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IBM announces new SW, services for big data, cloud

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BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM unveiled new business process and integration software and services that will enable global organizations to accelerate adoption of new technologies, such as big data, cloud, mobile and social business technology.

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The new business process and integration software and services will enable organizations to extend and connect existing infrastructure to a wide variety of mobile devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, as per a release.

At the cornerstone of this strategy is IBM MessageSight, a new appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with billions of mobile devices and sensors found in systems such as automobiles, traffic management systems, smart buildings and household appliances.

IBM is extending its Business Process Management (BPM) and Operational Decision Management (ODM) solutions to integrate with the IBM MobileFirst portfolio. With access to these IBM MobileFirst capabilities, clients can now infuse their processes and operational decision making into custom mobile apps, accelerating the delivery of mobile BPM applications and tapping into location, camera and notification features, it adds.

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IBM is making both IBM BPM and IBM ODM solutions available on SmartCloud as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. These advances in cloud options for business processes complement a new release of IBM Blueworks Live, a fully SaaS-based cloud offering that enables clients to capture, document and understand the decisions that businesses use to run their operations.

IBM announced new BPM Industry Solutions that combine IBM Global Business Services' process expertise with IBM software to enable clients to respond. These solutions will initially target the banking, insurance and financial markets, and healthcare industries.

"The technology shifts created by big data, cloud, mobile and social business are drastically changing the business landscape, driving an intelligent, interconnected and instrumented world that is smarter than ever before," said Marie Wieck, general manager, WebSphere, IBM. "To be competitive on today's Smarter Planet, successful businesses must find ways to extend and connect their existing infrastructures to the billions of mobile devices and M2M technologies that now exist. IBM's new offerings, being rolled out today, will simplify this process drastically."

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IBM also announced several updates that enable clients to reinvent their business operations, including:

IBM API Management - IBM is unveiling a complete solution to help organizations securely create, manage and socialize APIs in an effort to extend their products and services to various mobile channels. Clients can also access a collaboration portal to view operational metrics and gain business insights into how apps are performing in the market.

IBM WebSphere Application Server - Building on 15 years of experience, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) now supports several open standards protocols and integrates with the IBM MobileFirst platform and IBM MessageSight to help organizations build and run new web applications that embrace big data, cloud, mobile and social business technologies.

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IBM Integration Bus - With access to IBM MobileFirst capabilities, organizations can now extend critical data to mobile devices in real time to improve business operations.

Additionally, new traffic shaping capabilities allow organizations to monitor and interpret massive amounts of data flowing into the enterprise from mobile devices.

Through work with the OpenStack community to make its cloud services and software open source-based, and the recently announced proposal to standardize Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), IBM is continuing to drive an open architecture approach to help simplify this process. Further enhancing this effort is IBM's HTML5 and Apache Cordova.

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