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IBM Industry Solutions
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/Local
IBM Intelligent Operations
Center for Smarter Cities
Coordinate city agencies and resources to deliver
exceptional service to citizens
Highlights
●● ● ●
Use information across all city agencies
and departments to make smarter
decisions
●● ● ●
Anticipate problems to minimize the
impact of disruptions to city services
and operations
●● ● ●
Coordinate cross-agency resources to
respond to issues rapidly and effectively
●● ● ●
Benefit from secure, reliable technology
provided by the IBM zEnterprise System
What if cities could improve services without increasing costs? Every day,
cities around the globe face an increasing number of operational issues
that affect the quality of services delivered to their citizens. To ensure
public safety and provide water, electric, transportation and other services,
cities need to access an ever-increasing amount of information, facilitate
real-time communication and collaboration across city agencies, and
address potential problems before they occur.
Unfortunately, many cities have not been able to achieve this level of
effective and efficient operations. For these cities, critical information is
often stored in multiple disparate systems, across multiple, disconnected
departments, hindering situation awareness and making it difficult for
officials to coordinate agency efforts. Without a single, integrated view
of events, incidents or impending crises, and without the ability to share
information rapidly, a city might be unable to deliver services in a sustain-
able fashion, protect citizens or drive economic growth for the future.
2
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities®
is designed to help city officials address these challenges.
Integrating multiple best-of-breed solutions from the
IBM software portfolio, the Intelligent Operations Center
solution offers you integrated data visualization, real-time col-
laboration and deep analytics capabilities that can help your
city agencies prepare for problems, coordinate and manage
response efforts, and enhance the ongoing efficiency of city
operations. Executive dashboard capabilities give decision
makers a real-time, unified view of operations to see who and
what resources are needed and available. Cities can rapidly
share information across agency lines to accelerate problem
response and improve project coordination. By providing visi-
bility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends, the
solution also helps fine-tune your current resource usage and
support forward-looking planning activities.
Key capabilities
●●
Provides a unified view across all city agencies
●●
Allows supervisors to monitor and manage a range of services
●●
Enables agencies to respond rapidly to events
●●
Delivers reliable situation awareness and reporting
●●
Facilitates real-time collaboration
●●
Streamlines management of resources and critical assets
●●
Includes an easy-to-use interface for multiple types of users, from
daily operators to senior managers
●●
Integrates with open-standard connection points to existing and
future systems
The Intelligent Operations Center is part of the
IBM Government Industry Framework, which provides a
software platform and roadmap to implement IBM Smarter
Cities solutions. The framework gives IBM clients access
to pre-integrated software, hardware and industry-specific
extensions. Solutions are delivered by world-class implementa-
tion services using best practices developed by IBM and its
partners through more than 2,000 Smarter Cities engagements.
With this approach, cities can achieve a fast return on their
investment, reduce risk and gain the flexibility needed to
extend solutions to address future needs.
IBM Intelligent
Operations Center
for Smarter Cities
Figure 1. IBM Intelligent Operations Center interconnects various parts of the
city for efficient resource use
3
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Facilitating real-time collaboration
Cities are complex organizations, with numerous departments
in charge of a wide range of essential functions, from water
management to public safety. Collaboration across these groups
is critical for addressing crises, successfully completing projects
and enhancing the efficiency of daily operations.
The Intelligent Operations Center offers a centralized,
real-time collaborative environment for planning, organizing,
monitoring and sharing information across city departments
and agencies. It processes data feeds and event information
from individual departments and then presents that information
in a city-wide view. In the event of a large-scale emergency,
an official at a disaster site can assess the situation and send a
report to the operations room using a web-based portal while
simultaneously learning that more rescue personnel are on
the way. Meanwhile, various agency representatives can view
report details together, begin communicating instantly and
start developing a recovery plan. Collaboration capabilities help
accelerate the resolution of problems, reduce the impact of
crises and minimize the resources needed for the situation.
On an ongoing basis, the Intelligent Operations Center can
help enhance the efficiency of process management, allowing
your managers to link event planning to predefined business
processes. Managers can choose to have processes set in motion
automatically or manually when a planned or unplanned event
occurs. Integration with the collaboration environment helps
ensure that team members can work together efficiently on
projects and events.
Measuring performance
The Intelligent Operations Center offers near-real-time KPIs
to help you monitor and optimize the performance of city ser-
vices, personnel, programs and others resources. The solution
helps transform raw data—collected from sensors located across
the city, historical databases, existing applications and other
sources—into actionable insights. Managers can adjust resource
allocation or modify programs as results start to trend up or
down.
With this solution, you can measure metrics against your city’s
own historical benchmarks or those of other cities to gain
insight into comparative performance. You can then choose to
publish metrics, demonstrating to city residents the progress
toward certain goals.
Managing assets and tracking service
requests
To maintain the city infrastructure, facilitate resource planning
and ensure resources are ready for emergencies, you need to
monitor a wide range of city assets, from sidewalks and sewers
to police cars and traffic lights. The Intelligent Operations
Center integrates resource and asset management capabilities
to help you make sure that your city assets are available, well
maintained and ready for use. Intelligent Operations Center
portals enable you to quickly assess the status of assets and their
impact on particular city services. A mapping function provides
a means of locating key assets rapidly. With effective asset man-
agement, your city can reduce the overall cost of maintenance
and repairs by avoiding unexpected issues, and help make sure
services and resources are available in critical situations.
When service requests are submitted, you need to be able
to prioritize projects, ensure that the right resources are allo-
cated and then follow projects to their completion. With the
Intelligent Operations Center, you can easily identify the
most pressing issues by using a high-level heat map where
information is presented in a geospatial context for situational
awareness. You can then use drill-down capabilities to access
details on the service requests, the team members and assets
assigned to the requests, and the status of projects.
4
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Capturing key insights from a single view
Whether you need a fast overview of an emergency situation or
a deep dive into performance metrics, it is possible to rapidly
access the information needed from the solution’s centralized
dashboard (see Figure 2). Historical reports enable you to view
graphical representations of the number of alerts received
according to urgency, severity and certainty (see Figure 3).
The easy-to-use interface is designed for a wide range of users,
from senior managers to daily operators, who can also access
key information using mobile devices to stay on top of issues
whether in the office or out in the field.
Transforming city operations with innovative leadership
A major Latin American city needed better ways to respond to
landslides, floods and other natural disasters that might threaten
its six million residents. Working with IBM, the city implemented a
solution that enables personnel to analyze weather, energy, building,
transportation and water data in real time. The solution draws on
information collected from multiple sensors, such as traffic cameras
and rain meters, and provides near-real-time situational awareness in
a single view. Communications capabilities enable personnel to share
information across agencies and synchronize rescue efforts, and
now the city can marshal its resources within hours, instead of days,
to warn the public and provide targeted rescue assistance to help
save lives.
Figure 2. Personnel can gain a quick, multi-department summary of events (upper left) and drill down to manage events and incidents as they occur
5
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Gaining flexible deployment options
The Intelligent Operations Center offers multiple deployment
models to provide options for cities of virtually all sizes with
varying levels of IT resources. Cities with robust IT capabilities
or strong interests in “behind-the-firewall” implementations
can deploy this solution in their own data centers.
For cities and cross-municipality organizations without the
resources or skills for deploying and maintaining this solution,
IBM intends to offer the Intelligent Operations Center as an
IBM software as a service (SaaS) option that would reside on
the IBM SmartCloud™. The IBM SmartCloud is an expansive,
agile infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This delivery platform
is designed to provide organizations with rapid access to
enterprise-class virtual server environments that are well-suited
for dynamic workloads, applications and solutions. Deploying
the Intelligent Operations Center on the IBM SmartCloud can
help cities capitalize on the latest technology advances while
controlling costs.
The IBM zEnterprise® System is an extremely fast, scalable
enterprise system that supports your smarter computing initia-
tives. Designed for data, tuned to the task and built for effi-
ciency, the zEnterprise System offers the power, reliability,
security, scalability and flexibility that cities need to:
●● ●
Improve services to citizens by unifying and optimizing mul-
tiple systems to work as a single, integrated platform that
scales without adding complexity to meet ever-growing
demands on infrastructure.
●● ●
Enhance the lives of citizens by utilizing all data available to
predict problems and take immediate actions while protecting
sensitive data.
●● ●
Create a vastly simplified data center that slashes space, power
and cooling requirements leading to improved service deliv-
ery at a reduced expense to citizens.
Figure 3. Personnel can check alerts according to severity and urgency, and assess workflows
6
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
zEnterprise System users are positioned to transform their IT
operations from an expense into a catalyst for business growth
and innovation. Whether deployed for one municipality or
as a shared services platform for multiple municipalities, the
Intelligent Operations Center can help make your communities
better places to work and live.
Teaming with industry leaders
The IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides cross-agency
capabilities using a variety of data streams and services already
found in city environments today. IBM is teaming with the providers
of those data streams and services, developing a robust ecosystem
of IBM Business Partners committed to jointly delivering Smarter
Cities solutions. These IBM Business Partners provide domain expe-
rience and deliver best-in-class hardware, software and services.
They are helping IBM deploy Smarter Cities solutions in multiple
regions around the globe.
Helping to build Smarter Cities and a
Smarter Planet
Today, government organizations need to provide robust
services, drive economic growth, anticipate problems and
coordinate their responses to crises, all while optimizing exist-
ing resources. The Intelligent Operations Center is just one
of several Smarter Cities and government solutions from
IBM designed to help your organizations work smarter and do
more with less.
These solutions can help you integrate information from
disparate, instrumented systems and create an intelligent,
interconnected environment that fosters collaboration,
enhances efficiencies and sponsors effective decision making.
IBM can help you optimize individual resources and systems—
including buildings, energy use, operations, public safety,
transportation and water—while facilitating virtually seamless
cross-departmental integration.
Smarter operations: Delivering a coordinated response to crises
INSTRUMENTED The Intelligent Operations Center collects data from systems that manage
video cameras and sensors positioned throughout the city.
INTERCONNECTED The solution is designed to integrate data from multiple systems and enable
access to information using a web-based portal. By integrating information, the
solution can help your agencies work together more closely and collaboratively.
INTELLIGENT The solution helps officials in your operations room gain a clearer and more
accurate picture of crises with near-real-time information presented in a
single, unified view, so your city can coordinate relief efforts more rapidly
and efficiently to help save lives.
Notes
Please Recycle
Why IBM?
IBM has been a leader in helping businesses and local
governments in more than 170 countries deploy innovative
solutions, and IBM Smarter Cities continues that tradition.
By making cities more instrumented, integrated and intelligent,
IBM Smarter Cities solutions can provide cross-agency
capabilities using a variety of data streams and services already
found in city environments today to help city leaders meet and
exceed citizen expectations. The IBM Government Industry
Framework, of which the Intelligent Operations Center on
zEnterprise is a part, gives IBM clients access to pre-integrated
software, hardware and industry-specific extensions delivered
by world-class implementation services, using best practices
developed through previous Smarter Cities engagements.
With this approach, cities can achieve a fast return on their
investments, reduce risk and gain the needed flexibility to
extend solutions to address future needs.
For more information
To learn more about IBM Intelligent Operations Center, please
contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner,
or visit: ibm.com/ioc
To learn more about all of the IBM Smarter Cities solutions,
visit: ibm.com/smartercities
Additionally, IBM Global Financing can help you acquire
the software capabilities that your business needs in the most
cost-effective and strategic way possible. We’ll partner with
credit-qualified clients to customize a financing solution to
suit your business and development goals, enable effective
cash management, and improve your total cost of ownership.
Fund your critical IT investment and propel your business for-
ward with IBM Global Financing. For more information, visit:
ibm.com/financing
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IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities

  • 1. IBM Industry Solutions Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/Local IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities Coordinate city agencies and resources to deliver exceptional service to citizens Highlights ●● ● ● Use information across all city agencies and departments to make smarter decisions ●● ● ● Anticipate problems to minimize the impact of disruptions to city services and operations ●● ● ● Coordinate cross-agency resources to respond to issues rapidly and effectively ●● ● ● Benefit from secure, reliable technology provided by the IBM zEnterprise System What if cities could improve services without increasing costs? Every day, cities around the globe face an increasing number of operational issues that affect the quality of services delivered to their citizens. To ensure public safety and provide water, electric, transportation and other services, cities need to access an ever-increasing amount of information, facilitate real-time communication and collaboration across city agencies, and address potential problems before they occur. Unfortunately, many cities have not been able to achieve this level of effective and efficient operations. For these cities, critical information is often stored in multiple disparate systems, across multiple, disconnected departments, hindering situation awareness and making it difficult for officials to coordinate agency efforts. Without a single, integrated view of events, incidents or impending crises, and without the ability to share information rapidly, a city might be unable to deliver services in a sustain- able fashion, protect citizens or drive economic growth for the future.
  • 2. 2 Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities® is designed to help city officials address these challenges. Integrating multiple best-of-breed solutions from the IBM software portfolio, the Intelligent Operations Center solution offers you integrated data visualization, real-time col- laboration and deep analytics capabilities that can help your city agencies prepare for problems, coordinate and manage response efforts, and enhance the ongoing efficiency of city operations. Executive dashboard capabilities give decision makers a real-time, unified view of operations to see who and what resources are needed and available. Cities can rapidly share information across agency lines to accelerate problem response and improve project coordination. By providing visi- bility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends, the solution also helps fine-tune your current resource usage and support forward-looking planning activities. Key capabilities ●● Provides a unified view across all city agencies ●● Allows supervisors to monitor and manage a range of services ●● Enables agencies to respond rapidly to events ●● Delivers reliable situation awareness and reporting ●● Facilitates real-time collaboration ●● Streamlines management of resources and critical assets ●● Includes an easy-to-use interface for multiple types of users, from daily operators to senior managers ●● Integrates with open-standard connection points to existing and future systems The Intelligent Operations Center is part of the IBM Government Industry Framework, which provides a software platform and roadmap to implement IBM Smarter Cities solutions. The framework gives IBM clients access to pre-integrated software, hardware and industry-specific extensions. Solutions are delivered by world-class implementa- tion services using best practices developed by IBM and its partners through more than 2,000 Smarter Cities engagements. With this approach, cities can achieve a fast return on their investment, reduce risk and gain the flexibility needed to extend solutions to address future needs. IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities Figure 1. IBM Intelligent Operations Center interconnects various parts of the city for efficient resource use
  • 3. 3 Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions Facilitating real-time collaboration Cities are complex organizations, with numerous departments in charge of a wide range of essential functions, from water management to public safety. Collaboration across these groups is critical for addressing crises, successfully completing projects and enhancing the efficiency of daily operations. The Intelligent Operations Center offers a centralized, real-time collaborative environment for planning, organizing, monitoring and sharing information across city departments and agencies. It processes data feeds and event information from individual departments and then presents that information in a city-wide view. In the event of a large-scale emergency, an official at a disaster site can assess the situation and send a report to the operations room using a web-based portal while simultaneously learning that more rescue personnel are on the way. Meanwhile, various agency representatives can view report details together, begin communicating instantly and start developing a recovery plan. Collaboration capabilities help accelerate the resolution of problems, reduce the impact of crises and minimize the resources needed for the situation. On an ongoing basis, the Intelligent Operations Center can help enhance the efficiency of process management, allowing your managers to link event planning to predefined business processes. Managers can choose to have processes set in motion automatically or manually when a planned or unplanned event occurs. Integration with the collaboration environment helps ensure that team members can work together efficiently on projects and events. Measuring performance The Intelligent Operations Center offers near-real-time KPIs to help you monitor and optimize the performance of city ser- vices, personnel, programs and others resources. The solution helps transform raw data—collected from sensors located across the city, historical databases, existing applications and other sources—into actionable insights. Managers can adjust resource allocation or modify programs as results start to trend up or down. With this solution, you can measure metrics against your city’s own historical benchmarks or those of other cities to gain insight into comparative performance. You can then choose to publish metrics, demonstrating to city residents the progress toward certain goals. Managing assets and tracking service requests To maintain the city infrastructure, facilitate resource planning and ensure resources are ready for emergencies, you need to monitor a wide range of city assets, from sidewalks and sewers to police cars and traffic lights. The Intelligent Operations Center integrates resource and asset management capabilities to help you make sure that your city assets are available, well maintained and ready for use. Intelligent Operations Center portals enable you to quickly assess the status of assets and their impact on particular city services. A mapping function provides a means of locating key assets rapidly. With effective asset man- agement, your city can reduce the overall cost of maintenance and repairs by avoiding unexpected issues, and help make sure services and resources are available in critical situations. When service requests are submitted, you need to be able to prioritize projects, ensure that the right resources are allo- cated and then follow projects to their completion. With the Intelligent Operations Center, you can easily identify the most pressing issues by using a high-level heat map where information is presented in a geospatial context for situational awareness. You can then use drill-down capabilities to access details on the service requests, the team members and assets assigned to the requests, and the status of projects.
  • 4. 4 Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions Capturing key insights from a single view Whether you need a fast overview of an emergency situation or a deep dive into performance metrics, it is possible to rapidly access the information needed from the solution’s centralized dashboard (see Figure 2). Historical reports enable you to view graphical representations of the number of alerts received according to urgency, severity and certainty (see Figure 3). The easy-to-use interface is designed for a wide range of users, from senior managers to daily operators, who can also access key information using mobile devices to stay on top of issues whether in the office or out in the field. Transforming city operations with innovative leadership A major Latin American city needed better ways to respond to landslides, floods and other natural disasters that might threaten its six million residents. Working with IBM, the city implemented a solution that enables personnel to analyze weather, energy, building, transportation and water data in real time. The solution draws on information collected from multiple sensors, such as traffic cameras and rain meters, and provides near-real-time situational awareness in a single view. Communications capabilities enable personnel to share information across agencies and synchronize rescue efforts, and now the city can marshal its resources within hours, instead of days, to warn the public and provide targeted rescue assistance to help save lives. Figure 2. Personnel can gain a quick, multi-department summary of events (upper left) and drill down to manage events and incidents as they occur
  • 5. 5 Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions Gaining flexible deployment options The Intelligent Operations Center offers multiple deployment models to provide options for cities of virtually all sizes with varying levels of IT resources. Cities with robust IT capabilities or strong interests in “behind-the-firewall” implementations can deploy this solution in their own data centers. For cities and cross-municipality organizations without the resources or skills for deploying and maintaining this solution, IBM intends to offer the Intelligent Operations Center as an IBM software as a service (SaaS) option that would reside on the IBM SmartCloud™. The IBM SmartCloud is an expansive, agile infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This delivery platform is designed to provide organizations with rapid access to enterprise-class virtual server environments that are well-suited for dynamic workloads, applications and solutions. Deploying the Intelligent Operations Center on the IBM SmartCloud can help cities capitalize on the latest technology advances while controlling costs. The IBM zEnterprise® System is an extremely fast, scalable enterprise system that supports your smarter computing initia- tives. Designed for data, tuned to the task and built for effi- ciency, the zEnterprise System offers the power, reliability, security, scalability and flexibility that cities need to: ●● ● Improve services to citizens by unifying and optimizing mul- tiple systems to work as a single, integrated platform that scales without adding complexity to meet ever-growing demands on infrastructure. ●● ● Enhance the lives of citizens by utilizing all data available to predict problems and take immediate actions while protecting sensitive data. ●● ● Create a vastly simplified data center that slashes space, power and cooling requirements leading to improved service deliv- ery at a reduced expense to citizens. Figure 3. Personnel can check alerts according to severity and urgency, and assess workflows
  • 6. 6 Solution Brief Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions zEnterprise System users are positioned to transform their IT operations from an expense into a catalyst for business growth and innovation. Whether deployed for one municipality or as a shared services platform for multiple municipalities, the Intelligent Operations Center can help make your communities better places to work and live. Teaming with industry leaders The IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides cross-agency capabilities using a variety of data streams and services already found in city environments today. IBM is teaming with the providers of those data streams and services, developing a robust ecosystem of IBM Business Partners committed to jointly delivering Smarter Cities solutions. These IBM Business Partners provide domain expe- rience and deliver best-in-class hardware, software and services. They are helping IBM deploy Smarter Cities solutions in multiple regions around the globe. Helping to build Smarter Cities and a Smarter Planet Today, government organizations need to provide robust services, drive economic growth, anticipate problems and coordinate their responses to crises, all while optimizing exist- ing resources. The Intelligent Operations Center is just one of several Smarter Cities and government solutions from IBM designed to help your organizations work smarter and do more with less. These solutions can help you integrate information from disparate, instrumented systems and create an intelligent, interconnected environment that fosters collaboration, enhances efficiencies and sponsors effective decision making. IBM can help you optimize individual resources and systems— including buildings, energy use, operations, public safety, transportation and water—while facilitating virtually seamless cross-departmental integration. Smarter operations: Delivering a coordinated response to crises INSTRUMENTED The Intelligent Operations Center collects data from systems that manage video cameras and sensors positioned throughout the city. INTERCONNECTED The solution is designed to integrate data from multiple systems and enable access to information using a web-based portal. By integrating information, the solution can help your agencies work together more closely and collaboratively. INTELLIGENT The solution helps officials in your operations room gain a clearer and more accurate picture of crises with near-real-time information presented in a single, unified view, so your city can coordinate relief efforts more rapidly and efficiently to help save lives.
  • 8. Please Recycle Why IBM? IBM has been a leader in helping businesses and local governments in more than 170 countries deploy innovative solutions, and IBM Smarter Cities continues that tradition. By making cities more instrumented, integrated and intelligent, IBM Smarter Cities solutions can provide cross-agency capabilities using a variety of data streams and services already found in city environments today to help city leaders meet and exceed citizen expectations. The IBM Government Industry Framework, of which the Intelligent Operations Center on zEnterprise is a part, gives IBM clients access to pre-integrated software, hardware and industry-specific extensions delivered by world-class implementation services, using best practices developed through previous Smarter Cities engagements. With this approach, cities can achieve a fast return on their investments, reduce risk and gain the needed flexibility to extend solutions to address future needs. For more information To learn more about IBM Intelligent Operations Center, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/ioc To learn more about all of the IBM Smarter Cities solutions, visit: ibm.com/smartercities Additionally, IBM Global Financing can help you acquire the software capabilities that your business needs in the most cost-effective and strategic way possible. We’ll partner with credit-qualified clients to customize a financing solution to suit your business and development goals, enable effective cash management, and improve your total cost of ownership. Fund your critical IT investment and propel your business for- ward with IBM Global Financing. For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing © Copyright IBM Corporation 2012 IBM Corporation Systems & Technology Group Route 100 Somers, NY 10589 Produced in the United States of America November 2012 IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, zEnterprise, SmartCloud, Smarter Cities, and Smarter Planet are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright and trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml This document is current as of the initial date of publication and may be changed by IBM at any time. Not all offerings are available in every country in which IBM operates. THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided. Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. GVS03027-USEN-01