Business Technology

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by leveraging IBM InfoSphere Information Integration and Governance (IIG) solutions.

IBM InfoSphere Information Server connects to many new ‘at rest’ and streaming big data sources, scales natively on Hadoop using partition and pipeline parallelism, automates data profiling, provides a business glossary, and an information catalog, plus also supports IT.

This white paper describes how IBM’s Pure Data System for Analytics delivers speed and simplicity to help organizations become more responsive and agile in today’s increasingly mobile and data-driven market.

Big Data has generated much interest and attention in the media of late. Indeed, several authors have recently raised the question of whether Big Data approaches, such as Hadoop, will pronounce the death sentence on the conventional data warehouse. In this survey we investigate the current state of the data warehouse and examine its recent challenger in the form of Big Data solutions as an alternative. Is the new technology really complementary or is the reign of the data warehouse nearing an end?

This e-book highlights the benefits of Hadoop across several industries and explores how IBM® Biglnsights for Apache™ Hadoop® combines open source Hadoop with enterprise-grade management and analytic capabilities.

Please join IBM and guest speaker Andrew Hogan from Forrester Research as we share tips on how to best measure the digital experiences customers have with your brand and how to use that information to build better journeys. The webinar will provide attendees with: - Best practices to measure the quality of digital customer experiences - Guidance on the kinds of tools to use to capture the right CX metrics - Tips for integrating metrics, including the role of customer journeys - Techniques to drive action and improve digital experiences"

As digital transformation accelerates, the opportunity to engage customers digitally has never been greater — but so has the threat of not delivering great customer experiences. In order for customer insights professionals to compete, the use of customer understanding to optimize experiences at scale must be at the heart of all digital transformation initiatives. Digital intelligence provides a vision and approach that captures a holistic view of the customer in order to optimize digital interactions, engagements, and experiences. During his talk James McCormick will describe the vision and need for digital intelligence; the approach needed to make it a strategic initiative, and ultimately, how it will provide a competitive advantage.

Read this IDC analyst report to see how you can meet your digital business requirements with IBM Digital Experience on Cloud.

Read this online report that can aid your horizontal portal selection decisions and help you identify key differentiators among products.

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate what consumers want from a mobile app (and its authoring brand) and focused on the following questions: - What elevates a good, serviceable, and even profitable app into the realm of great? - And if a mobile app achieves greatness, what is the impact?

Topics to be discussed include: - The need for new RAS characteristics in next-gen applications - The benefits of having an agile and scalable platform for workloads running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems

View this ebook to learn how leading organizations are managing, deploying, designing or planning cloud-based B2B integration alternatives to future-proof their B2B trading operations. Discover the benefits that clients of IBM Sterling B2B Cloud Services cite, including: -Reduced risk and total cost of ownership (TCO) in B2B integration - Enhanced visibility and control over business processes shared with partners - Faster partner onboarding and faster, more reliable data exchange - Greater collaboration across IT, business managers and external partners

Ordinary analytics tools can’t keep up with today’s digital, multichannel and demanding customers. This guide highlights three major challenges associated with traditional analytics and how innovative strategies combined with IBM’s Customer Experience Analytics solution can solve them.

Your organization lives and breathes data, but that data needs to be transformed between different formats as you do business, share files, transmit data and make transactions. Watch this video for a short introduction on how IBM Transformation Extender can help.

IBM Transformation Extender is IBM's new modular transformation solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools WebSphere Transformation Extender and Standards Processing Engine. Part of a series of 5 videos by IBM Software Development Manager Mark Conner, this video provides an overview of IBM Transformation Extender.

B2B sales processes are being transformed by buyers who are demanding a more personalized buying experience similar to what they have experienced in their personal shopping. This paper lays out why this transformation should be on the minds of many if not most B2B organizations. This document helps guide relevant stakeholders within Exceed your B2B clients' expectations - emulate the B2C model B2B organizations to develop and execute plans to increase their e-commerce proficiency with the goal of increasing sales, profits, customer retention and customer satisfaction.

Read this white paper to learn how to: - Use B2C best practices to meet buyer expectations for enhanced online experiences - Deliver multiple combinations of products and services for faster, streamlined quoting and ordering - Support complex buying cycles and selling executions across channels and markets—and around the world

Find out how IBM Configure Price Quote can help make sales of the most complicated configurable products easy.

Third party white paper from FitforCommerce and IBM on the 5 roadblocks to avoid on the journey to omnichannel retail success.

Read this white paper to discover how predictive analytics and cognitive commerce make it possible to get instant access to integrated information and actionable insights so you can deliver superior-and profitable-interactions with customers.

Watch this short video to see how the right commerce solution can help you understand your customers like never before, and deliver exactly what they want.

This guide will help you learn the fundamentals of social media analytics and how you can apply it to your organization to make smarter, more data-backed decisions.

Read the infobrief for insights on: - What digital transformation is and how other businesses are doing it - How you can save time, money, and improve your customer experience with digitally transformed document workflows - Best practices and first steps in transforming document workflows in your own company

Your week is full of deadlines. But in order to meet them, your team often loses hours to exhaustive search and file-sharing practices. Using that time for more creative concepting could make for bigger long-term gains. And Adobe has the tools to help. Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries allow your workgroups to collaborate and share projects across programs and computers—no matter their individual locations. And Adobe Stock seamlessly integrates images for direct placement into apps like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download Pfeiffer Consulting’s new Adobe Stock Benchmark Reports to learn more about the efficiency and productivity gains linked to using Adobe Stock.

Read Create the Change: Building a Creative Process for the Modern World to learn: - How changing the way you view design changes everything - The power of beautifully designed customer experiences - Why it pays to make your teams design-driven