IBM Webcasts

Becoming An Analytics Driven Organization

Live Webcast: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT

You're collecting volumes of data, but how can you sift through it to measure what really matters?

Analytics. Today, we see analytics becoming integral to government agency efforts to drive better outcomes.

Join us on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT and learn how your agency can create an analytics culture that will enable you to improve budgeting and financial reporting, drive program performance via KPIs and scorecards, and ensure better outcomes.

This discussion and demonstration will look at how government agencies can use analytics to:
- Provide enhanced citizen services through a better understanding of citizen need
- Get real time accurate dat to align mission goals and outcomes
- Get insight into big data to extract patterns and identify trends

Speaker information:
Robert Dolan
Worldwide Industry Leader, Public Sector
IBM

Tom Harris
Worldwide Industry Solutions Leader, Government and Education
IBM

Sponsor: IBM

Content Analytics: Big Data Conquered, Customer Service Elevated

LIVE Webcast Date: June 11, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT

Content analytics is one of the hottest areas of interest pertaining to big data today. That's not surprising because companies that fully leverage unstructured data possess a true competitive advantage when it comes to delivering flawless customer service. If your organization is interested in launching a content analytics program or improving its existing capabilities, this webinar is not to be missed.

Smart companies know there is tremendous value in content analytics. But aggregating, categorizing, summarizing, exploring and contextualizing unstructured data is a big undertaking. In this webinar, Aberdeen Group reports on a recent research study and reveals best practices for managing these massive, varied data sets. You will discover how content analytics can help your organization:

- Improve customer service
- Optimize business processes
- Drive better business performance

Aberdeen's study shows companies that use content analytics uncover value in their unstructured data to effectively engage their customer base and increase the accuracy of their business decisions three-fold over their competitors. Join this webinar and join the ranks of these best-in-class organizations.

Sponsor: IBM

Boost Performance & Profitability with Better Planning & Mobile Reporting

LIVE Webcast Date: June 4, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT

This session will discuss and demonstrate how Ashurst, a top-tier legal service provider for private and public sector clients worldwide, was able to effectively manage organizational change and improve their profitability using IBM Business Analytics.

Attendees will learn:
- How Ashurst rationalized its KPIs and developed quarterly strategic reports to track performance against plans
- How more granular analyses of the performance of each business unit enable identification of opportunities for progressive improvement and better management of resources
- How delivering reports interactively on mobile devices engages partners and senior managers to actively participate in driving better business outcomes
- How better planning and tracking enabled faster collection of debts, and a 20 percent improvement in working capital

Register now to take part in this dynamic session!

Sponsor: IBM

Turbocharge Your Business: Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results

Live Webcast: May 07, 2013 at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT

Market forces are driving business leaders to innovate, and fast. Cloud solutions, and specifically Software as a Service, can be a key enabler for accelerating the innovation process. Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better.

Join us live to hear:

- How Danone and other companies are using SaaS capabilities to drive business process innovation across their value chain
- Ways to balance the needs of line of business and IT decision makers to deliver customer value
- How you can reduce time to value and respond to market changes faster using SaaS solutions

Featured Speakers:
Jeremie Davis
IS Director
Danone North America

Jeffrey Kaplan
Managing Director,
THINKstrategies and the Founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace

Armen Najarian
Sr. Manager, SmartCloud Solutions Marketing
IBM

Sponsor: IBM

B2B Integration on Cloud: Real World Solutions and Technology Advances

Companies are connecting with business communities on the cloud with good reason - it's a powerful hub for data & transfers, transactions & management, as well as process orchestration & collaboration. Watch the webcast with IBM experts to learn about the advancing capabilities and strategic direction for B2B Integration on Cloud.

Sponsor: IBM

Content Analytics Explained

Content Analytics Explained - Listen to Bob Foyle, Sr. Product Manager, IBM talk about Content Analytics and the Analytics Imperative.

Sponsor: IBM

Oracle on IBM: Lower TCO, Higher Customer Satisfaction

In the marketplace, an increasing number of vendors offer converged infrastructure IT solutions. These solutions target rapid system deployment with pre-installed software, configured computing power, storage and networking, while addressing complexity by providing a level of integrated management. Oracle products are prime candidates for this type of deployment, where complexity is significantly reduced, resulting in faster installation, while still maintaining some degree of flexibility.
IBM engaged Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) to conduct surveys and report their findings from over 11,000 actual Oracle customers who have deployed Oracle products on converged infrastructure systems. This webinar provides real world insight into converged systems taken from Oracle production environments. Join us to learn which offerings have the Lowest TCO, Highest Customer Satisfaction and Fewest Security Breaches... and more. The results might surprise you!

Sponsor: IBM