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Analyst reports
Market Overview: Enterprise Search (Forrester)
According to Forrester Research, Inc., enterprise search is a critical component of your business strategy when all of your information is NOT all managed in one place—which is the case with every large organization.
Last updated: 18 Apr 2013
Hadoop Is Not a Data Integration Solution
Learn more about Gartner's viewpoint on the relationship among Hadoop, data integration, data quality and data governance.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
Architecting a Big Data Platform for Analytics
In this vibrant market, software technology continues to improve with advances in analytical relational database technology, as well as the emergence of mobile and collaborative BI. Read the report for more information.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Architecting a Big Data Platform for Analytics by Mike Ferguson
Typically, a history of business activity is built up over a number of years allowing organizations to use business intelligence (BI) tools to analyze, compare and report on business performance over time. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big Data and Analytics Key to Accountable Care Success
The intent of this paper is to provide insights into: ● The role of Big Data and analytics in driving successful accountable care ● The definition of Big Data and analytics and the healthcare use cases ● The benefits and challenges related to Big Data and analytics
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big Data Comes of Age
This report amines some key questions around the opportunity of Big Data. The study which consists of 255 Big Data business and IT professionals responded to an invitation to talk about their Big Data plans and implementations.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Control And Protect Sensitive Information In The Era Of Big Data
This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk executives seeking to develop a holistic strategy to protect and manage sensitive data.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Data-driven healthcare organizations use big data analytics for big gains
Learn the value that data and analytics provide, and gives examples of organizations that are already leveraging a wide range of big data capabilities to deliver clinical and financial benefits
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Delivering Trusted Information for Big Data and Data Warehousing: A Foundation for More Effective Decision-Making
In this research brief, Ventana Research details some of the costs of bad data as well as the benefits of delivering trusted information to a data warehouse. The authors also lay out the basic framework for how trusted information is generated and delivered.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide To Transforming The Business of Government
This report approaches Big Data from the perspective of the key mission imperatives government agencies must address, the challenges and the opportunities posed by the explosion in data, and the business and inherent value Big Data can provide.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Innovating with Operational Intelligence: Deriving Competitive Advantage from Business and IT Event Data
Download this independent report on operational intelligence best practices and the potential benefits of faster, more accurate operational decision-making for competitive advantage.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Market Overview: Enterprise Search
Forrester evaluated 12 enterprise search vendors that vary widely in their brand awareness, cost, and ease of use. Google, Autonomy, and Microsoft are the most well-known names; they own a large portion of the existing market.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts
Discover how to manage the zoo-like atmosphere created by large volumes of data. This white paper goes in depth.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Getting Big Value from Big Data
This Ventana Research Perspective highlights the most common data sources used by enterprises and how organizations are using big data capabilities to analyze more data and increase the speed of analysis.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
IBM big data platform for healthcare
The IBM big data platform for healthcare is an enterprise-class platform that addresses the variety, volume and velocity of healthcare data to help accelerate the impact of health outcomes analytics, care and disease management, life sciences research, and clinical, financial, and operational analytics
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
Maximizing the Value Provided by a Big Data Platform (Branham Group)
This analyst report focuses on how organizations can discover the value hidden within big data and how best to deliver that insight to its decision-makers and management while keeping tight reins on the monitoring and management of these changing topologies.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
The Big Deal About Big Data For Customer Engagement
This report highlights the importance and challenges of big data for organizations, the key role business decisionmakers must play in leading big data initiatives, and best practices for organizations seeking to leverage big data for improved customer engagement.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2012
Big returns from big data
Nucelus Research found that organizations can earn an incremental ROI of 241 percent by using Big Data capabilities to examine large and complex data sets.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
IBM Predicts the Future
IBM is the first major vendor to embrace the predictive analytics space, and they are setting the bar in terms of customer expectations. In this report, we discuss the move to analytics and take a look at what IBM is bringing to the table.
Last updated: 02 Nov 2010
Announcement letters
IBM InfoSphere Streams V2.0 extends streaming analytics, simplifies development of streaming applications, and improves performance
Streams enables continuous and fast analysis of massive volumes of moving data to help improve the speed of business insight and decision making.
Last updated: 04 Dec 2011
IBM InfoSphere Streams V3.0 delivers a wide range of features and functions designed to improve usability, and simplify application development
Delivers a wide range of new features and functions designed to improve usability and simplify application development. A new common application deployment, with rich UI, accelerates development time, helps gather run-time insights, and allows for easy expansion into the big data platform.
Last updated: 04 Dec 2011
IBM InfoSphere Streams V1.2.1 offers new Resource Value Unit pricing and offers a Developer Edition
Enables continuous and high-speed analytics on massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in motion to help accelerate business insights and key decisions
Last updated: 21 Mar 2011
Books
Harness the Power of Big Data: The IBM Big Data Platform
Discover how to manage the zoo-like atmosphere created by large volumes of data. This white paper goes in depth.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Briefs
IBM big data solutions for digital media
Dealing with the volume, velocity and variety of big data is a growing challenge. The IBM big data platform works to aggregate customer information across multiple sources, including data from call centers, point-of-sale systems, websites, social media and outbound marketing campaigns.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
IBM enterprise big data platform in energy and utilities
IBM enterprise big data provides a comprehensive, integrated and industrial strength platform to address the full spectrum of big data energy and utility challenges, such as smart meter/smart grid data.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
Brochures
IBM InfoSphere Streams
Learn how you can leverage InfoSphere Streams for Smarter Traffic Control.
Last updated: 22 Feb 2010
Case studies
Brocade ... Accelerates big data analytics with IBM
Through the delivery of solutions based on IBM and Brocade technologies, companies are gaining a cost-effective, scalable and high-performance big data platform to help uncover new business opportunities.
Last updated: 25 Feb 2013
Case Study: University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab ... Gains insight into public sentiment with near-real-time analytics of social media streams
University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab's sentiment-analytics project uses IBM big data solutions to help organizations see changes in public sentiment in near-real time.
Last updated: 25 Feb 2013
Analytics: The real-world use of big data
This study highlights the phases of the big data journey, the objectives and challenges of organizations taking the journey, and the current state of the technology that they are using to drive results. It also offers a pragmatic course of action for organizations to take as they dive into this new era of computing.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Battelle
This scientific institution is preparing the world for the advent of the smart power grid that delivers constant energy-pricing feedback to help optimize the system and better integrate renewable resources.
Last updated: 30 Nov 2012
Battelle ... Helping reduce energy costs and enhancing power grid reliability and performance
A nonprofit scientific institute in the United States spearheads a bold experiment in electric power conservation using IBM InfoSphere Streams software and the IBM Netezza High Capacity Appliance to test demand response supported by dynamic, demand-driven pricing models.
Last updated: 31 Oct 2012
University of Southern California, Annenberg Innovation Lab Video ... IBM Big Data solutions help USC gain quick and efficient data analysis
USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is using IBM InfoSphere Streams - part of IBM's big data platform - to conduct sophisticated analytics and natural language recognition to gauge positive and negative opinions shared in millions of public tweets.
Last updated: 24 Sep 2012
TerraEchos ... Streaming data technology supports covert intelligence and surveillance sensor systems
A U.S. Department of Energy lab needed to protect its critical environment and infrastructure. IBM and IBM Business Partner, TerraEchos, Inc., delivered a real-time, data streaming solution to detect, classify, locate and track potential threats to secure lab perimeters and border areas.
Last updated: 27 Dec 2011
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) ... Developing accurate forecasts for wildfire smoke dispersion
University researchers develop an efficient data assimilation prototype to forecast how particles from wildfires travel through the atmosphere. IBM InfoSphere Streams enables collecting and analyzing massive amounts of data in real-time to improve air quality forecasts.
Last updated: 27 Dec 2011
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology ... Analyzes real-time data streams to identify traffic patterns
Analyzing large volumes of streaming data in real time is leading to smarter, more efficient and environmentally friendly traffic in urban areas
Last updated: 25 Apr 2011
Marine Institute Ireland ... Putting real-time data to work and providing a platform for technology development
The project yields greater insight into the bay environment, as well as providing practical value—from understanding how water quality impacts fisheries to predicting hazard locations and more
Last updated: 15 Dec 2010
Data sheets
IBM accelerators for big data
As part of IBM Big Data Platform, the accelerators help organizations integrate and manage full variety, velocity and volume of data; apply advanced analytics to information in its native form; visualize all available data for adhoc analysis; and build new analytic applications based on workload optimization and scheduling.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer
IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer provides an enterprise-wide solution for secure, federated search, navigation and discovery and search across all of an organization’s information assets.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Outbound Call Center Optimization
In a challenging economy, executives must find innovative ways to maximize sales and develop new revenue streams. By providing unified access to the information call center agents, IBM InfoSphere Data Explorer allows call centers to overcome challenges and focus on the sales functions critical to driving revenue.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
IBM InfoSphere Streams version 2.0 delivers real-time analytic processing
IBM InfoSphere Streams enables continuous and extremely fast analysis of massive volumes of data in motion to help gain insights and drastically improve decision making.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2011
Information centers
IBM InfoSphere Streams v3.0 Information Center
The IBM® InfoSphere® Streams Information Center gives you access to the information that you need to install and use the InfoSphere Streams product and features.
Last updated: 13 Nov 2012
IBM InfoSphere Streams Information Center
This information center contains the product documentation, support information, and links to related resources.
Last updated: 26 Apr 2010
Solution sheets
IBM Readiness Assessment for big data
Big data offers organizations new ways to use enterprise data to deepen business insights and extend competitive advantage. Yet many companies are unsure of where to start. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Webcasts
Effective Application Retirement Strategies and Success Stories
Over time, applications can outlast their value to the business, eventually costing more to maintain than they are worth. Learn how our clients have successfully implemented application retirement strategies and how they managed the access to application data for data retention needs.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2012
White papers
The Customer Capable Organization
Discover how customer-facing professionals (CFPs) in your company can stay informed about customers, their needs, your products and services, and how to best apply your products and services to those needs.
Last updated: 18 Apr 2013
Harnessing the power of big data for insurance
Big data is becoming an important “natural resource” for insurance companies. If they can simplify the discovery, extraction and refinement of big data, they can empower users to easily run queries and generate new insights that help transform the business.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
Tapping the power of big data for the oil and gas industry
Learn how searching and analyzing large volumes and varieties of competitive intelligence, such as news about competitive mergers, acquisitions or new investments, can substantially improve strategic decision making.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
The future of insurance
Discover how paradigm shifts in the insurance industry follow paradigm shifts in the underlying computing technology.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
A Better Customer Experience: Why CRM Alone Is Insufficient for Competitive Differentiation
CRM applications are essential for managing customer information and delivering quality experiences across all customer-facing touch-points. But a CRM application alone is insufficient for ensuring that your company is more rigorously attentive and responsive to your customers than your competitors are. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big data, bigger outcomes
Big Data solutions can help organizations personalize care, engage patients, reduce variability and costs, and improve quality. Once Big Data is managed and integrated, organizations can apply analytics to better understand the clinical and operational states of their business.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big data: New insights transform industries
Organizations today are collecting tremendous volumes of data, generated by a wide variety of sources, often at extreme velocities. This is “big data”—the millions of stock trades, call detail records (CDRs), social media posts and patient test results produced every single day. Learn more.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big data analytics: Disruptive technologies for changing the game
Unlike many other Big Data Analytics blogs and books that cover the basics and technological underpinnings, this book brings a practitioner’s view to Big Data Analytics. The author has drawn the material from a large number of workshops and interviews with business and IT leaders.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Big data analytics for communications service providers
This paper defines what big data analytics mean to CSPs, provides an overview of their most valuable uses in telecommunications, outlines what companies must look for as they adopt new big data analytics solutions and discusses how IBM can help.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Capitalize on the power of big data to transform marketing
Leading marketers in retail, banking, telecommunications, digital media, travel and transportation and other industries have already started to take advantage of big data to effect change. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Capitalizing on the power of big data for retail
With a wealth of information readily available online, consumers are now better able to compare products, services and prices—even as they shop in physical stores. When consumers interact with retailers publically through social media, they have greater power to influence other customers or damage a brand.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Data-driven healthcare organizations use big data analytics for big gains
Rising costs, chronic illness, an aging population and a shortage of professionals are forcing massive changes in the healthcare industry. To gain insight into how they can improve service while reducing costs, healthcare payers and providers are turning to data and analytics.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Data Profit vs. Data Waste
Data waste occurs when companies do not fully utilize the wealth of data that they already have. This problem has become highly prevalent because companies have implemented so many systems over the past decade or more – from high-end databases and applications to email and basic desktop productivity tools. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Getting the most out of big data
In an era of intense competition and market volatility, banks need strategies for getting the most out of data for two key activities—customer interaction and liquidity risk management. The following white paper shows how big data impacts these important aspects of the financial services industry
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Jump-starting collaboration with social search
As examples in this paper show, social search provides the means to go beyond just finding information to actually freeing it from the confines of applications, allowing organizations to increase collaboration and accelerate innovation, all while gaining valuable insight into the collective intelligence of the organization.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Scaling Strategies for Mission-Critical Search Applications
Truly scalable enterprise information discovery and navigation deployments must be able to continuously provide a high-performance solution as both the amount of information and the number of users that depend on the solution increase
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Smart Grid Analytics: All That Remains to be Ready is You
Thanks to the Smart Grid, the utilities industry is awash in data. One electric utility says its meter data management (MDM) database holds 30 terabytes of information, including meter event data, alerts, health status updates and over 75 billion meter reads per year. Learn more
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
The value of InfoSphere BigInsights
Helps firms discover and analyze business insights hidden in large volumes of a diverse range of data.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
The value of InfoSphere BigInsights
Helps firms discover and analyze business insights hidden in large volumes of a diverse range of data, including log records, clickstreams, social media data, news feeds, email, electronic sensor output and even some transactional data.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Three ways to improve your SharePoint Deployment
Significantly boost knowledge worker productivity, accelerate business processes, drive greater innovation in R&D, more consistently discover emerging market opportunities, optimize security and compliance processes, and reduce the cost of information ownership.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Managing big data for smart grids and smart meters
This paper examines the business requirements, technical challenges and IBM solutions for a variety of data-driven decision-making and planning imperatives in the energy and utilities industry.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
Intelligent Transportation Systems Using IBM InfoSphere Streams
The system developed by IBM Research and KTH can collect raw traffic related information from a large number of data sources and provides a detailed picture of the traffic conditions in real-time. The system can identify patterns, and raise alerts when abnormal patterns are detected.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2012
Real-Time Analysis for Intensive Care
IBM InfoSphere Streams delivers a powerful infrastructure that enables complex analytics on moving streams of traditional and non-traditional data sources.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2012
Build an effective data integration strategy to drive innovation
This thought leadership white paper highlights five key questions business leaders should ask to ensure the data integration approach they use delivers reliable, high-quality data to strategic target systems.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere Streams: Redefining Real Time Analytics
The goal of the IBM InfoSphere Streams is to provide breakthrough technologies that enable aggressive production and management of information and knowledge from relevant data.
Last updated: 10 May 2009
System S – Stream Computing at IBM Research
To provide breakthrough technologies that enable aggressive production and management of information and knowledge from relevant data, which must be extracted from enormous volumes of potentially unimportant data.
Last updated: 10 Jan 2008