See how IBM customers from across industries and across the globe are using smarter work to make their business more flexible and responsive.

Today we can connect people with the information they need in real time. We can measure, monitor, and manage nearly every physical and digital system in the world. And we can extract new intelligence from those systems, to make better decisions, waste less time, and make more money. In short, we can work smarter.

An information-based enterprise is an organization that has an Information Agenda. It has the flexibility to rapidly deliver information as needed to optimize processes, applications and business decisions for sustained competitive advantage. This transformation doesn't require the replacement of existing systems and information sources. It only requires that those systems rapidly expose insightful information in a flexible way.

Video: A merger between Ireland's largest insurance and mortgage businesses left a large overlap in the customer base. See how they brought the two together to get a single view of their customer base.

There is much industry discussion about the bottom-line potential of server virtualization. Vendor claims and analyst perspectives often fail to reflect real user experiences. The Webcast will present the results of major research studies undertaken by the ITG that deal with the cost savings potential of employing PowerVM on latest-generation IBM Power servers for UNIX and Linux server consolidation initiatives, and the comparative cost implications of employing PowerVM, HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE), Sun virtualization approaches and VMware for such initiatives.

With the Carbon Reduction Commitment coming into force, Flintshire County Council is ramping up its efforts to monitor and control energy consumption both in the IT infrastructure and across the broad set of facilities it manages. Flintshire has almost completely virtualised its server landscape on several different IBM platforms (IBM Power Systems, IBM System x, IBM BladeCenter), creating a flexible and scalable infrastructure that requires less energy and emits less CO2.