IBM Xia Ran: Industry plan business rose 10 times in a year and a half

In an interview with ZDNet in Shanghai on the 28th, Xia Ran, general manager of the IBM Greater China Region Solutions Software Group, returned to China from the US headquarters in August this year, said that IBM Software Group’s industry solution business is one of the fastest growing departments of the company. It took only a year and a half for the department to expand from 200 million U.S. dollars to 2 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2011. According to IBM's 2011-2015 plan, the software department has not only become the most profitable department of IBM. In the plan to invest 20 billion U.S. dollars in mergers and acquisitions, most of the software mergers and acquisitions take place, and related mergers and acquisitions in the industry are currently the most active. It will continue.

Xia Ran said that IBM Software Group currently has two major components: middleware and original solutions: WebSphere, Information Management (IM), Tivoli, and Rational. The solution includes business analysis. BA), Lotus, industry solutions and Watson are four parts, among which the industry solution business covers four businesses: smart city, smart business, enterprise marketing management (EMM) and enterprise content management (ECM). In the past two years, i2, Curam, Sterling Commerce, Coremetrics, Unica, and Datacap acquired by IBM have all been incorporated into the industry solutions division. Among them, i2 and Curam are classified as smart cities, Sterling Commerce is merged into B2B smart business, Coremetrics and Unica are classified as EMM and Datacap belong to ECM. ”