Acxiom Inks IBM Accord.Acxiom Acxiom is a customer and data information management company, offering a range of products and services including information technology outsourcing. It has been described as "one of the biggest companies you've never heard of. Corp., a provider of multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple customer data integration (CDI CDI compact disc interactive: a system for storing a mix of software, data, audio, and compressed video for interactive use under processor control ), allied with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. to focus on providing clients of both companies with end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for business intelligence, data management and customer relationship management. The alliance combines Acxiom's CDI experience with IBM's e-business and business intelligence solutions. IBM will incorporate Acxiom's AbiliTec CDI software within its customer relationship management solutions provided to its business customers worldwide. IBM also will partner with Acxiom to increase overall sales of Acxiom's InfoBase Data Products and complement its offering of targeted business intelligence solutions with data supplied by InfoBase and AbiliTec-compliant data products. Acxiom will increase its offerings of IBM technology e-server series and storage products together with Acxiom software. The pre-packaged configurations will be made available to Acxiom customers with financing available to qualified customers through IBM Global Financing. |
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