“Optimizing Monthly License Charge Costs To Better Leverage Your Mainframe”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC, February 2016

BMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an in-depth study of IT and senior corporate managers in US enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to evaluate mainframe strategies and how they impact mainframe operating costs. Forrester found that by optimizing mainframe Monthly License Charge (MLC) costs, these companies have lowered operational costs and increased automation, which improved their productivity. Learn about four recommendations to help you save.
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Adapt to Digital Business with Single System Image (SSI) Monitoring Capabilities for Mainframes

Meet the demand for performance and availability with simpler mainframe monitoring.

Finding and resolving issues is critical to keep revenue-generating digital services running their best. In this paper, you’ll learn how to achieve a single, simpler view across your mainframe environment before performance and availability issues impact your business.

Read the white paper to:

  • Improve the efficiency and productivity of mainframe staff
  • Maintain performance despite growing complexity
  • Shrink MTTR, reduce system outages and lower TCO

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Deliver Better Results for Mainframe Cost Reduction Initiatives

In this white paper, you’ll learn how you can leverage BMC’s mainframe cost optimization solution to avoid unnecessary MLC expenses and risks while focusing on projects that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver the highest ROI. What you’ll find in this white paper:
  • Understand why past cost reductions failed to deliver expected savings
  • Learn how to identify projects with the best chance of success
  • Discover how to save significantly on MLC costs
  • See how to avoid unnecessary changes to applications
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Five Database Must-Haves for Meeting Evolving Needs

By 2017, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a hybrid IT strategy composed of public cloud, on-premises and private cloud components. In an increasingly “cloud-first” era, agile, scalable infrastructure matters more than ever.

This Battlecard looks at the changing nature of business, the growing importance of data to all parts of the enterprise, and offers five key considerations when evaluating database options for tomorrow’s enterprise.

Key points will include

  • Supporting Next-Generation Applications
  • Big Data and the Enterprise
  • What Hybrid means to the database
  • The Economics of Cloud
  • Security and the Database

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IBM API Connect

Today’s leading enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation. They are diving into the API economy, in which businesses provide services—and the services of partners—when and where customers want them. They are connecting existing enterprise applications, data and services to new channels of personalized customer engagement. These transformations are driven by:

  • Consumers’ thirst for compelling, omni-channel brand experiences
  • Enterprise leaders’ desire to connect internal groups of developers across lines of businesses to increase reuse of digital assets and accelerate time to innovation
  • Incumbent businesses’ need to compete against new entrants that are offering enhanced experiences—in today’s markets, if you’re not disrupting, you’re being disrupted

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ODM For Dummies

In this IBM limited-edition Dummies book, you’ll learn what operational decision management (ODM) is and how it can benefit your organization by helping to:

  • Enable faster and more agile change so your business can react more quickly to opportunities and threats
  • Automatically capture knowledge so it can be reused to make better business decisions
  • Manage compliance better by providing a clear record of the rules that govern business operations
  • Make operational decisions more predictable and repeatable while also allowing you to model, measure, collaborate on and refine these decisions as your business needs change
  • Improve customer service with more consistent and accurate rules-based decisions, as well as by personalizing the user experience

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BPM For Dummies

Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, shows you what BPM is and how it can help your organization. You see how the BPM solutions from IBM help you gain many benefits from higher customer satisfaction to greater agility in adapting to changing market conditions.
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APIs for Dummies

This IBM limited edition e-book helps you learn the basics of application programming interfaces (APIs), including:

  • What an API is—and what it’s not
  • What it means to manage an API
  • How to recognize good API design
  • The primary business and IT agendas that lead to API adoption
  • How APIs fit into integration middleware

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Streamline application innovation with APM

For years, application performance management (APM) played an important but largely background role. With the evolution of a digital world where innovation and customer engagement rule, APM is now firmly in the spotlight.

View the IBM webcast featuring Cameron Haight from Gartner, Inc., to learn how APM has evolved alongside DevOps and agile practices.

  • Streamline the innovation process with APM.
  • Evaluate APM tools.
  • Apply APM across the full DevOps tool chain, from development to production.
  • Accelerate product releases across hybrid cloud environments with APM.

You’ll also hear from Arun Biligiri, IBM's APM leader, as he discusses how IBM is leveraging its leadership in hybrid cloud and cognitive capabilities to deliver a DevOps-centric APM solution.

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7 proven Practices

This white paper will discuss key tips for improving a release process and strengthening release management. Once the following practices are in order, the process can be enabled to keep up with the pace of Agile, and reduce the risks associated with rapid deployments.
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How API-led Connectivity Powers the Payer of the Future

Health insurance is undergoing a digital transformation driven by legislative, competitive, and consumer pressures. In order to survive and thrive amidst industry disruption, many progressive health insurers are pioneering new business models anchored by a modern, “composable," API-led approach to IT. Using case studies from Premera Blue Cross and other leading payer organizations, this paper addresses:
  • Trends driving digital transformation in health insurance, and how leading payers are responding
  • The benefits of API-led connectivity for health insurers
  • Design principles for an API-led connectivity architecture
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How to Access Big Data & Unstructured Content in Your Applications

Nearly 80 percent of content is living outside of a structured data environment. Information-driven software solutions need a way to unlock unstructured files like Word, PowerPoint and PDF, pull out the hidden and visible content that’s inside, and incorporate the data into their systems in a variety of different ways and formats. However, extracting data from various internal and external sources is often a tedious and time-consuming process that can’t keep pace with ever-changing requirements of business. Plus, many vendors cannot extract data from web sites that use AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, and PDFs forcing developers to write custom scripts or modify existing scripts.

In this webcast you will learn how to:
  • Identify, extract and transform every document, email, legacy, archive and container format you need
  • Render, manipulate and view content in high definition
  • Preview all kind of formats on Mobile devices
  • Eliminate manual scripting to access the business data from disparate sources
  • Perform automated database look ups and online checks from websites without using APIs
  • Collect data in a structured type ready for internal applications or databases
Particularly interesting for software vendors!
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Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide

Through the lens of application platform as a service (aPaaS), find out what Gartner had to say about OutSystems Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) solution compared to some of the largest tech companies in the market.

Read this complimentary report to:
  • See if aPaaS fits in your current and future architecture.
  • Learn how modern applications that engage customers and empower employees is driving adoption for aPaaS.
  • Find out how to use modern application platforms to balance the need for speed and stability.
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The Rise of PhD APIs

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.
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