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This white paper is meant to be IT's field guide for traveling on a journey through the landscape of integration approaches and tools. It will enable IT to leverage and enhance its investments with a service-oriented approach designed to gain responsiveness and agility. Complimentary with registration.

Today's organizations must optimize the quality of service, while minimizing IT expenditures; respond quickly to customer and market demand, while using all available assets; and have an IT infrastructure that keeps pace with changing business needs - with a minimum of human intervention. This white paper explains how businesses of all sizes can use IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment software to increase business flexibility and reduce IT complexity.

Download this report to learn more about the benefits and business value of building on mainframe legacies compared to migrating to "open', distributed server environments, including significant software cost reductions. Complimentary with registration.

Where distributed systems were once viewed as potentially more cost effective and easier to manage than the mainframe, the demand for processing has increased the associated costs in this environment. Rising electrical costs and increasing personnel requirements for large distributed infrastructures have increased its total cost of ownership while the TCO of the System z platform continues to decrease. In attempts to address rising costs, many organizations are looking to virtualize and consolidate servers, capabilities the System z platform has been capable of doing for some time. The System z platform offers significant opportunity for reducing TCO, consolidating existing distributed infrastructures, and simultaneously simplifying disaster recovery efforts. Download this report to learn more. Complimentary with registration.

IBM WebSphere BPM products address both the integration-centric and human-centric business processes that occur. This white paper describes how IBM WebSphere BPM combines software capabilities and business expertise to accelerate process improvement and facilitate business innovation by integrating and connecting business users.