Express Portfolio

IBM WebSphere® Application Server - Express Version 5 is a cost effective, easily approachable affordable entry point to e-business, providing fast and productive development, deployment and management of dynamic Web sites.

Top reason to buy:

• unlocks the power of business information that is tied up in client/server applications.
• Web enables vital applications that can help you reach new markets, improve time to market, integrate your value chain, deepen customer loyalty and reduce your costs.
• Builds on the industry leading WebSphere platform
• backed by IBM Service & Support
• Is designed to be easily deployed and maintained with a small footprint, silent install and near-zero administration

WebSphere® Portal - Express for Multiplatforms® enables small businesses and departments within larger companies to more easily deploy sophisticated employee, business partner, and customer portals.

• Integrates new and existing applications and information in one unified desktop.
• Improves employee productivity by allowing access to people, information and applications, needed for day to day interactions
• Improves customer retention through personalised customer portals and increased communication.
• Creates more effective business partner relationships through increased communication, collaboration and access to information.
• Best Value Portal solution on the market.
• World class portal with low total cost of ownership.
• WebSphere Portal - Express Plus has the added features of collaboration: instant messaging, online "people-awareness" and chat, virtual team rooms, group calendaring, task management, document libraries, and document sharing and revision

IBM WebSphere® Commerce - Express Version 5.5 (WCE) is an easy to install, affordable, yet complete solution designed to help growing mid-market companies do business on the Web. Customers can jump-start their online presence with the basics then grow with IBM as their needs change and grow.

• An affordable on-ramp to e-commerce, whether you’re looking to jump-start or expand your online presence
• Complete solution that includes support for production, staging and development needs in one package
• Simplified installation and store deployment that can get you to a production storefront faster, keeping your up front costs under control
• Easier administration and management - WCE reduces their workload, driving greater productivity

IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Connect – Express offers a cost-effective, out-of-the-box solution to the SMB market’s requirement for an operational B2B solution that enables quick and easy connectivity with larger integrated trading partner communities. It enables enterprises with little or no IT skills base to participate in sophisticated trading communities so they can take advantage of peaks in demand and opportunity.

• Reduced time to value because you more quickly identify partners with whom you can form mutually beneficial trading relationships
• Assume the role of community participant and quickly self-register; assume the role of community operator and quickly identify and enable the requisite trading partners
• Maximise your profitability by continually reviewing, renewing and redefining your trading partner agreements

WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronisation allows suppliers to provide real-time, updated item data to their customers. WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronisation and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronisation are UCCnet certified solutions that give mid-sized businesses full-featured item synchronisation function. Through application-independent process collaborations, suppliers can use UCCnet’s GLOBALreginisation and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronisation are UCCnet certified solutions that give mid-sized businesses full-featured item synchronisation function. Through application-independent process collaborations, suppliers can use UCCnet’s GLOBALreginisation and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronisation are UCCnet certified solutions that give mid-sized businesses full-featured item synchronisation function. Through application-independent process collaborations, suppliers can use UCCnet’s GLOBALregistry to share information stored in their internal systems with customers and prospective customers. Automated workflows help suppliers enhance item management processes, creating more accurate product data to minimise errors, accelerate time to market, and reduce cycle times for new products.

• Common process for communicating product information to trading partners through UCCnet’s GLOBALregistry
• Pull item information from back-end systems as a flat file and connect to gateway using any 2 of the 9 adapters included in the package
• Design additional workflows
• Facilitates rapid integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
• Flexible GTIN management options
• Automating the item synchronisation process minimises errors, incorrect shipments, and deductions.

WebSphere MQ Express simplifies access to business critical information, wherever it may be. With WebSphere MQ Express business information can be moved safely and securely to wherever you may need it within or outside your business without writing complex networking code. Not only does this speed up development time for integration projects and new application development, but it can also make your business information more widely available within your company and greatly reduce the time to integrate further applications in the future. WebSphere MQ Express is easy to install and simple to use. You can benefit from its powerful application connectivity capabilities without specialist training or knowledge. deploying solutions, without the need to alter your applications

• Integrates applications without the need for complex coding
• Reduces error prone process of rekeying data, applications communicate directly with each other
• Developers spend less time dealing with application backlog and more time focused on business logic
• Leverage existing IT investments and be safe in the knowledge that future investments can be based upon 'best of breed' applications instead of being restricted by platform
• Reduce maintenance and support costs incurred through in-house integration by utilising the 24 x 7 support offered from IBM

IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition is the lowest priced full function relational database. Designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, DB2 UDB Express Edition features self-tuning and self-configuring capabilities for ease of manageability and Linux® or Windows® platform choices to reduce your total cost of ownership.

• Combines the power, function, and reliability of an open industry-standards-based relational database with simplicity in packaging, installing, and deploying at a minimal investment cost
• Easy to own: a very low entry cost and it can reduce or eliminate costs associated with deploying and maintaining your data
• Flexibility of Open Industry Standards: can be deployed on either Linux or Windows and supports a full range of industry- standard application interfaces
• Improves return on investment and lets companies quickly derive the most value from their information assets

IBM DB2® Content Manager Express Edition delivers an affordable, robust content management solution for small and medium sized organisations. Built on the strength of DB2 Content Manager Version 8, DB2 Content Manager Express handles the management, sharing and delivery of digitised content. DB2 Content Manager Express delivers an easy-to-install, complete solution for all forms of content. DB2 Content Manager Express Edition V8.2 delivers unparalleled openness, robustness, and function for managing the information assets of today's small and medium enterprises. Along with transaction, security, process integration, and simplified installation, it provides a single, open, comprehensive, and consistent framework for managing, sharing, reusing, and storing many types of digitised content, including document images and electronic office documents.

• Easy access to all forms of content
• Simplified, streamlined installation:
• Robust functionality to meet evolving business needs: Organisations can start small and grow
• An open solution with competitive price and performance: Support for industry standards and integration with IBM middleware. Delivers an easy-to-integrate solution with industry leading function
• Time Savings: Save time retrieving/distributing paper records, tracking the progress of paper based work items and making copies of paper documents
• Personnel Savings: Customer service staff may be eliminated or redeployed, administrative staff may be redeployed from researching reports and microfiche
• Operational Benefits: Reduce costs in telecommunications, photocopying and paper storage
• Revenue Benefits: Gain new revenue from existing and new services

DB2 Everyplace Express Edition addresses the need of small and medium-size companies for a simplified and affordable mobile application infrastructure, which is a major building block in supporting the on-demand e-business environment.

• Delivers highly integrated information management capabilities including a relational database with encrypted data store,encrypted data transmission and flexible data synchronisation
• Lowers total cost of ownership,enabling a rapid return on investment
• Start small and grow --Complements an extensive portfolio of wireless computing and information management solutions from IBM
• Accelerates user time to value
• Easy administration with autonomic computing capabilities
  Ease of development
• Flexible licensing options

IBM Lotus® DominoTM Express offers high scalability, powerful performance, advanced management and administration tools, and increased flexibility to provide your customers with a competitive advantage. Designed specifically for the small and medium business market, Lotus Domino Express includes two new versions of market-leading Lotus collaboration software, specifically designed for small to medium-sized businesses.

• Smart choices at smart prices - Whether you have 5 employees or as many as a 1,000, the IBM Lotus Domino Express offers ensure that you have the messaging and collaboration solution that meets your specific business needs -- at a price that fits your budget.
• Helps increase your system’s availability with advanced reliability and security features
• Saves time by letting you update your client environment centrally with low-touch deployment
• Simplifies administration and saves time by letting you centrally manage user configurations for individuals, groups, or your entire company
• Reduces costs and eases administration by supporting multiple organisations and languages on one Domino server
• Helps maximise uptime with enhancements that enable sophisticated data collection and faster server restarts
• Helps keep your users productive and connected with its formula engine, full-text searching, network compression and replication
• Integrates easily and coexist with your company's other applications servers, such as IBM Lotus Instant Messaging server, IBM Lotus Team Workplace server, IBM WebSphere Application Server and Microsoft Exchange. Domino Express offers are based on IBM Lotus Domino 6 and take advantage of its reliability, security and power.

IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Express Edition extends open, integrated storage resource management functionality to laptops, desktops and workstations (clients) for improved storage efficiency, reduced risk of application downtime, greater hardware ROI, increased capacity utilisation, simplified administration and lower storage management costs.

• Affordable
• Simple to install -in just eight mouse clicks
• Rapid time to value – over 300 reports available immediately