Application Innovation Services

Solution and security expertise for industry growth

Actionable Business Architecture helps drive growth and agility by aligning business strategy, operations and technology

Become a standout performer in your industry by capitalizing on the integration of business and IT

In this evolving and rapidly changing marketplace, executives are actively rethinking their business strategies and searching for innovative ways to spur sustainable growth. Actionable Business Architecture defines and manages the relationships and interactions among domains—strategy, operating and IT models—to eliminate gaps, provide significant cost savings, improve agility and expose new revenue generation. IBM’s approach for Actionable Business Architecture is an overarching approach that enables the means to efficiently and effectively accelerate solution delivery across the organization, leveraging reusable business and IT components.

Application innovation offerings

Featured insights and solutions

Application Development (US)

Drive market leadership and innovation, improve responsiveness and shorten time to market.

Emerging technologies and architecture (US)

Disparate technology and a lack of IT standardization and governance can significantly affect business efficiency and drive up costs.

IBM Interactive (US)

Optimize user experience to drive increased differentiation, revenues, productivity, efficiency and reduced costs.

Security and privacy (US)

Decrease overhead costs and ensure consistent policy enforcement and compliance with standards and regulations.

Portals and eCommerce (US)

Automate information management and aggregrate application capabilities to drive greater collaboration, efficiency and responsiveness.

Working in the Open—

Accelerating time to value in application development and management

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“Threats adapt faster than the resolution to those threats can be implemented.”—
CIO/Technology Director, professional services, Western Europe

IBM asked 560 IT managers and CIOs in all types of companies all over the world to talk to us about IT risk — what their biggest obstacles are, where their biggest challenges lie, where they see the greatest potential for adding business value. Now you can read the answers in the 2010 IBM Global IT Risk Study report.

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