IBM's The Great Mind Challenge for Business Award - nominate before 7th September
The Great Mind Challenge is an innovative contest that originally started with students from engineering colleges in India. It has made waves as it received wide participation from the student community - It is into Limca Book of Records now
This contest is now opened to business...
The Great Mind Challenge for Business Award recognizes visionary IBM clients who have successfully implemented IBM software solutions to create exceptional business value. We aim to reward problem solvers who have brought about a change in their organization while creating value for their business. Here’s your chance to showcase what you’ve accomplished at your firm!
All solutions entered must have been developed using purchased IBM software products. While third – party products may be part of the nominated solution, the key components must be IBM software products.
Last year we received more than 130 nominations across categories. This year can you afford to miss out?
Here's what the winners get:
* A prized IBM trophy for your company.
* Felicitation at IBM Software Universe, a premier Software Group event.
* The possibility of presenting your solution at international IBM conferences.
* An invaluable certificate from IBM for your organization as well as an individual certificate for you.
Not to mention, the worldwide applause that recognition by the world's largest software and services multinational, brings you.
Most Innovative Solution Built Using Lotus SoftwareLotus Software LogoLotus application development tools give an enterprise the flexibility to build innovative, robust, scalable, and security-rich applications that empower their people and enhance their productivity. Based on the latest web and collaboration technologies, open platforms and extensible frameworks, Lotus application development tools help increase IT flexibility and can meet the most demanding needs of the IT environment.
Speaking about productivity, Web Portals also offer a huge productivity benefit for an organization. They allow partners, employees and customers to choose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. IBM WebSphere Portal software provides a composite application or business mashup framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible solutions, as well as the unmatched scalability required by any size organization.
The winning solution in this category will illustrate how various Lotus offerings (including IBM WebSphere Portal) integrate the human element into business processes and make people more productive in the context of what they do – everyday, by leveraging one or more products from the Lotus family (Domino/Notes/iNotes/Traveller, Sametime, Portal/WCM/Portal Accelerators, Quickr, Connections, LotusLive, Lotus Symphony).
Most Innovative Solution Implemented Using WebSphere SoftwareWebSphere logoWebSphere is IBM's integration software platform. It includes the entire middleware infrastructure -- such as servers, services, and tools--needed to write, run, and monitor 24x7 industrial-strength, on demand Web applications and cross-platform, cross-product solutions. WebSphere provides reliable, flexible, and robust integration software.
WebSphere Application Server is the base for the infrastructure; everything else runs on top of it. It supports SOA and non-SOA environments. WebSphere Process Server, which is based on WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, provide the foundation for service-oriented architected (SOA), modular applications. Collectively, they support the use of business rules to drive applications that support business processes.
IBM WebSphere Application Server is the premier open-standards Java 5 Standard Edition (J5SE), Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4, and Web services-based application server. It helps deploy and manage applications ranging from simple Web sites to powerful on demand solutions.
Using various WebSphere products one can easily build, integrate, deploy, manage and monitor web applications with greater availability and scalability.
This award recognizes the best integrated solutions or web applications that are deployed on IBM WebSphere range of products. The nominations will be judged on how IBM WebSphere product(s) have helped (with quantitative benefits illustrated) in achieving business goals.
Most Efficient Service Management Solution Implemented using Tivoli Software
IBM Tivoli software provides intelligent infrastructure management solutions that help customers understand and proactively manage the business value of their IT systems in an on demand world. Tivoli software goes beyond the individual components of customer systems to provide integrated views for managing and optimizing critical IT systems with policy-based resource allocation, security, storage and systems management solutions.
Tivoli software leverages open systems and automation technologies to enable on demand computing with quality, scalable and reliable systems management solutions.
This award recognizes a solution delivering the Visibility, Control and Automation needed to help manage and grow business and IT operations.
The winning organization in this category must demonstrate improved management of the IT infrastructure through an integrated set of IT services based on IBM Tivoli products beyond simply managing it as groups of servers, software, databases and networks.
Solutions should have used one or more products from the Tivoli family of products (i.e. Asset Management, Business Service Management, Connectivity & Integration, Network & Service Assurance, Product & Project Management, Security, Storage Management)
Most Innovative Solution Built Using Rational SoftwareFrom project design to implementation, IBM Rational helps bring technology and software together to help the team collaborate more effectively on software development and delivery projects. Today’s focus is on increasing productivity, reducing time to market and responding quickly to new technologies to drive innovation and increase customer value. The IBM Rational Software Delivery platform helps solve challenges ranging from understanding the impact of open source software to managing risk, from catching bugs in testing to improving communication across worldwide development teams.
The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform is an integrated platform providing a complete solution for developing software and software-based systems. It allows practitioners to operate more efficiently and deliver innovative products and services that set their organizations apart from their competitors.
Winning organizations in this category are those who strive to improve the software development capability of their customers with the IBM Rational software development platform. A key measurement of the success is the use of multiple IBM Rational software solutions in the deployment of applications.
Most Innovative Solution Implemented Using Information Management SoftwareAt the core of IBM's software solution for information management is a powerful family of relational database management system (RDBMS) servers like DB2, Informix, IMS, and U2. In addition, IBM has built information management software for purposes that include data warehousing, data analysis, data mining, media asset management, enterprise content management (FileNet) and information integration (InfoSphere) and business Intelligence (Cognos).
From structured data to unstructured content, from handheld devices to clustered server configurations, and from transaction processing workloads to data mining, Information Management software supports customers as they grow and succeed as on demand businesses. With this software, customers can take advantage of e-business on demand advancements and strategies such as Web services and grid computing.
This award recognizes a solution that deploys an information infrastructure (using IBM Information Management products) that enables organizations to deliver relevant and trusted information in real time to employees, customers and partners and become an on demand business — able to respond quickly to market demands, opportunities and threats.
Solutions should have been implemented using one or more from the following Information Management family of products - Data Management (eg. DB2, Informix, Optim etc.), Infosphere (eg. Infosphere Warehouse, MDM, Entity Analytics etc.), Enterprise Content Management (eg. FileNet, Advanced Case Management etc.). Please note that there is a separate category for solutions implemented using IBM Business Analytics software products.
Most Effective Decision Making Using IBM Business Analytics SoftwareAlthough technology can be a magic bullet for solving the most pressing business challenges, many organizations experience difficulty in translating the value these transformative technologies bring into terms the business will understand. They are also challenged to quantify the gains that are achieved. This results in an inability for organizations to recognize these gains, press forward and reach the full potential of these investments.
Decision-makers need to be able to quickly get a handle on the issues that influence business performance and secure the resources to deal with them efficiently and effectively. It is central to rising above the competition and securing profitability.
Unfortunately, creating this decision culture hasn’t been easy. With data pouring in from disparate systems, different departments, and different divisions, IT is constantly challenged to provide a single version of the truth.
The award recognizes the solution that has used IBM Business Analytics software (eg. Cognos, SPSS, etc.) to deliver complete, consistent and accurate information that decision-makers trust to improve business performance.
Most Innovative Green IT Solution using IBM SoftwareInformation Technology accounts for approximately 2% of worldwide carbon emissions and focusing on IT alone limits the potential efficiency gains. Green computing software provides the intelligence and insight to not only green IT, but solutions that addresses the other 98%, energy efficient technology that can help people work in ways that increase business impact while lowering the carbon footprint.
Some of the ways that your organization could have contributed towards a greener planet include using collaborative work solutions to reducing business travel and commuting; allow multi-site software development; monitor, report and manage resources to reduce consumed energy; dynamically manage virtualized systems to optimize utilization and energy consumption; optimize HVAC ( Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) for hotspots; optimize business processes; decrease data and server footprint by compressing and de-duplicating your data; deliver intelligent, greener products, schedule workload to off-peak hours; optimize applications or design workflows/ processes to reduce use of paper.
Solutions could have used one or more products from the IBM software brands and should be able to demonstrate an optimization and reduction of energy consumption and costs, impact on the environment, while addressing stakeholder expectations.
Most Strategic Enterprise using IBM SoftwareThe world today, is substantially more volatile, uncertain and complex, and incremental changes are no longer sufficient in a world that is operating in fundamentally different ways. The key to success lies in being able to take advantage of these complexities through innovative solutions that allow both speed and flexibility and help position organizations for greater success. Tools that aid better and faster decision making; allow collaborative work practices for greater efficiencies; use technology towards enhancing customer delight, etc. while at the same time reducing IT costs, mitigating enterprise risks and leveraging automation to lower costs elsewhere in the business.
The winning solution in this category must demonstrate the use of products from two or more IBM software brands (i.e. Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, WebSphere and Information Management) to develop and implement solutions that have led to a remarkable difference in the functioning of the organization and making it ready for the inconnected, intelligent and complex world of the future.
Link to The Great Mind Challenge for Business group: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=89bf6989-7e9e-480e-9d51-6ab64473892a
More information: http://www-07.ibm.com/events/in/tgmcforbusiness/index.html
