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IBM May 2008  

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Pulse   Less than a week until PULSE 2008, May 18-22 in Orlando! Register and book your rooms TODAY.

Make no mistake: IBM Pulse 2008 will be the most important service management event this year. Insights from IBM executives and technologists. Inspiration from champion cyclist-turned-philanthropist Lance Armstrong and global business leader-turned-philanthropist John Wood. Innovative thinking like IBM Project Big Green, which is setting the bar in data center energy efficiency. And these are just the General Sessions!

If you haven't already, register for Pulse 2008 NOW. If you've registered but haven't yet booked your room, there's still space available at the Disney Caribbean Beach Resort – but you'd better book today! (Don’t forget to mention you're attending the IBM Pulse 2008 Conference.)

See you at Pulse 2008
RSDC   Get the hero treatment at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5 in Orlando

Software development heroes deserve more – and they get more at the IBM Rational® Software Development Conference 2008! Get IBM Rational product news you won't find anywhere else – including announcements of new products based on Rational's ground-breaking Jazz collaborative development environment. Capitalize on unprecedented networking opportunities. Hear compelling keynotes from IBM executives – and from special guest speaker William Shatner! Educate yourself and your team at more than 300 technical sessions. And take advantage of direct access to hundreds of IBM product and service professionals.

Looking to leverage your existing mainframe or IBM System i™ assets to build new, more flexible applications and services? Be sure to check out the dedicated Enterprise Modernization track, including IBM System z™- and IBM System i-specific technical and case study sessions. 

Join your fellow R-Heroes - register NOW
Sigma-Aldrich story   Case study: Life sciences leader streamlines HR processes, makes employees more productive. Don't miss this webcast.

Growing both organically and through a spate of acquisitions, Sigma-Aldrich needed an HR self-service solution that integrated information from multiple systems – and unified procedures and communications across the organization. Join a live webcast on May 20 to learn how Sigma-Aldrich used IBM Lotus Workforce Management to deploy a role-based HR portal that works hand-in-hand with the company’s SAP system.

Register for the live webcast
Forms   Take a people-centric approach to SOA with new forms-driven solutions

The new IBM Portal Pack for SOA Configurations offering paves a fast-track for building applications that enable collaboration and other “people” transactions within a service oriented architecture (SOA). Portal Pack includes IBM WebSphere® Portal Server (which includes WebSphere Portlet Factory), IBM Lotus® ActiveInsight™, and IBM Lotus Forms Server.

Another new solution, IBM Business Process Accelerator, helps you quickly automate new or changing processes with personalized, forms-based business mashups. And IBM Total Forms, coming later in 2008, will let non-technical line-of-business users quickly create, publish and route electronic forms. See a demo of Total Forms here.

Put "people power" in your SOA
FISMA   Federal agencies: Are you ready for FISMA compliance?

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires most federal agencies to demonstrate that they have implemented - and are following - mandatory security controls for all information systems used or operated within their agency. Learn how IBM Tivoli® can help you address wide-ranging FISMA requirements with a coordinated set of management tools.

Read the Tivoli FISMA solutions sheet
Celink story   Case study: Reverse mortgage servicer retools for growth with IBM middleware

With help from a home-grown Microsoft® Access™-based application, Michigan-based Celink became a leader in the field of servicing reverse mortgages. But to increase development flexibility – and create new opportunities with its clients - Celink built a new solution using IBM DB2, IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere and IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Read the full story
Cognos Paper   White paper: Get “Value from the Cognos 8 platform”

Many factors influence a company’s performance – but few more profoundly than decision-making ability. Capabilities such as reporting, analysis, planning, measuring and monitoring of enterprise-wide information are essential for making actionable decisions. Read a new white paper to learn how the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform provides these capabilities across heterogeneous environments, whether data is located on System z or distributed platforms.

IBM has also announced plans to release Cognos 8 for System z. Read about it here.

Download the white paper
Power Systems   Power = i + p. Learn about the software that factors into the new IBM Power Systems equation.

What do you get when you unite IBM’s highly successful integrated platform, IBM System i™, with its fastest-growing UNIX operating system platform, IBM System p™? You get IBM Power Systems – a single, flexible platform for running all your UNIX®, Linux® and IBM i applications. Take a moment to learn about the software that plays in the new Power Systems world, including IBM PowerVM™ virtualization, AIX®, Linux, and IBM i, plus solutions for availability, security, energy conservation and systems management.

Watch an IBM TV video to learn how IBM Power Systems help customers consolidate servers, simplify management, minimize downtime and cut costs. Even better, get a first-hand look at IBM middleware on Power Systems at the "Building a Better Infrastructure" show in Chicago on July 17.

Get the story behind the software for Power Systems
Storage software   Integrate and optimize your storage with best-selling storage software from IBM

Did you know that according to International Data Corporation (IDC), IBM outperformed storage software vendor EMC in the fourth quarter of 2007? In fact, this was the twelfth consecutive quarter in which IBM outpaced the overall storage software market segment. Read the press release for more details. Then ramp up on the IBM storage management, virtualization and productivity software that's captivating the market.

Take control of your system storage
TPM   Create and deploy new builds faster with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

By seamlessly integrating with IBM Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational ClearQuest®, IBM Rational Build Forge® and other core Rational products, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) can help your development organization generate new software builds more easily – and then deploy those builds faster, using state-of-the-art software provisioning technology. Read a recent case study to learn how Marist College uses TPM to revise applications faster, in response to faculty and student requirements.

Break the application deployment speed limit with TPM
SOA service management   Map the last mile of your SOA success. Watch the webcast.

Sure, your SOA adds the IT flexibility you’ve always wanted. But how can you manage this new environment to make sure service levels meet stakeholder expectations? Watch the on-demand webcast, “Getting to the Last Mile of SOA Success,” to learn how the IBM Service Management Strategy for SOA can give you the visibility, control and automation you need to manage change, resolve problems, and deliver the quality of service your customers and users demand.

Watch the Service Management for SOA webcast
UC2   Find. Reach. Collaborate. Discover what UC2 can do for your business.

Imagine integrated instant messaging, presence and location awareness, email, telephony, Web conferencing and audio/video – all working together, and all available for mashing up with almost any business application. IBM calls it unified communications and collaboration, or UC2 – technology that lets people find each other and work together with unprecedented ease and speed. (It's also technology you can implement without ripping and replacing your existing communication and collaboration investments - a benefit this humorous IBM TV video drives home.)

Watch a YouTube video for IBM’s view of future trends that will drive unified communications. Register to watch two webcast replays to learn how Colgate-Palmolive and the IBM CIO Office are benefiting from UC2 right now.

Foster agility and innovation with UC2
CICS webcast   Picture your CICS assets, reborn as services. Watch the on-demand webcast.

Transforming 3270 applications into business services is a great way to reuse existing assets within an SOA. The new Service Flow Feature in IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS 3.2 lets you create these services quickly and cost-effectively, without manual reengineering. Watch “Composing CICS assets into reusable business services for SOA consumption” for a glimpse at your CICS applications’ next life.

Watch the CICS SOA webcast
IDS trade-up   Trade up to NEW Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 – and save up to 60%

Legendary reliability, blazing transaction performance, virtually hands-free administration – and now, simple, low-cost continuous availability! IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11.5 provides full transaction support in cluster environments, enabling businesses of all sizes to implement high-availability solutions on low-cost hardware. Plus you can add a processor in minutes to manage peak workloads on demand – and use automatic workload balancing to distribute workloads across hardware in your data center, or around the world.

Using an earlier version of IDS? Through June 30, 2008 you can trade up from eligible licenses to IDS 11.5 licenses and save 41% to 60%!

Feel the performance – trade up to IDS 11.5
IOD   Build your information agenda at IBM Information On Demand 2008

All around the world, CEOs and executives struggle with a lack of trusted information to support critical business decisions. Download a new IBM white paper that reveals the surprising extent of their concerns – and outlines the  information agenda, a strategy for delivering trusted information across the enterprise. Then make plans to attend IBM Information On Demand 2008 (October 26-31, Las Vegas) – the must-attend event for anyone who wants to extract maximum business value from information.

Save $300 when you register by May 31, 2008
Express guide   Find the IBM software that’s right for your growing business.

Small and midsized business owners: Did you know that the much of the IBM software used in the world’s largest organizations is available in IBM Express™ editions that are priced for companies your size? Download the IBM Software Express Buying and Selling Guide for help choosing the IBM Express software you need to improve communications and collaboration, maximize your reach, and compete with companies of any size – all without busting your budget. (And don't miss the new section, "Going Green: Saving money and the environment," to learn how your software choices can help save the planet!)

Get the Express Buying and Selling Guide
z/OS Pricing   New entry-level pricing for WebSphere on z/OS - tune in for details

With new Getting Started Sub-Capacity pricing, companies can introduce new or small-business WebSphere applications on the IBM z/OS® platform without paying for the software resources of an entire logical partition. Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how Getting Started pricing works, which WebSphere products are included, and how affordably you can now deploy applications on z/OS.

Watch, learn and save
Sandbox   Attention System z customers looking to modernize: Dig into the Sandbox

Want to extend your COBOL or PL/I skills to deploy new workloads on the mainframe? At the IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z™ you’ll find hands-on walkthroughs of common real world scenarios – and learn how to rapidly design, create, test and deploy high-quality Web, Web services, portal and SOA applications for IBM CICS, IBM IMS™ and IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Play - and learn - in the Sandbox
TSM paper   White Paper: “Manage your virtualized IT infrastructure with IBM Tivoli Service Management solutions”

By improving resource utilization and reducing hardware, power and cooling expenses, virtualization promises a compelling return on investment. But it can also make managing the underlying IT infrastructure more complex. IBM Tivoli Service Management solutions – part of a broader suite of IBM Tivoli Workload Automation products - provide the visibility, control and automation you need to minimize this complexity and maximize the business value of virtualization.

Download the white paper
DELMIA   New DELMIA v5.18 expands the IBM Digital Manufacturing Portfolio

Enhancements in this major release include a new Process Planning Suite for powerful process and resource planning; seamless end-to-end final assembly process planning; new production-ready solutions for the automotive body-in-white and shipbuilding domains; and improved usability in both 3D model-based definition (MBD) and 3D simulation.

Read the full release announcement

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