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Redefining your business in the competitive automotive industry requires thinking outside the box. Create an infrastructure that will strengthen your business flexibility by combining your critical applications with the qualities of service found only on the IBM System z family of servers.

Designed to satisfy the most demanding requirements of mission-critical business applications like SAP, IBM System z is known for its exceptional strengths—delivering a highly reliable, available system that offers virtualization technology, workload balancing and almost unlimited scalability. Look to System z for a dynamic infrastructure that can meet the demands of a 24x7 business environment.

The z9 platform continues its evolution—enabling you to redefine your business in the highly competitive automotive industry. Leveraging the latest z9 system, you can deliver an infrastructure that strengthens your business flexibility by combining critical applications with the qualities of service found only in the IBM z9 family of servers.

The newest member of this family allows you to respond to fast changing business demands, by unifying your infrastructure with open computing standards—allowing you to integrate existing resources, to build and deploy more effective applications, and reduce your IT complexity.

By satisfying the most demanding requirements of mission-critical business applications such as SAP, IBM System z9 is known for its exceptional strengths—delivering a highly reliable, available system that offers virtualization technology, workload balancing, advanced analytics and almost unlimited scalability.

Now—the latest z9 announcement extends the capabilities of your infrastructure, with unique levels of security, intelligent management, and integration of cross-platform solutions.

Look to IBM System z9 to build a dynamic infrastructure that can meet the demands of a 24x7 business environment—today!

Learn about IBM solutions for the automotive industry

Achieve a full customer view

Automotive CRM analytics solutions from IBM employ technology for greater customer insight. Target your marketing for higher sales and return on marketing expenditures. Use customer intelligence to personalize messaging and offers across marketing channels. Help predict trends, optimize customer relationships and uncover new sales opportunities.

Improve product profitability

How fast can your design team communicate and respond to changes in the market? IBM Extended Enterprise Collaboration can help your company optimize information exchange—improve your ability to react to customer, supplier and market demands, while generating greater product profitability.

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Read success stories

Read these success stories to see the many ways IBM has helped customers in the automotive industry benefit from System z solutions.

Goodyear's Tire-HQ Portal: An on demand solution that delivers value and satisfaction to dealers
Goodyear, the world's largest tire manufacturer, responds to its dealers' information and transactional needs through Tire-HQ, a realtime tire ordering and information system. The highly resilient new solution that incorporates IBM System z processors has enabled Goodyear to keep pace with robust transaction growth.

Simply brilliant, brilliantly simple: System z at Eberspacher
Eberspacher relies on just-in-time delivery and just-in-sequence assembly to provide the right exhaust systems to auto-makers. To integrate internal and external processes, they use a mySAP Automotive solution running on IBM System z with DB2.

PepBoys tunes into its data, driving sharper decision-making
During the past ten years, PepBoys has doubled the number of stores and nearly tripled annual sales. The IBM data management solutions helps them stay on top of their supply chain and provide outstanding service.


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