Value add

Take advantage of the expertise of IBM NL Center of Excellence and get support on your long-term digital information usability issues.
IBM delivers value to you - its customers due to

IBM’s unique capabilities

• Broad portfolio - By the integration of IBM’s broad portfolio for its clients, IBM provides end-to-end capabilities (HW, SW, services) as well as stand alone services on any of your long-term information usability issues.
• Teaming - IBM develops a customized solution in close cooperation with its customers.
• Implementation and Research skills - IBM has proven track record for both implementations and research.
• Local support resources - IBM provides local 1st line support centralized 2nd line support by the IBM NL Center of Excellence.
• Leadership in outsourcing and outtasking market- IBM is leading in outsourcing and outtasking services providing the means, skills and expertise to manage and/or host its clients long-term archiving and usability infrastructure as a service.

IBM’s innovative assets

• Industry Solutions : IBM develops optimized configurations of long-term digital usability solutions for your specific industry needs.
• Complete Business Solutions : IBM’s Component Business Model for digital repositories relates your different business aspects: Organization, processes and IT.
• Advanced Solutions : IBM’s Preservation Manager will identify potential usability issues and helps to formulate the appropriate preservation actions to assures future usability of your information

IBM’s proven experiences

IBM has experience in various fields of long-term digital information usability for already one decade.

• IBM’s collective experience through current international customer engagements:
• National Library of the Netherlands (Netherlands)
• Project kopal (Germany)
• Dassault Aviation (France)

IBM’s research engagements

• Research Centers : IBM’s research centers in Haifa (US) and Guadalajara (US) are constantly investigating on new innovative long-term information usability solutions.
• European research preservation programs - IBM is actively participating in European research preservation programs, such as
• PLANETS
• CASPAR
• IMPACT

Let IBM's experts provide you with leading edge support on every kind of long-term information usability issues.