It then became possible for a third-party company to use IBM software and hardware to write a business application.
The fourth-ranked player in the world is an IBM software product manager in Minnesota with an MBA from the University of Chicago.
When the acquisition closes in the first quarter, Rational will be the fifth division within IBM software, along with Websphere, DB2 database, Tivoli management products and Lotus collaborative software.
The market dictates that IBM software work well on its competitors' platforms, but the Internet-based integration technologies that IBM has chosen are at odds with those that Microsoft has picked.
Part of its "Smarter Planet" initiative, one of the vignettes describes how some do-gooders used IBM software to map the rice genome, identifying what was killing crops and helping to end hunger.
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In a previous article I explored how the activity templates in IBM software can be used to capture business processes ( The Benefits of Enterprise Social Media) and how SAP is structuring collaboration for decision making ( Giving Shape to Collaboration Tech).
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In March, IBM released software called WebSphere Transcoding Publisher, which transforms content to match the capabilities of mobile devices.
Rawn Shah is a business transformation consultant in the Social Software Adoption team in IBM's software group and is the author of Social Networking for Business: Choosing the Right Tools and Resources to Fit Your Needs, newly published by Wharton School Publishing.
The success of IBM's ISV program has been contingent, in part, on its software partners meeting quotas that call for a certain percentage of applications to be deployed on IBM hardware and software.
The companies compete in database software, but IBM also sells Oracle software to its corporate and government customers.
Eyeing the challenge from HP, IBM's software chief, Steven Mills, throws down the gauntlet.
They essentially scaled down IBM's software to work on the lower-end servers now ubiquitous in the corporate world.
Simultaneous cooperation and competition with Microsoft has been at the heart of IBM's software strategy since its new beginning.
Thompson, senior vice president and group executive at IBM's Software group, in Somers.
Turns out IBM's software group writes a lot of code specifically for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry--oh, and Android and even Windows Mobile.
IBM's software business, which accounted for around 20% of the company's revenues last quarter, isn't likely to suffer from a flagging economy either.
IBM's software is being rewritten to deal with the mobile world.
IBM's software group, describes an even more insidious threat from Linux.
IBM's software division will get an extra bump from the first full quarter of revenues from business intelligence software firm Cognos, which it acquired last November.
Meanwhile, IBM and Indian software companies have set up offices at some schools, allowing faculty and students a chance to make some extra cash without leaving the campus.
It competes primarily with heavyweights like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM in enterprise software, and has significant market share in the ERP, CRM, BI and database markets.
IBM's software division will get an extra bump from the first full quarter of revenues from business intelligence software firm Cognos (nasdaq: COGN - news - people ), which it acquired last November.
The software in question is based on IBM's Federal Systems Software, but has been developed by NATS, Wright said.
Filipowski started with a small outfit that produced software for IBM mainframes, then went on to found an accounting and inventory-data software company called Platinum Technology.
The software, which automates collection and preparation of electronic filing of regulatory material, is useful to IBM as a way of selling analytics software, a huge and growing business for IBM.
Sterling will reside in the software group under WebSphere, IBM's on-demand business software.
Temenos developed an image of its T24 banking software for IBM Pure a year ago.
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In buying Rational Software, IBM again plugs a gap that remains at its competitor.
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