IBM Forum

A major distributor of IBM products in Nordics.
Using superior logistics, distribution and knowledge of the industry,
Tech Data offers the Nordic market a cost efficient supply chain in the areas of IT and communications.

Tech Data is a member of SCC (Supply Chain Council) a global interest group
dedicated to the development of supply chain management in terms of
quality and processes, which ensures that customer needs and expectations
are taken into consideration at all times in a highly competitive market.

To their Business Partners, Tech Data contributes with

• Product bundles and solution proposals
• Knowledge based bid and configuration support
• Technical support for complex system solutions
• Seminars and training
• An e-business plattform for resellers in order to provide a web solution for their end customers

www.azlan.com

IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions make it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another through a unified communications experience.

Integrating communications and collaboration in a rich, multimedia experience - one that can include unified telephony, voice, video, instant messaging, Web conferencing, e-mail, voice mail, and business processes and applications - enables a whole new way for people, teams and communities to work together.

IBM® is delivering - in partnership with the leading telephony, audio, and video vendors - complete software, services and hardware solutions. These solutions, which include IBM Lotus® Sametime® and services from IBM Global Technology Services, offer a unified client experience that seamlessly integrates with multivendor environments, and that leverages the open ecosystem and extensibility that allow you to best manage your IT and telephony environment while reducing overall costs.

Value Proposition

Empowering people:

• Enhanced productivity
• Improved business processes

Specialists on server and data storage solutions – they make it work!

Load System is an expert on implementing reliable IT infrastructure solutions. Load System has a long experience of working in large and demanding projects at many of Sweden's large organizations such as Sandvik, Dagens Nyheter, Folksam, VGR IT

• Backup & Recovery
• Storage on Demand
• Data migration
• E-mail archiving
• Virtualization of servers and storage
• Cabling and documenting for customers IT-infrastructure

www.loadsystem.se

 Brings the best ideas and skills around the world to customers doorstep

Logica is one of few global partners for any business or IT solutions in the world. This means that Logica is able to cover all aspects of integrated functionality together with IBM.

Logicas' strength lies in the deep industry and domain expertise, the strong business and technology insight and the track record for delivering successful solutions on time and to budget.

The benefits of Logicas' solutions are:

• Expertise in customers local language
• Solutions across all platforms and operating systems
• Global support, 24/7
• An established and innovative environmental responsibility based on the three Rs: Reduce, Re-use and Recycle

 

 InfoPrint Solutions Company
Provider of output solutions from small business to large enterprises

Information runs your business and InfoPrint Solutions
Company is one of the industry leaders in output management.
They offer more than just words on paper, they help
companies make an impact with the compelling, colourful
and personalized output of e-business.

InfoPrint Solutions Company offers a wealth of experience in
solving challenges related to productivity and cost in small/
medium businesses. After all, information runs your business
and InfoPrint Solutions Company is one of the industry leaders in output management.

• Scalable, secure and ready for e-business
• Protect sensitive information with encryption
• Based on open standards
• Have targets to reduce the environmental impact of major business activities and it is the most important corporate social responsibility

 Worlds leading software platform for digital signage

Visiting IBM Forum Nordic, your eye is caught by the attractive digital signage showing bright and colourful communications. These are so captivating, you might miss the fact that this is actually Scala’s promotion in and around the IBM Forum Nordic solution area.

Scala is the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for the digital signage market. Scala allows you to create, manage and distribute content to networks of digital displays enabling targeted information, entertainment, merchandising and advertising to be seen by your audience. Familiar in environments such as banking, retailing, corporate, healthcare and governmental institutions and many others places, Scala provides the software and technical applications that make it easy to produce TV-like material with unlimited possibilities for distribution locally or around the world.

And seeing is believing. At the IBM Forum Nordic a message flashes up that brings the entire wall to life. See it for yourself and get an idea how Scala can work for you. 

To view more visit www.scala.com and take the dynamic video tour.

 

 Cognos is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions

Cognos provide world-class enterprise BI, planning and consolidation software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give our customers a complete performance solution. They provide an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments.

Value Proposition

Cognos give customers the ability to answer the questions:

• How are we doing?
• Why are we on or off track?
• What should we do about it?

and enable them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.

Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries. Tehir solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.

Production and operations management for forestry and paper
The production and operations management solution for forestry and paper from IBM helps mills increase efficiency in core production processes. This solution uses advanced optimization techniques to help companies connect their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system their production control system.

Value Proposition
Leading forestry companies and paper manufacturers have achieved significant business results and expanded their competitive position as a world-class paper product manufacturer by optimizing their core production processes using IBM's production and operations management solution to:

• Match orders to available inventory to maximize fulfillment of rush orders and order completion.
• Optimize manufacturing operations for costs reduction and increased throughput.
• Allow smaller orders to be applied together to the same physical item of inventory to reduce waste and efficiently satisfying these orders.
• Match actual conditions of the mill and new orders to help meet customers’ final specifications and promised delivery dates.

Production scheduling solution for mills
Production scheduling solution for mills from IBM helps improve your responsiveness and compete more effectively by gaining real-time supply chain visibility of supply and demand variation in the fluctuating forest, paper and packaging industries.

Value Proposition
The production scheduling solution for mills can help companies in the forest and paper industry:

• Increase customer satisfaction by meeting customer demand in a timely fashion
• Enable the right material in the right quantity at the right time in the right place
• Improve supplier and vendor relations by monitoring product quality and helping reduce costs associated with inaccurate shipments
• Transform towards fully integrated supply chain
• Reduce costs by streamlining your supply chain processes
• Enable an enterprise-wide, virtual real-time status of your inventory and material flow
• Gain more accurate information on inventory and finished goods throughout the production and supply chain processes
• Lower product and asset inventory levels by re-examining your current processes and by better balancing supply with demand
• Integrate processes and technology to enable near seamless digital information transfer and sharing across the entire value chain

IBM Rational AppScan help customers protect their business from today’s most advanced and complex web application security attacks

For organizations who are building their presence on the Internet and are using it as a tool to drive and improve their business.

The first release of IBM Rational AppScan, a market leading web application security technology acquired by IBM from Watchfire in July 2007, is a key-part of IBM’s software portfolio that provides software and service to help ensure the security and compliance of websites. More than 800 enterprises and government agencies including global financial services communication and hi-tech companies rely on Wathchfire products to help them identify, report and remediate security.

Value Proposition
IBM Rational AppScan provides:

• web application security software
• compliance testing solutions that pinpoint security vulnerability and help manage the process of fixing them to reduce your security exposure and improve regulatory compliance
• provides actionable data and information that help you evaluate, understand, and resolve security threats
• automatic testing of the latest web 2.0 technologies
• strong reporting tools to make information sharing easy

 The worldwide leader in Technology and Innovations

Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks equipped with ThinkVantage technologies are engineered to grow businesses.

One-button recovery and restore solution that includes tools to help you diagnose/fi x system crashes and recover from viruses quickly (available on all ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops). Lenovo lead the industry in product innovations with hundreds of technology and design awards including more than 2000 patents and many PC industry fi rsts. As a global leader in the PC market, we develop, manufacture and market cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added
professional services that provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive.
LENOVO

Value Proposition

Advantages from Lenovo:

• The ThinkPad Roll Cage secures the internal components of the notebook in case of accidents or jolts, The strong magnesium alloyframe that surrounds the ThinkPad improves durability and reliability.
• Lenovo Notebooks are engineered to withstand extreme conditions. Even at temperatures ranging between -20 to 60 degrees Celcius, your data will remain perfectly safe.

SECURA – The perfect match for global investments solutions SECURA is a platform designed to meet the needs of Asset Management and Private Banking. It is a fully integrated real time system in a multi-user environment.

• Scalable up to mainframe
• Solutions for Front, Middle and Back Office
• Reports complies with MiFID and Nordic equity taxes

Invest Systems is a leading supplier of global investment solutions. We have provided hundreds of systems for Private Banking and Asset Management to investment banks, stockbrokers, financial institutions and industrial investors.

www.invest-systems.com

NATO approved!

The leading mobile solution for businesses that want to have secure, wireless push and synchronization of e-mail, calendar, tasks, contacts and programs.

“IBM Lotus software on the BlackBerry platform redefines what it means to be ‘at work,’” – Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software.

Mobile users have simple access to the Internet and corporate intranet, with opportunities for a number of other applications. BlackBerry® Enterprise

Solution provides a complete wireless mobile platform. It is designed to give IT-departments centralized control, simplified management in a secure, scalable and flexible architecture. IBM itself has over 20 000 Blackberry® users.

In IBM Forum, we can demonstrate BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution with:
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Connections
Lotus Quicker
Cognos
Lotus Notes applications
Intranet connection
BlackBerry with mobile CRM client
Customization of enterprise solutions and DB
Enhanced management and monitoring of BlackBerry® servers

Facts about BlackBerry: Trust the leading wireless platform for the enterprise used by over 25 million subscribers worldwide. Global availability – Access communications and information virtually anywhere with availability and support on over 460 networks in more than 160 countries.

The solution is delivered by Wizor AS and TDC AS

www.wizor.no

The leading mobile solution for businesses that want to have secure, wireless push and synchronization of e-mail, calendar, tasks, contacts and programs.

“IBM Lotus software on the BlackBerry platform redefines what it means to be ‘at work,’” – Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software.

Mobile users have simple access to the Internet and corporate intranet, with opportunities for a number of other applications. BlackBerry® Enterprise

Solution provides a complete wireless mobile platform. It is designed to give IT-departments centralized control, simplified management in a secure, scalable and flexible architecture. IBM itself has over 20 000 Blackberry® users.

In IBM Forum, we can demonstrate BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution with:
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Connections
Lotus Quicker
Cognos
Lotus Notes applications
Intranet connection
BlackBerry with mobile CRM client
Customization of enterprise solutions and DB
Enhanced management and monitoring of BlackBerry® servers

Facts about BlackBerry: Trust the leading wireless platform for the enterprise used by over 25 million subscribers worldwide. Global availability – Access communications and information virtually anywhere with availability and support on over 460 networks in more than 160 countries.

The solution is delivered by Wizor AS and TDC AS

www.tdc.no

Can you afford to keep your old server systems?
New servers from IBM provides 9x the performance vs. a 4 year old system. You may consolidate 9:1, save 92% of annual energy costs with same performance as a 4 year old system with payback after 8 month.

• The New Generation of IBM System x & BladeCenter provides energy smart features and better performance. IBM management tools helps reducing total cost of ownership further.
• The New Generation of IBM System x & BladeCenter utilizes new Intel Core microprocessor architecture. This is the industry’s first dynamically scalable architecture hence automated energy efficiency, Intelligence performance and Flexible Virtualization. It is featured in Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series.

About Intel

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com/.

Juniper Networks
Dynamic Network Infrastructure
Data Center - LAN - Branch
• Optimise Application Performance
• Reduce Cost & Complexity
• Secure the Network & Manage Risk

Juniper Networks is a worldwide leader in high performance networking. Their high-performance network infrastructure helps businesses create a responsive and trusted environment to enable accelerated deployment of services and applications over a single network.

www.juniper.net