Post on 02-Apr-2018
7/27/2019 IBM_CISCO
1/4
IBM and CiscoFacilitating business agility or the challenges o tomorrow
Two companies, one team, infnite solutions
Since 1999, IBM
and Cisco
have helped organizations likeyours use groundbreaking technologies to nd better ways to
connect people and share critical data across their businesses.
This alliance integrates a broad range o industry-specic
expertise and cutting-edge solutions, all based on respective
core competencies in oundational technology architectures,
sotware and services. And its ready now to help you overcome
the constraints that time and distance traditionally impose on
transorming your business and, consequently, your protabil-
ity and competitiveness.
Infuencing this ability is the broad and deep relationship that
IBM and Cisco have ounded on complementary strengths,including those essential to any project aimed at improving
business resiliency and competitiveness. IBM contributes
signicant industry-specic expertise in business processes
and transormation, technology utilization, implementation,
and operational services. Cisco leadership in networking and
collaboration combines with IBM prociency to deliver pre-
tested, integrated solutions that help you transorm where and
how work is conducted throughout your enterprise. And both
companies bring long-term continuity and commitment to
Highlights
Improve responsiveness andproductivity by bringing people,
customers, and other crucial
stakeholders closer together
Reduce risk and costs by taking
ull advantage o proven, integrated
joint solutions and technology
Beneft rom best-in-class, industry-
specifc experience and solutions
Count on the worldwide capabilitieso a long-standing alliance between
two industry leaders
7/27/2019 IBM_CISCO
2/4
their client relationships, including ongoing product support
and sustained investments in research and development.
Within our overall partnership, Cisco and IBM also have a
long-standing Global Services Alliance, which drives strategic
and operational alignment and enables collaborative support
and globally consistent delivery across the technology liecycle.
Easier, more productive collaboration
People and organizations can interact so easily through networks
today that the concept o workplace has changed beyond
recognition rom a ew decades ago. The ability to communicate
in all technological orms through advanced data, voice, and
video solutions helps enable true, collaborative teamwork and
close, personal interaction.
Today, many organizations are tapping the mobile revolution,
enabling employees with the tools and resources to work without
needing to be physically at their desks. The increasing availability
o wireless broadband is driving a new wave o transormation or
mobile devices, setting the stage or even greater productivity.
Far-fung workorces can dynamically orm virtual teams. Its
no wonder that, by 2017, workers are expected to spend an
estimated 80 percent o their time collaborating with each other
and their partners, suppliers, and customers.
IBM and Cisco are at the epicenter o these exciting changes,
allied to help businesses like yours improve collaboration andachieve new gains in innovation, creativity, and decision-making
eciency. For example, easy integration between Cisco Unied
Communications Manager technology and IBM Lotus Notes can
enable users or groups to detect presence, meet, communicate,
and collaborate directly and instantly using voice, video,
and web meetings. IBM and Cisco provide Cisco Collaboration
solutions running in an IBM smarter planet cloud environment
or private enterprise clouds. In addition, recognizing the trend
towards mobility, the two companies are developing solutions
that enable true enterprise-class unctionality on mobile devices,
with the ability to stay securely connected to the corporate worldanytime, anywhere.
These and our other oerings comprise an integrated suite
o voice, data, and video oerings designed to provide richer
collaboration, enhanced productivity, and aster business
decisions. And since they are based on open standards, these
solutions can enable you to take ull advantage o IT and network
investments, helping save time and increase the value o your
IT inrastructure.
Faster, stronger, more secure networks
Without a solid network oundation, the advanced capabilitiesthat will transorm the way your business works cannot be ully
realized. Nor can you most eectively meet the challenges o
mobile workplaces, burgeoning bandwidth demands and the
need or easy, wide-ranging collaboration. The Cisco Borderless
Network Architecture makes it possible, allowing organizations to
connect anyone, anywhere, anytime, and on any device more
securely, reliably, and easily.
2
Want to create in-person meeting experiences
over any existing broadband IP network?
Cisco Business Video, including Cisco
TelePresence can bring the parties together
by combining Cisco video solutions rang-
ing rom desktop to immersive units with IBM
business consulting and technology solutions
7/27/2019 IBM_CISCO
3/4
Unied communications oerings integrate communications
into your business processes. Our Remote Expert and anywhere,
anytime banking solutions provide innovative ways to serve
customers across multiple channels. All told, IBM and Cisco
can provide a wealth o client-centric solutions, including
enhanced customer care and contact centers, innovative sel-
service oerings, business video, robust back-oce solutions,
and much more.
Public Saety
Agencies striving or more holistic approaches to protecting citi-
zens, employees and assets turn to IBM and Cisco or solutions
that can improve situational awareness, crisis management, and
comprehensive, real-time, inter-agency collaboration. Thanks to
years o experience working together to build complementarycommunications, collaboration, coordination and surveillance
solutions, our oerings can be readily scaled to improve protec-
tions or citizens as well as borders, transportation systems and
other critical acilities.
One primary oering combines the Cisco Video Surveillance
Manager and the IBM Video Correlation Analysis Suite to
create a orce multiplier that can improve situational aware-
ness and emergency decision-making. IBM video analytics
can automatically alert ocials o suspicious activities. Inte-
grated with the IBM Intelligent Operations Center, senior ocials
can view the status o all public saety unctions, with CiscoTelePresence eeding video to a wide-ranging variety o device
ormats. Meanwhile, the Cisco IP Interoperability and Collabora-
tion System coordinates incident response between dispatchers
and responders and osters collaboration by helping to enable
teams to set up virtual talk groups. And video automatically
archived by the system can be invaluable in the judicial process,
training and guiding uture responses.
Whats more, IBM and Cisco have spent years working
together to help clients bolster their data center capabilities
while reducing risk and time to value in those initiatives.
Data center solutions are a traditional IBM strength, while the
network and the services that operate over the network
are a core competency o Cisco. Our combined services and
products optimize data center utilization, responsiveness,
access and resiliency through interoperability and integration.
IBM and Cisco can propose a roadmap based on best prac-
tices and oerings that leads to resilient, highly secure, open
solutions with a long liespan.
Sharing extensive industry expertise
We know that your needs are distinct and require technologypartners who truly understand your industry, rather than provid-
ing one-size-ts-all solutions. You need partners with a proven
track record o working together and deep amiliarity with each
others oerings. Thats what IBM and Cisco give you: enhanced
value that is more than the sum o its parts.
Banking
Decades o experience in the nancial sector give us the insight
you need when charting a course or a bank o the uture.
Most o the banks in the Global Fortune 500 are IBM customers,
and both IBM and Cisco have worked with hundreds o nancial
services organizations worldwide to provide innovative retail
banking and insurance solutions. Thanks to our combined
oerings, banking and insurance institutions have been able to
transorm the client experience through robust integrated multi-
channel solutions.
Cisco and IBM can help you develop a highly secure, unied
network and virtualization or your retail banking portolio that
integrates multiple contact channels and serves as a cost-saving
oundation or additional applications, services and solutions.
3
IBM and Cisco work together to help clients
modernize aging network inrastructures.
The Cisco Borderless Network Architecture
provides the oundation or bringing organi-
zations, their individual members and their
constituencies closer together. IBM can help
you plan, design, implement, and maintain anintegrated and cost-eective solution geared
to your specic needs and opportunities.
Financing options are available to help you
time payments to the fow o nancial benets.
7/27/2019 IBM_CISCO
4/4