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Learn about the cost savings and business benefits of DB2 with BLU Acceleration. In a commissioned study, Forrester Consulting evaluated the total economic impact of BLU Acceleration in-memory technology at a financial services client. As data volumes and the number of queries increased for this client, BLU Acceleration eliminated the need to manage indexes and improved query response time. This helped to manage IT staff workload and enabled the organization to respond quickly to regulatory requests.

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This white paper is written for SAP customers evaluating their infrastructure choices, discussing database technology evolution and options available. It is not easy to put forth a black-and-white choice as the SAP workloads straddle both real-time analytics and extreme transaction processing, and infrastructure choices can now be vast, given technology advancements around in-memory and faster processing speeds.

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Leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has just completed its latest survey-based research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery and will be presenting the results during this webinar. Momentum continues to build for these two timely topics, and the initial findings are confirming the links between accelerated software delivery and revenue growth, which was first revealed by the 2014 EMA research on these same topics.

Join Julie Craig, research director at EMA, to get highlights of this new research.

IBM offers insights to CIOs regarding key security essentials for enabling mobility and BYOD.

In our “There’s an app for that” economy, the need to develop and deploy new code rapidly can be a real competitive differentiator. As businesses adopt agile and DevOps strategies, what can they do to accelerate the speed of deploying new apps?

This Battlecard provides buyers with the information on how IBM UrbanCode helps speed deployment of applications in DevOps environments and thus drives deployment costs down. Organizations have seen development cycle increases ranging from 15% to 75%, delivering increased productivity, time-to-market savings and reduction in the risk of failed deployments thanks to standardization, increased transparency into the release process. 

In today’s increasingly mobile environments, business users require new apps – or new features for existing apps – at an accelerated pace. Not only are there more projects, users demand new code is up and running faster than ever.

This Battlecard presents the key information about the ways IBM BlueMix enables enterprises of all sizes to accelerate the development process by eliminating overhead previously required to spin up development environments. The resulting faster time to value delivers real bottom-line benefits.

In today’s application economy, IT and business units are focused on increasing employee effectiveness and driving customer loyalty with a broad range of new ‘mobile-first’ applications. Having ‘an app for that’ offers many benefits – consumer-like experiences, increased use of enterprise applications, support for mobile workforce and a global customer base, to name just a few. But with each new mobile app – and mobile user – comes another attack surface and possible source of data loss or regulatory infraction. What now?

Attend this Slashdot webinar to hear our expert panel discuss the challenges facing IT, developers and DevOps teams today, and what enterprises of all sizes should be doing to ensure their applications and users aren’t at risk. Attendees will hear:

• How MDM is evolving, and what that means to users and IT
• Methods of controlling devices that access your network and apps – simply
• Why provisioning matters, and how to accelerate onboarding and retiring of users and devices
• How to give users secure corporate access while retaining their existing mobile experience
• Why content is king – and how to collaborate securely no matter how large the group
• How to give access behind the firewall – without messy configuration settings or VPNs.

Don’t wait – register now for this timely webinar and bring your questions for the experts to address during the Q&A following the presentation.

The 2014 Digital Universe report by the IDC/EMC estimates that the digital universe is doubling in size every two years, and it is only expected to get bigger. With such massive amounts of data circulating the web, organizations are looking for solutions that will allow them to manage these data streams in real-time. Luckily, many solutions are available. However, for most organizations there is no single solution to solve all of their data challenges. The answer is often found in a combination of internal tools and external services, but with so many solutions available, where do you start?

APIs are no longer just a development tool. In this white paper from ProgrammableWeb, you can learn more about the rise of PhD APIs and how they harbor game-changing potential for organizations and business models.

Today, businesses want to know what buyers say about their brand and how they feel about their products. However, with all of the "noise" filling our email, social and other communication channels, listening to customers has become a difficult task. In this guide to sentiment analysis, you'll learn how a machine learning-based approach can provide customer insight on a massive scale and ensure that you don't miss a single conversation.

Amplify the power of one cognitive API by combining it with another. Check out this Mashup Guide for examples syndicated by Watson developers and engineers. Get inspired by these ideas to create your own mashup.

The International Data Corporation estimates that by 2020, 40 zettabytes of data will be generated every day. Compare that to the current 2.5 quintillion bytes per day and it's easy to understand why businesses need a smarter way to wrangle exponentially growing data.

What if you could automatically consume and process data such as tweets, chats, emails and more and integrate them into your data applications? Deep learning makes it easier than ever before.

Achieving Application Delivery Velocity with a 482% ROI

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct their Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines and quantifies potential return on investment (ROI) for IBM UrbanCode Deploy within an enterprise DevOps environment. The study determined that a composite organization, based on the customers interviewed, experienced an ROI of 482%!

Read the Forrester Consulting study and learn how these enterprise organizations achieved:

• 97% reduction in the cost of releases
• Reduction in the risk of failed deployments
• 75% faster deployment times

Download Study – See how IBM UrbanCode brings deployment velocity while reducing release costs

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In order for companies to succeed in the digital market, they must learn to overcome the disruptions of Accelerated digitization, Radical technology changes, and Knowledge can replace speculation. Failure to stay ahead of these disruptions can leave organization stranded and alone while their competitors speed ahead to success. Download this article to learn more!

Big data has been called the new natural resource. And this resource continues to rapidly grow in volume, variety and complexity, particularly in government. Despite the explosive growth of information across industries, less than 1 percent of the world’s data is currently analyzed. How can government organizations bridge the gap between untapped opportunities and current capabilities? The answer is cognitive computing.

Cognitive-based systems build knowledge and learn, understand natural language, and reason and interact more naturally with human beings than traditional programmable systems. Download this article to learn more!