Author: Susanne Hupfer

Turbocharge productivity and efficiency with AI

AI can be a powerful tool for getting people the right information at the right time for decision making. By augmenting human intelligence and improving planning, AI has the potential to transform workplace productivity. Find out about four ways in which AI is boosting productivity and efficiency for organizations: making search more intelligent, enhancing customer care, streamlining workflows, and proactively predicting issues.

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AI is the future of IoT

AI and IoT are shaping up to be a symbiotic pairing. AI doesn’t just depend upon large data inputs; it thrives upon them. Given new data and scenarios, cognitive systems evolve and improve over time, inferring new knowledge without being explicitly programmed to do so. Got vast volumes of data from IoT? Feed it to AI systems and let them make sense of it.

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Gaining a digital transformation edge through cognitive technologies

AI / cognitive technologies are rapidly coming into play as ways to help unlock the value of digital data and augment human intelligence and decision making. Data and analytics are the lifeblood of AI initiatives, and early adopters regard cognitive technologies as a key to deriving deeper insights from their data. Find out more about how AI / cognitive early adopters gain a digital transformation edge.

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Cognitive Advantage Study

What is driving forward-thinking businesses to adopt AI/cognitive technologies? What are the top business use cases that early AI adopters are tackling? The IBM Cognitive Advantage Study surveyed over 600 AI/cognitive decision makers from around the world to find out the answers. Two-thirds of these early adopters say that AI is very important to their business strategy and success, and 6 in 10 regard AI as essential to digital transformation.

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Early cognitive business adopters gain competitive edge

AI / cognitive computing is rapidly emerging as a transformational technology that helps unlock the value in digital data and augments human intelligence and decision making. IBM surveyed more than 600 organizations worldwide who are actively engaged in or planning cognitive initiatives. Half of the organizations with cognitive initiatives underway report they’ve already gained major competitive advantage from their efforts. Find out key ways users are achieving tangible business benefits through their cognitive projects.

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Hybrid Cloud Study

Hybrid cloud is the de facto state of IT. Two-thirds of organizations that blend traditional and cloud infrastructures are already gaining competitive advantage from their hybrid environments, according to IBM’s global study of 500 hybrid cloud decision makers. Leaders among them use hybrid cloud to power their digital transformation, going beyond cost reduction and productivity gains. What’s more, these leaders are using hybrid cloud to springboard to next-generation initiatives like Internet of Things and cognitive computing.

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eWeek highlights IBM Hybrid Cloud study

eWeek reports on the new IBM hybrid cloud study, Growing Up Hybrid: Accelerating Digital Transformation, which investigated what business outcomes organizations are experiencing from their hybrid implementations. The study identified a frontrunner group that’s reaping greater benefits from hybrid — moving beyond foundational efficiency gains and achieving business growth, capturing new markets, and using hybrid cloud to jump-start next-generation initiatives in IoT and cognitive computing.

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Tech Target reports hybrid cloud news from IBM InterConnect

TechTarget reports on hybrid cloud messages from the IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas. According to the new IBM study “Growing up hybrid: Accelerating digital transformation” unveiled at the conference, hybrid environments can give enterprises a competitive edge, outweighing any hybrid management difficulties.

[Hybrid cloud leaders] are getting better business value, but they are feeling more challenged by the complexity and security. They are getting past these challenges, despite the concerns they have about them.
— Susanne Hupfer, co-author of the study

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Hitch your mobile dev project to a stellar team

The IBM Center for Applied Insights recently conducted a worldwide survey of mobile developers and development managers that revealed key attributes of successful mobile development projects. What’s the number one trait of effective mobile developers? And what’s more important for mobile project success — a superstar developer, or a strong team that collaborates well? Find out what the study revealed.

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