New IBM Software Portfolio Advances Predictive Analytics to Help Improve Business Performance

October 7, 2011 · Filed Under Business Software, Software News · Comment 

IBM announced a broad portfolio of software that uses analytics to provide greater visibility and integration between the applications that run on an IT infrastructure and key business processes. By applying analytics expertise to the data center in this way, the new software will enable clients to make more intelligent, automated business decisions and help them embrace cloud computing.

The software enhances business decision management, predictive business service management and integration. In addition, IBM is debuting new products to help organizations drive smarter application development and deployment.

With IBM software, Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago, a large stock exchange in Chile, is now able to process high-volume trading in microseconds, increasing their transaction capacity by 900 percent. By improving the speed that its system operates and applying analytics, the company significantly improved order routing, giving its traders visibility into business activity in real time.

The Chilean stock exchange system can do all the detective work of analyzing current and past transactions and market information, learning and adapting to market trends and connecting its traders to business information in real time. Ultra-fast throughput in combination with analytics now allows traders to make more accurate, predictive decisions. As a result, the company is more competitive in the financial services industry. Read more

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SAP Releases New Version of SAP Business ByDesign

August 2, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Productivity Software, Software News · Comment 

Feature Pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign Solution Generally Available; Innovative Starter Packages Speed On-Demand Suite Adoption

SAP AG announced the general availability of the feature pack 2.5 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution beginning July 30, 2010. This comprehensive, fully integrated on-demand business management suite is now available in China, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. SAP also announced the introduction of three new predefined starter packages that provide customers a compelling starting point for their adoption of the complete SAP Business ByDesign solution.

General Availability of Feature Pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign

The general availability of the feature pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign delivers significant customer-centric innovations including real-time, in-memory analytics, support for mobile devices, customizable rich user interface and increased flexibility.

The new feature pack provides the mature customer lifecycle management capabilities necessary to support a large volume rollout and reduce the cost of delivery. In addition to being fully enabled to provide multi-tenancy, it has been engineered for customer- and partner-specific business extensions, and provides flexibility to easily make changes to the default user interface, report and forms. It also leverages the proven life cycle management system from SAP, protecting all changes during upgrades.

Partners continue to be a core part of the go-to-market strategy for SAP Business ByDesign, and solution partners as well as solution resellers leverage the new business model and opportunities to the advantage of customers. Read more

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