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The business of smarter energy

Businesses today face increasing pressure to develop policies that are both good for the planet and good for business. With a comprehensive approach to environmental issues, organizations can identify business opportunities and plan projects accordingly.

Driving business results with New Intelligence

Successful companies make quick, confident decisions. This means they need accurate, up-to-date information to base their decisions on. Learn how to manage the information streaming to your business to drive profitability.

Linking decisions and information

Most organizations today have the capabilities to capture information instantly from customer transactions. The next step is to process this accumulated information for business insights. Learn how.

eBook - How to Drive Better Business Outcomes with Exceptional Web Experiences

Today's businesses stand to benefit by implementing an enterprise-class portal that provides consistent access to customized tools that improve productivity, fuel innovation, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Architectural Layers and Tips on how to Achieve Architecture Consistency
The objectives presented for Architecture Layers in this article is to demonstrate an idea how to organize the groups. Many IT groups can have their own definitions and names for each architecture type but it is imperative to provide clear objectives, goals and the associated connectivity between the roles.
Can You Spy BI?
BI helps end-users make sense of a flood of data with visually-appealing graphics and laser-targeted use of data in order to make informed decisions or devise strategy.
Once Again Business, Not IT Top Concern for CIOs
Helping their businesses run more productively, efficiently and improving agility are the main concerns of CIOs today. Most also believe we are seeing the light at the end of the recession tunnel but few will commit to spending, except on safe bets.
The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet
Businesses are delivering a new generation of smarter products that are increasingly instrumented, interconnected and intelligent-enabled through software.
Smarter ways to make smarter products
Smarter Products is about creating products that integrate into our lives, to work in a more personal way, and to adapt to our individual needs.
Driving Business Agility through SOA Connectivity & Integration Whitepaper from IBM
In this whitepaper, you will learn how to work smarter so you can solve the problems of today and seize the opportunities of tomorrow.
Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.
Information Agenda Assessment Tool
The explosion of information in every organization today is creating challenges for business leaders as well as technology leaders. The lack of trusted information is on the minds of CEOs and senior executives around the world.
Whitepaper: No Paper Weight - A no paper solution
This white paper details a case study with a major bank showing the significant ROI savings for implementing the IBM No Paper solution as well as: the mitigation of risks associated with paper records, increased visibility, green implications and better decision-making.
Cost Effective Records Management - As Assessment WP by Cohasset Associates
Given the ever-increasing growth of litigation, investigations and regulatory actions coupled with the explosive growth of electronic records, automation of an organization's records management policies, processes and business practices is no longer an option.
The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for Competitive Advantage
An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for professional users
Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information rapidly—at "business speed."
Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding of Information
IBM Business Intelligence solutions draw on trusted and timely data to deliver consistent information in the terms businesses can own and understand.
From Business Intelligence to Business Optimization Analyst Report
This whitepaper written by Hurwitz and Associates talks about moving from Business Intelligence to Business Optimization and the road to increased business benefits.
Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI.
The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way and get the answers they seek.
eBook - How to Drive Better Business Outcomes with Exceptional Web Experiences
Today's businesses stand to benefit by implementing an enterprise-class portal that provides consistent access to customized tools that improve productivity, fuel innovation, and improve customer satisfaction.
Lotus Symphony Demo
In a world where high end user productivity and IT innovative solutions are demanded, IT budgets are feeling the pressure more than ever. Available for no charge, to the rescue comes IBM® Lotus® SymphonyTM, . Lotus Symphony provides a suite of office productivity applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. For many organizations, Lotus Symphony applications are viable alternatives to purchasing, deploying, and managing typical vendor-proprietary productivity suites and has been enabling businesses to start working smarter by allowing them to take control over spiraling upgrade and licensing costs with an open solution that is available at no charge. See how your business can be free and work smarter now with IBM Lotus Symphony.
Online business analyzer
Your infrastructure has needs, and your goal is to meet those needs. Use this online SOA Business Value Analyzer to discover the SOA Entry Points that will help you prioritize and meet your goals.
Together, we can work smarter
The technology is available to bring global businesses together into connected communities. Stronger communication, greater collaboration and enhanced capabilities – this is how to work smarter.
Work smarter at the global virtual forum
Join us online to find out how your organization can work smarter by leveraging the Smart SOA approach and utilizing social media tools & techniques.
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