and performance goals. Fast-paced changes in the business. Cost challenges. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment offers the combined capabilities of autonomic and grid computing to help you win in a demanding world.

The software enables a dynamic, scalable and high performance SOA foundation, further enhancing the ability of the WebSphere platform to deliver exceptional performance, flexibility and responsiveness. Autonomic capabilities improve resource utilization. Improve your transaction reliability, performance and scalability. Sense and respond capabilities enable you to seamlessly accommodate fluctuations in workload across the application infrastructure. And that's only the beginning. WebSphere Extended Deployment is especially relevant to financial services companies and provides a level of performance, flexibility and reliability previously possible only with more expensive, high-end systems. Learn how you can improve your application infrastructure and your SOA efforts.
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More news.
Access IBM software press releases and learn about the latest IBM software news, announcements and updates.
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Training news.
Learn more about the latest IBM training innovations and promotions.
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Software success stories.
Access a complete database of case studies that shows you how your peers are succeeding with IBM software.
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Flexibility comes alive.
Attend WebSphere Live for SOA.
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No-charge Rational Training.
Build your skills on the Web.
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Security Solutions.
Visit the IBM Help Desk.
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* IBM, SOA and Web Services: Our Leadership is Showing, The Mainstream, Issue 12, 2005

** IBM Case Study, Standard Life’s Implementation of am SOA is a Sound Investment, August 2005

*** IBM White Paper, Becoming an On Demand Business: Innovation Breaks New Ground, John Hagel, III, February, 2005

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