Why IBM With proven experience from thousands of client engagements, an architectural approach based on open standards and industry best practices, an unparalleled research organization with extensive patent leadership, and the broadest systems, storage, software and services portfolio in the industry, along with a supporting ecosystem of partners worldwide, IBM has repeatedly demonstrated its wherewithal to help many organizations in an expanding digitally connected world. Its approach addresses the concerns of accelerating business change, global and domestic competitive pressure, increasing risk, security and social responsibility concerns (including regulations). IBM delivers comprehensive service and asset management solutions that can enable organizations to integrate, optimize, and manage holistically the full breadth of business and IT assets – including instrumented "smart" assets – and transform those assets into high-quality, differentiated business services that underpin effective service delivery. Dynamic Infrastructure – IBM's own transformation
As a global enterprise, IBM had a vast array of business and IT assets, and faced many of the same issues as its largest customers, including server sprawl, a multitude of data centers, systems and applications all previously being managed by more than 125 CIOs. From 2002 through 2007, IBM's own IT investments delivered a cumulative benefit yield of approximately $4 billion. For every dollar invested, IBM saw a $4 cumulative benefit.
(Source – IBM Case Study.) Support for Mid-sized Organizations to Large Enterprises IBM has always been an industry leader in providing business solutions and services worldwide. Its experience spans organizations of all sizes and its offerings are designed for a variety of organization types and sizes. Key to its strategy for helping clients build dynamic infrastructures is a strong commitment for ensuring that not only large organizations but also mid-sized businesses are able to utilize leading edge solutions to address their particular, often different, needs. A dynamic infrastructure is designed to help mid-size companies reduce costs, better manage risk, and improve service in today's highly interconnected and intelligent world. It can break down barriers for such companies by integrating and transforming their IT infrastructure to respond faster to increasing customer demands. Breadth and depth of solutions and services IBM's thought leadership approach toward helping organizations create their own dynamic infrastructure makes it a solid IT partner for organizations, especially in times of economic uncertainty. It understands that reducing costs is top of mind for the vast majority of CIO's, requiring not just incremental improvements in savings or cost reductions, but dramatic improvements in productivity and services. With a wide portfolio of servers, storage, and software solutions, and services, including cloud computing and solutions for virtualization, energy efficiency, and Information Infrastructure, as well as being a stable, proven IT financing partner, IBM and its business partner community offer the ability to dramatically improve the total cost of both the underlying IT infrastructure and management costs associated with the need to speed delivery of business and IT services. For nearly a century now, IBM has been providing hardware, software and services designed to help clients reduce operational risk, meet availability challenges, protect and recover sensitive or critical data, with customized enterprise and industry specific resiliency requirements. IBM has a proven track record of recovering 100 percent of its clients that have declared disaster, and an unmatched global ability to deliver business resilience solutions, with more that 154 business resilience centers around the world. A broad range of services is available to help assess needs, initiate projects, and consult with experts on building a dynamic infrastructure:
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