A smarter planet
Financial crisis... climate disruption... energy geopolitics... food supply hazards... these are just a few of the major issues the world is facing today. IBM is asking our business partners to join us in a mission to change the way we do business by building a smarter planet. Smarter planet is IBM's point of view on how interconnected technologies are changing the way the world literally works. We are all connected today like never before: economically, socially and technically. When a crisis occurs in one part of the planet, it can bring problems to another part, within days or even hours.
Yet, this challenge is also an opportunity, and now is the time to seize it. People around the world are ready for change and the planet is ready for it, too. Today, we are seeing the infusion of intelligence into the way the world literally works-the systems and processes that enable...
- physical goods to be developed, manufactured, bought and sold;
- services to be delivered;
- everything from people and money to oil and water;
- and billions of people to work and live.
Our planet is becoming smarter - more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Your clients need to build smarter businesses -- with significantly fewer resources to implement solutions and solve business problems. IBM is committed to delivering innovation and value to our mutual clients through our IBM Business Partners.
System Integrators have the industry skills and expertise to lead the smarter planet vision for the benefit of their clients. System Integrators have the industry skills and expertise to lead the smarter planet vision forward. Ultimately this agenda is designed to focus conversations and insights to help our mutual customers drive innovation. Below you will find several initiatives that are part of the building a smarter planet agenda. These associate links will provide access to information such as education, training, and selling smarter planet solutions. We believe System Integrators will play a leading role in helping customers be successful in this new environment. System Integrators will play a leading role in helping your customers be successful in this new environment. Having reviewed these initiatives, please feel free to contact your IBM representative.
Dynamic Infrastructure - designed to help your clients integrate the growing intelligent business infrastructure with the necessary underlying design of a flexible, secure and seamlessly managed IT infrastructure. IBM's Systems, Servers and Storage products as well as our Tivoli product portfolio are market leading IT infrastructure technologies you can use to support the development of new client solutions.
Smart Work - emphasizes cost optimization and business agility by taking a smarter, collaborative, new or more efficient approach to solve business challenges. Systems integrators can help their clients build smart work capabilities via the adoption of dynamic business processes, smarter collaboration, and an SOA approach, to create an agile business model. Many smart work solutions are being developed based on functions provided by many IBM Rational and WebSphere products.
New Intelligence - is a unique proposition consisting of converging technologies to more effectively control and leverage information. This concept helps you to generate conversations with your customers to help them analyze data and identify new, higher-value opportunities with customers positioned for growth. Leverage IBM Cognos and IBM Information Management products to identify data based solutions and market opportunities for your clients.
Learn more about IBM and building a smarter planet.
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