White Papers: IBM

This new mindset of anytime, anywhere access brings significant impacts and consequences to the IT organisation, which must try to balance the promise of greater productivity and worker satisfaction with the security concerns it creates. While some companies are issuing smartphones and tablets for employees, a growing majority of employees are bringing personally-owned devices to the workplace for business purposes—often without explicit company approval. This paper explores how organisations can derive business value in the BYOD era, while still providing a security-rich IT infrastructure and consistent service levels. Read now.

Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped. To take advantage of cloud’s potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value chains, organisations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business models that promote sustainable competitive advantage. Learn more about driving business model innovation.

It’s time for midsize companies to start thinking differently about infrastructure. This white paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing, explains how midsize companies can benefit, and describes the steps they can take to take advantage of what it has to offer. Read now.

To address challenging business imperatives, many line-of-business and IT executives are turning to solutions, such as cloud computing, that enable continual optimisation of increasingly complex and dynamic business services, processes and relationships. Learn more on how organisations can satisfy these imperatives and embrace change and complexity.

This report from Forrester, a highly respect independent analyst, provides readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the WebSphere Application Server on their organization within a production environment. Readers may use this analysis as a basis to calculate their own impact of investment in WebSphere Application Server across a variety of client industries. Read more about the total economic impact.