IBM announces Watson Analytics

IBM has announced Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that will provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. According to analysts, only a small fraction of business people use powerful...

Sanlam enhances reporting with TBIS, IBM

Technique Business Intelligence Software (TBIS), a member of the PBT group of companies and a Premier IBM Business Partner, has implemented IBM Pure Data for Analytics (Netezza) technology at the Glacier division of Sanlam, to provide it with the means to manage and...

How to benefit from enterprise mobility

A new report released by IBM provides guidance for businesses on how to unlock the potential of enterprise mobility by empowering employees with the tools they need to make decisions, collaborate, transact and innovate in entirely new ways. The report, titled The...
Watson improves thinking ability

Watson improves thinking ability

IBM has announced that significant advances in Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities are enabling researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in big data. Available now as a cloud service, IBM’s...

IBM’s John Akers passes away

John Akers, IBM’s sixth chief executive, died on 22 August 2014 in Boston at age 79. Samuel Palmisano, who earlier in his career served as Akers’ executive assistant and who later became IBM’s eighth CEO, describes Akers as the ultimate company man – loyal...