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	April 2008

IBM Software Newsletter

Tools for success. Insights for innovation.

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Act while there’s still time - register for Pulse 2008
Go boldly to the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 – with special guest speaker William Shatner
Break the barrier between enterprise and Web with new WebSphere Portal 6.1 and accelerators
The Smart SOA approach: Align business and IT for maximum impact. Watch the webcast.
New business mashup tools: Give more people more power to innovate

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		Act while there’s still time - register for Pulse 2008 4000+ attendees. 100 real-world customer case studies. World-class technical content. One-on-one access to IBM and industry analysts. If you need still more reasons to attend Pulse 2008 (May 18-22 in Orlando), the industry's premier service management event, watch an IBM/Gartner webcast to learn how Pulse 2008 can help you unlock innovation through greater visibility, control and automation. Register for Pulse 2008 today. Then prepare to make the most of the show by joining the new Pulse Community, where you’ll find exclusive access to forums, blogs, RSS feeds, discounts and more. Don't miss Pulse 2008

		Go boldly to the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 – with special guest speaker William Shatner RU ready to save the day? The IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 (June 1-5, Orlando ) will equip your development teams to deliver software that speeds innovation – and keeps the world working. Check out expanded content tracks. View the conference agenda. See the impressive slate of keynotes – including a special guest appearance by actor and pop-culture hero William Shatner! Then register for the IBM Rational^® Software Development Conference (RSDC) 2008 – five days of education and inspiration you won’t find anywhere else. Register for the conference

		Break the barrier between enterprise and Web with new WebSphere Portal 6.1 and accelerators New IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 is designed to help businesses securely combine enterprise and Web information. New Web 2.0 features help users find and use information more productively; for example, with new live-text tagging a user can just click on text while executing a business process to automatically display relevant supporting information. And customers can add new portal accelerators to quickly deploy portal applications for monitoring business performance, supporting business processes, publishing content and more. WebSphere^® Portal 6.1 will be available this quarter. Until then, test-drive a beta version of the software. Learn more about the WebSphere Portal product family

		The Smart SOA approach: Align business and IT for maximum impact. Watch the webcast. Join IBM executives and customers April 30 as they lay out the roadmap for success with service-oriented architecture (SOA) – and announce the newest technologies, services and best practices powering IBM’s Smart SOA™ approach. Have your questions answered live, and receive a complimentary eBook, Real World SOA Stories, when you attend. Attend the Smart SOA webcast

		New business mashup tools: Give more people more power to innovate Get ready for self-service application development! With IBM Mashup Center non-technical business users can create and deploy their own customized Web applications – by simply dragging and dropping components from personal, business and Web data sources. Mashup Center (which combines the capabilities of IBM Lotus Mashups and IBM InfoSphere MashupHub) is scheduled for release near mid-year 2008. Developers can use IBM WebSphere sMash to easily build innovative widgets for Mashup Center users. A developer’s edition of WebSphere sMash is available currently at www.projectzero.org; a commercial version will be available near mid-year 2008. Explore the industry's first mashup portfolio

		Lotus Sametime Advanced is here - along with attractive trade-up options for Sametime customers New IBM Lotus^® Sametime^® Advanced starts with all the capabilities of the award-winning Lotus Sametime Standard, and adds innovative new ways for collaborating with people, teams and communities. Search for experts and answers - even when you don’t know who to ask. Capture and reuse shared knowledge. Use geographic location awareness to locate colleagues and experts at any time. And much, much more! Already have Lotus Sametime Standard? Trade up to Lotus Sametime Advanced for a fraction of the full purchase price. Using Lotus Sametime Entry? Get a comparable deal when you trade up to Lotus Sametime Standard. Call 800-426-2255 for more information. See all that's new in Sametime Advanced

		New Lotus Quickr 8.1: The fastest way to share content just got faster Access and share content from IBM Lotus Notes^®, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus Symphony^® – without leaving those applications. Move content to your own secure personal file sharing area, where others on your team can easily access it. And work in a streamlined browser interface powered by blogs, wikis, feeds and other Web 2.0 technologies. Move up to IBM Lotus Quickr™ 8.1, the latest release of IBM’s software for team collaboration. Find the latest Quickr brochures, demos and information

		Open-minded? Test-drive IBM Lotus Notes 8 running on Novell SUSE Linux. The IBM open collaboration client solution offers flexibility, choice, and the opportunity to achieve lower total cost of ownership with dramatically improved security. Now you can run your own “proof-of-concept,” without installing a thing: Create a bootable CD you can use to run Lotus Notes 8 on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Learn more about the open collaboration client solution Create your bootable open client test-drive CD

		Register for the IBM and Next-Generation Linux Seminar – May 15, 2008 in New York City Don’t miss a half-day that could change your business - join IBM for a seminar showcasing Next Generation Linux solutions. Learn about new Linux capabilities, Linux for business-critical workloads, mid-market Linux applications and appliances, and emerging Linux technologies such as real-time Linux. See case studies from customers already benefiting from the next generation of Linux solutions. And hear from IBM experts on topics like Big Green Linux, IBM System z10™ technology and the Desktop of the Future. Get face-to-face with Next Generation Linux - attend the seminar

		Web seminar: Leverage SharePoint, .NET and Java assets in your enterprise portal Hear why and how Healthways’ Health and Care Support had Microsoft developers build a customer-facing fulfillment site on an open-standards-based IBM WebSphere Portal server – enabling the health care provider to serve 27 million members while reducing costs for plan sponsors. And learn how you can use Mainsoft .NET Extensions for WebSphere Portal to integrate your existing Microsoft and Java assets in a scalable and secure enterprise portal, without having to migrate SharePoint data, rewrite .NET code or create a complex interoperability layer. Attend the on-demand seminar

		Protect your Microsoft email data with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Your critical business data isn’t only on servers and in databases. Much of your vital data and knowledge is stored in email – where it’s especially vulnerable to user error, outages, security threats and external events. Learn how IBM Tivoli^® Storage Manager can help you protect and defend email data on Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server – and comply with industry and government regulations for email retention and protection. Download a data sheet on protecting data with an IBM business continuity solution. Attend the Tivoli Storage Manager webcast

		Celebrate five years of IBM Rational - tune in to the birthday podcast Join Grady Booch, Lee Nackman and Walker Royce for a revealing discussion of what the IBM acquisition of Rational has meant for each company, and for the software development and delivery business overall. It’s a unique look into the impact of a major and successful software acquisition, brought to you by IBM developerWorks™. Find more about the IBM Rational 5th anniversary on IBM’s Web site. Listen to the podcast

		Accelerate software and business innovation - with enterprise modernization for System z Find out how your organization can extend its existing core business processes to SOA, Web technologies and other modern architectures – resulting in business improvements that stand the test of time. Watch an IBM TV video demonstrating the need for and benefits of enterprise modernization. Then join Scott Hebner, Vice President of IBM Rational Marketing and Strategy, for a webcast replay introducing new Rational enterprise modernization offerings for the IBM System z mainframe platform. Watch the webcast replay

		Save $300 when you register early for IBM Information On Demand 2008 (October 26-31 in Las Vegas) The IBM Information On Demand 2008 global conference has something for everyone in the information management business – business and IT executives, managers, database administrators, application developers and IBM Business Partners. 120 business leadership sessions, 200 customer speakers and more than 600 technical skill building sessions are already in the schedule – as is Master of Ceremonies Martin Short! Visit the IBM Information On Demand 2008 page today, where you can submit a speaker proposal, register to be a sponsor or exhibitor, review the content tracks and find whatever you need to know about the show. And save $300 on your conference fee when you register by May 31, 2008. Register early and save

		Looking for graduates with System z skills? It’s time to get EnergiZed. The need for graduates with System z skills have never been greater – which is why IBM continues to partner with customers and educators to build more of the mainframe skills that industry demands. Don’t start your search for System z talent without a copy of EnergiZed, a supplement from the IBM Systems Magazine Mainframe Edition with information about 28 schools from around the globe that are committed to teaching enterprise system skills. To learn more about IBM’s System z education programs, download a new brochure, “Teaching Enterprise Systems to a New Generation,” and visit the home page for the IBM Academic Initiative’s System z program. Get your copy of EnergiZed today

		Make security part of your daily routine. Subscribe to Secured. Establishing a daily security routine is essential for protecting your company from Internet security threats. Secured magazine, published by the experts at IBM Internet Security Systems™, helps you stay current on security-related issues and ahead of threats. Each issue covers top security trends, tips for improving your company’s security posture, expert advice on compliance and more – information you need to develop and maintain sound security habits. Subscribe to Secured magazine

		You’re never too small for IT security. Watch these SMB security demos. If your small-to-medium business (SMB) doesn’t have sufficient security in place you risk diminished productivity, loss of revenue, penalties for industry and federal non-compliance - and the type of bad publicity from which businesses your size frequently can't recover. IBM has solutions for managing user accounts, email archiving and records compliance, and forms automation – each specially designed to help smaller businesses prevent identity theft, protect data and comply with industry and federal security regulations. Watch demos of SMB security solutions in action

		Compete with businesses of any size. Get the IBM Express Advantage. Responsiveness – that’s one advantage your business can have over larger competitors. IBM Express Advantage is a faster, easier way to get the software you need to respond to change and opportunity. Flip through the easy-to-navigate IBM Express Advantage PDF catalog, chock-full of products and solutions to help you meet the business challenges you face right now. Or consult the IBM Express Advantage Concierge – a free service that connects you to the IBM and IBM Business Partner resources that can best address your IT issues. Get the Express Advantage

		Explore the expanded PLM product portfolio from IBM. Because PLM isn't just for design anymore. Today CEOs demand a product lifecycle management (PLM) approach that goes beyond product design to touch every aspect of the product development lifecycle – and integrates tools, information and skills across the entire value chain. IBM is uniquely equipped to deliver this breadth of PLM functionality to any business, large or small. Read a recent case study to learn how cruise ship builder Meyer Werft shortened development cycles and streamlined engineering change management with a customized PLM solution from IBM. Then download a brochure to learn more about IBM's expanded PLM portfolio. Download the IBM PLM brochure

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