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You and IBMBuilding tomorrow together

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Executive summary

It’s our great pleasure to welcome you.You’re looking to satisfy the needs of your clients and keep pace in a fast-changing world of technology. You’re aspiring to innovate, differentiate, monetise opportunities and reduce costs. Doing all that sounds tough – but you don’t have to do it on your own.

This guide is designed to show you how a Business Partner relationship with IBM helps organisations like yours boost their business. Whatever the size of your business – and type of business model – we’re here to help you!

Discover six areas in which a relationship with IBM enables you to make the most of new opportunities:

Leverage new technology

Innovate and invest

Tap into domain and industry expertise

Access to scalability and reach

Connect to knowledge

Accelerating marketplace readiness

Work with us to drive your business to even greater success, and let IBM be your partner for the company you have today – and the company that you’ll have tomorrow.

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Teaming with IBM

Committed and efficient, as equals with you

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Business Partners are vital to our business.We’re committed to maintaining an efficient and profitable relationship with you.

We strive to provide the industry’s best partner experience. We want to ensure you gain value in every part of the Business Partner ecosystem you leverage.

Our relationship is a collaboration of equals. You stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in creating unique client value through combined capabilities, expertise and offerings.

We work with Business Partners to seize the opportunities presented by the cognitive era.You can participate in a historic opportunity to harness cognitive computing and transform the core on which business is based.

We invest in the success of Business Partners. You’re supported in your pursuit of market opportunities and in maximising the potential within emerging technology and evolving market dynamics.

We ground our relationships in the core values of IBMers. Dedication to every client’s success, innovation that matters for our company and for the world, and trust and personal responsibility in all relationships.

Through teaming with IBM, you can take advantage of years of experience and one of the most extensive networks in the world of information technology. This expertise and constant evolution means you can leverage our solutions, services and client relationships to jointly deliver superior client value.

Our ‘Business Partner Charter’ is based on these guiding principles:

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Team with IBM for a world of opportunities

Six ways to grow your business with us

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Teaming with IBM gives you six unique benefits that are designed to add value to your solutions, services and relationships.

From creating smarter applications and services to improving insights, we offer support in every area. Take advantage of what you need, without having to take extra things you don’t.

Six ways to grow your business

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Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld Build with IBM IBM developerWorks Grow With Watson Startup with IBM Business Partner Solution Hub Embedded Solutions The MSP Hub

The speed at which new technologies are being adopted by business around the world is increasing. 75% of service provider development already features the emerging innovation of cognitive and machine learning [1]. This puts increasing pressure on providing and integrating organisations to keep pace, in order to satisfy and retain customers.

Teaming with IBM gives you access to all the innovation you and your clients need. Our cognitive and artificial intelligence capabilities can give your offerings digital intelligence, extend the power of your data through machine learning, digitise your transactions with Blockchain, and more.

Have the run of the sandbox as you explore new features, test code and view tutorials.

Leverage new technology

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For every new technology creating a buzz or disrupting the market, there’s a considerable investment that’s gone into that innovation. But taking on new technologies without spending more than you can afford is difficult.

Leverage the €6bn IBM investments in research and development annually to propel new capabilities and opportunities. You can assemble an offering with lasting value by combining strong data management, analytics, hardware and middleware with cutting-edge cognitive and AI technologies.

Meanwhile you ensure your data – and your customers’ data – is protected and available whenever and wherever they need it.

Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld

IBM developerWorks

Grow With Watson

Business Partner Solution Hub

Embedded Solutions

The MSP Hub

Innovate and invest

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More than ever before, customers are looking for domain and industry-specific solutions from their providing organisations. So knowing what works in your industries today – and tomorrow – can be a powerful benefit to your business.

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with IBM, and our range of knowledge and engagement experience, gives you a real head-start. This know-how is designed to give you a base from which you can find valuable new customers in a competitive environment.

You can expand your knowledge of key cognitive applications like Watson, add expertise through our industry insiders and global studies, or simply reach out to our experts at the IBM Business Partner Solution Hubs.

Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld

IBM developerWorks

Business Partner Solution Hubs

Partnership services

The MSP Hub

Tap into domain and industry expertise

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Service providers are always looking for new customers to extend their reach. Our involvement and expertise in every marketplace around the world can help you understand your target audience better and identify key market segments.

To take your solution to the biggest audience possible, creating an entry in the Global Solutions Directory generates exposure with prospects, other IBM partners and our sales network.

But you’ll also need an infrastructure that can easily expand and react to the needs of new customers in different countries. An IBM Cloud infrastructure, based on a network of over 50 data centres worldwide, gives you the ability to scale and grow without major financial commitment.

Access to scalability and reach

Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld Build with IBM IBM developerWorks Grow With Watson Partnership services Global Solutions Directory Marketplace

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Connect to knowledge

You never know when the next big business or tech challenge will strike – or what it will be. Most recently, cognitive and artificial intelligence technologies gave businesses powerful new insights[2]. But what’s next?

Having everything you need to react to these challenges can make the difference between gaining an advantage on your competitors and being left behind.

To stand out in your current marketplace and explore new ones, the IBM ecosystem of clients, partners and experts is at your disposal. You can take advantage of technical validations, online training, demos and development systems, maximising the potential of your solution and improving the skills of your employees.

Our Business Partner Solution Hubs give you access to development teams to improve your solutions faster, assistance from subject matter experts, and remote training services.

Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld

Build with IBM

IBM developerWorks

Business Partner Solution Hubs

Embedded Solutions

Partnership services

Face-to-face support

The MSP Hub

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Accelerate marketplace readiness

Customers want to deal with experts that understand them, and that can deliver new technologies quickly and easily.

Digitally transformed organizations will generate at least 45% of their revenues from ‘future of commerce’ business models by 2019.[3] This shift will make strong and consistent sales and marketing operations a critical asset in a competitive market.[3]

A teaming relationship with IBM allows you to reach your customers and grab their attention in new ways. This includes workshops and webinars, proven marketing techniques, working with approved agencies, leveraging for marketing budget to support marketing campaigns, and more.

Partner services like these are designed to make you more adaptable, and able to react to client needs quicker and more effectively.

Discover how IBM can support you here with:

IBM PartnerWorld

Build with IBM

Startup with IBM

IBM Express Start

Business Partner Solution Hub

Embedded Solutions

Partnership Services

Marketplace

The MSP Hub

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Explore your business partner relationship’s potential

Join our rich ecosystem of knowledge and relationships

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IBM PartnerWorld is the place to discover new opportunities for growing your business with IBM. You can access our collection of cognitive technology and innovative industry solutions, built and delivered on the cloud.

With IBM Business Partners investing in high-value skills getting business results up to 6x better, PartnerWorld can set you apart in a competitive market:

• Build technical, sales or marketing skills quickly

• Grow your knowledge of IBM solutions with our learning roadmaps and PartnerWorld University courses

• Use partner services and free IBM Cloud credits to identify new capabilities and capture new targets

• Get the support you need, when you need it, by phone, email, multilingual live chat or the Watson-powered PartnerWorld Advisor

• Access co-marketing and digital content marketing offerings, as well as validated leads from IBM, to take advantage of new opportunities and capabilities

IBM PartnerWorld: Your home of engagement, exploration and growth

“We want to leverage the worldwide ecosystem of IBM even more, and give our customers access to the leading offerings around cloud and cognitive. For that reason, we leverage PartnerWorld to educate our employees on these future areas and ensure that we’re ready for market requirements.”Philipp Alexander, CEO, SVA GmbH (IBM partner)

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Our network of 13 Business Partner Solution Hubs can help you develop your offerings and reach new markets. You can join forces with experts that can assist with a range of requirements. Whether it’s creating a SaaS application in the Cloud or proving the concept of your solution to a potential new client, the helping hand for growth is always available at no cost.

Hub Benefits include:

• Leverage technical expertise to add value to your solutions, and to reduce your development time and go-to-market time

• Use specialist lab environments to test your solutions

• Access the latest IBM platforms, including Cloud, Watson, Analytics and more, so you can solve technical issues at a lower cost

• Market and sell your solution with the backing of IBM, accelerating sales cycles. We have the space, speakers and logistical support to host your guests.

IBM Business Partner Solution Hubs: step inside the places for growth

13 €0Hubs across Europe

Cost for PartnerWorld’s members

Step inside... a Hub near you

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Russia: Moscow

France: Paris

Italy: Milan

France: Nice

Switzerland: Zurich

Slovenia: Ljubljana

Romania: Bucharest

Poland: Warsaw

Israel: Tel Aviv

Hungary: Budapest

Germany: Ehningen

United Kingdom: Hursley

Netherlands: Amsterdam

Explore your potential

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IBM developerWorks: Tech support when you need itFrom new demands to mission-critical disruptions, every organisation needs technical help from time to time. That’s where the instant accessibility of IBM developerWorks helps.

developerWorks is an online centre that provides educational resources and instant tech support. It contains tutorials and videos on new developments, and a thriving community where you can get advice from IBM experts and fellow developers. You can also explore the IBM Code library and place ready-made sections of code straight into your solution.

Startup with IBM: a helping hand for startupsStartup with IBM is designed to help you disrupt your industry and get your innovative products to market faster.

You can access up to $120.000 of free credits to access enterprise-grade technologies across artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud, Data, Internet of Things and more. These resources are ideal for learning new skills, launching new cognitive solutions and tapping into the community of architects, researchers and expert developer advocates.

With three different programme levels available to suit your needs, it’s a flexible way to help you and your new business hit the ground running.

Tutorials, tools and communities for developers

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Express Start: engage with IBM quickly and easilyIBM Express start gives Business Partners the opportunity to access and resell selected IBM products and services quickly and easily. Including Software Open Distribution products, entry level storage options and more, it’s available to all our Business Partners in Europe (excluding the CEE region).

After a simple online application and authorisation process, it’s easy to start placing orders up to a maximum of $100.000 (per 12 month period) with your preferred IBM Distributor. On top of this, there’s assistance available to make sure you get your product configuration, pricing and ordering right.

Global Solutions Directory: be part of a connected world of innovationGetting your solution listed in our Global Solutions Directory could be one of the most valuable marketing efforts you ever make.

An entry on your offering gives visibility and reach. Once you’re in the directory you have exposure to clients, fellow IBM partners and the IBM sales network. What’s more, your listing can also be used as a nomination for the technical validations and specialities that are also available to you as a PartnerWorld member.

Whatever your industry or product area, it’s a golden opportunity for you to expand your horizons.

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Watson Developer Cloud: get started with cognitive and artificial intelligence for freeMore and more companies are looking at cognitive and artificial intelligence to realise the potential of their data. As a result, organisations like yours need to respond with the solutions the market demands. Watson Developer Cloud empowers you to take advantage of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence in a secure, flexible and scalable cloud environment.

Thirty days of free access to IBM’s cloud development platform, means you can start utilising Watson services straight away and then leverage a range of developer tools, including documentation, testing and software development kits. What’s more, there’s a collection of webinars, blogs and videos to explore, from which you can find inspiration for improvements to your own solutions.

With Watson: maximise AI to extend your reach

The With Watson Program is a new, exciting opportunity for you to scale stronger applications with the power of IBM Watson services. A range of exclusive resources makes it easy to leverage specialists and assets, network to gain new insights, and utilise co-marketing programmes to drive new demand.

With Watson is available across three different levels. These range from extra support to validate your Watson applications, right up to a relationship to transform an industry by advancing artificial intelligence. So whatever it is you want to achieve with Watson, there’s a productive relationship available to help you grow, on both technical and business levels

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Embedded solutions: a winning combinationService providers have to go the extra mile to stand out from the crowd. This means delivering better capabilities to clients, while ensuring that pricing and profit margins are strong and sustainable. A partnership with IBM to embed our technology can make the difference.

Take advantage of your choice of free trials to build bigger, quickly and easily. Build with up to 10TB of capacity on IBM Cloud Object Storage, create up to ten AI-equipped chatbots with IBM Watson Assistant, or take your applications global with IBM Cloud Container Service.

And from a business perspective, partnering with IBM makes smarter selling a reality, with $2.000 of Cloud credits over your first six months helping power your potential and boost your bottom line.

Reduce your risk• Pricing clarity• Flexible billing options• Multi-year licensing• Reduce development costs• Get to market faster• Support when you need it• Scalability

Benefit from market-leading expertise• IBM Global Financing• Broad portfolio of industry-leading

middleware and software• Proven, reliable, highly available

and scalable software solutions• Open standards and architectures• Built-in automation for increased

productivity and lower operational costs

• Deep technical skills across many disciplines

Increase potential revenue• Enhance your product• Start selling faster• Reach new markets

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Why embed with IBM?

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IBM MarketplaceAll the innovations that add value to your solutions can be found in our online marketplace. Across Cloud, Cognitive, Data, Analytics, Mobile and IT Infrastructure areas, it’s quick and easy to view all the options, compare pricing and sign up for free trials where available. Whether you need cognitive capabilities like Watson or reliable, efficient storage hardware like FlashSystem, it’s all there waiting for you.

IBM IT Solutions Webinar SeriesIf you want to improve your expertise, but struggle to find the time to do it, then help is at hand: IBM’s constantly-updated library of webinars deliver the deep knowledge that you need to grow your business. Covering all our areas of technology in several languages, these bite-size webinars are typically 20-45 minutes in length, making it easy to fit them into your busy schedule. If you can’t take part live, then you can watch them on-demand or even contact the leaders themselves for further information.

WorkshopsAs new trends and new capabilities come on stream, workshops give you the most up-to-date information to guide your future growth, as well as covering hot industry-specific topics and developer-focused tech know-how alike. Most of these events take place on a virtual basis, enabling the enrichment of your knowledge base from the comfort of your own office.

Face-to-face supportJust because you work in a virtual environment doesn’t mean your support network has to be virtual, too. We’re flexible enough to provide expertise and technical help on a face-to-face basis. This applies in IBM locations like our Business Partner Solution Hubs, or remotely in your own premises to provide help in the place where it’s needed.

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Ecosystem and networking: find a perfect matchThose who fail to embrace new technologies for competitive advantage risk being left behind. The IBM Business Partner Network is there to help you get the most out of your technology investment.

If you want to join forces with another company to better meet the needs of your client, the right partners for the right jobs can be found in our ecosystem of Business Partners. Across a range of business models, you can use our matching services and go on to develop strong business relationships.

Co-marketing: an investment in youA co-marketing investment can be used for customer conferences, seminars, trade shows, advertising, telemarketing, digital marketing and direct marketing. You can boost your campaign execution, utilise customisable assets and digital marketing tools, or work with IBM-approved Marketing Services Vendors to broaden your marketplace reach.

Industry knowledge: leverage all the know-how of IBMContinually growing your expertise to support and develop your services is critical. That’s where an experienced, cross-industry partner like IBM can help. Our facilities and experts enable stronger knowledge on industries, solutions and services, as well as boosting your sales skills to make you more effective you’re your customers. This knowledge also helps with preparation for certifications by using tools, content and training programs crafted for your requirements.

Exposure opportunities: take your brand to a wider audienceYou can become even more immersed in our marketing activities by speaking at our events and webinars, or volunteering to be part of some of our promotional materials, such as videos, case studies, white papers and more. You’ll be able to share your stories and highlight your successful relationship with IBM in a way that will bring you to the attention of a new and diverse audience of prospective partners and customers.

Business partner services

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TheMSPHub.com is the place to stay up-to-date with everything that’s happening in your tech world. It’s regularly updated with blogs, videos, e-books, thought leadership papers, infographics and more, and you can get involved and gain exposure for your brand by submitting your own stories and experiences.

Register to get access to exclusive content, thought leadership materials and insights, so that you can keep up to speed with what’s going on in your industry. You can keep in touch with the latest trends and articles on social media:

The MSP Hub: powering success for service providers, systems integrators and ISVs

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Explore solutions to unlock your success

The leading-edge innovation that drives you forward

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You EmpoweredThroughout our history, we have transformed ourselves for each technological revolution—enabling our clients to transform themselves, era after era. We have built a company that offers everything you need—now and into the future. We have built a company that gives you the power to do your best work.

IBM Cloud is designed for all types of data—structured and unstructured, your own, third party, IoT—from both public and private clouds. It’s engineered to be enterprise stable, enterprise secure, enterprise expert—that is, enterprise strong. And at its core is the advanced cognitive power of Watson.

IBM Systems—servers, storage, software—high-performance technologies optimized for cloud and designed for AI, big data, cognitive applications and secure transaction processing.

IBM Services has a team of industry, process and IT experts who invent and apply breakthrough thinking and technology. With the skills to provide fearless innovation and matchless execution, we help our clients design, build and run businesses at speed and scale.

IBM Watson is the AI platform for business. With Watson, you can discover hidden insights, engage in new ways and make decisions with greater confidence.

IBM Security delivers an integrated system of innovative and cognitive defenses. With advanced threat research and proven expertise, we help protect the world’s data against cyberattacks.

IBM Research has labs on six continents which house more than 3,000 of the world’s most innovative scientists and engineers. Last year they set a new record for US patents. For the 25th year in a row.

IBM Global Financing is the world’s largest IT captive financier operating in more than 60 countries, serving clients from small businesses to the majority of the Fortune Global 100 companies. Expertise majors in IT financing, working capital, credit and IT asset disposition services.

Solutions for success

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Applications, solutions and servicesTargeted solutions for enterprise businesses

IBM services and industry

solutionsWeather Watson

IoT

Watson Cyber

Security

WatsonVirtual Agent

Watson Explore and

Discover

IBM Risk and

Compliance

DataTools to prepare data for cognitive

Ingestion Storage Analytics Deployment Governance

Cloud InfrastructureA highly scalable, security-enabled infrastructure

Cloud Integration Cognitive Micro-services DevOps Tooling

Networking SecurityCore

Enterprise Infrastructure

CognitiveSystems

Virtual Servers

Object Storage

File Storage

AICognitive building blocks for developers

Conversation Discovery Compare and Comply

DLaaS Tone Analyzer

Personal Insight

Visual Recognition

Speech Document Conversion

Nat Language Understanding

Nat Language Classifier

Knowledge Query

API API API API API API

API API API API API API

Meet the technology that drives your business forwardThe IBM portfolio addresses your needs of today and your opportunities of tomorrow. Engineered for disruption, it’s architected as an integrated whole across four dimensions:• Applications trained with more data and industry-forged expertise• Sophisticated AI services that are the foundation of our architecture and allow for customised models• Architecture enabling data usage that’s open, designed for regulatory governance, and where client data

is never used to train another client’s solution• A cloud environment purpose-built for scale, security and cognitive loads

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With one of he most advanced data and cognitive capabilities in the world, IBM Cloud is unrivalled: you can work with freedom and keep control over your data and the key elements of your solutions.

IBM Cloud infrastructures are secure, flexible and scalable, with easy integration between public and private environments. By partnering with the market leader in hybrid cloud, you can get the perfect infrastructure for your data – and adapt it easily as your use cases change. “The value is about the value to

our customers and prospects, and their ability to build end-to-end applications seamlessly.” Lee Cottle, Director and GM, Push Technology

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IBM Cloud: monetise your future the way you want to

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Teaming with IBM for analytics means unearthing new levels of insights to guide your customers into a business revolution. The IBM Analytics Platform ranges from self-service access to cloud-based data tools, to data integration and governance. Built on open-source Hadoop, it’s easy for you to incorporate and analyse data from external sources and systems.

Empowering both your clients and your own workforce with analytics helps in understanding the past, succeeding in the present and planning for the future better than ever before. And embedding analytics into your solutions can significantly boost your revenue streams.

IBM Analytics: seamlessly adapt to changing business needs

“Cognitive analytics will give us an even richer and more multidimensional understanding of our business, and this will drive better visibility into how our clients’ portfolios are performing.”Paul Conroy, CIO, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd

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The world of IT is entering the cognitive era, as organisations begin to explore the full potential that lies within their data. Cognitive is a huge opportunity for your clients to make better connections with their customers than ever before. It means understanding their wants and needs, communicating in real-time and optimising business processes. So from your perspective, effective cognitive capabilities can be a game-changer for your offerings.

What’s more, combining technologies makes the Internet of Things (IoT) a realistic goal for your enterprise clients. Data collected from IoT connected devices applied to cognitive computing leads to valuable insights that can improve every aspect of an enterprise, and can even enable innovative new business models. Instead of having an IoT solution, you can offer an IoT solution that thinks.

Watson IoT: embrace a new era of computing

“We operate in a connected world and by working with IBM, new solutions like improved remote diagnostics and predictability means we will deliver better services for our customers and great experiences for the people who use our equipment.”Henrik Ehrnrooth, President and CEO, KONE Corporation

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Watson is the cognitive technology to shape your future, processing information more like a human than a computer. It does this by understanding natural language, generating suggestions based on evidence and learning as it goes. Watson understands all forms of data, interacts naturally with people, and learns and reasons at scale.

From your perspective, tapping into the power of Watson through APIs means you can build cognitive capabilities into your apps and products. These can make your solutions able to interpret structured and unstructured data; personalise recommendations; grow subject matter expertise through machine learning; and create intelligent chatbots that can engage in human dialogue. Watson operates with world-class security and encryption capabilities, and IBM never shares your information without your agreement: your insights are your competitive advantage, after all.

IBM Watson: the artificial intelligence platform for your business

“We are excited about applying these new computing techniques to help improve the experience and quality of care provided at Alder Hey.”Michael Gleaves, Deputy Director, Hartree Centre, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

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Solutions for success

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The most ambitious and successful companies know that, in today’s data-driven world, there are serious threats that must be addressed. That’s why IBM Security helps you work with your clients to safeguard against threats using innovation that uniquely incorporates cognitive, cloud, and collaboration.

Delivering an integrated system of analytics, real-time defences |and proven experts, IBM Security gives you the power to make strategic decisions about how to safeguard your business. Our solutions help you optimise your security management, ramp up operations to stop advanced threats and protect your data in interconnected environments.

Security solutions provided ‘as-a-service’ enable service providers like you to offer enterprise-class products to smaller organisations that they may not otherwise be able to afford or operate sustainably.

“The security intelligence from X-Force and the out-of-the-box analytics capabilities made QRadar stand out from competitors.”Christophe Bianco, Managing Partner and Chief Technology Officer, Excellium Services

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IBM Security: protect from the threats of today and tomorrow

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As a service provider, you’ll appreciate that everything you do has to be underpinned by a secure, connected and effective infrastructure. That applies to every piece of innovation you offer your customers, and every benefit to them that differentiates your offering in the marketplace. IBM Systems makes it possible.

Built for cognitive business, IBM Systems is a major disruptor in the IT infrastructure marketplace. It helps you equip your customers with more insights, faster transactions, open innovation, tighter security and compliance, and total flexibility and scalability as your business grows. Whether you need to be in 30 million places at once, manage 70 million shipments, or analyse a million security events per second, our servers and storage get the job done for you.

“We can now perform our daily backups much faster, enabling us to back up our workloads much more efficiently.”Michael Mehrens, Competence Center Storage, W&W Informatik GmbH

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IBM Systems: outpace technology breakthroughs

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Make your solutions more cost-effective and attractive to your clients with our financing capabilities.

Including leases, loans, pre-owned equipment and end-of-life asset management, our financing solutions cover your clients’ entire IT life cycle and help you grow your business sustainably.

With IBM Global Financing, you:• Gain a competitive edge by including financing

for upfront charges• Eliminate budget-related delays by giving your client

payment deferral options• Focus your prospects on solution benefits instead

of pricing or discounting pressures• Earn repeat business by offering options during,

or at the end of, financing terms• Rely on us to take on all payment-related risk,

for IBM and non-IBM sales• Get paid faster thanks to fast invoice settling• Improve cashflow and increase working capital through

accelerated collections and longer payment terms• Receive incentive payments as your clients finance

more transactions

As a qualified partner, you also access working capital to finance day-to-day operations or fuel strategic investments for business growth.

IBM Global Financing: win more, sell more

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“For us it’s much easier to work with someone who understands all of the plan: the length, the risk and the returns”Antonio Carrasco, CEO, PLM

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References[1] Page 7: Worldwide Analytics, Cognitive/AI and Big Data 2017 Predictions; IDC FutureScape. [2] Page 11: Predictions 2017: Artificial Intelligence Will Drive The Insights Revolution; Forrester. [3] Page 12: Worldwide Digital Transformation (DX) 2018 Predictions; IDC FutureScape.

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