Dear Professionals, IBM has bolstered its Cloud Portfolio: stakes and opportunities for you.
Progressively, the Cloud Computing ecosystem becomes a transformational
engine that is driving growth for providers and customers. According to Gartner
Research, 60 percent of all enterprises are predicted to adopt some form
of cloud computing this year. GigaOm Research, forecast $158 billion in global
cloud computing investment by 2014.
Based on these realities and due to the IBM strong position in this market,
this company more and more expands and consolidates its portfolio which
includes about
100 SaaS applications delivered to clients.
Henceforth SoftLayer Infrastructure
is the Foundation of IBM Cloud Portfolio. This means, IBM is announcing
new social
business and mobile offerings for its 100+ software-as-a-service (SaaS)
solution portfolio, integrated cloud
capabilities with SoftLayer assets and new expert integrated systems for hybrid cloud computing environments.
Connectikpeople continue to observe that, IBM begins to shift its cloud
portfolio to SoftLayer infrastructure. First among many of these shifts
includes the IBM Social Learning platform, a first of its kind social
enablement platform that is part of its Smarter Workforce portfolio.
This means, IBM henceforth commercializes the IBM Social Learning platform
on SoftLayer technology to apply it across a variety of industries, such as
retail, energy and utilities, government, healthcare and automotive.
IBM also launched the new IBM Mobile Feedback App, a cloud-based mobile
application that allows human resources professionals and line of business
executives such as sales, marketing or research to quickly plug into the
opinions and ideas of employees.
Also available a new IBM Survey Analytics application uses text and visual
analytics to automatically extract and display over one million pieces of
anonymous unstructured data derived from employee surveys, including more than
4.2 million employee comments collected annually through surveys conducted by
Kenexa.
Merchandisers using IBM's DemandTec solutions can now benefit from
automated updates to pricing delivered online or in-store.
According to IBM, this new flexibility enables merchandisers to easily and
rapidly respond to competitive price changes, providing both a better customer
experience and improved control over pricing strategies.
IBM also expands its cloud capabilities for digital marketers and
merchandisers with
real time personalization to help
organizations improve customer engagement and drive revenue.
Regarding the new IBM Systems and Solutions for
Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments, henceforth, these solutions can help clients and managed service providers (MSPs) build private and
hybrid clouds to get the most out of social, mobile and Big Data workloads.
These include new IBM PureFlex Systems and IBM Power Systems solutions that aim
to provide the flexibility clients need to quickly deploy clouds and cloud
services.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of open cloud
solutions that help clients build, rent or tap into cloud capabilities. No
other company has the ability to bring together unique industry knowledge and
unmatched cloud capabilities, that have already helped more than 20,000 clients
around the world. Today, IBM has more than 100 cloud SaaS solutions, 37,000
experts with deep industry knowledge helping clients transform and a network of
more than 25 global cloud delivery centers. Since 2007, IBM has invested more
than $6 billion in acquisitions to accelerate its cloud initiatives. Most
recently IBM acquired SoftLayer with more than 21,000 clients in 140 countries
to further build out its IaaS portfolio with an easy and secure on ramp to
cloud integrating IBM SmartCloud.
