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Rational Software

IBM Rational software helps organizations automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software and systems delivery via the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform. Offering an array of products, services, and best practices, this open, modular, and proven solution spans the entire software and systems delivery lifecycle.

The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform comprises products in four lifecycle categories:

• Architecture management: Model, design, and rapidly build resilient architectures for SOAs, systems, and applications.
• Change and release management: Improve software delivery and lifecycle traceability, from requirements through deployment.
• Process and portfolio management: Align business goals, best practices, and projects for improved productivity and predictability.
• Quality management: Ensure software functionality, reliability, and performance throughout development and production.
• Website security and compliance: Protect data and meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements.

BROCHURE: IBM Rational change and release management software
BROCHURE: The IBM Rational AppScan lifecycle solution (security)
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Tivoli Software

Tivoli Service Management enables clients to better manage their infrastructure, operations and IT processes, to more effectively deliver services aligned to business goals.

• Asset Management:  Achieve greater efficiency in asset management by managing all your asset types on a single platform.
• Business Application Management:  Manage composite applications and optimize application performance and service levels.
• Security Management:  Ensure compliance to identity and access control policies for IT resources and services.
• Server, Network and Device Management:  Optimize performance and automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure resources.
• Service Management:  Innovation, execution and leadership for enterprises to optimize and manage the business of IT.
• Service Provider Solutions:  Ensure critical services are performing to the highest standards.
• Storage Management:  Backup, restore, protect and optimize your storage infrastructure and data.

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WebSphere Software

• Application and transaction infrastructure: Build, deploy and run applications in a proven, secure and flexible environment.
• Application integration:  Linking applications and services for operational efficiency and cost savings.
• Application transformation:  Leverage legacy applications and information in new business processes.
• Business process management:  Improve business agility and ROI with end-to-end process management by integrating people, content and systems.
• Commerce:  Automate and integrate online marketing and sales processes across multiple channels.
• Mobile and speech middleware:  Extend access to business processes, applications and information to anyone anywhere.
• Portals:  Deliver a point of personalized interaction with applications, content, processes and people.

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Information Management

IBM's Information Management software integrates data and enterprise content to leverage information on demand.

• Database Servers:  Build the foundation for information on demand.
• Database Tools:  Enhance IMS and Information Management software performance.
• Dynamic Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence:  Gather, manage & analyze data to generate insight.
• Enterprise Content Management:  Manage volume and capture the value of unstructured content.
• Information Platform & Solutions:  Leverage information for innovation combining market-leading Information Integration and Master Data Management technologies.

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Lotus Software

IBM Lotus software is security-rich software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity.

• Application design and development:  Increase user productivity and business flexibility with custom solutions for Lotus software.
• Dashboards and business solutions:  Deploy role-based work environments and speed time-to-value with dashboards, scorecards and composite applications.
• E-mail, calendaring and collaborative applications:  Provide more than just messaging with Lotus Notes and Domino built-in collaboration tools and application platform.
• Instant messaging and Web conferencing:  Collaborate real-time with integrated Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC²) software and solutions.
• Mobile and wireless:  Extend enterprise business processes, applications and information to mobile and wireless devices and clients.
• Social software:  Gather and exchange information through professional networks and build communities of experts to help execute tasks faster.
• Team collaboration, content management and e-forms:  Create, organize, share, and manage business content to provide the right information to the right people -- fast.

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