New IBM Ads: Why Information Matters
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 11:26a Adam Gartenberg Our advertising group just posted five new Smarter Planet ads, focused on the way data, information and analytics can reshape the way companies operate today and the ways in which we can make our world a better place for everyone. My personal favorite is the one featuring IBMer Jeff Jonas. The analogy he makes in the ad to crossing the road based on what the road looked like 5 minutes ago is the best I've seen to date as to why organizations need to keep pushing as close as possible [read] Keywords: ibm
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How SPSS is helping mobile carriers apply deeper customer insight
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 11:23a Adam Gartenberg At the Mobile World Congress today, IBM shared how SPSS's business analytics capabilities are helping telco providers such as Digital +, UPC Broadband and Tesco Mobile gain deeper insight into customer behavior, which in turn is helping them improve customer retention, optimize call center interaction, and run more effective marketing campaigns. In the extremely competitive world that the mobile carriers operate in, anything that can be done to improve marketing effectiveness, retain customer [read] Keywords: ibm
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Watch IBM’s Information Governance Launch live (today, 12:30 ET)
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 12:32p Adam Gartenberg IBM will be making some significant announcements later today regarding Information Governance, and you're welcome to watch the launch keynote and panel discussion live today at 12:30pm ET. Link: IBM Information Governance Launch Live Feed If you can't make it, check back on my blog later in the day for an updated post on the announcements and its significance, or you can follow along on Twitter with #ibminfogov [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM fosters healthcare information sharing with Initiate Systems acquisition
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 11:27a Adam Gartenberg IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a privately held company that helps healthcare providers and governments overcome the challenge of integrating and sharing accurate information. This is a significant challenge for these organizations, as they struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or incomplete data spread across hundreds of sources spanning hospitals, doctors' offices, insurance providers, and government organizations. From the press release: In h [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why the iPad just looks like a supersized iTouch
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:27p Adam Gartenberg Let me get it out of the way... Yes, I'd like an iPad. Not yet, though... I'll wait for a built-in camera, background apps, the memory to double or triple and the price to go down. But it is the surf-from-the-couch, catch-up-on-news-at-breakfast device I've been waiting for. That said, like a lot of people, my first reaction on seeing pictures is that it looks a lot more like an oversized iTouch than I was expecting. And I think the reason behind that is that it looks like they enlarged [read] Keywords: apple
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ReadWriteWeb: IBM CEO on Lessons Opportunities in Internet of Things
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg ReadWriteWeb has been focusing a fair bit lately on the Internet of Things, which is also one of the underlying factors that we have been highlighting in our Smarter Planet agenda contributing to (and resulting from) a world that is increasingly instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Today Richard MacManus writes about IBM's perspective on the subject (IBM CEO on Lessons & Opportunities in Internet of Things): Palmisano noted one of the key points about Internet of Things earl [read] Keywords: ibm
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A free book for a free database
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg Last week I blogged about the free Getting Started with DB2 Express-C 9.7 book that was being given away at the Lotusphere ped this week. Apparently it was so popular that the team on site ran out! (And thank you to the loyal reader who mentioned learning about it on my blog.) Of course, it really shouldn't be a surprise that it was so popular; over 100,000 copies of the 300+ page book have been distributed. For all of you who weren't in attendance (or didn't get there soon enough), my co [read] Keywords: ibm
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InfoSphere Streams drives ground-breaking covert (shhhh!) sensor intelligence
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg This looks like it might be shaping up to be national security week on the blog this week. A colleague just pointed me to an article (Adelos Offers Ground-Breaking Sensor Intelligence) detailing how the unique, highly parallel processing capabilities of IBM InfoSphere Streams are providing the analytical power behind a new method of covert intelligence and surveillance gathering. I'm not going to pretend to understand half of the science behind this system, but from what I can gather, by "de [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM to Acquire National Interest Security Company
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg IBM announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Interest Security Company, LLC (NISC), a security and analytics consultancy based in Fairfax, Virginia that delivers advanced analytics and IT solutions to the public sector (national defense and security agencies in particular). Upon closing of the deal, NISC will join IBM GBS's Business Analytics and Optimization business unit. From the press release: NISC’s expertise includes systems engineering, biome [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD EMEA Conference 2010 and SPSS Directions European Conference 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg There are two upcoming events that should be on your radar - the IOD EMEA Conference 2010 and the SPSS Directions European Conference 2010. Both are taking place in Rome, Italy, in mid-May, and we would love for you to join us. Please see below for additional details - note the early bird registration discounts and speaker submission deadlines. IOD EMEA Conference 2010 --- 19-21 May, Rome Italy Registration now open Early Bird Registration - register by 26 February and save up to â [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Information and Analytics Solutions in the News
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg IBM's Information and Analytics software have been in the news a bit lately; I think I may have missed these when they were first published last month: Financial Times: IBM in $200m Brazil software tie-up "IBM on Monday announced a $200m software deal with a technology partner in Brazil, the biggest software deal of its kind this year, in the latest sign that emerging markets remain a notable bright spot for the technology industry.... "In the Brazilian deal, IBM said that Consist Software [read] Keywords: ibm
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A Prescription for Prediction
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg I've written several times (New Intelligence in Action: Predicting changes in the tiniest patients, IOD2009 - InfoSphere Streams) about the innovative use of IBM InfoSphere Streams to prevent infection in premature newborns up to 24 hours earlier than they could have been detected with conventional methods. It's hard to think of a better example to demonstrate just how game-changing (and life-saving) the application of information and analytics can be. The video below, created by IBM's Chris [read] Keywords: ibm
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DB2 for Lotus Foundations at Lotusphere 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg My colleagues over on the DB2 team have shared some information about their presence at Lotusphere next week. If you're interested in learning more about the free DB2 Express-C - and especially if you're a business partner - please do stop by the booth and session. We have a pedestal (IBM34) and a session on Tuesday noon (Europe 10) where we will be demonstrating the value of the DB2 for Lotus Foundations. Our demos will include single-click, no-questions-asked install, single point user man [read] Keywords: foundations
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Welcome to the decade of smart
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg Earlier today, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano introduced the evolution of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, heralding in "The Decade of Smart." IBM - and the companies and governments we've worked with already in building a smarter planet - have learned a lot in the past year. Our clients have learned just how game changing it can be. To quote just a few examples from today's speech that are close to heart for me - ones that touch in particular on information and analytics: Eight hospitals and 4 [read] Keywords: ibm
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New IBM Service Speeds Facts to Executives (1933 edition)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg Seth Godin posted a link to my new favorite site of the day: The Vintage Ad Browser. Naturally, my first search was for IBM, where one of the first headlines returned was one that could just as easily come from a press release from the IOD Conference: Isn't it funny how some needs still hold true 70 years later? (By the way, apparently Lotus - at least as we think of it - isn't quite vintage enough.) [read] Keywords: ibm
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We’re listening! Seeking YOUR feedback on IBM Software consumability
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg I'd like to pass along a request for assistance from my colleagues in the software consumability group, but you're all really the ones who would benefit from it. Several years ago, Steve Mills launched a challenge to find a way to make our many products and solutions across IBM's Software Group more cohesive, consistent and easily to integrate together in your (our clients') environment. Since we started tracking this effort in January 2007, there have been over 1,400 such improvements targe [read] Keywords: ibm
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Video: Bharti Airtel Turns to IBM for an Information-Led Transformation
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg Bharti Airtel is one of the best showcases of what's possible when you put information and analytics to work to drive business processes and decisions. In this video, originally shown during the IOD 2009 general session, Dr. Jai Menon, Bharti's CIO, explains how transforming their business through information is essential to continuing to grow at a rate of a mind-boggling 3 million mobile subscribers a month (and doing so by extending its reach not just to cities and towns, but out to over 40 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Breaking Away with Business Analytics: A Virtual Leadership Exchange
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg At the IOD 2009 conference this year, a number of senior leaders joined IBM executives for a business analytics leadership exchange. Now the same opportunity to hear first hand and interact with those leading IBM's information management and business analytics and optimization service line will be much more broadly available. Join us at the "Breaking Away with Business Analytics: A Virtual Leadership Exchange" on Thursday, January 28, 2010 from the convenience of your desk. Learn how le [read] Keywords: ibm
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Register Today: Breaking Away with Business Analytics Virtual Leadership Exchange
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg If you haven't already registered for this Thursday's virtual leadership exchange, please do head over and do so today. The event (Breaking Away with Business Analytics: A Virtual Leadership Exchange) will highlight how leading companies are growing their business faster than their competitors through a focus on information management and business analytics. This is a unique opportunity to hear first-hand from IBM experts on these topics and dive into details from companies that have been s [read] Keywords: ibm
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Mayo Clinic and IBM Advance Early Detection of Brain Aneurysms
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:06a Adam Gartenberg IBM issued a press release today (Mayo Clinic and IBM Advance Early Detection of Brain Aneurysms) on collaboration with the Mayo Clinic around new analytics technology that has proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysms, compared with 70 percent for manual interpretation. Already saving patients’ lives, the project has examined more than 15 million images from thousands of patients since the project began in early July. It uses technology that combines advanced imaging wi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Sametime 8.5 Meetings demo on YouTube - Sametime Blog
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 4:10p Adam Gartenberg Want to see the forthcoming Lotus Sametime 8.5 Meetings in action? The Sametime team has posted a video demo. From the Sametime Blog: We've just posted a short video on Youtube that highlights a few key capabilities in the new Sametime 8.5 Meeting experience. Check it out and tell us what you think. Link: Sametime Blog - New Sametime 8.5 Meetings demo on Youtube [read] Keywords: ibm
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Judith Hurwitz: Predictions for 2010: clouds, mergers, social networks and analytics
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 4:00p Adam Gartenberg Judith Hurwitz has posted her top six predictions for 2010. All of them ring true to me, but this one in particular caught my attention: Information management is at the cusp of a major change. While the individual database remains important, the issue for customers is focus on the need to manage information holistically so that they can anticipate change. As markets grow increasingly complex and competitive, the hottest products in 2010 will those that help companies anticipate what will ha [read] Keywords: database
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Making unified communications simple for users
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 4:00p Adam Gartenberg Ask yourself these questions: How often do you loose the first ten minutes of a meeting providing instructions on how to log into the web conference? Have you invested in video conferencing systems that sit unused because no one knows they're there or how to use them? Do you want to deliver unified communications services into the applications your employees already use? Do you have a mix of communication and collaboration systems that are difficult to use, isolated and underutilized? Did yo [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Explained: Information-Led Transformation in 4 minutes
Mon, Dec 14th 2009 11:56a Adam Gartenberg Have you been hearing us talk about an "information-led transformation" but still aren't sure exactly what it all means and how it might relate to you? If so, a colleague pointed me to this video of Arvind Krishna, GM Information Management at IBM, recorded by Scott Laningham at the IOD 2009 conference in October that you're going to want to check out. He sums up in just 4 minutes why companies are looking to transform their business through information, and why IBM is putting so much focus on [read] Keywords: ibm
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MTOTD: You think you’re everyone!
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 7:57a Adam Gartenberg As I sat in the airport waiting for my flight last night, I was reminded of a commercial run by one of the major airlines here in the US several years ago. (I want to say it was United, but am not positive on that; maybe one of you can remember?) It featured a businessman walking through an international airport, eventually arriving at his gate, where he is greeted in English by the American gate attendant. The voice over says something to the effect of "you can relax now, it's like you're ba [read] Keywords: archive
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Feeling yellow? Or maybe blue? What color says about your brand
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 3:57p Adam Gartenberg I caught the tail end of a piece on NPR this morning (OMG, you're still using AOL for e-mail?) on what your e-mail address says about your personal brand - how people will perceive you differently if you give them a hotmail address instead of gmail, for example. (My favorite line was from the man justifying keeping his AOL address because "I have one of the original addresses with no numbers so it's easier for you to type.") [What the piece didn't mention is that we're almost at the point [read] Keywords: archive
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New IBM Study Uncovers Business Strategies For Weathering Economic Storm
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 3:45p Adam Gartenberg The IBM Institute for Business Value has followed up their first Business Analytics and Optimization study from April 2009 with a new survey of 400 business leaders. By comparing how industry leaders are applying analytics in ways that industry laggards are not, this new survey provides insight into the actions that businesses can take to achieve "breakaway success." The difference between those at the top and bottom of their industries are stark. A press release on the findings issued to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Live Webcast today - Smarter Education: An Era of Opportunity
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 3:15p Adam Gartenberg This morning (starting at 9:30am ET) we will be streaming a live event from Fordham University, which IBM will be partnering with on a first-of-a-kind Business Analytics for Managers course. Titled Smarter Education: An Era of Opportunity, you will be able to hear from a number of leading experts on the use of analytics, and from Ambuj Goyal, General Manager for IBM's Business Analytics and Process Optimization business. To register please see the link below, or you can follow along via #IBMFo [read] Keywords: administration
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Upcoming Webinar: Evolving Storage Demands. Are You Ready?
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 4:25p Adam Gartenberg I thought this upcoming webinar on information infrastructure might be of interest to some of you. Evolving Storage Demands. Are You Ready? Dec. 14, 2009, 12:00pm ET Maximizing information value, while efficiently managing the storage infrastructure, threatens to overwhelm today's IT organization. With the amount of transactional data growing daily, and a host of unstructured and semi-structured data entering the picture, most companies must take a hard look at their information infras [read] Keywords: ibm
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My blog - now with even more Sametimey goodness
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 3:31p Adam Gartenberg As John Del Pizzo shared a few months ago, the Sametime team has relocated their blog to Lotus Connections. Come visit us at our new home, the Sametime Blog on Lotus Connections. In the spirit of "eating our own cooking", IBM has been using our very successful social software platform -- Lotus Connections -- for our own blogging activities. So we're moving the Sametime Blog to that new platform. We'd like to thank our longtime partners, the PSC Group, for hosting this blog. John Head an [read] Keywords: connections
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If you’re reading this in a feed reader, please read on
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 3:21p Adam Gartenberg If you're reading this in a feed reader, please do me a favor and double-check the address you have for the feed. When I first started this blog, I mistakenly had the RSS feed tied directly into the IP address for the site, rather than to the site itself. As the IP address will be changing this weekend, that will likely cut off the feed. Instead, please use the link(s) below to subscribe to the blog, comments, or to subscribe by e-mail. (Of course, if you haven't subscribed to my RSS fee [read] Keywords: email
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How something so wrong can be so right
Thu, Dec 3rd 2009 10:57p Adam Gartenberg It wouldn't surprise me if the haters outweigh the lovers of this video, but my guess is there won't be a whole lot of people who fall in the middle. That's right, what you're seeing is a mashup of How I Met Your Mother and Frosty the (now Inappropriate) Snowman. How Inappropriate? For those of you familiar with the show, let's just say those are Barney "I'm giving you my porn collection" Stinson's lines coming out of Frosty's mouth. So I'm watching this for the first time, laughi [read] Keywords: mashup
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Marketing Thought of the Day: Simplicity
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 2:37p Adam Gartenberg Today's marketing thought of the day comes courtesy of Cormac McCarthy's 46+ year old Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. This is the same portable manual typewriter on which he has written more than a dozen novels, numerous plays and short stories and countless letters, which he is estimating total over 5 million words spanning nearly 50 years. It's a good reminder that things don't need to be new, improved, 3G, or even require a power cord (or charger) to be effective. Sometimes the old cla [read] Keywords: archive
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Marketing thought of the day: Talk to the Moose
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 8:21a Adam Gartenberg I've seen this Gap commercial on enough different channels now that I'm guessing you've seen it already, too (and, like me, may even be crying "enough!") While as a parent I can't condone trying to incite kids to whine for new clothes, toys, or games, as a marketer, it's a tried-and-true tactic, and my guess is it will be rather successful for them. When he spoke at the IOD conference, Malcolm Gladwell reminded us how kids can be the biggest advocates for change by relating how the U [read] Keywords: application
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IBM acquires Guardium for data monitoring and protection
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 2:56p Adam Gartenberg IBM today announced the acquisition of Guardium, and I just got off the press conference call where Arvind Krishna, General Manager of IBM’s Information Management business and Ram Metser, CEO of Guardium provided more details on the deal. Guardium, based in Waltham, MA, provides real-time enterprise database monitoring and protection through technology that helps businesses safeguard data, monitor database activity and reduce operational costs by automating regulatory compliance tasks. [read] Keywords: ibm
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NY Times: At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 3:38p Adam Gartenberg The New York Times ran an article recently on the SAS Institute (at which, incidentally, a number of friends work). While the bulk of the article focuses on SAS's employee amenities, history, and product strategy, it also does a good job of relating why the area of business intelligence and business analytics is so hot right now. The article also highlights competitors that are encroaching on SAS's niche, notably IBM, and quotes Ambuj Goyal, General Manager for IBM's business analytics softw [read] Keywords: ibm
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Go Blue! Ross School of Business in Top 10 for all six BusinessWeek rankings
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 11:57a Adam Gartenberg I always like seeing news like this in my inbox. Go Blue! ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The latest rankings from BusinessWeek affirm that the Ross School of Business is one of the best all-around business schools in the world. BusinessWeek has announced that the Ross School ranks among the Top 10 for its Part-time MBA Program (No. 5) and Executive MBA Program (No. 7) and for its open enrollment (No. 8) and custom enrollment (No. 10) executive education programs for 2009. The Ross School currently ra [read] Keywords:
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DB2 first database recognized as "VMware Ready"
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 9:58a Adam Gartenberg Earlier this week VMware extended its VMware Ready program to include middleware and application software. DB2 became the first database (and at present is the only database management system) recognized with the VMware Ready designation. From the VMware press release: "We are living in an age in which businesses must have access to vast quantities of information as a tool for making smarter and faster decisions, at a lower cost," said Bernard Spang, director, Information Management Strateg [read] Keywords: collaboration
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NY Times: Making Health Care Better
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 11:57p Adam Gartenberg The New York Times Magazine this past weekend ran a lengthy and insightful article into how Intermountain Healthcare in Utah is applying information and analytics at their network of 23 hospitals and associated clinics with some very dramatic results in improving healthcare outcomes and reducing patient costs. Intermountain was one of first medical systems with electronic patient records (already in place by1986), and the article focuses on how Brent James, brought in as the director of med [read] Keywords: ibm
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New IBM Software Uses Sensors to Speed the Movement of Shipping Containers
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 11:58a Adam Gartenberg IBM today announced that it has enhanced IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server with a new capability called Returnable Container Management. This capability is designed to track the location of containers and other reusable assets used by manufacturers, parts suppliers, governments, and others to ship and transfer parts and products. While this may sound like a rather esoteric topic, it's big business. Many automotive OEMs maintain container inventories in excess of $100 million, and using sen [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Washington, D.C.
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 9:57a Adam Gartenberg In Washington, DC today, IBM opened its sixth analytics solution center. The new center will be located in IBM's Institute for Electronic Government at 1301 K Street, N.W, and will serve as the hub for collaboration with federal agencies, academia, and other institutions in the Washington Metro Area on analytics projects ranging from transportation and social services to defense logistics and homeland security systems. The new IBM Analytics Solution Center in Washington, D.C., will draw on t [read] Keywords: administration
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Free! Information On Demand Virtual Experience
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 11:56a Adam Gartenberg Didn't make it out to Las Vegas the other week for the IOD 2009 conference? Or maybe there were some keynotes or sessions you want your boss or coworkers to see first hand? Good news - join us starting tomorrow (Nov. 10) for the free Information On Demand Virtual Experience, which if you couldn't guess from the name, you can participate in from the comfort of your office or home. I will personally be staffing a live online chat forum on information-led transformation from 11:45-noon EST t [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Launches Health Analytics Center
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 9:00p Adam Gartenberg IBM yesterday announced the launch of a Health Analytics Center in Dallas, Tx. From the press release: DALLAS - 03 Nov 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of its Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the growing demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision-making and provide higher quality care. The center will be hosted in the IBM Global Solution Center in Dallas and will employ more tha [read] Keywords: ibm
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Michael Osterman - Info Mgmt and Lotus observations from IOD2009
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 2:57p Adam Gartenberg Michael Osterman has posted his thoughts and observations on the IOD 2009 conference, some of which I've pulled in below. (On a personal note, after reading and citing his work for a while now, it was good to finally meet him in person as we both waited for the IOD press conference to begin.) Thoughts on IBM’s Information on Demand Conference The focus on content analytics across a wide range of areas. In the context of archiving, for example, IBM's Content Analyzer can scan file s [read] Keywords: connections
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Marketing Thought of the Day: Ads That Add Value
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 11:59a Adam Gartenberg It's a morning of writing for me, and I've got Pandora running in the background to keep me company. I was impressed with the advertising Palm is doing on the site. As opposed to a static screenshot of the Pre, or a continuously looping demo, Palm is actually using their ad space to deliver value to me. They've used the UI to show a listing of upcoming concerts near me, complete with a clickable "more info" button that takes me to a page to buy tickets (not a redirect to Palm). Well [read] Keywords: firefox
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Additional news roundup from IOD2009
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 10:58a Adam Gartenberg We're continuing to see news come in from the IOD 2009 Conference. Some highlights from the past week: IBM is predicting that business analytics software will be one of 2010's hottest technologies, as companies attempt to squeeze as much value as possible out of their data. - TheStreet.com IBM is betting business analytics software will be the next big wave hitting IT in the next decade, as more companies seek to cut costs by plumbing and optimizing all the data they're sitting on. - The [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD2009 Blogger Exclusive: Saving Lives with InfoSphere Streams
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 5:00p Adam Gartenberg I'm still catching up on the events of last week's IOD 2009 conference. Those of us participating in the inaugural blogger program were treated to several "behind the scenes" meetings with executives, developers and IBM customers on a variety of topics, one of which was stream computing and in particular how it's being used by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to help save lives. I've blogged before about the initiative to use InfoSphere Streams to monitor premature infants [read] Keywords: ibm
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Continued Analyst Updates from IOD2009 Conference
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 3:00p Adam Gartenberg We're continuing to see updates from analysts that attended (or were briefed on) the IOD 2009 Conference. Judith Hurwitz, President of Hurwitz & Associates, describes what she sees as a shift in how IBM is approaching the information management market The biggest changes that I have seen over the past 20 years or so of watching IBM in the information technology market is the change in focus from the database engine and tools to a focus on a process centric approach to information managem [read] Keywords: ibm
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Merv Adrian: A Tale Of Three Cities, and Oracle, Teradata and IBM Databases
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 3:03p Adam Gartenberg Merv Adrian posts his thoughts on having spent October at Oracle, Teradata and IBM database events. His one-line summary: "Oracle took shots at IBM; Teradata put its successful customers on display; and IBM proposed ways to change the world for the better." He expands on the approach of each company in a lot more detail in the post. On IBM, he writes: IBM put an expanded Information Management leadership team on display to connect its story to the larger Smarter Planet message of the IBM C [read] Keywords: ibm
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RedMonk’s Stephen O’Grady on information-led transformation
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 3:03p Adam Gartenberg Stephen O'Grady from RedMonk was out at IOD 2009 last week, and posted an interesting juxtaposition between Steve Mills' IOD 2009 keynote and Nate Silver's incredibly accurate baseball and political modeling (with regrets to all the Red Sox fans out there). The central assertion of the post is that "[w]hat’s different these days is that we have exponentially more numbers than we did before, better tools to attack them, and an understanding that if you aren’t using the numb [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD2009 in Interviews: Steve Mills, Rob Thomas, Mark Register, Maria Winans, Mary Garrett and many, many more
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 3:03p Adam Gartenberg "There are two words that are stuck in my head in terms of where we are right now with technology and capability: real-time and predictive." -- Steve Mills While most people were busy attending sessions at the IOD2009 conference, developerWork's Scott Laningham was busy interviewing executives. Click below to listen to more thoughts from Steve Mills on the conference, and see the links below that for the rest of the interviews Scott conducted with those leading the information management [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD2009 in Photos
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 7:01p Adam Gartenberg Folks have been busy uploading pictures to the IOD2009 Flickr Group. (Thanks to Richard Hogg - @banjaxx - for the reminder and for uploading many of the photos.) If you have photos to upload, please share! [read] Keywords: application
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What do you get the IT Superstar that has everything?
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 7:01p Adam Gartenberg Is there an "IT Superstar" that's made a difference in your life? Have you said thank you to them lately? No? Well, good news - showing your appreciation has never been easier. Just head on over here and send them a personalized (and fun) token of your appreciation. Link: Make your favorite IT colleagues famous. Send a customized video now. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Introducing the Information Agenda Catalog
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 7:01p Adam Gartenberg Over the weekend a new Information Agenda catalog was launched, highlighting solutions and resources from IBM and IBM Business Partners across 18 industries and with a wide variety of specific functions within each industry. I would encourage you to take a look, and to check back often for updates. Link: ibm.com/imaccelerator [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD2009 Day 2 Announcements: Analytics and Mashups
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 7:01p Adam Gartenberg I've fallen behind in some of my blogging, notably on the announcements made yesterday at the IOD2009 Conference. There were three press releases issued yesterday, focusing primarily on Analytics and Mashups. For now, here are links and some quick excerpts, please do click through to the full press releases for much more detail. I'll circle around at a later date with more detail on what was announced. IBM Unveils New Offerings to Help Clients Better Manage Content With Analytics Summar [read] Keywords: ibm
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Live blogging IOD2009 Day 3 General Session (Merv Adrian, Malcolm Gladwell)
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 12:01p Adam Gartenberg I will be live blogging the Day 3 IOD 2009 General Session. Check back in for updates during the session. Today's host - Mark Register, VP Information on Demand, Asia Pecific A couple of statistics. As of yesterday evening, we'd consumed 3,000 gallons of coffee. 1,900 tweets. Sharing Many Eyes visualization of the tweets from the conference. Can find the file out on many eyes. Question of the day on the IOD Smart Site. How much change is required in your organization? 39% responded [read] Keywords: blogging
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Live blogging: New Intelligence: Making Better Decisions
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 7:00p Adam Gartenberg Live blogging: New Intelligence: Making Better Decisions session I'm in Eric Sall's New Intelligence session, which will focus on how companies are using information and analytics to make better decisions and actions. (This is a session close to heart for me, because it's pretty much been my day job for the last 9 months :) He is starting with a few scenarios... Imagine if you could track disease outbreaks across country borders in real time. An area have learned a lot about lately. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Live Blogging IOD2009 Day 2 General Session
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 10:01a Adam Gartenberg Opening a blog post for the IOD2009 Day 2 General Session, which I will be live blogging like yesterday. Steve Mills will be the primary speaker, and I know we have some more great IBM customers that will be joining us on stage, so be sure to check back starting at 8:15 PT/11:15 ET for the latest. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD Blog Roundup (so far)
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 10:01a Adam Gartenberg Eight years of conditioning by my kids has me up early here on Pacific Time, so I thought I'd use it productively and finally get the chance to see what others have been writing about the IOD conference so far. Here are some of the highlights of what I've found (and as always, my apologies for anyone I might have missed - drop me a line and I'll add you in). Julian Stuhler Julian’s IOD Blog Part 1 IOD 2009 Day 2 Gold Briefing Blog - DB2 pureScale (My favorite line: "... and I’m n [read] Keywords: ibm
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Rob Ashe Keynote: Analytics and Performance Management
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 5:01p Adam Gartenberg Live blogging the Analytics and Performance Management keynote. Apologies for any typos and loose thoughts for now - I"ll look to come back and clean up in a bit. Rob Ashe - Analytics and Performance Management - reflect the addition of SPSS to the portfolio. The organizations that have a bettef forward view - a better view of the future - were the ones that outperformed their peers by 15 to 1. Democratization of analytics - not just for analysts in the back room. It's going to mean c [read] Keywords: forms
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Press releases from IOD2009 Conference - Part I
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 3:01p Adam Gartenberg The first of the press releases from the IOD 2009 conference have started coming across the wire. Just some quick links for now - more later. IBM Helps Organizations Accelerate Innovation With Business Analytics At its annual Information on Demand Global Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a broad expansion of its business analytics portfolio with new capabilities that enable clients to drive business analytics and optimization using trusted information for faster, more accurate and [read] Keywords: ibm
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Live blogging the IOD 2009 Opening Session
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 12:01p Adam Gartenberg I'm sitting in the Mandalay Bay event center for the IOD2009 conference opening general session. I'll be doing my best to live blog from here, so keep hitting refresh for the latest this morning. Opening band - "It's a good day to lead the way" Terry Fator (winner of America's got talent) coming on stage. Good pun on information on demand ("I demand more information") Ambuj Goyal, General Manager Business Analytics and Process Optimization takes the stage. Given the current economi [read] Keywords: ibm
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IOD 2009 - Getting Underway
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 10:01a Adam Gartenberg I arrived in Las Vegas earlier today for the Information on Demand 2009 conference, and already have had a good time catching up with coworkers I haven't seen in a while, and many more that I've worked with for the past two years but have never met in person. After meeting with some of my teammates, we headed down to the opening of the Expo, where I could see a lot of involved conversations going between attendees, IBMers and Business Partners as I walked around the Expo floor. I sto [read] Keywords: ibm
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Want to follow IOD 2009 from afar? Here’s how!
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 10:01a Adam Gartenberg For those of you who can't be here on site with us for the IOD conference this week, don't despair. There are still plenty of ways to follow along from home. As I mentioned a while back, this is the first year that we're having a formal blogging program, so be sure to check in with folks like me and Todd "Turbo" Watson for regular updates. (I'll update this post with links to additional bloggers shortly - but I expect if you subscribe to or check in on planetdb2 and planetids you'll catch [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1 - My favorite 8.5(.1) things so far
Sun, Oct 25th 2009 7:00p Adam Gartenberg Hats off to the entire team working on designing, building, testing and marketing Notes 8.5.1. I upgraded when it went GA, having been a bit too busy to try out in beta period. Like so many of the other reviews I've read, I've come away very impressed. Having used it for a week or so now, here my favorite 8.5(.1) enhancements in this release: 1. Hyperlink button: Now that my blogging has picked up again, I use this a lot. HUGE improvement over the old multi-click method. Huge. 2. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Never underestimate - or misinterpret - the exponential function
Sun, Oct 25th 2009 7:00p Adam Gartenberg "Crime in the city doubles this decade" The human brain is a funny thing. You toss a ball to a four year old, and he will do differential calculus in his head, without even knowing it, to reposition his body and hands to more or less line up with where the ball will be. But present someone with findings centered on the exponential function, and most people simply can't properly assimilate the implications.. If you read the above headline about crime doubling in your local newspaper, woul [read] Keywords: application
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Then and now
Sun, Oct 25th 2009 7:00p Adam Gartenberg "Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling. If a bank or a fina [read] Keywords: wiki
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Cognos deployment at US Lumber achieves 3,623% ROI
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 11:00p Adam Gartenberg "With the current economic conditions, data becomes like a goldmine and you need the best tools to mine it," -- Felipe Herrera, senior financial analyst, U.S. Lumber Group. I’m going to cheat a little here, as the marketing thought of the day comes courtesy of a Cognos customer that I just recently learned about. The headline of a 3,623% ROI and 11 day payback period on their Cognos deployment caught my attention, but it was what I read in more detail on their story that really drew m [read] Keywords: atlantic
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MTOTD: It’s Too Quiet Up There
Wed, Oct 21st 2009 10:00p Adam Gartenberg "It's too quiet up there." Anyone with kids has undoubtedly uttered this phrase at some point: Kids playing peacefully and quietly aren't really quiet. Truly deafening silence can only mean one thing - trouble. (And we're always amazed at how early in life this rule applies. Upon exploring one particularly quiet moment in the family room, we discovered that our 12-month-old had completed the job of emptying all of the components of his changing table onto the floor and had moved on [read] Keywords: archive
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Book Signings at IOD Conference
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 10:00p Adam Gartenberg Susan Visser blogs today about the book signings that will be taking place at the IOD conference next week. I'm honored to be joining the authors of Information On Demand for Dummies on Monday from 2:30-3:30, and hope you will at least stop by to say hi! And even if you can't make it, be sure to be on the lookout for your coupon to pick up your free copy of the updated 2009 edition of IOD for Dummies while at the conference. Details: Judith Hurwitz, Fern Halper, Marcia Kaufman, Glenn Hin [read] Keywords: ibm
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Pride in action
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 10:00p Adam Gartenberg A quick add-on to the post from earlier today. I had forgotten all about this, until someone just happened to send me this pic as part of an unrelated presentation. I don't know of a better example of pride than walking around a conference with your product name tattooed on your forehead (even temporarily). Would your employees and customers do this? Is it a worthy goal to aim for? > More (via Jean Georges Perrin) [read] Keywords: facebook
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Pride
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 12:01p Adam Gartenberg My son's preschool has composite pictures of previous "graduating" classes hanging on the wall of the stairwell that leads down to the classrooms. And every morning that I've dropped him off, he's paused on the landing to point to the picture of his older brother and say with a tone of extreme reverence, "That's my brother!" The look of pride on his face as he points it out is unmistakable. I'm sure you all know the feeling. I know I felt it when IBM first put up Lotus Sametime 7.5 banners [read] Keywords: composite
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The big law of small numbers, Part III
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 12:00a Adam Gartenberg Continuing on a theme here, let's look at yet another big law of small numbers. Last week we talked about how little changes can help you double sales, and how some customers might be worth 40 times more than others. Today I want to focus on the huge multiplier effect a small number of customers can have on how you are perceived by the entire market. Once upon a time, if you wanted advice on a product before you bought it, you had limited choices. Maybe you had a friend or neighbor who had [read] Keywords:
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The big law of small numbers, Part II
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 1:00p Adam Gartenberg I thought I'd continue on yesterday's post with a little more about the way numbers can add up in unexpected ways. One of my favorite stories from business school comes by way of my Advertising professor. Prior to joining the faculty, she had worked on the McDonald's account at Leo Burnett. She was relating a story about a focus group she had conducted with some of McDonald's most loyal customers - people who ate at McDonald's at least 10 times a week. While the main point of her story was [read] Keywords: archive
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The big law of small numbers
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 8:57a Adam Gartenberg Just like spaceships powered by calculations on a waiter's bill pad, I'm always amazed at how a credit card bill seemingly filled with lots of $20 and $30 charges (and the requisite grocery bill) can add up to such a staggering high total after only a page and a half. Let's call this the big law of small numbers. The bad news for your credit card balance is good news when it comes to marketing your business, though. A couple months back, the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog covered [read] Keywords: php
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News Coverage of DB2 pureScale Announcement
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 2:57p Adam Gartenberg A quick roundup of news coverage and analyst comments from last week's DB2 pureScale announcement. CIO: IBM calls new DB2 grid feature an Oracle 'Exadata-killer' "This is an Exadata-killer, in the sense that it is much more economical and scalable," said Bernie Spang, director of product strategy for IBM's information management division, in an interview. Merv Adrian, an analyst with IT Strategy, calls the pureScale announcement a "well-timed shot across the bow." Datamation: IBM DB2 Upg [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM pureScale Technology Redefines Transaction Processing Economics
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 1:57p Adam Gartenberg Last week IBM announced a new software technology called DB2 pureScale. Running on IBM Power Systems, DB2 pureScale is new software, based on 15 years of experience of DB2 on System Z, for creating clusters of DB2 servers in support of transactional OLTP workloads. The result is that organizations can increase their database transaction capacity while at the same reducing the risk and cost of growing their IT systems. With pureScale, you can now buy only what they need to handle increasing am [read] Keywords: ibm
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Meeting unmet needs: Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 9:00a Adam Gartenberg Marketing is nothing if not identifying unmet needs and creating a way to meet them, right? Well, call it fate. No sooner did I write yesterday's post on my guilty pleasure of singing along badly to really good music, that I go to pick up my son at Karate and find this flyer on the wall: (Full disclosure: I used to play violin badly, too, but really don't expect to take it back up anytime soon.) I don't know what I like better, the idea that they're actually bringing this forward, o [read] Keywords: symphony
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Lacy, lilting, lyric
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 9:57a Adam Gartenberg I was watching Woodstock on TV while doing laundry alone the other night, and found myself singing along with Crosby, Stills and Nash's Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. This is a guilty pleasure for me - singing along to music. I'll be the first to admit that I don't so much carry a tune as drag it along hogtied behind me, and so I try not to subject others to it. (Yes, I know what Benjamin Zander would say about that). Still, there's something so different about singing out loud and participating in [read] Keywords: archive
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Inside Baseball
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 7:56a Adam Gartenberg Today's marketing thought of the day comes courtesy of our 4-year-old, Noah, who's request at dinner the other night was: Salad, but no lettuce, with bangos and white (not dark) caesar dressing. He wanted to make sure the pasta we were having would not have squiggles in it, and he asked if we had any bread dogs to go with it. Got that? Of course, when he made this request, my wife and I understood him perfectly. Had he said this to anyone else, I'm guessing he would have been faced wi [read] Keywords: archive
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MTOTD: Top Chef - The first and best?
Fri, Oct 9th 2009 5:56p Adam Gartenberg We caught this week's episode of Top Chef on the DVR last night, and it got me thinking back to something said during the first episode this season that really stuck in my head. One of the contestants commented that in 3 of the past 5 seasons, the winner of the elimination challenge on the first episode went on to win the entire season. (Our cable company only recently deemed our fair city worthy of the Bravo Channel, so I can't confirm that fact. Well, I suppose I could look it up, but tha [read] Keywords: ibm
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MTOTD: The Airplane Pitch
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 7:57a Adam Gartenberg The elevator pitch is a common element of the salesperson's lexicon. How can you summarize your product, your differentiation, the reason why your product is the next best thing since sliced bread, all in the time span of an elevator ride. While a good elevator pitch might be essential from a sales standpoint, from a marketing standpoint I like to think of the airplane pitch as a more fitting metaphor. Whenever I'm trying to write a data sheet or summarize the story around my produc [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Researchers Develop Analytics Technology For Telecommunications Industry
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 11:57a Adam Gartenberg One of IBM's biggest assets when it comes to our work on business analytics and optimization is IBM Research. A press release earlier this week highlighted just some of the research under way around analytics. IBM Social Network Analysis IBM Research in India has been working with phone carriers and mobile providers to explore the social networks and calling patterns of their subscribers. For example, by looking through anonymous calling data, they have found a correlation between a drop i [read] Keywords: ibm
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MTOTD: Nothing Lasts Forever
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 7:57a Adam Gartenberg This week brought news that Conde Nast publishing would be closing a number of magazines, including the major surprise that Gourmet magazine was on the list. This was not a newcomer to the field, but rather a magazine with close to seven decades of history, with a high profile and highly regarded editor. It was primarily the drop in advertising sales - a 43% decline for Gourmet - that did them in. And in the current economic environment, the cultural relevance of the Gourmet name and brand wa [read] Keywords: profile
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MTOTD (Marketing Thought of the Day): Motivation
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 7:57a Adam Gartenberg This year, for the second time, my son has been out pounding the pavement selling popcorn to raise money for his cub scout troop. Last year he did a great job, selling more than I expected, but after an afternoon or two going door to door through the neighborhood and hitting up the relatives, he was ready to be done. This year, though, he's super gung ho, begging me to go out selling with him every free moment of the weekend. ("No, Jacob, YOU may have been up for an hour and a half alre [read] Keywords:
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MTOTD (Marketing Thought of the Day): Honesty
Mon, Oct 5th 2009 2:57p Adam Gartenberg In the new movie "The Invention of Lying," Ricky Gervais has created (and planted himself in the middle of) a world where everyone always tells the truth. This, of course, has some humorous implications for the world of dating. This inability to tell an untruth also extends to advertising, though, and so in the movie the tagline for Coke is simply "It's very famous." The tagline for Pepsi - much to their dismay, I'm sure - is "When they don't have Coke." Here's a marketing thought of th [read] Keywords: google
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IOD Conference Savings and DB2 LUW and z/OS Highlights
Mon, Oct 5th 2009 12:57p Adam Gartenberg Some colleagues passed on some important offers for the IOD Conference taking place at the of this month, and highlights for what you can expect to see and learn about DB2 at the event: IDUG members save $100 on the IOD conference registration rate Attention IDUG members! We've just announced a $100 savings for every IDUG member who registers for the Information On Demand 2009 global conference. To take advantage of the $100 IDUG member discount you must enter a Promotion Code of G09DB2UG. [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Completes Acquisition of SPSS
Mon, Oct 5th 2009 11:57a Adam Gartenberg IBM on Friday completed the acquisition of SPSS, Inc. From the press release: With this acquisition, IBM expands its focus on business analytics and optimization designed to meet growing customer needs to cut costs, reduce risk and drive profitable growth. The acquisition, along with IBM’s existing software and services portfolio, will enable business leaders and CIOs to leverage trusted information and analytics for better, faster decisions and continuous optimization throughout the o [read] Keywords: ibm
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ITWeb: IBM calls for info transformation
Fri, Oct 2nd 2009 10:57a Adam Gartenberg ITWeb has detailed coverage of yesterday's Information on Demand Comes to You event in South Africa. Arvind Krishna, General Manager of Information Management Software, was the keynote speaker, and focused on the need for organizations to think about how they can better optimize their business by proceeding through an information-led transformation. "The world is changing; it's becoming instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. New business challenges have placed a renewed urgency on opt [read] Keywords: ibm
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Introducing Informix in Box program kit for universities
Thu, Oct 1st 2009 10:55a Adam Gartenberg I caught this in the latest Informix Insider newsletter: Introducing Informix in Box program kit for Universities The Informix team has put together an Informix in a Box kit to introduce students to Informix with a series of customizable workshops ranging from 1/2 day to 5 days. This series of workshops is designed to provide theoretical as well as hands-on experience with IBM Informix Data Server. The Informix in a Box kit includes: Materials to help you communicate this program to facult [read] Keywords: ibm
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InformationWeek: IBM Pilots Telemedicine Project In Italy
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 9:57a Adam Gartenberg As reported in InformationWeek, IBM is starting a telehealth project designed to offer elderly patients greater independence and quality of life while reducing health costs. The one-year project, dubbed "Secure Living" will involve 30 patients who are in their 80s, and who will be remotely monitored with in-home sensoring gear. They will be provided tele-assistance as needed during daily activities, as well as guidance on exercises for mental agility and tutored physical training, said an IBM [read] Keywords: ibm
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New York’s Bravest may become New York’s Smartest
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 1:57p Adam Gartenberg The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) has an impressive mission - ensure they are doing everything they can to keep the citizens of New York City (and themselves) safe and respond as quickly as possible to fires or other emergencies in the city's 800,000 buildings. The FDNY's use of information and analytics to help prevent fires - and equally important to keep firefighters safe - is featured today on the ibm.com homepage. As described in more detail on IBM Smarter Planet's New Intelli [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM CIO Study: Business Intelligence and Analytics a Top Priority
Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 12:57p Adam Gartenberg Earlier this month IBM released the results of a new global study based on face-to-face discussions with over 2,500 CIOs. The findings really hit home for me, as the top line message pointed to exactly the type of problems we're helping organizations tackle every day. According to the study, leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs, with 83% citing business intelligence and analytics as the way they will enhan [read] Keywords: ibm
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Introducing the Information on Demand Conference Blogger Program
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 9:59p Adam Gartenberg I was excited to see an invitation in my inbox today for the inaugural Blogger Program at this year's Information on Demand conference. I'd followed Lotusphere last year vicariously, in large part through the bloggers writing about the conference, and even passed around my own observations of that program internally as a best practice back when I was doing Social Marketing as a day job. And, as someone who has worked to help encourage the broader community around our Information Management [read] Keywords: ibm
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More than 100 SAP clients have moved to DB2 in the last six months
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 2:57p Adam Gartenberg Earlier this week IBM issued a press release highlighting a growing number of businesses that are choosing to run their SAP deployment on the DB2 database. Two such companies are U.S.-based Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Rossi Residencial of Brazil, both of whom recently upgraded to the latest versions of SAP applications and switched to IBM DB2. As stated in the press release, "These companies have been able to reduce their IT costs by 35 percent and improve efficiency by 65 percent while shifti [read] Keywords: ibm
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One thousand million 1Gb memory sticks
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 1:58p Adam Gartenberg How's this for an image. Picture one thousand million 1Gb memory sticks... and now picture filling all of them with data each day! This is the amount of data - one Exabyte each day - expected to come out of the new Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project, and IBM will be partnering with Western Australia's International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) on the technology needed to manage the vast amounts of data produced by the new telescope. To provide another data poi [read] Keywords: ibm
