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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: stephanie-freyer; As companies look to fully embrace agility as a way of working and doing business, integrated planning is emerging as an ideal way forward.Integrated planning unleashes the power of enterprise performance management across your company to support business and organizational agility. That’s right. Some thought this approach was only for the finance organization. But it can take on the needs of all lines of business within organizations—especially those aspiring to be agile. Let’s explore how. The importance of being agile Agility can help solve the problems created by ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Big data doesn’t need to be a daunting challenge for small or midsized business (SMBs). Accessing, storing and exploring big data can be done by businesses of any size. An influx of data from sensors, streaming audio and video log files, web, and social media are increasing the volume, velocity, and variety of data. But that means there are new opportunities for well-prepared SMBs to uncover insights and unlock value.Harnessing big data – data sets of a size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: wennie-allen; I am working on a project that requires a lot of research on how people are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in real-world business cases. While AI and ML are two of the hottest trends in technology, they don’t seem to be proliferating as widely or as quickly as we would expect.In fact, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey, 70 percent of business executives rated analytics as “very” or “extremely important.” But just 2 percent say they have already achieved “broad positive results.” There ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: Kapost; Blog Prescriptive analytics helps identify the best course of action that can enable businesses to achieve organizational goals. Although figuring out what you should do is a crucial aspect of business, the value of prescriptive analytics is often missed. There is still an inclination to “go with the ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: mike-boros; A company can only survive for 115 years by reinventing itself, questioning assumptions and constantly looking for an edge. Owens-Illinois (O-I), the world’s largest manufacturer of glass containers, used worldwide by many leading food and beverage brands, recently began just such a reinvention. After decades of growth, spanning 78 plants in 23 countries on five continents, O-I is undertaking a data transformation from the ground up by reassessing their data infrastructure. And they came to IBM for help.Data for a global enterprise Data might not be the first ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: sajan-kuttappa; Prescriptive analytics help businesses identify the best course of action so they achieve organizational goals. While figuring out what you should do is a crucial aspect of any business, the value of prescriptive analytics is often missed. There is still an inclination to “go with the gut” when looking at an array of possible scenarios.Read on to understand what prescriptive analytics is, how it relates to predictive analytics, and why they are critical to businesses today. What are prescriptive analytics? A fundamental and important business question is, “what ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: thomas-lamonte; When the humans are away, will the AI play? It’s anyone’s guess. JPMorgan Chase (JPMC), however, is more than a little hopeful they’ll put their man-made-brains to placing the best investment bets.It’s true. People no longer make the risky calculations that big banks teeter on; we now use financial models to roll the dice for us. Financial models are mathematical representations of a financial asset or portfolio created by algorithms, coded theories and AI. Quantitative analysts (quants) rely on these models to predict performance and make market judgments ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kevin-oliver; If your business hasn’t already embraced a multiple-cloud strategy, it’s likely that one is in your near future. Recent research shows that 85 percent of companies already operate in multicloud environments, and 98 percent of companies plan to be multicloud by 2021.While cloud-based platforms remain a standard component of enterprise IT infrastructure, most companies realize that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. A single cloud provider may not deliver a tailored strategy which meets their business requirements in an optimal way. To help businesses implement a multicloud environment more ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: marc-haber; Organizations use only a small percentage of the vast amount of data they generate. To drive insights and outcomes at scale, many are building data science teams and enabling knowledge workers with access to data. But these teams can take advantage of data only when they know what the data is about. That’s where the artificial intelligence-powered data catalog comes in.AI is helping simplify and change the approach to seemingly every traditional IT product category and data catalogs are no different. This unique technology works alongside databases to ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: Anonymous; Overview On this episode of Data Decoded, we interview John Kent, program manager of sports and entertainment partnerships at IBM, about the roles analytics and AI play in optimizing athlete performance as well as improving the sports fan experience.  00.18:  Follow William McKnight on Twitter and LinkedIn. 01.10:  Learn more about Fantasy Football insights with IBM Watson.  01.17:  Follow John Kent on Twitter. 01.23:  Learn more about how Wimbledon used IBM Watson AI to enrich the fan experience.  25.55:  Learn more about IBM Unified Governance & Integration, the ... Read More