German Healy Hudson GmbH and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a five-year, five million euro Software as a Service contract. As part of the agreement, IBM will support Healy Hudson's e-placing solution "Deutsche eVergabe," which is an electronic tendering procedure that addresses public service clients. IBM business partner, Fritz & Macziol, will help distribute the solution.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software that helps midsize companies detect vulnerabilities that can lead to costly security breeches, improve organizational productivity, and secure data while maintaining compliance with mandatory business regulations.

As part of IBM's "Project Big Green" offerings, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced availability of IBM solidDB, in-memory relational database software to deliver performance-critical data at extreme speeds -- up to 10 times faster than conventional database software.

At its PULSE 2008 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and services designed to help organizations improve the management and delivery of their business and IT services while reducing costs.

At a gathering of international customers at its Pulse 2008 conference here, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a comprehensive strategy and a broad set of new capabilities to help businesses achieve their green goals.

Expanding the Grow Your Business with IBM Software Tool and Offering New Web Syndication Service Can Increase Sales for IBM Business Partners

IBM announced new software and unveiled for the first time a broad initiative to combine hardware, software and services to tackle the cost and complexity of IT for small and medium businesses.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Cars.com has selected IBM software to drive a multi-year service oriented architecture (SOA) project that will help the leading online car shopping destination accelerate its rapid business growth by delivering information on demand to car shoppers and advertisers.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software designed to help communications service providers improve the quality of their Internet Protocol television (IPTV), Internet Protocol virtual private networks (IP-VPN) and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.

Today at Lotusphere, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making for an increasingly virtual, global workforce.

IBM announced an expansion of its WebSphere Portal software portfolio with the availability of two additional business-ready packages -- called accelerators -- that can be easily added to a customer's portal to drive online training projects and automate key business processes.