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Leading German news channel selects IBM and NorCom for new broadcast production system

IBM will acquire Schlumberger's Business Continuity Services unit. The strategic acquisition will increase IBM's capabilities in helping clients ensure business continuity, and providing IT infrastructure and data recovery services in case of unplanned events or outages.

A new IBM offering for financial institutions enables them to integrate, manage, and gain insight into the business information generated by everyday operations and customer activity. This offering helps banks to fulfill obligations of the forthcoming Basel II Capital Accord.

New IBM initiatives further enable its 90,000 Business Partners to capture business opportunities in the on demand era. IBM's latest enablement tools for Business Partners includes incentives, sales tools, marketing support, training and solution integration offerings.

Avnet, a technology marketing, distribution and services company, has begun deployment of an on demand service from Ketera Technologies and IBM that will transform the company's sourcing, procurement and spend management processes, and provide rapid savings to the company.

IBM has a major role at the 2004 Australian Open, serving up new ideas and technology for efficiency, cost effectiveness and timeliness. A single flexible Web infrastructure is managing three unrelated projects in real time -- the tournament, financial services, and protein science.