Sponsor: IBM Corporation

IBM Worklight is a mobile application development platform that lets you extend your business to mobile devices. It is designed to provide an open, comprehensive platform to build, run and manage HTML5, hybrid and native mobile apps.

As part of an overall IT transformation, a company evaluated two products to potentially provide integration and messaging capabilities: an open source ESB and IBM Integration Bus.

Topdanmark, a major European insurance company, documents its decision process for software destined to support production applications and operations.

How much can organizations expect to save by investing in a mobile application platform? IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Worklight. Using an established methodology and based upon actual customer experiences, this report breaks down the economics of the Worklight mobile application platform and the key factors that informed Forrester’s conclusion of a 363% Five-Year ROI.

This white paper focuses on a comprehensive approach for the development of mobile business applications. The technique described combines best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management with newer requirements unique to the creation of mobile applications. It is intended to provide value for all of the roles involved in mobile enterprise business application development projects.

IBM Worklight software can enable organizations to extend their business through HTML5, hybrid and native applications ("apps") for a variety mobile devices. IBM Worklight supports the entire application lifecycle from development, back-end integration and authentication, to post-deployment management.

Running workloads in a cloud environment presents new challenges. How to manage applications that span the virtual and physical; the public cloud and the private cloud; and the mainframe and distributed systems. In this context, job scheduling is becoming a more dynamic discipline, combining advanced automation with new workload types and cloud delivery models. In this Clabby Research whitepaper, learn how using Workload Automation can help ensure cloud success.

IBM SmartCloud Workload Automation is a sophisticated, cloud-enabled solution that unifies disparate applications and business processes to help organizations achieve superior efficiency and availability while leveraging the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing.

This paper provides a general business overview for organizations that are seeking advice on how to align IT within the organization. In a dynamic and globalized economy, where IT has its own agenda, interesting business and marketplace factors have emerged thanks to C-level studies, unraveling how both CIOs and CEOs are now targeting similar objectives. Never before have organizations found themselves in a more instrumented, integrated, and intelligent world as today, where challenges must have extraordinary solutions.

This analyst report provides guidelines for how to plan an effective Enterprise Asset Management strategy, including maturity levels, processes, and technologies in context of IT Asset Management advances. The paper was developed by Enterprise Management Associates - an IT Analyst firm.

Application downtime is just one of many costs associated with a fragmented application performance management (APM) strategy. Managing today’s more complex and interdependent mission-critical applications is a growing challenge with even larger business implications. Learn the 5 steps to simplify Application Performance Management.

This white paper reviews the trends and issues facing the many segments of the transportation industry from an enterprise asset management perspective. These include the rolling stock and vehicles managed by freight and logistic companies, private fleets, public fleets and public transit.

This white paper discusses how IBM Maximo Asset Management solutions for local government provide a consolidated, trusted platform for simple and effective management of all asset types.

You've Seen Some of the Commandments - But Finding the BYOD Promised Land Requires All Ten End users are demanding their own devices in the workplace making IT the shepherds of a potentially unruly flock. The good news is IT can embrace BYOD with security and confidence given the right preparation and technology. Whether you're supporting iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows, the rules of BYOD don't change. Download today to see all the tenets of implementing an effective BYOD program in your organization.

To achieve continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations, organizations need to replace traditional processes with a new best practice approach and new innovative technology, such as that provided by IBM Endpoint Manager.