If you’re an executive responsible for delivering line-of business solutions to market, then you understand the challenges. Whether they take the form of code delays due to API creation, deployment bottlenecks, or challenges around rapid scaling to meet demand, all the weight is on your shoulders.

Fortunately, there are solutions that can help. In this white paper you’ll:

• Learn about managing “two-speed IT” and how you can use DevOps strategies to help your developers get far more rapid-turnaround through continuous test and deployment
• Explore how you can build apps that meet your customers’ needs quickly using “right-fit runtime,” and how you can define and develop APIs with tools to help you manage API traffic and security
• Discover how your operations teams can reduce their workload, increase their productivity, and boost user satisfaction through the power of patterns and self-service IT.

Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

• How User Experience Matters
• BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
• Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

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

The pace of business is accelerating. Mobile and social trends have influenced client engagement models, driving customers to expect new and better application services delivered faster. IBM cloud technology is helping businesses respond to these drivers by changing the status quo, enabling business leaders to fast-track innovation and advance key priorities.

To achieve these results, organizations need to rapidly exploit cloud capabilities across a hybrid environment that includes both on-premises and off-premises options. The IBM PureApplication solution portfolio helps deliver these capabilities quickly and easily.