Why Smarter Planet?

Smarter Planet is IBM's view of how the people, businesses, organizations, governments, and natural and man-made systems of the world interact. As systems become smarter, we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress – which means new opportunities for you, as an IBM Business Partner.

Smarter solutions cut costs, drive efficiency and productivity, preserve capital and create competitive advantage. This enables you to engage clients of all sizes in higher-value discussions focusing on the entire enterprise.

By taking advantage of IBM education and resources, you can implement new solutions to inject greater intelligence into the world’s systems – and thus, help to improve the way the world works.

Our planet is becoming smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Our clients need to build smarter businesses -- with significantly fewer resources to implement solutions and solve business problems.

IBM is committed to delivering innovation and value to our mutual clients through Business Partners.

Transforming existing IT resources to meet current and future demands is a challenge IBM and Business Partners have in common, and are uniquely positioned to undertake together. IBM continues to focus on how to help Business Partners thrive in this time of economic uncertainty by making key investments in training, education, incentives, finance and services offerings.

• IBM Business Partner training resources

  Deepen your skills and expertise in IBM solutions and technologies in support of the vision of a smarter planet.



• IBM Global Financing offerings for Business Partners

  To help clients mitigate financial risk in this credit starved economy, IBMs flexible financing options help you offer a smarter approach, with compelling offerings to mitigate operational risk (align project outlays to ROI), investment risk (obsolescence and asset management) and supplier risk.



• IBM Global Services

  Help clients meet critical goals.



• PartnerWorld Express Advantage industry insights

  Provides overviews of industries and related solutions market opportunities to help you identify where to invest and how to pursue opportunities with speed.