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February 27, 2006, Volume 3, Issue 2

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Welcome to the February 2006 edition of the IBM Software Newsletter. If you experience any difficulties viewing this newsletter, you can access it online here.

In this issue we focus on the IBM vision and strategy for information management: Information On Demand. IBM Information Management Software combines with IBM Business Consulting Services to bring knowledge, experience and software technology together to solve real business problems such as reducing risk, improving responsiveness and lowering costs. Our feature story talks about the details of this announcement.

The On Demand Business section brings you an overview of Information On Demand through a video with Tom Inman, IBM Vice President, Marketing, Information Management. You will see how our Information On Demand strategy is driven by the specific challenges you face every day.

We also show you how IBM Tivoli® is delivering security solutions tailored for growing businesses and the challenges they face. We are launching a series of events that will help you understand what IBM offers for your business and how these solutions can help you improve IT and business performance while keeping an eye on budget and resource challenges. Learn more here or see our top stories.

Enjoy this month's newsletter!

Dan Galvan
Vice President Marketing Programs
IBM Software

	Software Feature Article

		Information On Demand. IBM software and industry consulting team up to help you drive greater business value from your information. More than 60 percent of CEOs agree that businesses need to do a better job of leveraging their information.* IBM introduces its Information On Demand strategy, combining its software and industry consulting expertise to help meet this challenge. The initiative includes a US$1 billion investment over the next three years to expand its information management software development. IBM will also expand its commitment to helping clients deliver more business value from innovative uses of information by dedicating 15,000 skilled practitioners globally and growing this base of expertise by 65 percent over the next 3 years. Additionally, six new solution portfolios and new software products will help clients transform their businesses from an outdated model in which data is managed as an afterthought from within applications, to an environment in which information is set free and managed as a strategic asset to drive better decision making. IBM is also introducing step-by-step assessment tools and a new center of excellence to help clients quickly assess and tackle their individual information requirements. Visit the IBM Information On Demand Web site and read the press release, learn more abut the new products and solutions, read white papers and get details on the Information On Demand center of excellence and access the new assessment tools. [More]

	Top Stories

It's all about you. IBM Solutions Summits focus on the needs of growing businesses. Small and medium businesses are often caught in the middle when it comes to getting the right IT solutions. Trapped between options cobbled together to be 'just good enough' and expensive, overbuilt alternatives that are difficult to purchase, implement and manage. A new event series from IBM is bringing solutions that are 'just right' to these organizations. From solving business problems with a service orientation to collaborating productively to improving IT management practices, the IBM Solutions Summits bring you IT solutions that are affordable, manageable and reliable. The only thing missing is you. [More]

IBM Information On Demand Live! The event your information has been waiting for.
Your information is there, just waiting for you to use it to become a more nimble and responsive company. But how do you do that in a complex information environment? Information management today means more than just ensuring that an application is running smoothly and its data is secure and backed up regularly. Information On Demand is a way to deliver information across your organization to people, processes and applications when they need it and in the form they need.

If you are re-examining how information is managed in your organization, sign up for an upcoming IBM Information On Demand Live! event in a city near you.

Attend an event to see how you can:
-- Improve decision making
-- Accelerate time to market
-- Boost productivity
-- Improve responsiveness
-- Reduce risk

Find an event location near you and register today.
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		Size matters. New IBM Tivoli security software helps growing businesses stay secure and more. IBM is launching new security software specifically designed to help small and medium businesses -- from local credit unions to health care consortiums -- deal with insider attacks, automate compliance efforts and reduce IT security costs. Tivoli Identity Manager Express will give your growing business the identity management capabilities that larger companies are utilizing today, but in a more affordable version that is easier for non-IT experts to install and manage. [More]

	Customer Spotlight

Herbalife transforms the SOX challenge into opportunity.
Going public is an exciting and critical step for growing companies. New regulations for public firms present a new wrinkle to this hallmark of growth and success. In the case of Herbalife, a weight management and nutritional supplement company with US$1 billion in sales, it meant gearing up quickly to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance challenge.

Herbalife worked with IBM to create a turnkey compliance portal with the flexibility to serve as the foundation for the company's current and future business control needs. Based on the IBM Workplace™ for Business Controls and Reporting solution and customized by a diverse team from IBM Business Consulting Services, the compliance portal is expected to reduce SOX compliance costs by 20 percent. It has also transformed the compliance challenge into an opportunity for Herbalife. "IBM not only helped us minimize the impact of SOX compliance, but in the process also gave us the means to better understand our business, make better decisions and ultimately compete more effectively," said Paul Marlowe, Senior Vice President, Internal Audit at Herbalife.
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	On Demand Business

Video -- Get the big picture on IBM Information On Demand. Simplify information management to achieve your business goals. As Tom Inman, IBM Vice President, Marketing, Information Management points out in this online video, 70 percent of people's time is spent searching for information and only 30 percent making intelligent decisions. Watch the video and see how IBM Information On Demand can become your new strategy and vision for inverting this ratio. In "IBM Information On Demand: What's It All About? IBM's Vision and Strategy," you will see how years of insufficient standards, applications aimed at ad hoc issues and lack of an IT roadmap have resulted in a complex world where information is disconnected, unreliable and often inaccessible to the people and processes that need it. Learn how today's core business challenges demand that this complexity be overcome and simplified by delivering information as a service. You will get the high level vision based on specific challenges that IBM customers have experienced. You will also gain an understanding of the open architecture that focuses on key services to help you achieve business imperatives such as reducing risk, gaining insight into your information for better decision making, transforming your business and lowering costs. [More]

	Other areas of interest

Get a ringside seat to the flexible future of IT. Don't miss IBM WebSphere Live for SOA.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is happening fast because business demands it. Chief executives have seen IT as a barrier to change, not an enabler.** Today's IT must be more robust, responsive and built for rapid change. More and more, a service-oriented approach is seen as the key to this new business agility.

Attend an IBM WebSphere® Live for SOA event at a city near you and see how IT can enable improved business flexibility.

-- Find out what's new with IBM WebSphere software and how it is driving the business value of SOA.

-- A new SOA foundation and SOA accelerators for industries can help you streamline and accelerate implementation.

-- See live demonstrations, get analyst perspectives and hear customer testimonials.

Learn more and register today.
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		New resource kit. Get ready and stay ready for software development compliance demands. Auditable. Traceable. Repeatable. Verifiable. It's what regulatory compliance checkers are looking for in software connected to financial transactions and reporting. IBM Rational® software can help you meet compliance demands and control costs. Learn how when you register for the IBM Rational Compliance Resource Kit. The kit helps you adopt a sustainable approach to regulatory compliance management in your software development environment. It includes an IDC analyst Webcast, a report from Forrester Research, an online demo and more. See how you can proactively prepare for audits by automating the enforcement of sound software development controls. Reduce risk while improving the productivity, efficiency and capability of your entire team. [More]

Don't just search. Find. Introducing IBM WebSphere Content Discovery Server. IBM WebSphere Content Discovery Server offers a suite of solutions that helps you find, analyze, 'contextualize' and ultimately maximize the value of information, regardless of where that information is stored and managed. The new solutions use deep understanding of user intent to automatically deliver information people are looking for, shrinking the gap between a need for information and the ability to take action. With IBM WebSphere Content Discovery Server, you can quickly deploy business-driven solutions that can help increase customer satisfaction. Learn more and watch online demos that show you how the software can help you with online commerce, contact centers and self-service applications. [More]

Your strategic asset for growth. Unleash opportunity through information integration.
In "The Movement towards Information Integration," Hurwitz & Associates contends the information industry has reached a "tipping point" and the technology is available to create an integrated information infrastructure that can "make information a strategic corporate asset for growth." Read this feature and see how the IBM WebSphere Information Integration platform is making it happen. See how integrating your information can help you be more responsive, competitive and successful.
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New white paper -- Information as a Service Unfolds. System z9 Mainframe/DB2 Premier Data and Information Server for SOA.
It is a core information management challenge to uncouple information from specific applications and repositories and be able to deliver it where needed across the enterprise. It's called delivering information as a service and it is central to Information On Demand.

A new white paper from Software Strategies discusses employing this capability through the IBM System z9™ and DB2 data-serving hub. It is an in-depth exploration of how the System z9 provides a nimble and reliable platform for information services and leverages the full IBM portfolio of advanced information management service products that deliver information services enterprise-wide as part of SOA. You will see how System z9 can provide an optimum environment for delivering information services such as data serving, content management, master data management, information integration, information analysis and discovery and the new area of entity analytics.
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		Couldn't get to Orlando? Lotusphere Comes to You. Registration is now open for Lotusphere® Comes to You, the event series that brings the experience and excitement of Lotusphere to a location convenient to you. The complimentary, one-day events are being held worldwide and deliver what customers have come to expect from the premier event on collaborative software. See the latest product strategies and roadmaps for IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino®, IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Workplace software. Witness the latest Workplace products such as Workplace Forms and Workplace Designer in action. Listen to strategic direction -- Hannover and the future of Notes and Domino. Learn the latest programming techniques, development tools and the IBM Workplace platform architecture. And there is much more. Special tracks are set up to meet the needs of both business-focused professionals and more technically focused developers. Space is limited, so learn more and register for an event near you today. [More]

Download -- IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution. Communicate, execute and measure your strategy more effectively. IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution software helps you align corporate objectives throughout your organization and translate strategy into concrete, actionable, measurable objectives. The software features: -- Built-in collaboration tools to help you easily communicate strategy. -- Intuitive navigation through scorecards and dashboards. -- Timely visibility of status and potential performance gaps. Now you can see for yourself by downloading IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution and try it out for 120 days free of charge. [More]

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* IBM White Paper, “Information infrastructure: Delivering the advantage of information,” June 2005.

** The Industry Standard, "Gartner's Top Ten Resolutions for CIOs in 2005," Scarlet Pruitt, December, 2004.