News
Acquisition would mark return of IBM to B2B services business

May 24, 2010 –

The pending acquisition will bolster IBM's burgeoning portfolio of data management software. Sterling Commerce's capabilities, combined with IBM's own middleware and analytics products, will help companies respond more nimbly to sudden business challenges. (informationweek.com)
Announcements
IBM Unveils Software to Help Insurance Carriers Get Closer to Customers, Improve Agility
IBM today unveiled a packaged software offering to help insurance carriers boost client service, increase agility, optimize business efficiency, and better manage risk. (finance.yahoo.com)
IBM Platform Promises Easy Predictive Modeling

May 21, 2010 –

The Decision Management platform taps predictive modeling, business rule and optimization technologies to automatically deliver accurate decisions in high volumes and at fast speeds. (informationweek.com)

June 25, 2010 -

"For Insurance CEOs, avoiding complexity is not an option -- the task is to figure out how to respond to it," said Mark Lewis, general manager, IBM Insurance Industry. "The effects of rising complexity call for CEOs and their teams to lead with bold creativity, to connect with customers in imaginative ways and redesign operations for speed and flexibility."(msn.com)

May 21, 2010 –

While IBM’s Smarter Planet philosophy is heavily entrenched in making use of data for businesses, Big Blue has also been involved in the development of more tangible technology that could make the world a better place. (itpro.co.uk)
 
IBM DB2 Gets Sybase Migration Technology

May 21, 2010 –

IBM is offering new technology that will allow Sybase users to move to IBM DB2 with virtually no changes to application code. The technology is called DB2 SQL Skin, and will be sold to DB2 customers as a feature starting May 28.(eweek.com)
IBM announces collaboration with Iskratel

May 20, 2010 –

IBM announced on Thursday it is collaborating with telecoms equipment company Iskratel to help Communications Service Providers (CSPs) respond faster to a growing number of consumers demanding more data-intensive applications and services. (tmcnet.com)
Blogs, Events and Communities
IBM's Rapidly Evolving Cloud Computing Strategy

May 26, 2010 –

Clearly, IBM is pretty far ahead of most organizations in their thinking about cloud computing. But at the same time, business processes are moving into the cloud much faster than most people realize, so it’s only a matter of time before they all need to be unified under a common management framework that IBM clearly hopes to provide.(itbusinessedge.com)

May 20, 2010 –

IBM used its annual Information on Demand conference in Rome to show off a series of new products it has been developing covering RFID tagging for the home, text-to-sign-language software and mind-controlled devices. (v3.co.uk)

May 19, 2010 –

A new relationship between IBM and Hildebrand, an energy consulting firm, will combine the tech giant’s data management software with energy monitoring devices in five European cities: Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester in the United Kingdom, and Plovdiv and Ivanovo in Bulgaria.(zdnet.com)
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