Energy reduction talk has focused on the data center and how cutting back server and data equipment power makes us better green citizens. But software can also play an important role. We investigate how with IBM's David Barnes.
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Consumers are more demanding than ever when it comes to food safety, freshness, and price. Growers, processors, and retailers are using innovative and collaborative technologies to improve safety, distribution, and revenue opportunities, while also reducing waste. Find out how specialty food retailer Fairway Market is creating a smarter food network using advanced technologies from IBM.
To help fans get the most out of watching the U.S. Open, IBM and the USTA have collaborated on sophisticated digital and on-site tools that give tennis lovers a new way to experience the game. Whether they are looking for stats, scores, or insights, fans can benefit from sophisticated data gathering and analytics to connect with the game in innovative new ways.
Learn how cloud computing can help midsized companies create better customer experiences, manage data, and gain valuable business insight. Get advice on where to start and how to plan.
As customer expectations shift and business becomes more complex, companies must become more agile to cope with what IBM VP Paul Brunet calls the "new normal." See how IBM customer, American Well, is using technology to technology to build smarter business processes and new healthcare services.
Just like businesses, cities compete in a global marketplace. By leveraging technology, they can use information to engage their communities, deliver better services, and lure prospective citizens.
When it comes to innovation, midmarket firms frequently lead the way. Take the budding field of personalized medicine, where forward-looking organizations like New Jersey's Coriell Institute are laying groundwork for a new generation of drugs that will be uniquely tailored to each individual patient. A small nonprofit with fewer than 200 employees, Coriell is leveraging IBM technology to create a next-generation "DNA bank," a critical tool for constructing tomorrow's "smart" medicines and treatments
An ever-increasing number of businesses are using social software to enable project managers to efficiently connect to individuals, groups of people and even entire communities. This ability to share knowledge and efficiently leverage people’s interests and skillsets enables companies of any size to remain flexible and agile when it comes to developing new products and ideas. We visited the IBM Research facility in Cambridge, Mass., for a 21st Century take on the old adage: It’s not what you know, but who you know.
As organizations become more global, opportunities to enter new markets and offer new solutions will drive future workforce investment, regardless of the region. In a new study from IBM, some 700 HR executives offer insights into the future of workforce management and leadership in a dynamic global marketplace. We sat down with IBM's VP of HR for workforce analytics to explore these issues.
Like profitability and market share, business agility is something that every company strives for. But in today’s economic climate, with businesses operating in a highly challenging and ever more complex environment, how flexible you are and how rapidly you can respond to new opportunities and adapt to new challenges may well determine the success or failure of your enterprise.
IBM is a company known for its ability to help other companies streamline their processes and become more agile. To get more insight on this, we sat down with Nancy Pearson, IBM’s vice president for BPM, SOA, and Websphere marketing.
Internet Evolution's Alison Diana describes how her daughter and friends are using social media to stay connected with a girl in their social group who's battling leukemia.
Increasingly, companies are using videoconferencing technology to help employees collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers. As a result, demand for technicians is rising, and companies are finding it difficult to retain their quality workers.
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Software-defined networks, which deliver virtualization functions to enterprise networks, have the potential to dramatically change network design and significantly reduce costs and maintenance.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Companies need to take advantage of new technologies to simplify interfaces, improve capabilities, and enhance back-office processes. But they can't upgrade their Websites too often.
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