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.
The growth of big-data, the BYOD phenomenon, and the popularity of social media all present challenges to the notion of defending the security perimeter.
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.
Michael McClurg describes how midsize businesses can leverage Smarter Commerce to serve customers who are empowered by Internet and social media information channels.
Alistair Rennie, general manager of social business at IBM, discusses what it means to become a social business, what makes for a successful social strategy, and how social improves the enterprise and customer relationships.
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.
Sean Hogan, vice president of global healthcare delivery systems at IBM, discusses the fundamental shift happening in healthcare today, how this is impacting businesses, and the role IT plays in this transformation.
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.
Jim Comfort, vice president of global technology services, IBM, discusses the intersection of cloud computing and commerce applications and how this paves the way for better analytics.
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.
Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora, talks about his company’s push into automotives and the way his Internet music service is enhancing, not destroying, the future of radio.
As the social Web reinvents the way businesses operate and manage customer relations, the role of the chief marketing officer is rapidly evolving as well. Richard Brandon, CMO of MLL Telecom, discusses the ways social media have and have not factored into his role, as well as the challenge of leveraging the Web to serve a targeted audience.
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.
Alabama Power has been wrestling with challenges everyone else is seeing. But it is also trying to be more customer focused, improving upon its delivery time and deploying things like smart metering, which helps the business and the customer.
Tomoromont CIO Mike Cuddy has faced, like all CIOs, years of cutbacks, but now all of the deferred work needs to be done in a short amount of time. His team's value has been very apparent as it uses technology to innovate for Toromont customers.
Enterprise 2.0, which encompasses everything from collaboration to knowledge sharing, promises to change corporate culture and how people work. We talked to several people about how these technologies are transforming their organizations.
As CTO of Health and Human Services, Todd Park discusses new demands created by the healthcare bill, and how opening data will improve the country's health.
Andrew Hoppin, CIO of the New York State Senate, details his stance on cloud computing and the IT challenges he faces as the Senate moves forward in opening data and collaborating with the public online.
Part 2: IBM's research labs are like a candy shop for technologists. In Part 2 of this 2-part series, we take a look at Many Eyes, a solution in data visualization and Smart Surveillance Solution (S3), a tool in physical security.
Part 1: IBM's research labs are like a candy shop for technologists. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we take a look at Artemis and Blue Spruce, tools used for healthcare analytics and real-time collaboration.
Heartland Payment Systems suffered a major security breach at the hands of Russian Hackers. It sent shockwaves through the industry. We talked to CSO Kris Herrin about the attack and what's being done at Heartland and across the industry.
IE travels to Santiago to meet Ricardo Escobar, Commissioner of Chile’s Internal Revenue Service, which has succeeded in getting an astonishing 98% of the country’s population to file their taxes online.
Mayor Gavin Newsom discusses the payoffs and challenges of San Francisco's ambitious project, dataSF.org. This project gives city data like transit, maps, and crime reports back to the public through open machine-readable formats.
There are a lot of new technologies and strategies for managing information from traditional tools like business intelligence and performance management to newer innovations in the areas of real-time and predictive analytics. We heard from several IBM executives on how their customers are embracing these new technologies and this new opportunity.
Mass Mutual Insurance CIO Robert Casale talks about how technologies like SOA, mobile computing, and social networks are radically changing his company's business. Social networks in particular are a new way for the company to listen to customers.
Mandalay chairman Peter Guber discusses how the Web is changing everything from distribution to business models, warning resistors that the music business didn't die because of the Web – it just created a new business model.
IBM's Eric Lesser talks about some of the new drivers behind collaboration, the technologies that will enable it, the challenges that stand in its way, and what some of the payoffs are.
IBM's Bernie Meyerson discusses how organizations can get more out of their systems, optimizing for productivity and efficiency to be more competitive. To do so requires optimization based on the purpose of the workload.
As companies look to cloud technology to solve their compute, infrastructure, and application needs, they are increasingly turning to more elegant approaches, where both public and private cloud arrangements are used, either separately or in tandem in a hybrid cloud arrangement. IBM’s Ric Telford explains the benefits and demonstrates the approaches to hybrid cloud scenarios.
Internet Evolution explores what IBM's Smart Work initiative is all about, and how it benefits corporations. We talked to Bostjan Robeznik, the CIO of Mobitel, and Carmen Suarez of Miami Dade County, about the impact this initiative is having on their organizations. We also talked to IBM's Sandy Carter and Jerry Cuomo about the impact they have seen in their customers.
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.
IBM's Ambuj Goyal talks about how companies are data rich and information poor, and the approaches, processes and tools necessary to leverage that data and unlock business value. Goyal also talks about some companies that have done this successfully.
IBM's chairman emeritus for the Academy of Technology, Irving Wladawsky-Berger talks about what cloud computing really is and why it's so vital today, including a discussion of IBM's role in the proliferation of cloud computing.
Going green often involves the immediate thought of taming the data center, but there's plenty to do in software as well: Everything from using collaboration tools, to process automation, to monitoring your energy footprint. We talked to IBM/Tivoli Software CTO Alan Ganek and InformationWeek's head of analytics, Art Wittmann, about some of the latest trends in going green.
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