Big Data’s Future/Big Data’s Past
I just listened to an interesting IBM Google hangout about big data called Visions of Big Data’s future. You can watch it here. There were some great experts on the line including James Kobelius (IBM),…
Are you ready for IBM Watson?
This week marks the one year anniversary of the IBM Watson computer system succeeding at Jeopardy!. Since then, IBM has gotten a lot of interest in Watson. Companies want one of those. But what exactly…
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics: IBM
Next in my discussion of big data providers is IBM. Big data plays right into IBM’s portfolio of solutions in the information management space. It also dove tails very nicely with the company’s Smarter Planet…
Five vendors committed to content analytics for ECM
In 2007, Hurwitz & Associates fielded one of the first market studies on text analytics. At that time, text analytics was considered to be more of a natural extension to a business intelligence system than…
Advanced Analytics and the skills needed to make it happen: Takeaways from IBM IOD
Advanced Analytics was a big topic at the IBM IOD conference last week. As part of this, predictive analytics was again an important piece of the story along with other advanced analytics capabilities IBM has…
What about Analytics in Social Media monitoring?
I was speaking to a client the other day. This company was very excited about tracking its brand using one of the many listening posts out on the market. As I sat listening to him,…
A different spin on analyzing content – Infosphere Content Assessment
IBM made a number of announcements last week at IOD regarding new products/offerings to help companies analyze content. One was Cognos Content Analytics, which enables organizations to analyze unstructured data alongside structured data. It also…
Is it Possible to Make Predictive Analytics Pervasive?
I just got back from the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas. A key message was that the future is in analytics and predictive analytics at that. IBM has already invested $12B…
Four reasons why the time is right for IBM to tackle Advanced Analytics
IBM has dominated a good deal of the news in the business analytics world, recently. On Friday, it completed the purchase of SPSS and solidified its position in predictive analytics. This is certainly the biggest…
IBM Business Analytics and Optimization – The Dawn of New Era
I attended the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) briefing yesterday at the IBM Research facility in Hawthorne, NY. At the meeting, IBM executives from Software, Global Business Services, and Research (yes, Research) announced its…