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Transforming Your Business with Software as a Service

IBM SmartCloud™ Solutions delivers the SaaS solutions needed to maximize collaborations, accelerate innovations, make impactful, informed decisions and become a truly customer-centric organization. Backed by IBM's deep industry knowledge and desire to continually innovate for the benefit of our clients, this portfolio aligns IT and line-of-business priorities to maximize software investments and streamline business processes. The result is a customer-centric company culture that is nimble and ready to act. Only IBM SmartCloud Solutions transcends other SaaS options by meeting security, extensibility, performance and integration demands. Transform your thinking and invigorate your business with SaaS delivered through IBM SmartCloud Solutions.

IBM SmartCloud™ Engage Security

SmartCloud Engage is an integrated suite of collaboration tools that combine your business social network with web conferencing and collaboration capabilities, like file storing and sharing, instant messaging and activity management. SmartCloud Engage provides essential collaboration services, leveraging IBM's unique position as a world-renowned security leader and trusted partner. Security is a competitive differentiator for SmartCloud Engage. SmartCloud Engage business-ready security is based on a deep understanding of security and privacy best practices in IBM. Our security controls provide privacy and controlled authorization to sensitive information while enabling business operations. Engage protects our customers' information through governance, tools, technology, techniques, and personnel.

The future of email and applications is social

Email will retain relevance as a key business collaboration tool by evolving toward a more integrated approach with these newer tools. IBM Notes and Domino is the right platform for creating social email and application experiences.

Six capabilities of a development platform that deliver a greater return on investment

This executive brief looks at six proven capabilities of a development environment that complement a RADD platform for collaborative or workflow-driven business applications.

Sharing Simplified: Consolidating Multiple File Sharing Technologies

Employees need to share content with colleagues throughout the organization and, increasingly, with others not directly employed by their company. However, traditional ECM technologies make it hard to share content within a single business and, in many cases, impossible to do between organizations. Ideally, multiple file sharing technologies would be consolidated into a single solution with the following characteristics: intuitive, accessible, comprehensive, connectable, embeddable, secure, scalable, reliable, and affordable. Box meets and exceeds these criteria.

Power to the People – Identify and Empower Your Mobile Workforce

One-in-two mobile owners in the US owns a smartphone, and many more own tablets. As most of these same consumers adapt their personal lifestyle to be "mobile first", they expect their employers to be there to meet them. Taking this on seems daunting, as IT has less ability to enforce a single standard than ever before. Not taking action, however, and ignoring this trend risks exposing corporate data to public clouds with no visibility on the part of IT. Enforcing a single standard will do a lot to serve all users partially, but none particularly well.

Enterprise Collaboration is Mobile Collaboration

In a mobile-centric world, IT has a new challenge on its hands: ensuring that users can access and collaborate on content anytime, anywhere an on any device. Here are the top five challenges, and how to overcome them.

Security Gateway Buyer’s Guide

Independent industry security expert Gunnar Peterson provides the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice when evaluating Security Gateways. Describes security architecture capabilities, common business use cases, and deployment considerations.

CITO Research White Paper: Enterprise API Patterns for Cloud & Mobile

Dan Woods, Chief Analyst CITO Research, outlines enterprise architecture requirements for designing, managing, and protecting APIs and how the emerging API Gateway "proxy" deployment model is speeding deployment across industries. In this model, authentication using OAuth and other lightweight protocols such as REST and JSON are all the rage but Enterprise-class security is still lacking. To present actionable solutions, Dan presents 5 core API patterns for mobile, partner, data control, and PaaS infrastructure with actionable diagrams and a monetization model for APIs.

The Business of APIs

Written by API Evangelist Kin Lane & technology writer Audrey Watters, The business of APIs is geared for business professionals within organizations seeking to learn more about what APIs are and what they are used for. The Business of APIs also aims to bridge the technical and the business sides of API development. This authors' aims are to help people understand what APIs are, describe who uses them, and to inform people about the different types of APIs that are available. You'll learn where some APIs stumble, as well as the building blocks for a successful API and how to spread adoption while fostering an API ecosystem.

The Building Blocks of a Successful API

Written by API Evangelist Kin Lane, this white paper is written for developers who want to fast-track the adoption of their APIs. The paper walks through the most common of these building blocks used by 1500 of the most successful APIs that are transforming every industry today. While not all of the building blocks are applicable to every API, Kin Lane reviews the most important factors that should be considered when planning a new API or deploying the next version of an existing API. The goal of the whitepaper is not to provide the details of implementing each of the building blocks, but to highlight the full spectrum of building blocks used by the successful APIs on the Internet today.

2013 Technology Salary Survey Results

This resource will showcase that technology salaries in the U.S. saw the biggest jump in more than a decade and tech professionals earned a greater than five percent increase in average annual wages. Read about salary trends by skill set, location and more in Dice's new report for 2013.

Integrate for Insight

Enterprises must learn to understand how best to leverage big data soon, since the amount of data being generated shows no signs of slowing down. See how Oracle offers a broad portfolio of products to help enterprises acquire, manage, and integrate big data with existing information, with the goal of achieving a complete view of business in the fastest, most reliable, and cost effective way.

Simplify IT – Strive for Simplicity

For technology executives, the mandate to simplify is particularly important, as IT is being pressured to do more with less, with flat or decreasing budgets and fewer resources. Business innovation is increasingly dependent on the application of information technology as well. IT leaders are challenged to architect and build infrastructures that meet 24/7 business demands while remaining within the limitations. While companies are feeling the challenge of tight IT budgets, departmental cuts, and resource constraints, a notable and important business need has emerged: the need to simplify.

Cloud Integration – A Comprehensive Solution

This white paper describes how to integrate on-premise and cloud applications, including Oracle Cloud applications, with this type of pragmatic, universal perspective. While Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday are used as examples, the principles apply to many vendors. The hub for these integrations are the Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle data integration products, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, a unified platform that accommodates all types of information systems, deployment models, SaaS vendors, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure, anchored by a cohesive set of tools for development, management, security, and governance.