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IBM August 2007  

IBM Software Newsletter
 

Welcome to the August 2007 edition of the IBM Software Newsletter.

The headliner in this issue – and throughout much of the software world – is the release of IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 8. With its dramatic new Web-like interface, scores of time-saving new features and game-changing collaboration innovations, the new Lotus Notes 8 client truly delivers the desktop of the future, today. And with its improved performance, simplified administration and expanded support for open standards, the new Lotus Domino 8 server will be the messaging and collaboration server more and more organizations choose to drive their future desktops. Don’t miss this feature – and make sure you visit the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Web page.

This month we also pose a disturbing but critical question: Can you trust your information? Today you can’t compete unless your applications, people and partners are getting trusted information, in context and on demand. Learn the latest IBM strategies and solutions for ensuring trusted information delivery throughout your extended enterprise.

Enjoy these last weeks of summer – and enjoy the newsletter.

Doug Brown
Vice President, Marketing Programs
IBM Software



In this issue
 


Features
Image   Welcome to the future of collaboration. IBM Notes and Domino 8 have arrived.

See IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 for the first time and you'll agree: Collaboration will never be the same - or look the same - again.

IBM Lotus Notes 8 introduces landmark collaboration innovations – activity-centric computing, support for composite applications, productivity tools for creating and editing documents, and much more – all wrapped in a fresh, intuitive new interface. And the IBM Lotus Domino 8 server delivers mail server enhancements, server-managed deployment, more openness (including increased Web services support) and improved performance, management and security features.

Register to attend a great Webcast replay - and learn "The Top 8 Reasons Why You'll Love Lotus Notes 8." Watch a new IBM TV video to learn what customers are saying about Notes and Domino 8. Visit the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Support page for links to all the resources you need to prepare for the new releases. And register to see Notes 8, Domino 8 and all of IBM's other new collaboration products in person at the Lotus Collaboration Summit - on its way to a city near you.

Step up to the next level of collaboration.
Image   Innovate. Simplify. Conserve. Save. IBM and partners bring you more advantages of Linux and open source.

Customers continue to choose Linux and open source software for flexibility, performance, security and savings potential. But a growing number of customers now realize that Linux and open source also offer a better environment for innovation - and an opportunity to make their data centers more energy-efficient and less expensive to operate.

IBM and its partners are leading this charge. On August 1 IBM announced that as part of its Project Big Green – a US$1 billion initiative to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of IT – IBM will consolidate some 3,900 servers onto 30 System z mainframes running Linux, a move the company estimates will cut its energy consumption by 80 percent. Less than a week later, at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, IBM rolled out its Big Green Linux initiative to help customers integrate Linux into their enterprises in ways that reduce energy consumption and overall IT costs.

Also at LinuxWorld, IBM and Novell announced jointly that Novell will include the Apache-based, open-source IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and that IBM and Novell business partners will sell an integrated open collaboration client - including IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime® and IBM’s open document format-based productivity tools - for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. (Click here to download a trial DVD of the client solution.)

Learn more ways that IBM and its partners are innovating with Linux and open source.
Image   Can you trust your information? Deliver reliable data, on demand.

Profound business insight. Sound business decisions. Responsive customer service. True regulatory compliance. You can’t make these happen without information you can trust, delivered in context to your people, applications and business processes.

IBM Information Management can help. IBM Data Warehousing and Business Insight solutions help you take control of your data and extract the information needed to optimize transactions, learn more about customers, and keep competitors at bay. The IBM Master Data Management approach provides a single view of customers, products and suppliers across all applications and processes – plus data governance that ensures the information driving this view is accurate, complete, secure and compliant.

Watch Intelligent Solutions analyst Claudia Imhoff interview IBM’s Mario Passalacqua about IBM’s Balanced Data Warehouse, a pretested, preintegrated and preoptimized open data warehouse solution for businesses of all sizes. Download a Ziff-Davis white paper on IBM’s leadership in Master Data Management. And to be truly current on the latest information management strategies and technologies, immerse yourself in the IBM Information On Demand global conference, October 14-19 in Las Vegas – the premier information management event of the year.

You’ve found your headquarters for trusted information.
Image   Ward off an identity crisis – with the leader in identity management software.

It’s no small job to make your enterprise more resilient to threats and more responsive to opportunities. You need ironclad authentication that ensures secure transactions, but that doesn’t interfere with users trying to do their work. Implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) further ups the ante: Different services typically require different authentication methods, and the complexity is multiplied as you open services to business partners via the Web.

IBM Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) rises to the challenge by providing simple identity management and resource access control across companies and security domains. Available for both distributed and mainframe (IBM System z) environments, TFIM lets you implement trusted, secure, federated single sign-on in the most complex customer-, partner-, agent- or provider-inclusive architectures – while you improve user experience and reduce user administration costs.

What’s more, TFIM comes from the new market-share leader in identity and access management software – IBM.

Learn how TFIM and SOA can help your organization avoid an identity crisis.

Then visit the TFIM Web page for data sheets, white papers and other product information.
Events and resources
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  New on IBM TV: Software development gets jazzed.

IBM opens the jazz.net development platform to improve development collaboration and visibility. Informix® Dynamic Server 11 arrives – agile, invisible and resilient. Customers give their first-hand impressions of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8. And IBM experts offer new strategies for greener data centers. See all this and more on the latest episode of IBM TV.

Tune in.
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  Scoping out SOA? The view is better at the Summit.

You’re counting on your enterprise and IT architects to make your SOA implementation deliver business value and flexibility – as quickly as possible. Packed with expert insight and real world examples, an IBM SOA Architect Summit can start your team on the path to rapid results.

Register for a summit near you.
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  Missed the IBM Rational Software Development Conference? Catch up.

The 2007 IBM Rational® Software Development Conference (RSDC 2007) drew 20 percent more attendees, 100 percent more partners and nearly 50 percent more reporters and analysts. If that crowd didn’t include you, get to the RSDC 2007 Web page and register to watch keynotes and video replays from the conference. If you’re outside the U.S., find out when Rational Comes to You will be in your area. And there’s still time left to attend remaining Rational Technical Workshops (available August 21-30).

Find out what keeps RSDC attendees Rational.
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  See what's slated at the IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference.

Whether you've already registered for the conference or are still thinking of attending, check out the full schedule of sessions, labs and discussion groups planned for the location nearest you. With five distinct tracks covering a wide range of topics, there's something for everyone whose career depends on the IBM WebSphere® Portal product family.

Read the session directory for Munich, Germany (September 10-12).

Read the session directory for Orlando, Florida (October 8-11).

Learn more and register.

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