eWeek: Analytics as IBM’s Brilliant Trojan-Horse Strategy Technology
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 4:37p Adam Gartenberg Bob Evans at eWeek has posted an article (Global CIO: IBM's Brilliant Trojan-Horse Strategy Transcends Technology) that brings to light work that IBM is doing around analytics that extends far beyond what the stereotypical notion of IBM might be. He's referring to retail sales forecasts provided by IBM, and in this case reported so nonchalantly by the Wall Street Journal that Evans did a double-take when seeing just who was providing the analysis. "What also struck me about the very short ar [read] Keywords: ibm
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eWeek: IBM Business Analytics: 20 Ways Big Blue Rules
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 2:26p Adam Gartenberg eWeek has posted a slideshow titled "IBM Business Analytics: 20 Ways Big Blue Rules." Head on over to the site for highlights of IBM's innovation, capabilities, and the successes organizations are seeing with our solutions. IBM has become a major proponent of business analytics. The emergence of smarter systems that are interconnected and streaming real-time information is presenting enterprises with a unique opportunity to transform decision making. New opportunities to use this data to pre [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free predictive analytics seminars - cities and dates
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 1:30p Adam Gartenberg If you're interested in learning more about predictive analytics (or are already using SPSS and want in-depth information), there's a free event series kicking off next week that you should take a look at. The roadshow will be visiting 7 major US and Canadian cities over the next 30 days, and will offer tracks for those new to predictive analytics or IBM SPSS, those already using SPSS, and those using Cognos software who may be interested in learning more about the value that can be added by in [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Helps NC State University Bring Innovative Technologies to Market by Harnessing Big Data
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 10:26a Adam Gartenberg In analytics news from my backyard, IBM and North Carolina State University today announced a new project that will take advantage of Big Data analytics technology to match academic research with potential investors. The biggest challenge in this process today is being able to quickly and easily comb through a large amount of data to uncover potential investors and partnerships. From the press release: To address this challenge, NC State will use IBM's advanced analytics technology to stre [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics Helps City of Memphis Reduce Serious Crime by More Than 30%
Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 10:25a Adam Gartenberg Along with yesterday's report about the benefits Sun World is getting from predictive analytics comes another case study with very impressive results. IBM has been worked with the Memphis Police Department (MPD) to enhance its crime fighting techniques through the use of IBM predictive analytics software. As a result of these efforts, the City of Memphis is reporting a 30% reduction in serious crime, including a 15% reduction in violent crimes since 2006. These gains come from the ability [read] Keywords: ibm
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Smarter Farming: California’s Sun World Transforms Produce Business with IBM Analytics Technology
Wed, Jul 21st 2010 12:23p Adam Gartenberg In a press release issued this morning (Smarter Farming: California's Sun World Transforms Produce Business with IBM Technology), IBM shared how Sun World LLC is using IBM Cognos TM1 BI and analytics technology from IBM Business Partner Applied Analytix to "improve crop yields, reduce waste and expand its customer base, while providing more cost effective and energy efficient harvesting practices." Sun World's Director of Budgets and Reporting describes how the use of analytics has allowed t [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Analytics YouTube Channel and Profile of DC Water
Mon, Jul 12th 2010 12:25p Adam Gartenberg Today marks the launch of a new YouTube Channel for IBM analytics. Along with serving as a one-stop-shop for all things related to IBM analytics, the site will feature a series of videos focused on client stories. First up is a profile of DC Water, the water and sewer authority for Washington, DC. DC Water is using IBM predictive analytics software integrated with a mapping application to better manage the city's aging water and sewer systems, which serves 1.6 million people and involves [read] Keywords: administration
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InfoSphere Streams Receives Top 100 Innovative Products Award from RD Magazine
Fri, Jul 9th 2010 4:24p Adam Gartenberg Congratulations to my colleagues (and our customers) working with InfoSphere Streams, which was named one of the top 100 innovative products by R&D Magazine. InfoSphere Streams is unique in its ability to process incredibly high volumes of data in real-time from multitudes of data sources, utilizing a new streaming architecture and breakthrough mathematical algorithms. The result is real-time analysis of everything from stock trades to traffic patterns to medical monitoring equipment, at r [read] Keywords: ibm
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Inheriting a Complex World
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 4:25p Adam Gartenberg At IOD EMEA we highlighted some of the results from the recent CEO study IBM conducted (specifically zeroing in on the implications of more than 60% of CEOs surveyed citing industry transformation and the information explosion as the most significant factors facing their organizations over the next 5 years. ) This year we didn't only survey CEOs, but for the first time IBM reached out to 3,600 college and graduate students to see how the views of tomorrow's leaders might differ from today's [read] Keywords: ibm
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Mark Smith: IBM Advances Business Analytics and Optimization in First Year
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 12:25p Adam Gartenberg Mark Smith, CEO & Executive Vice President of Research for Ventana Research, posted a summary on his Information Management blog (IBM Advances Business Analytics and Optimization in First Year) of the Business Analytics and Optimization analyst summit IBM held recently in Washington, DC. In his post, he summarizes the topics touched on by the speakers at the event, which included Rob Ashe, who spoke about IBM's software solutions for business analytics, and Michael Schroeck, who spoke on [read] Keywords: collaboration
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1.2 trillion gigabytes of digital information will be created in 2010
Tue, Jul 6th 2010 5:24p Adam Gartenberg There's an oft-quoted IDC whitepaper ("The Expanding Digital Universe") that forecasts just how much information was expected to be generated through 2010. As it was published back in early 2007, I was glad to see that they just released an updated set of forecasts (âThe Digital Universe Decade â Are You Ready?â). (Both reports were sponsored by EMC.) As summarized by Information Management Magazine, the new study finds that the amount of digital information created in 2010 ( [read] Keywords: apple
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Applying Social Analytics Improves Television Viewer Satisfaction
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 4:24p Adam Gartenberg IBM issued a press release today discussing how RTL Nederland and InSites Consulting are using IBM predictive analytics software to comb through the opinions of viewers generated from social media sites or other online buzz and put that insight to work to update their shows - mid-season, even - resulting in higher viewer satisfaction. By capturing viewer insights on certain programs from social media sources, RTL Nederland was able to gather timely feedback from viewers on the television prog [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Blog: Analytics for Government
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 5:27p Adam Gartenberg I'm pleased to welcome a new voice to the blogosphere. My colleague Frank Stein, Director of the Washington, DC Analytics Solution Center has recently kicked off the Analytics for Government blog with a thought-provoking post about the role the "Watson" supercomputer, currently prepping for its spotlight playing Jeopardy! on national TV, might have for government agencies (link: Can a computer that can win at âJeopardy!â help the Government?). Contestants on âJeopardy!â h [read] Keywords: ibm
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DePaul University and IBM Team to Launch New Center for Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 10:25a Adam Gartenberg IBM made two announcements yesterday aimed at ensuring that companies have the skilled workforce needed to support the growing requirements for data analysis inside their organizations. (The U.S. Bureau of Labor is expecting a 20% growth in demand through 2008 for individuals with proven statistical competencies. If you've got a kid in college looking for direction, keep that in mind!) Nation's First Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics The first announcement, made in conjunction wit [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Smarter Planet campaign wins Global Gold Effie award based on campaign results
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 12:25p Adam Gartenberg I was excited to learn yesterday that the Smarter Planet campaign, developed by IBM and Ogilvy & Mather, were recognized with the 2010 Gold Global Effie award in recognition of marketplace success and creativity. I want to take a moment and emphasize that last point. This is not an award based on what some judges deemed to be a creative advertisement. This particular award requires documented results across multiple continents, in at least four countries, with judging taking place over [read] Keywords: ibm
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Introducing BigSheets: An interview with Rod Smith
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 5:24p Adam Gartenberg At IOD EMEA I had the opportunity to sit down with Marie Wallace (Hadoop and "Twitalytics") to learn about a new project out of IBM Emerging Technologies called BigSheets, which in a nutshell allows business professionals (not just programmers) to use a spreadsheet metaphor in a browser to leverage millions and millions of rows of data. If you're looking for more information on this capability, take a look at this interview with Rod Smith, VP of Emerging Technologies and IBM Fellow, where he [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM and the Muppets
Fri, Jun 4th 2010 5:25p Adam Gartenberg Having worked at IBM for almost 11 years now, it's always fun to come across something in IBM's history that I never knew about before. Today's enlightenment? Back in the late '60s, IBM teamed up with Jim Henson to produce a series of short films for its sales staff. The Technologizer blog fills us in on the details (click through for more). 1967 was an interesting time for the team-up: two years before the Muppetsâ national prominence would rise thanks to Sesame Street, and two y [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Unveils Software to Help Insurance Carriers Get Closer to Customers, Improve Agility
Fri, Jun 4th 2010 3:25p Adam Gartenberg IBM last week unveiled a new Insurance Industry Framework - a packaged software solution that will help insurance carriers improve customer service and risk management while increasing agility and business efficiency. It focuses on how insurance companies can apply advanced analytic techniques, enable rules and workflow automation, and combine data that might otherwise have resided in silos across the organization. Built on open standards technology, IBM's Insurance Industry Framework provid [read] Keywords: ibm
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Pandora for Cows
Fri, Jun 4th 2010 2:25p Adam Gartenberg OK, so maybe not exactly Pandora for Cows, but at the Smarter Cities event in Shanghai, Ginni Rometty, IBMâs senior vice president for sales and distribution talked about how farmers in New Zealand attached RFID tags to their cows so when they walk into the milking stall they are presented with the type of music they like best. Step #1: Instrument to manage. Youâve got to collect a lot of data; then understand it, manage it, and act on it. She mentioned a great example. Itâs n [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM and Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Collaborate for Smarter Healthcare
Fri, Jun 4th 2010 1:28p Adam Gartenberg IBM convened a Smarter Cities Forum in Shanghai this week, and took advantage of the occasion to announce a collaboration with South China's largest hospital, Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. IBM will be working with doctors to apply analytics to anonymous Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) to discover trends and identify new knowledge about disease treatment, as well as to perform empirical studies on the effectiveness of certain traditional Chinese treatments. While more [read] Keywords: collaboration
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All the robots are in place
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 5:25p Adam Gartenberg My family is a pretty frequent visitor to diapers.com, so it was fun to find a behind-the-scenes video of their warehouse over on TechCrunch as they prepare to launch a major expansion in the goods they carry (coming soon at soap.com). I've always been impressed that I can get an instant message from my wife on a Tuesday afternoon saying that she just placed an order, and hear a knock on the door Wednesday morning as a box of diapers gets delivered (and with the quantity our son goes through, [read] Keywords: application
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How big is a Yottabyte? (Sorry R. Island and Delaware)
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 4:25p Adam Gartenberg If you've seen a presentation from us recently, chances are you're familiar with the phrase "an explosion of information." Online backup firm Backblaze has shared an infographic that puts this in rather stark perspective. Apparently the United States National Security Agency recently speculated that by the year 2015 they may need Yottabytes of storage to maintain all of the surveillance data they are collecting. (The CrunchGear post that originated this has since been updated to point ou [read] Keywords: security
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The free DB2 Express-C 9.7.2 is now available
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 12:24p Adam Gartenberg The updated 9.7.2 release of the free DB2 Express-C is now available for download. The DB2 Express-C team blog has more details: DB2 Express-C 9.7.2 is now available for download. It is a full refresh of the free edition of DB2 with lots of new features and fixes including: Default parameter values in user defined functions (UDFs) Named arguments when calling user defined functions Ability to copy table spaces and SQL schemas between active databases using RESTORE with TRANSPORT option Audi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Tangible benefits highlighted in new Smarter Questions ad campaign
Thu, May 27th 2010 11:29a Adam Gartenberg IBM this week launched a new ad campaign that uses facts and results from businesses using IBM solutions to demonstrate just how much of an impact they have made. This is part of the next phase of IBM's Smarter Planet agenda, which extends the focus from the realm of possibilities to show just how businesses are getting real value today (and making that value as tangible as possible). You'll likely see these "It's Time to Ask Smarter Question" ads on many of the popular news and tech sites [read] Keywords: ibm
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Location is where it’s at! Free webinar tomorrow.
Wed, May 26th 2010 5:27p Adam Gartenberg It's hard to visit sites like TechCrunch without tripping over posts about location-based services (or to scan through your Facebook feed without hearing from at least one friend who just became mayor of their favorite coffee shop). If you want to learn more about how you can put location to work yourself, join us tomorrow (Thursday, 5/26) for a free webinar on the serious location capabilities included in DB2 (and even in our free DB2 Express-C product). Leon Katsnelson describes in more [read] Keywords: ibm
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Truth in Advertising â Oracleâs Claims about Performance and Energy Consumption
Fri, May 21st 2010 3:29a Adam Gartenberg If, like me, Oracle's latest advertising salvo has left you wondering just how far they're pushing the "facts," Conor O'Mahony digs under the covers a bit and comes up with some very salient details about where Oracle's figures come (and don't come) from. Please take a look. Conor O'Mahony: Truth in Advertising â Oracleâs Claims about Performance and Energy Consumption [read] Keywords: db2
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IOD EMEA 2010 - Day 2 Press Releases
Thu, May 20th 2010 6:25p Adam Gartenberg Here's a summary of the press releases issued at the IOD EMEA 2010 conference today. Some really exciting stories of how companies in the telco and retail industries are using IBM Data Management and Business Analytics technology to improve performance and get closer to their customers, and further evidence of the wave of businesses and IBM Business Partners switching from competitive database platforms to DB2. (And in related news, IBM was awarded two 2010 SAP Pinnacle Awards including Custom [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD EMEA 2010 Day 2 General Session
Thu, May 20th 2010 9:31a Adam Gartenberg The theme of the IOD EMEA 2010 Day 2 General Session was transformation, a subject introduced by Michael Rhodin, SVP IBM Software Group and covered Adam Klaber, General Manager, GBS Service Lines and and Regina Casonato, Managing Vice President, Gartner. As with yesterday, here is what I captured from the session. Nicola Ciniero, GM, IBM Italy Transformation - see great changes around us. Industries are transforming, organizations are transforming. Successful companies are ones who can [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD EMEA 2010 - Smarter Futures
Thu, May 20th 2010 9:31a Adam Gartenberg Along with others from the bloggers program, I had the chance to get a tour of the "Smarter Futures" Emerging Technology lab set up on the expo floor at IOD EMEA yesterday. This team, based in IBM's Hursley lab, is doing some really interesting things when it comes to using leading-edge technology and applying it to the way we live and work. The setup that seems to be getting the most attention (by us and others) was a demo that uses a thought control headset (yes, thought control) that has [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD EMEA 2010 - Day 1 Press Announcements
Wed, May 19th 2010 10:28a Adam Gartenberg Here is a summary of the press announcements made during Day 1 of the IOD EMEA 2010 conference: IBM Unveils Software and Services to Help Organizations Make Sense of Their Deluge of Data ROME, - 19 May 2010: To help clients transform their businesses through information management and analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and services designed to help organizations take advantage of the growing and diverse forms of data and content. The importance of business insight [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD EMEA 2010 - Day 0
Tue, May 18th 2010 9:22a Adam Gartenberg I arrived in Rome yesterday for the IOD EMEA 2010 conference. My apologies for the protracted blog silence, but work and life have kept me busy this past month or two (with much of the time these past few weeks working on content for this conference). The venue here on the outskirts of Rome is beautiful, and I got a chance to head into the city last night for a little bit - a very nice night out after a long 36 straight hours of travel and work. I'm not sure I'll be live blogging the gene [read] Keywords: ibm
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