Deutsche Post: Send and receive E-Postbrief in Lotus Notes

IBM is integrating the E-Postbrief from Deutsche Post, Germany's universal provider of postal services, into Lotus Notes. Users can send and receive E-Postbrief in Lotus Notes with all the known security and convenience of the groupware. According to the Deutsche Post, e-registered letters will also be a feature. E-Postbrief will be integrated into the current 8.x editions.

Software drives IBM's revenue

IBM reported strong Q3 earnings on strong software. Total sales improved by 8 % to 26.2 billion dollars (19.1 billion euros) compared to the same period in the previous year. IBM ups its outlook for 2011. Get the full CRN Q3 report: IBM Raises 2011 Expectations On Software, Power Hardware
http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/231900970/ibm-raises-2011-expectations-on-software-power-hardware.htm

Yesterday TEDx took place in Zurich. The conference was brilliantly organised with some very memorable speakers. The highlights were Eleanor Dobson, who gave some insights about CERN, Roman Gaus with the innovative and forward-looking "urban farming" and a very entertaining Marco Tempest.

IBM plans to boosts revenue by acquisitions

In our company blog, we reported that IBM has surpassed Microsoft as the second most valuable tech-company. Now the company now plans to spend between $100 million to $300 million on targeted acquisitions in order to boost annual revenue by $20 billion by 2015 to dethrone Apple. Find all the numbers in the Bloomberg Businessweek article.

IBM PC turns 30, but the PC reign is over

August 12, 1981 marked the rollout of IBM 5150, the first PC. Actually, IBM came a bit late to the game, after the likes of Commodore's Pet and Apple's Apple II. But it wasn't until then, that customers took the personal computer (PC) seriously. Up to IBM stepping into the ring, personal computers were mostly for amateurs, and those willing to pay and live as the avant guard of technology.

The PC era is coming to an end, that is not only the opinion of one of the original IBM PC engineers. Consumers and businesses alike are moving to tablets and smartphones; saving files on the cloud and streaming media. Also, the traditional office and workspace is changing.

In a post-PC world, the emphasis shifts from the personal in PC to cloud computing to provide software, data access, storage and computation. Pop over to www.software-competence-center.com for tools and services to ensure everything runs smoothly.

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Markets are changing

Markets are changing constantly, raising the complexity of business requirements. This sets new challenges in software. Standard products are used as a "basis", but then adapted to the individual needs of each company. Functions are combined to model business processes, to reduce the complexity of processes and to work seamlessly with other applications. Not the business should adapt to software but the reverse: Software has to adapt to business processes. To make these changes, to integrate software, specialised know-how is essential. Know-how supplied by highly skilled experts.

About

Daniel Altmann is CEO and founder of IBMATRIX GmbH, the company behind the Software Competence Center.


in 2008 Daniel Altmann has founded the Software License Portal. It was a online marketplace for IBM software products and partner solutions. This portal showed the potential for software solutions and licenses which birthed the idea for the Software Competence Center. The Software Competence Center will be a comprehensive and convenient market place for all software manufacturers.


You can find listen to IBM Schweiz Seite about the Software License Portal (in german) or read the article in ITReseller (in german).