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Business Intelligence Breakthrough: No data warehouse required

On a smarter planet intelligence is incorporated into everything from phones and cars to appliances and the electric grids that power them. Data is being captured as never before. The question is, how can we use it?  Read more...

Nominations for the 2012 IBM Beacon Awards

Nominations for the 2012 IBM Beacon Awards will be opening in mid-September. Winning a Beacon Award puts your firm in the spotlight for industry recognition and on a path to greater opportunity through increased visibility. More than 25 awards will be available that recognize achievement across a wide-range of solution areas, including Smarter Industries, Smarter Computing and Smarter Solutions. All Advanced and Premier Business Partners are eligible to nominate a solution.

Visit ParnterWorld to view the 2011 winning solutions and past awards.

Storage Webcast: How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure - March 23 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Webcast:     How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure
Date/Time:  Wednesday, March 23 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Storage is the most poorly utilized infrastructure element -- and the most costly part of hardware budgets -- in most IT shops today. And it’s getting worse. Storage management typically involves nightmarish mash-up of tools for capacity management, performance management and data protection management unique to each array deployed in heterogeneous fabrics. Server and desktop virtualization

RSVP for the March 15 virtual event: Solutions for Today's Smart Business

Register now for "Solutions for Today's Smart Business" briefing featuring IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business. Learn how IBM Virtual Desktop enables employees to access their workspace from any device as if it were their office desktop PC. Hear from our panel of experts on ways that you can dramatically lower your total cost of ownership of your desktop management and quickly achieve a positive ROI. Now with Solutions for Smart Business midsize, you can take advantage of advanced technologies - the same technologies that large organizations have, but until now, many midsize companies have been unable to afford.

http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=556&seid=14973&codeBPNA

Are you social minded?

Learn why, how, and where to make the most of today's online networking tools by completing our Social Media Education webcast series.

Available exclusively from the IBM PartnerWorld Community, Business Partners and IBM employees are welcome to participate in these new learning modules. Developed in conjunction with International Data Group, this six-part series emphasizes why, how and where to make the most of today's online networking capabilities to strengthen your competitive advantage.

The following webcasts will be available each week through March 29 via Lotus Connections:

• Social Media Crash Course for Business Partners
• Twitter for Business
• Starting and Maintaining a Blog
• Calculating Social Media Return on Investment
• Search Essentials
• Identifying Influencers for Social Media Marketing

Learn more in the Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking discussion Forum.

1Q2011 Salesplays - BP Sales Newsline call Jan 5

Welcome to 2011! You are invited to join the Business Partner Sales Newsline webcast on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 for a review of the 1Q game plan and salesplays. Learn what salesplays and offerings your firm can leverage to help ensure a successful quarter and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Be sure to tell your colleagues about this important call.

Agenda

• 1Q Game plan
• 1Q Salesplays
• Q&A

Web access and call-in details
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Time: Noon to 1:00 p.m. ET. No registration required.
Webcast: www.lotuslive.com/join
Webcast ID: 3163634
Dial in: (800)-475-4945 or (773) 799-3307.
Audio passcode: NEWSLINE.

Presentations can also be found on the day of the call at: www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/newsline

Replay
A replay will be available until January 31, 2011. See charts at www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/newsline
Audio replay: (800)-219-6392 or (402)-220-3909 . Audio Passcode: 1950

For questions contact Claire Colle at ccolle@ca.ibm.com.

Building a Smarter Planet - IBM Advantage BP Newsline call Dec 1

Smarter Planet is IBM's vision of how the world is changing through interconnected technologies and opens unlimited opportunities for all of us to instrument, interconnect and bring new intelligence to the systems around us. This is a call to action for all of us to change the way we do business and become more competitive. Join the BP Advantage Newsline call on Wednesday December 1 to learn how your firm can participate in this huge marketplace. Mark this critical call on your calendar and forward to your colleagues.

Agenda

• Welcome and hot news
• Building a Smarter Planet

Web access and call-in details
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010.
Time: Noon to 1:00 p.m. EST. No registration required.
Webcast: www.lotuslive.com/join. Webcast ID: 3163634 Dial in: (800)-475-4945 or (773) 799-3307. Audio passcode: NEWSLINE.
Presentations can also be found on the day of the call at: www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/newsline

Replay
A replay will be available for one month after the date of the call. See charts at www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/newsline
Audio replay number :(800) 945-7645 or (402) 220-3575.
Audio Passcode: 1950

For questions contact Claire Colle at ccolle@ca.ibm.com.

Smarter Planet Leadership Series

The Leadership Series showcases some of IBM's most progressive clients and goes deeper than their standard goals, solutions and benefits references. The stories look at the real dynamics of how business cases are crafted, decisions are made and buy-in achieved where it's needed. They provide insights into how smarter solutions translate into real-world benefit insights that can help demonstrate how collaborating with IBM can help bring such benefits to our clients.

Please submit your references to the client reference database today. IBM will work with you to polish and publish your client's success story. Without your nominations, IBM cannot gather the necessary references to help you close business. November 15th is the target date for submitting new references to ensure publishing by year end!

Submit today!

Solution Specialty Advisor tool

The on line Solution Specialty Advisor tool (url below), is now available to provide you with a GAP report for each of the four DI Specialty's available.

Once you launch the url look on the right hand side of the page under the Highlights section click on "Dynamic Infrastructure Are you ready with what it takes?"

http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/isv_com_spe_di_index

What a great tool to help you become DI Certified!

eweek: 25 Reasons why IBM Hardware is Still Hot

By Darryl K. Taft on 2010-04-09

IBM's Systems and Technology Group is the company's $19 billion semiconductor, server, storage and systems software business. IBM systems and storage solutions are designed to enable clients to assemble smarter IT infrastructures that drive down cost. IBM combines a broad portfolio of integrated software, servers and storage—built specifically to deal with the demands of modern business workloads—to help clients transform their organizations and compete effectively.