As research suggests, investments in data integration and analytics that maximize the value of each customer are worthwhile and create potential for financial gain. To quantify the value of those investments, an illustrative $8 billion communications provider was modeled. Results from this effort are presented throughout this paper. 

When we talk about the world becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the most ubiquitous example is the smartphone. It collects and disseminates data while its users are at home and on the go, serving up just as much socially driven info as static, always-there web content. This white paper outlines smarter commerce. 

Learn the essentials of IP Address Management and how it can help you create an ideal network. 

We know that the future of work will require significantly more collaboration, and it will be dramatically more distributed. This white paper explores how IT is at the forefront of making this future successful, overseeing the use of such technologies as smart phones, webcasting, screen sharing, and more. 

Learn more about the changing enterprise computing environment – from smart devices to virtualization to cloud computing. 

This expert E-Guide explores the best practices to adjust to and the top demands that come along with virtualization. 

Who could have imagined that a tablet would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But the iPad did, and it’s kicked off an arms race for smart mobile devices. This report introduces a simple framework to guide content and collaboration professionals through employee-fueled tablet scenarios and IT-led tablet projects. 

This expert E-Guide highlights key benefits of BYOD and how vendors are responding. Discover the importance of a stable wireless LAN, what’s crucial for BYOD policies, and how to tackle common challenges. 

Want to know what's so 'smart' about Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache? This three minute video explains how Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache helps solve the random I/O bottleneck challenge and delivers extreme performance for consolidated database applications. 

Smarter commerce is designed to help companies better integrate and more effectively manage their value chains. It aligns the buy, market, sell and service processes in a way that puts the customer at the center of decisions and actions, which can lead to greater customer loyalty, revenue and profit margin growth. 

In order to combat the ever-evolving challenges of today’s networks, it’s time to head back to school in our exclusive Network Evolution University – Featuring three distinct classes and nine progressive learning lessons that explore all there is to know about next generation networks and how to overcome the challenges they present. 

Read this brief white paper and learn about some smarter commerce technologies available from IBM, including cross-channel selling, distributed order management, customer integration and collaboration and much more! You also will gain insight into different supply chain management platforms that IBM has to offer. 

In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).