IBM's technology, solutions and industry expertise can help you find the competitive edge with a sharper understanding of your customers. Our System z solutions combine the foundation of IBM hardware, software and middleware with flexible financing and packaging options to help your business meet and overcome the challenges of doing business in the on demand world. IBM can help you develop a customer-centric view—and assist you in delivering the right solution and the right products.
New offerings
System z Solution Edition Series - Transforming the way you do business
Dare to compare, using new aggressive "Total Solution" pricing to deploy new workloads on System z. These offerings deliver new, very competitive costs compared to Unix and Intel alternatives, while leveraging System z based technology to deliver a flexible, secure infrastructure to empower your business in the 21st century.
Open Source Consolidation Package with Websphere Application Server Community Edition 2.1.1 with Elite Support
The Open Source Consolidation Package enables consolidation and intelligent management of existing applications running on open source application servers onto highly available and reliable IBM System z servers running Linux. with great TCO . With the integration of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and, Websphere Application Server Community Edition onto System z10 BC, customers can increase application availability and reduce IT infrastructure footprint and software costs.
Cognos 8.4 with System z
This new version of Cognos delivers a more customized informational view of data across the entire enterprise, with business insights for up to 80,000 users, all with the security and availability associated with System z
ACI's Proactive Risk Manager on System z
ACI Proactive Risk Manager is an intelligent transaction monitoring tool that detects and alerts fraud and suspicious account and transaction activity, while facilitating effective counter measures. Now clients can run this new version of PRM with enhanced security and a new real time account status update completely on System z This is a powerful combination to help financial institutions reduce losses due to fraud, scale to handle increasing payment volumes and improve overall efficiency and competitiveness.
Featured solutions by industry
Public sector
Organizations in the public sector -- that is government, healthcare, and education -- are under constant pressure to control costs, increase efficiency and perform on demand. The IBM System z platform enables public sector organizations to simplify their IT infrastructures so they can respond quickly to changing needs, innovate and grow.
Automotive industry
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 mainframe.
Electronics industry
As margins continue to erode, it is becoming more difficult to maintain a competitive edge in the unpredictable electronics market. Consider a strategy that will offer your business the flexibility of an on demand environment that leverages the latest virtualization technology.
Financial services sector
IBM System z continues to deliver enhancements to help financial firms improve efficiency by simplifying IT processes, reduce risk and grow revenue by enabling applications which help accelerate the development and deployment of new products and services -- issues that confront all firms in banking, financial markets and insurance today.
Retail industry
Competitive pressures are moving successful retailers to a more customer centric strategy with an execution focus. Successful on demand retail enterprises require business flexibility. With IBM mainframe, retailers will have several cost effective ways of supporting varying and seasonal workloads.
Telecommunications industry
Focused on cost reduction, new revenue sources and network infrastructure, the telecommunications industry has undergone extraordinary change. Customer expect innovation at exponential rates. Responsiveness and high rates of innovation are only achievable if the fundamental architecture of the service providers evolves too.
