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More than 50% of the customers said that IBM Redbooks had a high impact on their decision making , and more than 70% said that they gained at least a 10% productivity improvement from using IBM Redbooks.
How you can get IBM Redbooks published for your needs
Our goal is to develop and deliver technical content and know-how to technical professionals in IBM, Business Partners, customers, and the industry, to accelerate the deployment and exploitation of complex IT solutions. These solutions may include components from Business Partners as well as IBM offerings. If you are interested in developing information about your solutions integrating IBM products, and would like to publish the information to a worldwide audience, you can commission the ITSO to develop IBM Redbooks for you. To find out how, send an email to redbook@us.ibm.com
How can you participate in developing our material?
We are looking for IBM employees, Business Partners and customers to join us at one of our centers to help author a Redbook during a four-to-six week ITSO Residency. The small residency team comes together under the guidance of an ITSO Project Leader. Here, you will explore and document product implementation, integration and operation, often in the context of marketplace solutions. You will partner with IBM development divisions, using feedback from many sources to ensure real-life applicability. Residencies offer a valuable skills enrichment process that focuses on the practical application of leading-edge software and hardware.
The graph, on the right, illustrates the international makeup of the participants. The residents come from a range of IBM businesses, partners, customers and marketplace professionals from around the world. They are selected on the basis of skill and availability in the project time frame. It is a competitive selection process. The short development cycle of IBM Redbooks requires technical skill, professionalism, a desire to solve problems and the ability to
communicate solutions to others.
Residencies are announced through the IBM Redbooks Web sites and the mailing list. Use the Residency button on the sites to browse the available residencies or to discover specific residencies using the search function.
How do you find out about our workshops and how to enroll?
ITSO workshops are held for you and your colleagues around the world in order to update your skills and provide you with the latest news about IBM products and solutions. Last year, about 7,500 students from around the world attended our workshops and gave them high satisfaction ratings for information and quality.
Click here for a list of current ITSO workshops and enrollment information
How you can order IBM Redbooks and CDROMs
Hardcopy IBM Redbooks and CDROMs can be purchased online, through vendors or IBM, from the web site
Each book abstract on the site shows the available options and the How to Buy pages provide additional details for telephone, fax or email orders.
Web Sites for IBM Redbooks
Benefits of being a resident
The ITSO Residency program provides maximum benefit to residents and their businesses, while serving the objectives of IBM Redbooks creation. IBM organizations, Business Partners and customers report that their returning residents have gained significant new skills, enabling them to support IBM's latest products and their integration with other industry products and applications. These skills apply directly to customer installation, implementation and operational objectives. They can also be used for services generation, where appropriate to the business, or indirectly in technical support of sales objectives. The contacts made by residents within the IBM development community and with other residents from IBM teams, partners and customers are invaluable for keeping these skills up-to-date.
At these sites, you can learn more about the ITSO (see the About Redbooks button) as well as take advantage of other functions that are available. For example, you can find IBM Redbooks that have been released since this CD-ROM was published, explore Redpieces and Redpapers, search for and download any IBM Redbook from the entire library, and access the FTP server for downloads of Additional Materials.
Using this CD-ROM, you can become familiar with what IBM Redbooks and Residencies are, and along with the extended resources available on the IBM Redbooks sites, you can exploit a powerful and effective way to access the latest technical information. Because these sites continue to develop dynamically, you may want to bookmark them for future reference.
The home page URLs are ibm.com/redbooks and w3.itso.ibm.com
How you can stay in touch with ITSO news and opportunities
The ITSO offers a subscription facility that allows you to submit an interest profile and receive, by e-mail, a Weekly Newsletter detailing Redbook, Residency and Workshop activity. Use the Mail List for access.
How are we organized?
Our ITSO centers are located close to the IBM laboratories to guarantee teamwork with the developers, as well as fast and accurate delivery. It also ensures that IBM Redbooks reflect what's hot in the market.
How you can give us feedback
Your feedback, whether about this CD-ROM, a specific book, or the IBM Redbooks Web sites, is welcomed and appreciated. In particular, we would like to know how IBM Redbooks helped solve a difficult problem or guided you through the technical maze of today's systems, applications, and products. Knowing which IBM Redbooks were most helpful will allow ITSO to build better books in the future.
Please use the Contact Us button at ibm.com/redbooks or w3.itso.ibm.com, or e-mail us directly at redbooks@us.ibm.com. Thanks in anticipation of your support.