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The IBM Mainframe Charter is a roadmap to the future. It provides a framework for planned future investment and highlights the specific ways in which IBM intends to deliver the ongoing value that our mainframe customers have come to expect.

But don't take our word for it. Listen to IBM mainframe customers describe how they meet their business and technical challenges—and position themselves for continued on demand growth—by making IBM mainframe the focal point of the fabric of their IT infrastructure.

Kmutt
King Mongkut's University in Bangkok, Thailand uses the power of Virtualization on System z to teach students valuable IT skills without the cost and footprint of multiple servers.
Customer name: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Industry: Higher Education
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Tarquinio Teles, CEO Hoplon Infotainment
Hoplon Infotainment, a small Brazilian company, uses the power of DB2, Linux and the System z to create a new kind of massive multi-player on-line game.
Customer name: Hoplon Infotainment
Industry: Media & Entertainment
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Richard Levine - Managing Director and Client Service Officer NEXXAR Group
Nexxar reduces IT operating costs by 30% leveraging IFLs and DB2 on z/OS.
Customer name: NEXXAR Group
Industry: Financial Markets
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Duane Wesenberg -  Vice President, Enterprise Applications
Aurora Health Care
Aurora Health Care simplifies information access for patients and employees by building a Web-based portal using IBM WebSphere technologies on an IBM System z Enterprise Class server.
Customer name: Aurora Health Care
Industry: Healthcare
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BILL HOMA - Hannaford Bros. Co.
IBM System z, as the enterprise hub, helps Hannaford address its supply chain needs of scalability, reliability and flexibility.
Customer name: Hannaford Bros. Co.
Industry: Retail
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Christopher Tooman - Panasonic
IBM mainframe helped Panasonic support its e-commerce site, introduce new promotions quickly and react effectively to unpredictable workloads.
Customer name: Panasonic Corporation of North America
Industry: Electronics
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Stephen A. Stevens - SunTrust Bank
SunTrust utilized the scalability and flexibility of the IBM mainframe to provide systems that were available and responsive 24/7 for business decisions.
Customer name: SunTrust Bank
Industry: Banking
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Shigehiro Takemoto - Nissay IT Technology
Japan's largest life insurance company relies on IBM mainframe for more efficient processing, reduced costs and a flexible platform for future business deployment.
Customer name: Nissay IT Technology
Industry: Life insurance
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Ken Kucera - First National Bank of Omaha
First National Bank of Omaha takes a distributed environment back to the mainframe and gains reliability, scalability and a simplified infrastructure.
Customer name: First National Bank of Omaha
Industry: Banking and financial services
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Dan Kaberon - Hewitt Associates
Hewitt Associates depends on IBM mainframe to flexibly and securely handle its large, complex — and growing — workloads.
Customer name: Hewitt Associates
Industry: Professional services
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Barbara Sanders - The Home Depot

Jim Fisher - The Home Depot
The Home Depot relies on the "non-stop architecture" of IBM mainframe to simplify its infrastructure, support critical business applications and provide on demand business benefits to its stores.
Customer name: The Home Depot
Industry: Retail
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Jai Hoa Sir - Industrial Bank of Korea
IBK utilized the high security and resiliency of IBM mainframe to expand business growth and meet customers' demand for new banking services.
Customer name: Industrial Bank of Korea
Industry: Banking
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