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IBM and CiscoFacilitating business agility or the challenges o tomorrow

Two companies, one team, infnite solutions

Since 1999, IBM

and Cisco

have helped organizations likeyours use groundbreaking technologies to nd better ways to

connect people and share critical data across their businesses.

This alliance integrates a broad range o industry-specic

expertise and cutting-edge solutions, all based on respective

core competencies in oundational technology architectures,

sotware and services. And its ready now to help you overcome

the constraints that time and distance traditionally impose on

transorming your business and, consequently, your protabil-

ity and competitiveness.

Infuencing this ability is the broad and deep relationship that

IBM and Cisco have ounded on complementary strengths,including those essential to any project aimed at improving

business resiliency and competitiveness. IBM contributes

signicant industry-specic expertise in business processes

and transormation, technology utilization, implementation,

and operational services. Cisco leadership in networking and

collaboration combines with IBM prociency to deliver pre-

tested, integrated solutions that help you transorm where and

how work is conducted throughout your enterprise. And both

companies bring long-term continuity and commitment to

Highlights

Improve responsiveness andproductivity by bringing people,

customers, and other crucial

stakeholders closer together

Reduce risk and costs by taking

ull advantage o proven, integrated

joint solutions and technology

Beneft rom best-in-class, industry-

specifc experience and solutions

Count on the worldwide capabilitieso a long-standing alliance between

two industry leaders

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their client relationships, including ongoing product support

and sustained investments in research and development.

Within our overall partnership, Cisco and IBM also have a

long-standing Global Services Alliance, which drives strategic

and operational alignment and enables collaborative support

and globally consistent delivery across the technology liecycle.

Easier, more productive collaboration

People and organizations can interact so easily through networks

today that the concept o workplace has changed beyond

recognition rom a ew decades ago. The ability to communicate

in all technological orms through advanced data, voice, and

video solutions helps enable true, collaborative teamwork and

close, personal interaction.

Today, many organizations are tapping the mobile revolution,

enabling employees with the tools and resources to work without

needing to be physically at their desks. The increasing availability

o wireless broadband is driving a new wave o transormation or

mobile devices, setting the stage or even greater productivity.

Far-fung workorces can dynamically orm virtual teams. Its

no wonder that, by 2017, workers are expected to spend an

estimated 80 percent o their time collaborating with each other

and their partners, suppliers, and customers.

IBM and Cisco are at the epicenter o these exciting changes,

allied to help businesses like yours improve collaboration andachieve new gains in innovation, creativity, and decision-making

eciency. For example, easy integration between Cisco Unied

Communications Manager technology and IBM Lotus Notes can

enable users or groups to detect presence, meet, communicate,

and collaborate directly and instantly using voice, video,

and web meetings. IBM and Cisco provide Cisco Collaboration

solutions running in an IBM smarter planet cloud environment

or private enterprise clouds. In addition, recognizing the trend

towards mobility, the two companies are developing solutions

that enable true enterprise-class unctionality on mobile devices,

with the ability to stay securely connected to the corporate worldanytime, anywhere.

These and our other oerings comprise an integrated suite

o voice, data, and video oerings designed to provide richer

collaboration, enhanced productivity, and aster business

decisions. And since they are based on open standards, these

solutions can enable you to take ull advantage o IT and network

investments, helping save time and increase the value o your

IT inrastructure.

Faster, stronger, more secure networks

Without a solid network oundation, the advanced capabilitiesthat will transorm the way your business works cannot be ully

realized. Nor can you most eectively meet the challenges o

mobile workplaces, burgeoning bandwidth demands and the

need or easy, wide-ranging collaboration. The Cisco Borderless

Network Architecture makes it possible, allowing organizations to

connect anyone, anywhere, anytime, and on any device more

securely, reliably, and easily.

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Want to create in-person meeting experiences

over any existing broadband IP network?

Cisco Business Video, including Cisco

TelePresence can bring the parties together

by combining Cisco video solutions rang-

ing rom desktop to immersive units with IBM

business consulting and technology solutions

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Unied communications oerings integrate communications

into your business processes. Our Remote Expert and anywhere,

anytime banking solutions provide innovative ways to serve

customers across multiple channels. All told, IBM and Cisco

can provide a wealth o client-centric solutions, including

enhanced customer care and contact centers, innovative sel-

service oerings, business video, robust back-oce solutions,

and much more.

Public Saety

Agencies striving or more holistic approaches to protecting citi-

zens, employees and assets turn to IBM and Cisco or solutions

that can improve situational awareness, crisis management, and

comprehensive, real-time, inter-agency collaboration. Thanks to

years o experience working together to build complementarycommunications, collaboration, coordination and surveillance

solutions, our oerings can be readily scaled to improve protec-

tions or citizens as well as borders, transportation systems and

other critical acilities.

One primary oering combines the Cisco Video Surveillance

Manager and the IBM Video Correlation Analysis Suite to

create a orce multiplier that can improve situational aware-

ness and emergency decision-making. IBM video analytics

can automatically alert ocials o suspicious activities. Inte-

grated with the IBM Intelligent Operations Center, senior ocials

can view the status o all public saety unctions, with CiscoTelePresence eeding video to a wide-ranging variety o device

ormats. Meanwhile, the Cisco IP Interoperability and Collabora-

tion System coordinates incident response between dispatchers

and responders and osters collaboration by helping to enable

teams to set up virtual talk groups. And video automatically

archived by the system can be invaluable in the judicial process,

training and guiding uture responses.

Whats more, IBM and Cisco have spent years working

together to help clients bolster their data center capabilities

while reducing risk and time to value in those initiatives.

Data center solutions are a traditional IBM strength, while the

network and the services that operate over the network

are a core competency o Cisco. Our combined services and

products optimize data center utilization, responsiveness,

access and resiliency through interoperability and integration.

IBM and Cisco can propose a roadmap based on best prac-

tices and oerings that leads to resilient, highly secure, open

solutions with a long liespan.

Sharing extensive industry expertise

We know that your needs are distinct and require technologypartners who truly understand your industry, rather than provid-

ing one-size-ts-all solutions. You need partners with a proven

track record o working together and deep amiliarity with each

others oerings. Thats what IBM and Cisco give you: enhanced

value that is more than the sum o its parts.

Banking

Decades o experience in the nancial sector give us the insight

you need when charting a course or a bank o the uture.

Most o the banks in the Global Fortune 500 are IBM customers,

and both IBM and Cisco have worked with hundreds o nancial

services organizations worldwide to provide innovative retail

banking and insurance solutions. Thanks to our combined

oerings, banking and insurance institutions have been able to

transorm the client experience through robust integrated multi-

channel solutions.

Cisco and IBM can help you develop a highly secure, unied

network and virtualization or your retail banking portolio that

integrates multiple contact channels and serves as a cost-saving

oundation or additional applications, services and solutions.

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IBM and Cisco work together to help clients

modernize aging network inrastructures.

The Cisco Borderless Network Architecture

provides the oundation or bringing organi-

zations, their individual members and their

constituencies closer together. IBM can help

you plan, design, implement, and maintain anintegrated and cost-eective solution geared

to your specic needs and opportunities.

Financing options are available to help you

time payments to the fow o nancial benets.

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