How to optimize a hybrid cloud to deliver great user experiences for workers
Written by Carol Zichi | August 6, 2019 | Cloud, Journey to cloud, Manage cloud
Responsibility for maintaining a great user experience (UX) for workers falls on the shoulders of the CIO. With the rise of the digital workforce and the number of connected devices expected to grow by 500% by 2025, many businesses are adopting a hybrid cloud strategy to enable a seamless UX across virtual, physical and connected ...read more
Healthcare analytics: Leveraging data as a strategic asset
Written by Dayna Sargen | August 5, 2019 | Business transformation, Healthcare
The global healthcare industry is experiencing fundamental transformation as it moves from a volume-based business to a value-based business. With increasing demands from consumers for enhanced healthcare quality and increased value, those in the healthcare industry are under pressure to deliver better outcomes. Analytics can provide the mechanism to sort through all the complexity. And ...read more
4 steps to get your cloud migration off the ground
Written by Rebecca Hardy | August 1, 2019 | Application modernization, Cloud, Journey to cloud
There’s no doubt about it: To meet customer needs, stay competitive and avoid disruption, businesses need to move to cloud. And they’re making progress. According to a recent survey, 33 percent of enterprise workloads and applications are currently in a cloud environment. This is expected to increase to 57 percent in the next two years. ...read more
IBM Services drives digital reinvention enabled by hybrid cloud with Red Hat
Written by John Granger and Juan Zufiria | August 1, 2019 | Cloud, Journey to cloud
As companies continue on their digital reinventions, they are shifting more of their mission-critical business applications and workloads to hybrid cloud so they can build, adopt and scale AI while also becoming more agile and responsive to changing market and client demands. Global research from IBM shows that 85% of enterprises already operate a multicloud ...read more
The cognitive era is now. How connected is your business?
Written by Dayna Sargen | July 31, 2019 | AI, Cognitive enterprise
Cognitive building blocks are shaping current and future technology within the analytics and cognitive computing domains, including big data, cognitive computing and data science. Every day, cognitive solutions are helping global enterprises produce smarter processes, that lead to smarter decision-making and innovative thinking which equates to doing smarter business. It means doing more with less ...read more
The Smart List: Isbank builds a resilient future for its customers and the Turkish economy
Written by Rebecca Hardy | July 23, 2019 | Business resiliency, Business transformation, Financial services...
The Smart List features the innovative stories of leading IBM Services clients and partners. View more client stories here. Isbank is no stranger to the cutting edge. The Turkish financial institution has grown to 1,357 branches and serves 20 million customers. But with growth comes growing pains. In 2013, a system-wide computer network outage knocked ...read more
Why improving strategic agility is good for business
Written by Anita Karlsson-Dion and others | July 22, 2019 | Cognitive enterprise, Process optimization
Modern enterprises must transform faster to keep up with changing market conditions. They must improve their strategic agility by marrying enterprise data and human talent to find opportunities to improve their processes. Companies need help innovating to find new efficiency in their operations — at speed and at scale. Agile innovation is the key to ...read more
Intelligent workflows 101: Putting talent first in the Cognitive Enterprise
Written by Tina Marron-Partridge | July 19, 2019 | Business resiliency, Cognitive enterprise, Process optimization
In many industries, the in-demand skill sets of today did not exist a decade ago. Think natural language processing, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Leaders surveyed for the 2018 C-suite study rated investments in human capital as the number-one factor impacting organizational performance. As the rate of change accelerates, the Cognitive Enterprise (IBM’s vision ...read more
Storage vault: The rise and fall of the floppy disk
Written by Rebecca Hardy | July 18, 2019 | Cloud, Digital reinvention
By 2025, worldwide data is expected to grow to 175 zettabytes. Translation: 175 trillion gigabytes. That’s a staggering number by any standard — and likely unfathomable in 1967, when a team of IBM engineers led by David L. Noble began work on a project that would change computing forever. For context, 1967 was the same year the ...read more