IBM and Accenture invest in information management.(DATA ON DEMAND)

From: Manufacturing Business Technology | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

IBM is making a $1-billion investment in software and services over a three-year period aimed at more comprehensive information management. It also plans to add nearly 10,000 consultants--for a total of 25,000--who will deliver product solutions and services, and support global centers of excellence.

What's behind this investment, and others made earlier via acquisition of products and services providers. IBM simply wants to empower knowledge workers by freeing structured and unstructured data in the enterprise.

"The strategy goes back three years to our acquisition of ...

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