IBM AND DWL FORM GLOBAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO DELIVER UNIFIED BUSINESS SERVICES SOFTWARE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES.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) Middleware Provides Critical Platform for DWL DWL Deadweight Loss (microneconomics) DWL Doppler Wind Lidar DWL Dying with Laughter DWL Divided Word-Line DWL Double White Line DWL Downward Looking DWL Don't Write Letters! (Steven Den Beste blog) Customer and DWL Industry Applications to Enable Customer-Centric Business Processing IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) and DWL, a provider of unified business services software, have announced a worldwide strategic alliance to deliver comprehensive enterprise customer administration solutions for global 1000 financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. companies. IBM and DWL will offer a solution that combines IBM's service capabilities, hardware and middleware with DWL's industry-leading applications to deliver the most competitive, flexible and cost-effective enterprise financial services solutions on the market. This alliance will provide solutions that elevate and unify customer, account and product information across multiple business lines. This gives financial services companies' key audiences a single view of the enterprise. DWL and IBM solutions allow banking, financial markets and insurance organizations to consolidate vital customer information from existing core business and Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems. In addition, the two organizations will provide industry composite applications that enable customers, partners, agents/brokers and employees to execute end-to-end business transactions via Web and wireless devices in real time. Combined IBM and DWL solutions help financial services companies realize additional return on existing technology investments as well as harness industry leading Java 2 Enterprise Edition, Enterprise Java Bean See JavaBeans. and WebServices technologies. DWL's web services-enabled enterprise applications are developed on IBM's middleware and hardware, and delivered by IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. . They are currently used by some of the world's largest financial services companies. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will jointly market DWL Customer and DWL's industry applications running on IBM WebSphere Application Server This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , with DB2 Universal Database and WebSphere MQ family middleware, along with IBM's eServer hardware platform. On sales to all new customers, DWL will promote IBM hardware and middleware as the technologies of choice. IBM Global Services (IGS IGS - Internet Go Server. ) will provide consulting, customization and integration services for joint IBM and DWL customers. "IBM's alliance with DWL will allow financial services institutions, from banks to brokerages to insurance companies, to get a 360 degree view of their customers by elevating to an enterprise-wide level customer and product information that is trapped in business silos," said William Pieroni, general manager of global insurance for IBM. "Financial institutions recognize the need to unify this information to better service their customers, but they also want to do it as cost effectively as possible. This alliance can help make that a reality. DWL has leading Web-enabled applications that, combined with IBM's middleware and consulting and integration services, provide a massively scalable solution for financial services institutions." "IBM has consistently offered the innovative technologies needed to support real time business processing on an enterprise-wide level," said Simon Chong, vice president marketing and strategic alliances, DWL. "These technologies are crucial to our customers' ability to develop and deploy customer-centric business solutions. We also intend to leverage our mutual capabilities in Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. to provide a robust set of technologies to support the next level of services-based applications that are key for financial services." |
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