Solutions

Energy costs can consume 30 to 40% of your operational budget—and these costs are projected to double over the next 5 years. Proactively addressing carbon management now can help you achieve compliance before mandates, develop a competitive advantage, strengthen your brand image and attain a high caliber workforce.

Transform the way your school or institution shares information with converged communications. Unify and streamline the delivery of feature-rich, integrated voice, video and data content, to offer a whole new range of e-learning, pervasive computing and wireless applications.

Are you providing students with tools for rich learning opportunities? Can you distribute materials—documents, lectures, audio and video—across your campus and with other institutions? IBM can help you take instruction to a higher level with technology to increase access to a variety of learning materials.

Security is a vital concern for colleges and universities worldwide. Our digital surveillance solution is a comprehensive security offering designed to help safeguard people and capital investments across campus. Whether you are upgrading current systems or deploying a new one, digital is the future of smart monitoring.

Is your school district mired down in multiple disconnected intranets? Our education portal solution can help you unify your administrative and instructional systems so dispersed state and local education staff can access your intranet with a single sign on. Communicate and share data quickly, easily, with security-rich features.

A digital portfolio allows access to work products for assessment and competency demonstration. The electronic portfolio solution from IBM and rSmart offers an open-source personal digital portfolio environment backed by IBM technology. Reduce costs, while maintaining technical stability with IBM and rSmart.

Drowning in documents? Paper weighing you down? A robust enterprise content management solution from IBM can help educators gain control of information. Become more efficient and responsive. From staff to students to faculty, now you can deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

E-rate is a government program that enables qualifying schools and districts to obtain telecommunications, Internet access and other technological needs for their school. IBM can help your school or district translate your technology vision to academic reality with the help of funding from this program.

Is your institution looking to reduce costs, increase performance and recruit top faculty and students? Through our implementation services, IBM can help you automate cumbersome manual processes, including payroll and student registration, eliminate paperwork and streamline your overall ERP infrastructure.

Your school district faces increasing demands to improve educational quality and services without additional funding. How can you better manage school resources, improve facilities and services, and save money? You can achieve your goals with financial performance review solutions for educators from IBM.

Does your university research involve performing physics experiments at the subatomic level or analyzing the human genome? Maybe you are correlating information about astronomical phenomena or managing large databases of medical imaging files. IBM helps researchers solve complex problems using grid computing solutions.

Does your research involve complex problems that require terascale or even petascale calculations? Could your research and education experience be improved by exploiting capabilities similar to the most powerful systems on the planet? If so, turn to IBM for the highest-performance computing solutions.

How do you collect and store student success indicators? IBM Insight at School is a decision support solution that packages technology, services and critical intellectual capital to help you improve student achievement through better information management and data-driven decision making.

Knowledge is power. That’s why schools, colleges and universities need to know what they’re up against. Viruses. Hackers. Audits. IBM Internet Security Systems™ offers the tools needed to help protect valuable IT assets and information, and support compliance efforts in a cost-effective manner.

The IBM Open Education Service: Collaborative Learning Edition is a hosted, standards-compliant, open source-based online support system for K-12 and higher education institutions. It can be accessed across classroom and institutional boundaries, enabling collaboration among educators, students and the larger community.

Security is a vital concern for educational institutions. Our Smart Surveillance Solution for education is designed to analyze video data faster and more effectively, enabling a proactive approach to campus safety. Whether upgrading current systems or deploying a new one, digital surveillance is key to smart monitoring.

Automate collection, storage and access of student information required for state and federal funding. IBM state reporting toolkit solutions allow your department of education to conduct analysis of student, school and district performance for internal use, as well as accountability reporting to legislators and the public.

Give students, faculty and staff virtually anytime, anywhere access to applications, information and resources. IBM Virtual Infrastructure Access Services provides a security-rich access environment with a connection broker to help seamlessly link Internet-ready devices with centrally managed applications.

Do you have an automated process to manage and identify users to your network? Are you concerned about viruses and worms attacking your systems? Protect the security and privacy of information while helping ensure the secure continuity of operations. IBM and Cisco can help.

Increase IT asset utilization and staff efficiency. Reduce operating costs. We can help you optimize your IT environment by simplifying and integrating systems and applications across your institution. You'll reduce complexity and gain the flexibility you need to easily deploy new applications.

Protect your institution's IT infrastructure from security threats. Meet legislative and public demand for keeping private information safe. Prevent unauthorized distribution and access to your network. We can help you manage the challenges of annual student turnover with enhanced system administration.

A collection of interconnected servers used as a single computing resource, clusters pull together enormous computing power for data-intensive projects such as studying the human genome or complex modeling. Combined with Linux™'s low cost and flexibility, IBM can deliver new capabilities and reduce research costs.

Respond effectively to current and future emergencies. Provide litigation support through video evidence and analysis. Go beyond basic surveillance with a system from IBM and Cisco designed for capture, transport, storage and viewing of near real-time video from fixed sites and mobile platforms for situational awareness.

Offer innovative collaborative learning environments. Enable and enhance learning, teaching and research. Maintain technological stability and superiority. IBM and rSmart can help you leverage Sakai open source initiative technology to facilitate growth and collaboration—while keeping application costs down.

Accurate, timely information. Without it, how do you know whether your planning and decision making is effective? Being able to access and review appropriate data can help your school district recognize resource needs. Our solution is designed to avoid pitfalls normally associated with software selection and implementation.

To remain competitive in higher education, universities must meet the complex challenge of providing scalable, self-service capabilities that focus on the constantly shifting needs of all student information users. Adopt an open technology framework to achieve a flexible and efficient suite of valued student services.

Does your state department of education face issues related to increasing demand for qualified teachers and decreasing supply? Tracking teacher qualifications is a must—both for governmental compliance and for meeting your goals of quality education. IBM can help you research and issue credentials efficiently, online.

To build business relationships, you often need to travel, which can mean lost time, reduced productivity and increased expense. The telepresence meeting solution from IBM and Cisco provides an in-person experience, empowering you to interact more effectively with colleagues and customers in many locations.

Replace PCs with virtual clients. Give students, faculty and staff access to a full desktop environment virtualized on secure servers in a centralized data center. Enhance the security of your technology and data. Simplify systems management across campus. Gain more flexibility and system reliability. Lower IT costs.

IBM and Cisco offer a holistic, strategic approach to helping universities maximize the potential of wireless solutions. We can help you integrate wireless capabilities into your institution's current infrastructure to enhance your curricula and offer advanced services such as distance learning.

With most students now arriving on campus with their own cellular phones, PDAs and laptops, campus communication patterns and cost structures are changing. Let IBM help you plan and implement a roadmap for wireless that allows you to implement cost-effective technologies to meet the demand for new services.

Are overcrowded classrooms and outdated technology making it difficult to provide students with the skills they need to succeed? The wireless infrastructure for schools solution from IBM can help deliver student access to valuable Internet tools and information while optimizing space allocation and enhancing productivity.