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My Experience With Watson Analytics
Analytic tools are evolving. They're expanding from specific applications that measure such things as website traffic and content consumption to data aggregators for visualization and advanced analysis. There are multiple new tools that build on this trend, including Watson Analytics, IBM’s cloud-based analytics service, Watson Analytics is a natural
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IBM, Cisco Make OpenStack Buys
IBM has bought OpenStack-based private cloud vendor Blue Box for an undisclosed sum. According to a statement from Big Blue, the acquisition will accelerate its open cloud strategy.
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IBM Takes Vertical Leap in Predictive Analytics
IBM is going vertical in its analytics platform. The Armonk, N.Y.-based software giant just released 20 new industry-specific solutions with pre-built predictive analytics capabilities. Solutions include pre-built predictive analytic modeling patterns and interfaces for specific verticals and data preparation capabilities to manage data.
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Choosing the Best Public Cloud Provider
Here's your challenge: Pick the best public cloud provider from the leaders of the pack. Your options: Amazon (AWS), Azure, Google (GCP), IBM Cloud and Rackspace. Confused? You're not alone.
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CRM Is Mature and Growing Nicely, Gartner Claims
The customer relationship management (CRM) market is well-established, mature and growing at a healthy clip. That's Gartner's headline finding in its latest global analysis of this software category. Specifically, it found that worldwide CRM software investments grew to $23.2 billion in 2014, up 13.3 percent from 20.4 billion in 2013.
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IBM Teams With Facebook, Expands Social Love
In the "right time, right message" marketing technology race, IBM and Facebook partnered up today took the lead, officials said. IBM's marketing cloud clients can now use Facebook’s ad capabilities such as Custom Audiences.
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Hey Cloudera & MapR: Open Data Platform is the Real Deal
If you thought the Open Data Platform (ODP) was just a bunch of hype, think again. This morning at the Hadoop Summit in Brussels, three big data crunching giants — Hortonworks, IBM and Pivotal Software — are making big news.
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These 3 Vendors Help You Get Smart With BPM
Business process management (BPM) can improve your organization's efficiency and its ability to adapt to changing market conditions. Now new software suites are taking these tools to the next level.
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3 Vendors Lead the Wave for Big Data Predictive Analytics
Enterprises have lots of solid choices for big data predictive analytics. That’s the key takeaway from Forrester's just released Wave for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions for the second quarter of 2015. That being said, the products Forrester analysts Mike Gualtieri and Rowan Curran evaluated are quite different.
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The Future of Smart Cities Depends on Who You Ask
Gartner and IBM are at odds over a potential collision between the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities. Gartner researchers think a large number of IoT related devices will be tied into smart cities by the end of this year.
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The High Cost of a Data Breach Data: Do You Have $5M to Lose?
The average security breach costs between $3 million and $5 million. That's the alarming word from a new report on the importance of cybersecurity on enterprise IT from BDNA, a Mountain View, Calif.-based IT data intelligence provider. The findings are part of a quarterly State of the Enterprise report
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Make Room for Gartner's BI and Analytics Platforms MQ Leaders
Twenty four is a crowd -- yet that’s how many vendors made it into Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics circa 2015.
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Ready for a Bite? First Fruits of IBM-Twitter Deal Ripen
IBM and Twitter announced the first concrete results from a five-month-old partnership. The new offerings include a number of cloud-based services that mine Twitter data, as well as new developer tools.
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IBM Buys Denver Startup, Wants to Make Its Supercomputer Even Smarter
IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI, a Denver startup that boasts it makes sense of the world's unstructured data. The company, a pioneer in artificial intelligence-based (AI) text analysis, offers a cloud platform that helps companies analyze text, images and video.
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