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DB2 Information Management Software

Description:

 

DB2 information management is the IBM software solution for information management. At its core is a powerful family of relational database management system (RDBMS) servers. DB2 ensures that information is integrated, comprehensive, uniform, analyzable and accessible at all times, across all platforms.

Key products:

 

DB2 Universal Database, DB2 Cube Views, DB2 Everyplace, DB2 Intelligent Miner Modeling, Scoring & Visualization, Informix Dynamic Server.


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Lotus software

Description:

 

Lotus offers products for messaging, calendaring, application development, real-time and team collaboration, content management, mobile and wireless devices, and social networking that help organizations to work more productively, to communicate more effectively, and to better leverage collective knowledge.

Key products:

 

Lotus ActiveInsight, Lotus Connections, Lotus Domino, Lotus Expeditor, Lotus Learning Management System, Lotus Notes, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, and other business solutions, collaborative applications, dashboards, enterprise applications, eforms, mobile, and workflow products,


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Rational software

Description:

 

Rational software supports multi-platform development environments to ensure interoperability across teams and disciplines.

Key products:

 

Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Rational ClearCase, Rational Unified Process, Rational Functional Tester, Rational PurifyPlus, Rational Suite, Rational Rose Developer, Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, Rational Web Developer, Rational Team Concert.


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Tivoli software

Description:

 

IBM Tivoli® software provides intelligent infrastructure management solutions that help customers understand and proactively manage the business value of their IT systems in an on demand world. Tivoli software goes beyond the individual components of customer systems to provide integrated views for managing and optimizing critical IT systems with policy-based resource allocation, security, storage and systems management solutions.

Tivoli software leverages open systems and automation technologies to enable on demand computing with quality, scalable and reliable systems management solutions.

Key products:   Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Business Systems Manager, Tivoli Composite Application Manager, Tivoli OMEGAMON, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager.

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Websphere software

Description:

 

WebSphere is IBM's integration software platform. It includes the entire middleware infrastructure -- such as servers, services, and tools--needed to write, run, and monitor 24x7 industrial-strength, on demand Web applications and cross-platform, cross-product solutions. WebSphere software is the infrastructure platform for On Demand Business, including market-leading technology for application servers, business portals, business integration, and messaging.

Key products:

 

WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Business Integration software, WebSphere Edge Server, WebSphere Everyplace, WebSphere Information Integrator Brand, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Services Express, WebSphere Application Server Community Edition


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Open Source Software

Cloudscape

Description:

 

Released to the open source community as Apache Derby, Cloudscape is a Java relational database management system that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing.


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Eclipse

Description:

 

A flexible, open development for integration, Eclipse provides developers with a robust and full-featured industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools.


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WebSphere Application Developer Community Edition

Description:

 

WebSphere Application Developer Community Edition is a Java-certified, production-grade platform built on the Apache Geronimo application server. WebSphere Application Developer Community Editions bundles an embedded database, messaging, and portal infrastructure, all based on proven open source technologies.


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Linux

Description:

 

Technology plays a critical role today to help academics to do research more effectively. Most research relies on high performance computing (HPC) for data-intensive applications, information access, visualization and communications. Leveraging standards based, compute-intensive applications is critical to reducing the amount of time between research and development phases. HPC systems can grow with data and database requirements to facilitate time-sensitive analyses.


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IBM solutions

Life sciences

Description:

 

IBM life sciences solutions provides the IT infrastructure that researchers in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, genomics, proteomics, healthcare, and academia need to turn data into scientific discovery and new treatments for disease.


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Innovation enabled by IBM On Demand Business

Description:

 

An enterprise whose business processes can respond with flexibility and speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat. Organizations need access to highly skilled professionals to help them establish an Innovation enabled by On Demand Business vision and transform their business processes and implement changes.


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Product Lifecycle Management

Description:

 

Product lifecycle management designs, analyzes, and manages your company's products from conception to retirement. Dassault Systèmes products are the heart of the IBM PLM solution.

Software:

 

CATIA, SMARTEAM


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IBM Virtualization Engine

Description:

 

IBM® Virtualization Engine is a set of technologies and systems services that helps you aggregate and manage pools of resources and get a consolidated view of them throughout your IT environment. It uses key IBM virtualization technologies to identify and visually display relationships among both physical and virtual data, computing power, storage capacity, and other resources.

Key products:

 

Virtualization Engine console, Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM)


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IBM systems

System i

Description:

 

System i is the industry's premier "all-in-one" business computing system. It offers an ideal combination of open standards and integration, enabling it to deliver complete freedom of application choice along with rock-solid security, virus-resistance and legendary system uptime. System i is the only system in the industry today that runs i5/OS, Linux, AIX (Unix), and Windows operating systems simultaneously.

Operating Systems:

 

i5/OS, Linux, Unix (AIX), Windows


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System z

Description:

 

Featuring a broad array of capabilities for scaling up, scaling out and conforming a business, System z offers a balanced, highly secure foundation designed to simplify IT infrastructure and dynamically manage business-critical applications.

Software:

 

z/OS, z/VM, CICS, IMS


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