IBM Research Services Capabilities

Pacing e-business transformation

IT departments need to keep pace with business changes and minimize maintenance costs by speeding and improving design and testing, optimizing system performance and enabling new systems and legacy systems to work together effectively.

The e-business Systems and Architecture micropractice offers expertise, best practices and reusable tools that can help companies build a technical foundation to support dynamic business transformation.

For most companies wrestling with the cost and complexity of their Internet infrastructure, the e-business Systems and Architecture micropractice can help improve quality, reduce cost, integrate diverse systems and build a foundation for transformation.

• For a financial institution, this may mean implementing novel program testing tools to reduce the cost and time of new application development.

• For a retailer, this may mean identifying the hidden error in millions of lines of code that is unexpectedly causing systems to crash and costing sales.

• For a government agency, this may mean transforming legacy systems to enable seamless integration with new on demand services.

Specialties

The specialties within the e-business Systems and Architecture micropractice focus on designing, testing and integrating diverse systems to help improve performance and reduce cost.

• e-business architecture includes methodologies and tools from IBM that can help simplify, speed and improve IT architecture, building a tighter alignment between business requirements and new application design and development.

• e-business quality and performance features diagnostic and quality testing tools from IBM that can help detect potentially costly errors and improve programming quality and system performance – all of which affect bottom-line business results.

• Legacy transformation includes a growing set of tools and expertise that can help enable legacy systems to interact and support business transformation, including on demand services.

The specialties listed do not represent a comprehensive list of IBM Research capabilities. Business leaders with ideas or custom solutions in mind, please contact IBM Research Services today.