IBM Introduces New IT Infrastructure Solutions for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

IBM Introduces New IT Infrastructure Solutions for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Today IBM introduced three new Express Advantage offerings specially designed to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) maintain enterprise-wide security and overcome business process challenges inhibiting growth and innovation. Express Advantage allows customers to benefit from IBM’s technical strength and business insight in tailored offerings that are priced and scaled to meet the unique needs of the SMB market. The new additions to Express Advantage include IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Express, IBM Express Desktop Management Services, and IBM® Grid and Growâ„¢ Express.

Today’s announcement extends IBM’s commitment to addressing customer requirements in the SMB space, and builds on the findings of IBM’s recent Global SMB Innovation Survey. The survey, conducted in February among executives from SMB organizations around the globe, illustrates that enterprise-wide security, process integration, access to capital, and business continuity and recovery are among the leading business concerns faced by the mid-market. The new Express Advantage offerings are the latest in a line of offerings from IBM that address these top-of-mind business challenges, putting security solutions and innovations like the power of grid computing in the hands of SMB customers.

These new offerings build on the IBM Express Advantage initiative launched at IBM PartnerWorld in March 2006. IBM Express Advantage combines IBM’s Express offerings and financing with new IBM Business Partner resources and customer experience tools, providing SMB customers with comprehensive, end-to-end resources that help drive growth and innovation. For example, under IBM Financing Advantage customers gain easy access to capital, leases, loans and buyback services for the complete solution, including IBM Business Partner services. IBM Financing Advantage offers pricing, credit and ready-to-sign contracts in less than one hour, as well as a Web process that enables the generation of proposals and contracts online.

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