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End user services — success stories. A guide to client references End user services — helping clients boost end user collaboration and productivity As newer and better end user devices continue to flood the marketplace, businesses have the opportunity to enable collaboration and productivity in the workplace like never before. But today’s end user environment also presents unique challenges. Workforces are increasingly mobile. Uptime requirements have become more demanding. And security threats abound. Plus, containing costs is still a primary concern for both IT managers and executives. End user services from IBM provide a comprehensive, integrated suite of proven service offerings designed to help our clients successfully address these challenges and optimize their end user environments. These services support the deployment and management of end user devices and enhanced collaboration technologies, including computers, mobile devices, point-of-sale (POS) devices, kiosks, automated teller machines (ATMs), and output peripherals such as printers and multifunction devices. Our solutions comprise innovative technologies leveraging the world-renowned intellectual property portfolio developed by our IBM Research team. And our global service factory model allows us to deliver consistent, repeatable, quality services and service products that have proven their value in hundreds of client end user environments. This reference guide can help you demonstrate IBM’s effectiveness in helping clients leverage end user services to: • Achieve tangible cost reductions • Facilitate more effective end user collaboration • Increase end user productivity • Free internal IT resources to focus on more strategic business activities.

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How to use this guide This is an internal reference guide that can help you prepare for conversations with potential clients about end user ­services from IBM. Use it to quickly find industry-specific stories that illustrate how IBM can become a trusted resource for clients’ end user services needs. The identity of each referenced client has been concealed so that you may extract individual slides to use externally in client presentations. For special requests regarding references, e-mail Gina Lucia-Miller at [email protected].

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Featured client references for end user offerings, by sector IBM has a comprehensive list of end user accounts that can be used to illustrate the many choices we can offer to clients — by sector, industry and geography. Click on the icons below to view each reference. Communications Television broadcaster speeds time to market with a digital asset management solution

Food retailer minimizes risk of data loss and positions itself to save US$3.8 million with an enterprise service bus

Hotel and resort company increases business with highspeed Internet access

Restaurant chain saves approximately CA$2 million per year with a communications portal

Energy utility anticipates saving US$1.5 million per year with a new supply chain solution

Restaurant chain gets its franchises up and running with unfailing SurePOS support from IBM

Transportation technology company boosts productivity and reduces overhead costs by outsourcing IT maintenance

Distribution Beer producer reduces IT costs by 35 percent with an integrated IT infrastructure

Financial services Bank reduces TCO with a flexible IT staffing and hosting solution Accounting firm boosts collaboration and simplifies maintenance with a centralized IT infrastructure

Industrial

Food retailer increases customer satisfaction by creating an innovative shopping experience

IT provider saves nearly A5 million with an IBM help desk solution

Clothing company positions itself for online success with an integrated IT infrastructure

Global provider of health protection products improves end user satisfaction with comprehensive IT support services

Supermarket chain positions itself to improve customer satisfaction with a self-scanning retail solution Arts and crafts retailer leverages a new supply chain solution to increase efficiency

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Industrial materials producer gains a clear view of its output environment and positions itself to cut expenses by 30 percent

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Featured client references for end user offerings, by sector (continued) Industrial (continued) Mail and print provider leverages new continuous-form printing technology to enter a new marketplace and grow revenue Systems integrator and IT provider consolidates its servers and positions itself for ITIL compliance Motoring association implements a new IT infrastructure and reduces its operational costs by more than £20 million per year

Public Environmental agency boosts efficiency with a centralized document management solution City government reduces crime levels with real-time video monitoring capabilities Government agency Web-enables its claims processing application and achieves compliance County council reduces its TCO by engaging IBM to manage its hardware infrastructure Postal service agency gains peace of mind with a realtime video monitoring system

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Television broadcaster speeds time to market with a digital asset management solution

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Client requirements: To store video information, this television broadcaster had been relying on traditional DVCPRO videotapes. However, the tapes were vulnerable to being lost or damaged, and the process for making programming changes was lengthy and unwieldy. The company began looking for an IT solution that would enable it to automate its production processes, make programming changes more easily, reduce costs and improve time to market for new products.

Communications Location:

Ecuador

Industry:

Media and entertainment

Profile: Size:

National television broadcaster 500–999 employees

Solution: The company selected IBM Global Technology Services to install, configure and set up a digital asset management solution including: • Two IBM System p5™ 510 Express – AIX® 5L™ Edition servers and one IBM System p5 520 Express – AIX 5L Edition server, all of which run the IBM AIX 5L V5.2 operating system and support a Thomson Grass Valley (TGV) video editing solution • Two IBM TotalStorage® 3584 Ultrium UltraScalable Tape Library systems and two IBM System Storage™ DS4300 disk systems • IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager V5.2 software.

Benefits: • Provided integral automation of production processes • Reduced the time required to make programming changes from hours to seconds • Improved revenue growth through faster time to market and better management of digital media assets • Reduced videocassette expenditures

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Hotel and resort company increases business with high-speed Internet access

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Client requirements: To stay competitive in an increasingly aggressive marketplace, this hotel and resort company wanted to offer its guests reliable Internet access. Lacking the in-house skills for such an installation, the company sought help from an IT provider to create a new public wireless local area network (WLAN).

Communications Location:

Germany

Industry:

Travel and transportation

Profile:

Hotel and resort company

Size:

25–99 employees

Solution: IBM Wireless e-business Solutions conducted a site survey, created a WLAN design plan, provided network consulting, and implemented Symbol WLAN technology and Cisco LAN components in each hotel room, conference center and public area within the hotel. After installation, the IBM team conducted testing and stayed onsite to provide technical support.

Benefits: • Increased business by an estimated 3 to 5 percent • Saved the company 30 percent in infrastructure costs • Provided an infrastructure for additional technologies, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video IP

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Energy utility anticipates saving US$1.5 million per year with a new supply chain solution

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Client requirements: With plans in place to manufacture and deploy approximately 250,000 gas meters each year, this energy utility knew it needed to improve its meter supply chain, which relied on slow, manual processes that were prone to error and led to inaccurate accounting. The company calculated that, without a new supply chain solution, it would lose track of approximately 300 meters per annum, resulting in approximately US$1 million in lost revenue each year.

Communications Location:

United States

Industry:

Energy and utilities

Profile: Size:

Energy utility company 10,000 or more employees

Solution: With help from IBM Global Services – Integrated Technology Services and IBM Business Partners Symbol, Intermec and Shipcom Wireless, the company implemented a pilot supply chain solution at its warehouse. The solution is based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and two IBM System x™ servers that help the client streamline the meter supply chain processes.

Benefits: • Implemented a solution that will achieve an estimated total cost savings of US$1.5 million annually • Reduced number of manual processes required for managing inventory • Enhanced tracking capabilities for meter testing and inventory distribution

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Transportation technology company boosts productivity and reduces overhead costs by outsourcing IT maintenance

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Client requirements: This company’s IT group had been internally managing all of its software and hardware, troubleshooting problems such as installation issues, operating system errors and disk drive crashes. But dealing with day-to-day IT maintenance issues prevented the IT group from focusing on core business activities and often left employees waiting several days for an IT representative to answer their requests for help.

Communications Location:

Germany

Industry:

Travel and transportation

Profile:

Size:

Transportation technology company 1,000–4,999 employees

Solution: The company engaged IBM Global Technology Services to provide call services, help ticket services and security support for more than 300 PCs across its German offices. The IBM team established an employee help line for hardware and software support that forwards calls either to a central IBM help desk in Erfurt, Germany, or to the IBM service point closest to the caller’s location. To quickly resolve similar problems in the future, the IBM experts recorded detailed descriptions of the problems and corresponding solutions.

Benefits: • Enabled IT staff to focus on business-critical tasks • Improved response time to user issues • Improved employee productivity and satisfaction • Reduced IT overhead expenses through pay-per-use billing

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Beer producer reduces IT costs by 35 percent with an integrated IT infrastructure

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Client requirements: This beer and soft drink producer adjusted its marketing strategy to have greater appeal to customers in different regions. However, its IT systems were spread across corporate offices throughout Europe and lacked integration, prohibiting the company from fully implementing the new strategy. The company sought an expert solutions provider to implement a powerful, standardized IT environment.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

Denmark

Industry:

Consumer products

Profile: Size:

Beer and soft drink producer 10,000 or more employees

Solution: The company engaged IBM Global Technology Services to design and implement a standardized IT infrastructure, including: • 81 IBM System x™ servers at client headquarters in Denmark • 24 IBM System p™ servers to support the client’s SAP system • A new storage environment comprising IBM System Storage™ hardware and IBM Tivoli® software • An overhaul of the client’s printing systems, including the implementation of 50 IBM Infoprint® color 1464 printers at offices across Europe • A seven-year contract for comprehensive help desk support from the IBM Global Services – Worldwide Strategic Outsourcing team

Benefits: • Reduced IT costs by 35 percent • Positioned the client to realize annual savings of US$35 million • Enabled the company to adhere more closely to its regional marketing approach

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Food retailer increases customer satisfaction by creating an innovative shopping experience

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Client requirements: This food retailer wanted to differentiate itself by creating a customized, innovative shopping experience for its customers. To execute its plan successfully, the company sought the help of a solution provider with expertise in technology and the retail industry, capable of a coordinated effort from conception to design to implementation.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

United States

Industry:

Consumer products

Profile:

Size:

One of the largest food retailers in the United States 10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services and consultants from the IBM National Retail Solutions Center implemented an IBM Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) solution that allows customers to scan and bag their groceries as they shop. IBM consultants also helped install IBM SurePOS™ 700 systems, IBM Self Checkout systems and IBM Anyplace Kiosk devices, fully integrated through IBM Store Integration Framework – service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware. The Store Integration Framework platform, which was installed on IBM System x™ 206 and 236 servers running Linux® technology, includes IBM WebSphere®, IBM Tivoli® and IBM DB2® software.

Benefits: • Dramatically enhanced the shopping experience, improving customer satisfaction • Boosted the usage of self-checkout stations, putting shoppers in control and saving time • Increased sales and efficiency

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Clothing company positions itself for online success with an integrated IT infrastructure

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Client requirements: This clothing company attempted to break into the Internet retail marketplace with an online store, but the effort proved unsuccessful. The company’s supply chain and back-end systems were not integrated with its retail brand stores, resulting in duplicate inventory costs and an inability to take advantage of inventory within the company to fulfill orders. To lay a foundation for a successful online venture, the company needed to revamp and fully integrate its front-end and back-end systems.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

United Kingdom

Industry:

Retail

Profile: Size:

Large clothing retailer 1,000–4,999 employees

Solution: The company signed a ten-year contract with IBM Global Services – Worldwide Strategic Outsourcing, tasking the IBM team with integrating the company’s frontend point-of-sale (POS) system, back-end operations and online store. The IBM solution included: • Rolling out a new POS system to the company’s 1,500 stores, including IBM SurePOS™ 700 Series registers, IBM 4610 SureMark™ printers and IBM SurePoint™ 4820 displays • Integrating the company’s POS applications with its back-end systems • Deploying IBM System x™ servers to run day-to-day business applications • Providing ongoing solution support, including help desk services and application maintenance.

Benefits: • Provided an integrated and flexible infrastructure, positioning the company to begin creating a new online store • Lowered inventory and maintenance expenses • Enhanced customer satisfaction with the new POS system

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Supermarket chain positions itself to improve customer satisfaction with a self-scanning retail solution

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Client requirements: In the competitive Norwegian retail environment, this supermarket focuses on building customer loyalty by meeting shoppers’ demands for innovative in-store services. To continue in its efforts to provide a unique, highly convenient shopping experience, the company wanted to implement self-scanning technology.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

Norway

Industry:

Retail

Profile:

Size:

A leading retail supermarket chain in the Nordic region 10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Services – Integrated Technology Services helped the company roll out a pilot project, implementing a self-scanning solution in two grocery stores. The pilot was based on a wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure from Cisco and Symbol handheld scanners. The solution allows shoppers to pick up a wireless scanner upon entering the store, which can be used to scan goods as they shop. At checkout, a self-registered list of items is transferred to the pointof-sale (POS) system for payment.

Benefits: • Identified potential reduction of customer queue time by up to 20 percent • Created opportunity for reduction of 15 minutes per shopping visit per customer • Significantly enhanced customer satisfaction and anticipated retention • Identified expected return on investment within one year

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Arts and crafts retailer leverages a new supply chain solution to increase efficiency

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Client requirements: This arts and crafts retailer wanted to enhance its ability to track inventory and adjust stock according to customer demand. It needed to team with a trusted technology provider to plan and implement a new supply chain solution that would improve stock visibility, offer real-time inventory information, and increase collaboration capabilities with suppliers and distributors.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

United States

Industry:

Retail

Profile:

Size:

Retailer of arts and crafts materials 10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services designed and implemented a new supply chain solution comprising: • Nine IBM SurePOS™ 700 systems at each of the company’s 900 stores • Symbol handheld scanning devices • IBM SureMark™ printers • IBM System x™ servers integrated with the point-of-sale (POS) and Symbol devices • A business-to-employee (B2E) intranet portal based on an IBM WebSphere® Portal Enable V5.1 solution running on an IBM Systemp™ server environment.

Benefits: • Increased supply chain efficiency by enhancing stock visibility • Provided real-time inventory reports to help ensure product availability • Reduced carrying costs and shelf space for low-demand products • Increased collaboration with suppliers and distributors

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Food retailer minimizes risk of data loss and positions itself to save US$3.8 million with an enterprise service bus

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Client requirements: This food retailer was relying on a combination of homegrown software, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and manual processes to transfer valuable business information between its 500 stores, distribution centers and offices. Requiring ten full-time employees to monitor data transfers and manually transfer data, this system also made it difficult for the company to comply with legal regulations required for point-of-sale (POS) applications. And power outages — both planned and unplanned — resulted in the loss of large numbers of data files.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

South Africa

Industry:

Retail

Profile: Size:

Food retailer 10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services implemented an enterprise service bus (ESB) using IBM WebSphere® MQ Server software, which provides a messaging backbone, and IBM WebSphere Message Broker for Multiplatforms software, which provides connectivity and universal data transformation for the company’s operations. This solution helps protect sensitive business data, provides reports to demonstrate compliance and monitors data transmissions. The IBM team also implemented IBM Tivoli® Enterprise™ Console®, IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager software to help ensure optimum performance of the company’s network.

Benefits: • Reduced support and maintenance needs, resulting in an anticipated US$3.8 million in savings over five years • Minimized risk of data loss, even in a power outage • Improved data quality, reporting and the accuracy of sales figures

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Restaurant chain saves approximately CA$2 million per year with a communications portal

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Client requirements: This large restaurant chain lacked an efficient communication channel between its corporate headquarters and its 2,500 franchises, making its payment processes particularly slow and unwieldy. To eliminate payment delays and support continued business growth, the company wanted to implement a portal solution that would automate all communication between its corporate office and the franchise locations.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

Canada

Industry:

Retail

Profile:

Fast food restaurant chain

Size:

10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Business Services defined the company’s requirements and designed a portal enabling electronic funds transfer (EFT) and inventory management functionality. IBM Global Services – Integrated Technology Services loaded the portal onto the necessary IBM PC workstations and point-of-sale (POS) hardware. IBM Global Services – Application Management Services provided employee training and IBM Global Services – e-business Hosting™ Services hosts the solution at its Toronto data center.

Benefits: • Provided savings of approximately CA$2 million per year in staff expenses • Enabled immediate deposit of payments from franchises to the corporate offices and facilitated an easier fee-management process • Significantly improved internal communication

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Restaurant chain gets its franchises up and running with unfailing SurePOS support from IBM

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Client requirements: For 15 years, this restaurant chain has relied on IBM to install and maintain IBM SurePOS™ point-of-sale (POS) systems to support the opening of new stores as well as stores that have been bought back from franchisees. With 69 restaurants newly reacquired from franchisees, the company needed IBM to standardize the POS equipment in each to comply with corporate standards.

DISTRIBUTION Location:

United States

Industry:

Retail

Profile:

Fast rood restaurant chain

Size:

10,000 or more employees

Solution: An IBM Global Services – Integrated Technology Services team uninstalled and removed the old, mismatched equipment and replaced it with new IBM SurePOS 4840 and SureMark™ 4610 technology. Two experienced POS team leads, who travel the country on a dedicated basis for old and new installations, moves, adds and changes (IMACs), were teamed with local IBM resources for each conversion. IBM prepositioned equipment from the IBM integrator in Raleigh, North Carolina, to local areas to run a tight two-store-per-night installation scenario.

Benefits: • Provided peace of mind — for more than 2,000 store POS installations, IBM has had the client’s POS systems up and running in time to meet opening schedules • Enabled IT staff to focus on core business applications

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Bank reduces TCO with a flexible IT staffing and hosting solution

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Client requirements: With recruiting, training and retraining IT staff becoming increasingly difficult and expensive, this bank was seeking an outsourcing solution that would enable it to reduce its costs and return its focus to core business competencies.

FINANCIAL SERVICES Location:

United Kingdom

Industry:

Banking

Profile:

Size:

Bank focused on mortgage brokering and lending 5,000–9,999 employees

Solution: Initially, the company established a ten-year IBM Global Services – Worldwide Strategic Outsourcing contract that included data center, midrange server and help desk management services. Eventually, this contract was extended to include application development and break/fix maintenance, user support and application support services from IBM Global Services – Application Management Services. And finally, the company added hosting services from IBM Global Services – e-business Hosting™ Services to support a new mortgage processing system.

Benefits: • Reduced total cost of ownership • Enabled renewed focus on core competencies, improving customer satisfaction • Provided a scalable hosting solution that can expand to accommodate business needs

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Accounting firm boosts collaboration and simplifies maintenance with a centralized IT infrastructure

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Client requirements: Lacking a centralized IT infrastructure, this accounting firm had been maintaining its data and customer records on individual systems located in each of its offices. As it a result, collaboration across the company was limited and IT maintenance was time-consuming and unwieldy.

FINANCIAL SERVICES Location:

Australia

Industry:

Financial markets

Profile:

Size:

Business advisory and chartered accounting firm 500–999 employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services designed and implemented a centralized IT model based on IBM BladeCenter® servers. Information from each office is now held in a central repository and made available securely to business users through Citrix Presentation Server software. As a result, IT staff can deliver and manage applications across the business centrally rather than mailing out CDs and instructions to onsite staff.

Benefits: • Enabled easier, less frequent IT maintenance, freeing funds to support the new server-based infrastructure • Provided employees with access to comprehensive data from multiple offices, significantly enhancing collaboration

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IT provider saves nearly A5 million with an IBM help desk solution

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Client requirements: This IT provider needed to reduce the costs of its help desk solution, which provides support for IT products, structures and services for more than 40,000 personnel on a daily basis. It sought a flexible service provider that could manage peak workloads while charging the company for help desk calls based on usage.

industrial Location:

Germany

Industry:

Computer services

Profile:

Size:

IT provider for a financial and insurance group in Germany 1,000–4,999 employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services developed a flexible user help desk solution to manage all first-level activities, including password resets, solutions for known errors, how-to questions and qualified call entry for all problems. IBM also provides a number of second-level support tasks, such as the design of user help desk solutions and support for competence teams. With a set price per call, the solution allows the client to pay only for the services it uses.

Benefits: • Saved nearly A5 million • Increased overall help desk quality, ensuring 95 percent reachability within 30 seconds and the resolution of 90 percent of all service calls on first contact • Established an efficient single point of contact for all IT-related issues

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Global provider of health protection products improves end user satisfaction with comprehensive IT support services

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Client requirements: With its employees frustrated by a lack of efficient, comprehensive IT support, this company sought a reliable technology provider that could deliver world-class end user support services and introduce an innovative approach to issue resolution.

industrial Location:

Finland

Industry:

Travel and transportation

Profile:

Size:

One of the world’s oldest airlines serving more than seven million passengers internationally with scheduled and charter flights 10,000+ employees

Solution: The company engaged IBM Global Technology Services for a three-year contract that includes: • Complete end user support, from workstation installation to workstation removal • A central help desk, featuring multiple language support, 24x7 service and service level agreements (SLAs) for resolution times and accessibility • A ticket-tracking system • Support during rollout projects. The Global Technology Services group has introduced new approaches to IT issue resolution and maintenance, including a self-help portal, automatic password resetting, individual ticket reports, regular service meetings and monthly reports addressing primary IT issues.

Benefits: • Decreased PC installation time from eight weeks to one week • Decreased help desk response time from minutes to seconds • Enhanced end user satisfaction levels

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Industrial materials producer gains a clear view of its output environment and positions itself to cut expenses by 30 percent

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Client requirements: After a number of mergers and acquisitions, this company’s output hardware environment had become muddled. Unsure of how many printers and photocopiers it owned or how many vendors and warrantees it needed to manage, the company sought outside expertise to help it regain control of its resources and costs.

industrial Location:

Germany

Industry:

Industrial products

Profile: Size:

Industrial materials producer 10,000 or more employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services took inventory of the various printers and copy machines used at each of the company’s 12 output locations, noting the number of documents handled and costs reported. Using this information, IBM developed a comprehensive assessment of the company’s existing output infrastructure and created a target scenario for maximum productivity and cost management.

Benefits: • Provided a transparent view of the output infrastructure and related costs • Outlined a scenario that, if applied, will result in a streamlined procurement process and a 30 percent decrease in output-related expenses

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Mail and print provider leverages new continuous-form printing technology to enter a new market and grow revenue

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Client requirements: To diversify its offerings and enter the promising new transactional printing marketplace, this mail and print provider needed to upgrade its printing technology. Its existing printers were too expensive to maintain and too slow to handle large transactional print jobs.

industrial Location:

United Kingdom

Industry:

Professional services

Profile:

Size:

Specialized mail and print provider 25–99 employees

Solution: IBM Global Services – Integrated Technology Services installed two IBM Infoprint® 4000 continuous-form printers equipped with IBM Advanced Function Presentation™ technology, an industry-standard solution for streamlining printing processes. After the initial solution implementation, the company added four more IBM Infoprint 4000 printers and two IBM Infoprint 2000 cut-sheet printers, which the company uses as backup and failover printing systems. In addition, the company deployed IBM Infoprint Manager V4.2 for Microsoft® Windows® software, an enterprise print management solution that automates and controls core printing processes. IBM is providing ongoing maintenance services to ensure high availability.

Benefits: • Tripled revenue by expanding into the transactional print marketplace • Reduced overall cost base through usage-based fee structure • Provided automation capabilities that significantly speed the completion of large print jobs

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Systems integrator and IT provider consolidates its servers and positions itself for ITIL compliance

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Client requirements: This quickly growing computer services provider lacked a master IT platform. With disparate and siloed IT systems at each of its companies, its server platform was difficult to manage and expensive to maintain. Plus, the company wanted to add further value to its existing customers and to attract new accounts by becoming IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) and BS 7799 compliant.

industrial Location:

Thailand

Industry:

Computer services

Profile:

Size:

Systems integrator and IT provider 500–999 employees

Solution: Using dynamic logical partitioning and virtualization technologies, IBM Global Technology Services consolidated 150 of the client’s outdated servers onto two new IBM System p5™ 595 servers running the IBM AIX® 5L™ V5.3 operating system. The IBM team also provided extensive training in ITIL process-based methodology to help the company adopt ITIL processes and best practices across its enterprise.

Benefits: • Put in place solution to reduce server administration staffing demands by an estimated 20 to 30 percent • Provided superior technology and a clear roadmap for the future • Ensured a smooth transition to compliance with ITIL standards

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Motoring association implements a new IT infrastructure and reduces its operational costs by more than £20 million per year

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Client requirements: Following a recent acquisition, this motoring association was required to sever all IT ties with its former owner within 12 months of the deal’s closure. Facing the need to create a new infrastructure from the ground up, the organization saw both a challenge and a “clean-slate” opportunity to create additional business value within the organization by transforming all aspects of its operations. It needed to build an IT infrastructure that would support business innovation, cost-efficient growth and improved customer service.

industrial Location:

United Kingdom

Industry:

Automotive

Profile:

Size:

Motoring association and roadside assistance provider 5,000–9,999 employees

Solution: IBM Global Technology Services migrated the association’s infrastructure into two data centers managed by IBM and built specifically for the project. Then, to enable efficient monitoring and management of the new infrastructure, IBM built a standardized systems management platform using a set of IBM Tivoli® software components. This advanced service management layer runs on a cluster of IBM System x™ servers.

Benefits: • Reduced yearly cost of operations by a more than £20 million • Reduced IT costs by 40 percent and IT workforce by 60 percent • Increased profits by more than 100 percent in two years

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Environmental agency boosts efficiency with a centralized document management solution

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Client requirements: Involved in planning several government projects, this agency was being flooded with e-mails and faxes containing critical information, including elaborate project plans and advice from environmental experts. While the organization was able to retain all of this information, its system was unorganized and inefficient. Employees had to spend time hunting down individual files, and multiple users were unable to open the same electronic document simultaneously. To enhance efficiency and make information more readily accessible, the fund began looking for a centralized document management framework.

Public Location:

Poland

Industry:

Government

Profile:

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Government agency responsible for the funding of national environmental initiatives 100–499 employees

Solution: The organization teamed with IBM Global Technology Services to implement a solution based on IBM Lotus® Domino® Collaboration Express software and the Lotus software-based iDoc offering from IBM Business Partner Advatech. The IBM staff loaded the new software on the client’s fleet of 400 newly purchased IBM IntelliStation® POWER™ 185 Express workstations. Beyond the initial implementation, the client also contracted IBM Global Technology Services to provide ongoing system management and maintenance.

Benefits: • Reduced operating costs • Improved staff efficiency • Increased agency productivity • Helped ensure system availability

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City government reduces crime levels with real-time video monitoring capabilities

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Client requirements: Lacking a centralized security system, this city relied on aging video surveillance equipment to secure its building and parking lots. This limited approach to securing the city’s buildings and surrounding property led to an increase in theft and intrusion. To improve the safety of its facilities, the city needed to implement a new security solution using the most advanced technology available.

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French Polynesia

Industry:

Government

Profile:

City government for an overseas territory of France

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More than 100,000 constituents

Solution: The city purchased a real-time video monitoring system (rtVMS) solution from IBM Business Partner VIMATEC and engaged the company to install and integrate the solution into the city’s vast network. The rtVMS solution combines IBM Internet Security Systems software with IBM hardware to leverage best-ofbreed intelligent image analysis subsystems. It is running on two IBM System x3400 servers in a Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server environment. The city also engaged IBM Global Technology Services to provide three years of comprehensive maintenance and support services for the new video monitoring solution.

Benefits: • Reduced crime levels and set a new standard for safety in the city • Provided a complete, integrated security system that is easy to monitor and maintain • Helped ensure that the solution stays up and running in top condition

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Government agency Web-enables its claims processing application and achieves compliance

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Client requirements: To comply with a government initiative, this agency needed to upgrade its IT platform, enable its claims processing application to handle the bulk of claims online and enhance its disaster recovery plans.

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United Kingdom

Industry:

Government

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Size:

Agency responsible for the processing and payment of dental claims 100–499 employees

Solution: The agency engaged IBM for a seven-year contract, which included: • Web-enabling its electronic claims processing application • Running a centralized help desk for dentists accessing the application remotely • Managing the agency’s host systems, end user support and local area network (LAN)/wide area network (WAN) support • Implementing comprehensive disaster recovery plans.

Benefits: • Protected the agency’s investment in legacy systems • Provided access to a wealth of knowledge, skills and technologies • Offered solution flexibility and scalability

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County council reduces its TCO by engaging IBM to manage its hardware infrastructure

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Client requirements: When it came time to update its aging IT environment, this county council wanted to move away from traditional hardware provisioning to an agreement in which its equipment would be constantly refreshed at predetermined intervals. To support its diverse IT requirements, the council needed to team with a reliable service provider that could offer a high level of service while keeping overall costs low.

Public Location:

United Kingdom

Industry:

Government

Profile:

Size:

Council for a large county in the United Kingdom 10,000 or more employees

Solution: The council signed IBM Integrated Technology Services to a five-year service contract for managing the replacement of its mail, storage, server and desktop environments. Initially, IBM will roll out 9,000 client devices, including ThinkCentre desktop PCs, ThinkPad notebooks and Tablet PCs. IBM’s perpetual refresh program ensures that the client’s PCs will be refreshed every three years and that the back-office infrastructure will be updated every five years.

Benefits: • Ensured regular hardware refreshes to keep technology current • Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for the IT environment • Freed IT staff to concentrate on core business activities

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Postal service agency gains peace of mind with a realtime video monitoring system

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Client requirements: After enduring a series of break-ins and robberies, this postal services agency wanted to implement a high-performance, scalable video surveillance solution to provide 24x7 monitoring of its high-risk locations.

Public Location:

French Polynesia

Industry:

Government

Profile: Size:

Postal service agency 1,000–4,999 employees

Solution: IBM Business Partner VIMATEC implemented an IBM real-time video monitoring system (rtVMS), an open-architecture surveillance solution including IBM Internet Security Systems Security Operating System software, 90 analog cameras, 20 Internet Protocol (IP)-based cameras, ten IBM IntelliStation® Z Pro workstations and three IBM System x3400 servers. To maintain high performance and availability, IBM Global Technology Services provides remote support and maintenance of the system.

Benefits: • Dramatically improved the agency’s security infrastructure, helping to protect its employees and sensitive information • Provided a scalable solution designed to meet future growth objectives • Offered a low total cost of ownership, which includes maintenance and support services

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Discover new ways to access client references References are used by sales teams to gain advantage during every stage of the sales cycle — such as creating interest, augmenting ongoing discussions, increasing the credibility of proposals and differentiating IBM during final decision making. Here are some tools you can use to make sure that you can locate the exact reference you need, exactly when you need it.

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IBM Worldwide Client Reference Materials Database The most up-to-date references — be sure to bookmark this database: w3.ibm.com/sales/ssi/crmd.html

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IBM Global Technology Services Client Reference Presentation Slide Library An easy-to-use, interactive collection of ready-to-use client reference slides http://w3-3.ibm.com/services/salesone/Global/html/shell_popup.html

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Client References Help Desk Get quick, personalized assistance with client reference research. Now available through the Deal Hub portal, the Client References Help Desk provides Level 2 support for sellers in all geographies who need help searching for client references.

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Here’s how it works: 1. Go to the Deal Hub portal. 2. Select your geography and language preferences. 3. Sign in using your intranet identification and password. 4. Click on “Client References” in the Client References/Marketing/ICAP Support section. 5. Complete the form provided. 6. Receive a response within 24 hours.

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