LAS VEGAS, Oct. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM INSIGHT
2014 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) 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.
In a world flooded with big data today, competitive advantage is
gained by applying insight in the moment faster than your
competitor. Analytics pays back $13.01 for every dollar spent – 1.2 times more
than it did three years ago (1).
The new cloud-based services will enable organizations to:
- Simplify and automate the ability to find, refine and prepare
data
- Warehouse data in the cloud, making it instantly available for
analytics
- Curate unstructured data services to increase the confidence in
analytics
- Enhance mobile and web applications with embedded
analytics
"All the data in the world is useless if you can't put it to
work. The new cloud-born services from IBM provide data
professionals the ability to deliver data with speed and confidence
as the fuel for applications and analytics," said Beth Smith, general manager, Big Data, IBM. "The
ability to source and manage the right data will help organizations
keep data management streamlined, while adhering to increasingly
stringent regulatory demands, and produce results and analysis of
real value to the business."
Unlike other offerings that address only one aspect of the data
problem, the new services introduced by IBM today provide the key
capabilities to help organizations shift from working on the data
to putting data to work for their business. These new innovations
will help ensure that data flows seamlessly to applications and
analytics, making them portable and accessible, no matter where the
data resides. They include:
- IBM DataWorks – IBM DataWorks is a set of cloud-based data
refinery services that shape, cleanse, match and secure data. The
new services enable business users to find, use and contribute data
for analysis; application developers to embed data services into
new applications; and IT and data professionals to enable
self-service data access and instill confidence to act on the
data.
- IBM dashDB – IBM dashDB is a cloud-based data warehousing and
analytics service with in-memory technology built-in to deliver
answers faster. dashDB keeps infrastructure concerns out of the way
of critical and time sensitive analytics. A new integration of
dashDB with Cloudant, IBM's NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS),
allows Cloudant clients to embed analytics in their applications
with a few clicks.
- IBM Cloudant - IBM is extending its portfolio with Cloudant
Local, an on-premise edition of the fully managed cloud
database-as-a-service that enables a fluid hybrid cloud data layer
that spans private data centers, mobile devices and third-party
cloud providers. This ensures customers can easily reconfigure
their cloud data platforms over time to optimize the cost,
security, reach and performance.
The power of these capabilities could enable, for example, a
ride sharing service company to improve their customers' experience
by ensuring their drivers are in the right place at the right time.
The company can take taxi trip information, captured in a mobile
application running on Cloudant, directly into dashDB, and then use
DataWorks to refine and load additional weather and traffic data to
provide more insight. With dashDB, Cloudant and DataWorks working
together, new insights can be leveraged to improve customer
experience and grow revenue.
IBM also introduced today Watson Curator, a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that increases confidence in
the delivery of quality content collections and governance for IBM
Watson Solutions. For example, an individual insurance risk analyst
can quickly review and add context to documents so that many
underwriters across the enterprise can get higher quality responses
on risk assessments from Watson Engagement Advisor. IBM Watson
Curator actively guides subject matter experts -- in this case the
risk expert -- through the entire curation process in order to
minimize the time and effort required. This capability improves the
relevance and quality of the information used for analytics.
IBM DataWorks, dashDB and Cloudant are available on IBM Bluemix.
For more information on DataWorks, go to ibm.biz/ibmdataworks. For
more information or to get started using dashDB, go to dashDB.com.
IBM Cloudant Local is available on cloudant.com. IBM Watson Curator
will be available later this year.
IBM also today announced that its broad portfolio of analytics
capabilities -- including Cognos business intelligence and
SPSS predictive analytics platforms – is planned to be available
via the IBM Cloud marketplace. For more information, please visit:
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/45230.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) "Analytics Pays Back $13.01
for Every Dollar Spent," Nucleus Research, September 2014.
Media Contact:
Faye Abloeser
IBM Media Relations
1-908-770-0762
abloeser@us.ibm.com
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