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Discover, via the virtual office, how this organization is extending their quality investments across their software application lifecycle, driving quality investments to the next level by using IBM Rational solutions. Download assets that are helping their employees achieve greater efficiencies and productivity.

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the lifecycle and supports the ALM imperatives. Read the white paper to learn the details. Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging runtimes, technologies and standards.

Industries of all varieties have begun to realize that the target audiences for their business applications have shifted in massive numbers from the use of traditional personal computers, such as desktops and laptops, to using mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets for accessing the internet and for obtaining the information they seek. This applies if the intended audience for the application is a direct customer of the enterprise (Business-to-Consumer apps, or "B2C"). Across the globe, more people are now using mobile devices that they can carry with them wherever they go, and which are more user-friendly and intuitive to use, as their primary means of obtaining information and requesting services over the internet.

A new, exciting reality exists in which software is the driver of innovation and you as developers are critical to your organization and to the way in which business value is delivered. To thrive, you will need to embrace three key themes; integrate, collaborate and optimize; or be left behind.

As today's big data challenges increase, the demands on data systems have never been greater. Pure Data System is the newest member of the PureSystems family and is optimized exclusively for delivery data services to today's demanding applications with simplicity, speed and lower cost. Registering for this online event will provide you detailed information about each model and allow you to further your knowledge and understanding about the value of the PureData System.

In years past IT managers were willing to be saddled with the dreaded vendor lock-in. They were willing to let their infrastructure and software choices be dictated by one or two vendors in the hope of better operation efficiency and support. Those days, however, are long gone. Most IT shops are platform and vendor neutral. But building a server architecture that can allow for true agnosticism is challenging. In this paper, learn five actionable ways your IT organization can leverage IBM's System X technology to build truly scalable and flexible data centers that can power any number of vendor systems and business processes and workloads.

By using IBM Operational Decision Management (IBM ODM) software for implementing decision logic, you can realize a major advancement in bridging the gap between business people and IT. The solution provides capabilities for the line-of-business to define policies in a form that is both understandable by the non-technical user and deployable to the systems that use them to automate decisions, facilitating clear communication between the policy managers defining the requirements and the developers implementing the business system solution.

Simplified graphical design tools-make it easier for every team member, including nontechnical users, to collaborate on process design and analysis. Download this whitepaper and learn how to: Increase efficiency, Increase collaboration and Visibility into process performance.

What you may call basic SOA or IT - centric SOA applies SOA principles to the flexible integration of an enterprise IT portfolio. But controlling interactions through well-defined services and interfaces certainly applies to mobile, social, cloud, and Big Data solutions as well. SOA is simply good design for IT integration and for the business solutions of an ever-more-connected and ever-more-distributed world. This book is a guide to applying the design principles of SOA to the business problems of today.

By now most IT departments have some form of resilience strategy in place and is likely already out of date. Many of these legacy plans rely on expensive remote locations and duplicate facilities, concepts that are no longer feasible in today's business environment. Learn five ways your organization can better utilize cloud computing to build a better, holistic resilience plan that will cover the entire business, not just IT infrastructure and systems. This IT Managers' Journal covers all the topics for cloud-based resilience, including cloud-based offsite backup and data protection, service-level agreements (SLAs), disaster recovery, virtualization and more.

Register now for "Business Analytics in the Era of Big Data" free-to-attend virtual event by IBM on June 11. Discover how the latest in IBM Analytics solutions can empower you to:

• Spend less time organizing data and more time extracting real meaning
• Improve decision-making in your job function
• Drive fact-based actions for better business results

Register now for "Business Analytics in the Era of Big Data" free-to-attend virtual event by IBM on June 11. Discover how the latest in IBM Analytics solutions can empower you to:

• Spend less time organizing data and more time extracting real meaning
• Improve decision-making in your job function
• Drive fact-based actions for better business results

Organizations around the world continue to see massive data growth in OLTP, analytics and data warehousing systems. At the same time, business users require new applications to be deployed faster and cheaper, have high availability, and provide excellent performance. Can your IT ecosystem continue to excel while embracing this growth and meeting user needs? Learn how to overcome today's data management challenges with innovative database software designed for the new era of big data.

Spreadsheets are widely used for statistical analysis; and while they are incredibly useful tools, they are useful only to a certain point. When used for a task they're not designed to perform, or for a task at or beyond the limit of their capabilities, spreadsheets can actually be dangerous. This paper presents some points you should consider if you use, or plan to use, a spreadsheet to perform statistical analysis. It also describes an alternative that in many cases will be more suitable.

If you're looking for an alternative to using spreadsheets, take a few minutes to check out our game, The Limitations of Spreadsheet Analysis. You will find out how easy it is to carry out your analytical tasks with IBM SPSS Statistics...and have fun doing it!