IBM Named One of the Most Influential Vendors in Enterprise IT

No surprise that IBM was named one of 'The Dozen' most influential vendors in enterprise IT in the Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards. What's more important is recognition that IBM has "the most comprehensive information management portfolio in the business" and the reference to IBM's focus on helping companies build a "trusted information layer." These are some of IBM's key differentiators...along with its unique ability to understand the business of its customers and help them drive more business value from their information.  Here is the full statement from Intelligent Enterprise on IBM:

BI, business process management, content management, event processing, relational database, in-memory database, information integration, mashup technologies, master data management, enterprise search " you name it, and IBM undoubtedly has it in the most comprehensive information management portfolio in the business. The company also has the vision to bring all the pieces together. Cognos was a particularly nice, overlap-free fit for the company, and in 2008 IBM added Business Viewpoint for flexible dimension management in BI, OLAP, analytic and master data management activities. IBM has stayed maniacally focused on helping companies to build a "trusted information layer." What's more, it adds technologies whenever they emerge as important differentiators.

I'm sure that these differentiators are also part of the reason that IBM was able to "defy the economy" with better than expected profits in the last quarter of 2008 and project stronger than anticipated growth for 2009.