LAS VEGAS, Oct. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM INSIGHT
2014 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its broad
portfolio of analytics capabilities – including Cognos Business
Intelligence, SPSS predictive analytics platforms and the newly
announced Watson Analytics – will soon be available via IBM Cloud
marketplace. IBM Cloud marketplace is a single online destination
that serves as the digital front door to cloud innovation, bringing
together IBM's capabilities-as-a-service and those of partners and
third-party vendors with the security and resiliency enterprises
expect.
As businesses increasingly look to data as the new basis of
competitive advantage, they also are looking to take advantage of
cloud computing as a growth engine that will help drive faster
innovation. According to Gartner Research, 25 percent of net-new
business analytics deployments will be in the form of subscription
to cloud analytics platforms or application services by
2016.(1)
By bringing IBM's industry-leading analytics portfolio into the
cloud, businesses, developers and individuals will have the ability
to incorporate data-driven decision making into every business
decision. Access to cloud-based analytics services such as IBM
Watson Analytics can put powerful analytics in the hands of
individuals to help them see patterns, pursue ideas and improve all
types of decisions without needing to tap into a data
scientist.
Businesses can quickly use the insights gained from cloud-based
analytics solutions to implement innovative new services, drive
corporate performance, and manage governance, risk and compliance.
Developers can leverage analytic services, such as reporting, in
their applications through Bluemix, IBM's leading cloud application
platform.
"With today's news, IBM continues to put advanced analytics into
the hands of every business user," said Alistair Rennie, general manager, Business
Analytics, IBM. "We believe that these cloud-based services, along
with our data refinement capabilities also announced today, are
changing the industry as we know it."
Accelerating the Ability to Tackle Most Significant Data
Challenges Across Business
In addition to making its Big Data and Analytics portfolio
widely accessible for on-premise, cloud and hybrid deployments, IBM
also announced five solution accelerators aimed at helping data
professionals tackle some of the most significant and widespread
challenges facing businesses today.
- Customer Insight – Providing increased
insight into customers to support sales, marketing and customer
service; improving customer acquisition, cross-sell and
retention.
- Operations Insight – Providing
increased insight into the condition of assets and performance of
equipment to optimize operations, service and support; enable
predictive maintenance, improve demand/supply forecasting, and
drive process efficiencies.
- Security and Fraud Insight – Providing
enhanced situational awareness to enable faster response to safety,
fraud and data security threats; improving intelligence and early
warning of potential anomalies by turning large amounts of data
into actionable intelligence.
- Risk and Compliance Insight –
Providing the ability to make risk-aware decisions to better manage
financial risk, operational risk and compliance; optimize the use
of capital, minimize losses and reduce compliance costs.
- Data Warehouse Modernization Projects
– Enabling organizations to capture and maintain a broader set of
information and enable increased analytic capabilities at reduced
costs; providing quicker access to information generated across the
enterprise.
The program will provide clients access to pre-integrated
software solutions and industry and technology-specific services
expertise that is designed to enable businesses across a range of
industries to incorporate five different types of data-driven
insights to improve business performance.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud is currently in beta
and is planned to be available in the first quarter of 2015. IBM
SPSS Modeler is planned to be available via IBM's Cloud marketplace
within 30 days.
IBM also today announced a new generation of data services on
the IBM Cloud that are designed to ensure more trusted information
can be applied more readily across an organization. For more
information, please visit:
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/45211.wss.
IBM has established a deep portfolio of Big Data and Analytics
technology that spans research and development, solutions and
software. IBM has invested $24
billion to build its capabilities in Big Data and Analytics
through R&D and more than 30 acquisitions. Today, more than
15,000 analytics consultants, 6,000 industry solution business
partners and 400 IBM mathematicians are helping clients use big
data to transform their organizations.
(1) "Business Analytics in the Cloud: BI Heaven or Too Good to
be True?", Gartner Research, 2014.
Media Contact:
Faye Abloeser
IBM Media Relations
1-908-770-0762
abloeser@us.ibm.com
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