'TRUSTED', a co-branded asset that IBM has created along with the leading IT research and client advisory firm, Gartner. This quarterly asset, features insights from IBM, Gartner research report, interviews of some of IBM's key clients and highlights some of IBM's industry-leading solutions to help address your business challenges.
As the world become exponentially more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, the sheer volume of data that will be available to people via smart devices will allow for better business decisions. This is assuming that the information can be available when it is needed and that it can be processed in a timely manner.
Follow that assumption for a moment and think about what’s possible when this data is put to work. What would it mean to communication service providers if they could have a view into how their customers are experiencing their service in real time? How would healthcare change if integrated patient information were available to physicians consulting on a diagnosis, independent of time and location? And what would it mean to green IT initiatives – and the environment as a whole – if a single dashboard could provide visibility into everything that generates energy in an organization’s facility?
For businesses these questions will remain unresolved unless they have smarter IT –enabled services to respond quickly and efficiently to the daily demands of the business. For the IT department or service provider, it means continuously integrating disparate workloads. In order to do this, they’ll need to match the workloads that make up the services they provide with the right technology systems so they can get the best performance out of each application – and the underlying technology that support it. In a dynamic, ever – evolving business landscape, this approach can be the difference between winning and losing, profit and loss
What's Inside
Foreword
Cloud Computing and Integrated Managed Services for a Smarter Organisation - Ashish Kumar, General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia
Cover Story
Smarter Technology for Smarter enterprises
Transformation
How IBM is helping clients with Cloud Computing? - DHFL
How IBM is helping clients with Integrated Managed Services? - Viom Networks
Perspective
Interview with Satish Kotian, Head - IT, DHFL
By-liner
The smarter way of Cloud Computing is here - Rajiv Sachdev, Vice President - Technical, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia
Finding the ROI from Cloud Computing - Sanjeev Menon,
Solutions Leader, Cloud Computing, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia
In focus
Cloud - The new model of business computing
White paper
Business Impact of Outsourcing: a fact based analysis
Generating Higher value at IBM
View IBM's 2015 roadmap
CFO Speak
Robert Parker, Chief Financial Officer, IBM India/South Asia views on key business issues
IBM Annual Report 2011
