Business Technology News for Small and Medium Business
01 Jul 2008
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In this issue
Feature articles
Title: A Grand Slam: IBM and the United States Tennis Association
From: IBM Corporation
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is dedicated to promoting the sport to an ever-widening audience. In support of that mission, the USTA sought to leverage the media value of its signature event, the US Open. Find out how the USTA is connecting with tennis enthusiasts in new and exciting ways while attracting more people to the game.
Title: Collaborative Innovation: Bringing new ideas to market
From: IBM Corporation
Recent research proves that companies with innovative products and services regularly outperform their competitors. Yet businesses of all sizes often discard promising ideas because of the costs and technical expertise involved in bringing new products to market. A new collaborative model for innovation is bringing this impasse to an end.
Title: In Focus: Virtualization boosts performance with less hardware
From: IBM Corporation
Doing more with less is the mantra of virtualization, which radically increases the utilization of servers and storage devices. Learn how SMBs can leverage these technologies with a new generation of cost-effective management tools that make virtualization practical.
Blue Sky
Title: Blue Sky: WebFountain offers intelligence you can act on
From: IBM Corporation
WebFountain, a new technology developed by IBM, is helping companies find useful, actionable information in the Internet’s vast repository of data. WebFountain does more than spot trends; it puts information into context, helping businesses spot relationships among disparate pieces of online content. This powerful system doesn’t require a serious investment—just a periodic access fee.
Buzz
Title: SAP and IBM collaborate to offer integrated business systems to midsize companies
From: IBM
IBM and SAP offer reliable and scalable industry-specific solutions that are pre-packaged for midsize enterprises. Learn how to achieve your goals of complex warehousing strategies, inventory-level optimization, improved customer service, or enhanced regulatory compliance by implementing IBM Express Industry Solutions for SAP Business All-in-One.
Title: Teamwork made simple. File sharing made quick.
From: IBM Corporation
IBM Lotus Quickr is team software that uses Web 2.0-based technologies to redefine the way people share content and collaborate. Ease of IT installation and maintenance, intuitive features and end user self service capabilities makes Lotus Quickr the ideal team collaboration choice for mid-sized businesses. Watch the informational webcast.
Title: Are you choosing & implementing the right IT solutions?
From: IBM Corporation
IBM is delivering innovative programs and solutions to empower its growing mid-market customers with: systems management, data storage, and security. IBM Tivoli has developed new products, evaluative tools and case studies, and a new accreditation initiative designed to help customers find IBM Business Partners with the expertise they require.
Title: IBM System Storage and Storage Networking Symposium
From: IBM Corporation
Save the dates July 14-18 for this symposium in San Diego, CA! Learn how IBM storage solutions are addressing the growing challenge of managing and securing retention-managed data and find out how to manage more data with fewer resources using the IBM System Storage portfolio.
Title: How can ESMT save you time and money?
From: IBM Corporation
What is ESMT? ESMT is a Web based Workflow tool enabling large SWG Customers to manage Distributed & zSW Software licenses deployment notification within their contracts Terms & Conditions.
Spotlight
Title: System x and BladeCenter promotions
From: IBM Corporation
Innovation, speed, growth, performance - systems designed for your business needs.
Title: Think you can't afford IT? Think again!
From: IBM Corporation
Learn how IBM Project Financing can customize an IT financing solution for your organization - regardless of size, industry or location!
Title: Complimentary seminars: "The Efficient Data Center"
From: IBM Corporation
IBM and IBM Business Partners are hosting a series of special seminars targeted at helping you make your data center more cost effective.
Title: Web seminar: Going Green is Good Business!
From: IBM Corporation
Join best-selling author Jim Harris and industry experts for “Going Green is Good Business! We asked the experts. Now you can!” Register today!
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