A case study in the financial services industry demonstrates the IBM cloud-enabled data centerapproach to designing highly resilient systems. Intended for senior-level architects with cloudcomputing backgrounds, the article outlines a methodical approach to providing continuouslyavailable digital-channel services.

A recent performance benchmark demonstrates the superior performance and scalability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management solution. The paper demonstrates that the solution running in a DB2 pureScale environment is a better performing and more scalable MDM solution with a lower TCO.

Forrester Consulting describes Master Data Management (MDM) as a ‘critical business capability and technology foundation.’ IBM clients interviewed achieved a variety of operational benefits from their MDM programs, including call center savings, improved efficiencies for inside sales staff, and lower costs for customer mailings and returns. In fact, Forrester found that a composite organization received a risk-adjusted return of 36%% on its investment in IBM InfoSphere MDM, with benefits beginning to accrue in the first year of implementation.

IBM is known across industries as the leader in information integration and governance. The InfoSphere portfolio provides comprehensive solutions for information governance. This research piece by 451 Research provides an overview and assessment of IBM's InfoSphere solutions for information integration and governance portfolio.

Aberdeen has long illustrated the benefits of well-managed, trustworthy data, and the problems associated with poor data quality. As data volumes rapidly expand and data environments become more complex, what were once small nuisances evolve into massive, company-wide problems. Using research collected from December 2009 to December 2012, Aberdeen will examine the hidden financial penalties for lapsed information governance and untrustworthy data. In order to avoid these pitfalls and achieve better business efficiency and operational performance, top performing organizations have found it necessary to invest in tools such as data security, master data management, data quality, data lifecycle management and data integration.

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.

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.

When considering open source, in most cases it is not the ability to modify source code that is attractive to customers, but the perceived cost savings that open source can offer. While the easiest and most obvious costs to calculate are acquisition costs, often overlooked are the far reaching effects that your choice of application server can have on other areas such as management, administration, training, hardware, and lost opportunity due to unexpected downtime. Learn the facts of TCO and performance in this comparison of IBM WebSphere Application Server to Redhat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).

There are many great things to come out of open source initiatives, not the least of which is innovation. But relying on an open source application server for your most critical customer-facing apps is not a smart strategy. If you plan to be in business now and five years from now, consider the security, integrity, scalability, and ultimately lower TCO of the proven IBM WebSphere Application Server for your enterprise.

Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality. In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost.

Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! With Agile for Dummies by your side you’ll learn the fundamentals of agile and how to increase the productivity of your software teams while enabling them to produce higher-quality solutions that better fulfill customer needs much faster.

This white paper digs deep into the reasons testing mobile apps is fundamentally harder than traditional web or desktop applications. A collaboration by Tina Zhuo and Dennis Schultz from IBM along with Yoram Mizrachi from Perfecto Mobile and John Montgomery from uTest, these experts explore the complexities of mobile test environments, the value of the mobile device cloud, the unique role crowd sourcing can play, and how teams can leverage automation to help deliver quality apps.

TechWell, IBM, uTest, and Keynote partnered on a powerful new survey that explores where today’s testers are spending their time, what obstacles they most often encounter, and where they think their attention should be focused. Hear what others are saying about this valuable survey report.