Autonomy also specializes in gathering info from unstructured data. From its site: "Autonomy is the market leader in the provision of software that automates the analysis of unstructured data, whether in the form of text, audio, images or video."
So IBM may start with applying i2 in a cloud service to law enforcement in various cities, perhaps also offering it for fraud detection in financial sector.
Considering IBM's heavy focus on and promotion of creating smarter cities and a "smarter planet," the direction is clear when the company makes an acquisition like it did with i2.
So if HP has problems integrating, here is what Ben Worthen at the WSJ had to say last week: "everal H-P customers said they are most concerned about what they see as a lack of a clear direction from the world's largest tech company by revenue, signaled in part by H-P's decision to exit the PC business. H-P is currently the world's biggest maker of PCs by shipments and revenue."
IBM has gobbled up key startups, thrown lots of resources into analytics, made it a priority. HP has not. And yes, HP is trying to redefine itself maybe 5 years too late.
Software is also IBM's biggest segment, and here's what Zacks reminded us about last week: "n 2010, IBM acquired a number of companies such as Clarity Systems, Open Pages, Coremetrics and most significantly, Netezza, which expanded IBM’s business analytics portfolio."
I say this as I'm pondering some of Google's acquisitions in the past year which have been reckless... as is evidenced by its decision last week to shut some of these little companies it acquiried down, like Aardvark.
Absolutely true, re: "a lot of data but not a lot of intelligent interpretation" smk. That's where we are right now. Companies are scrambling to figure out how to make sense of it all.
I have a feeling that IBM might be popping up on the "World Domination" radar pretty soon if it keeps buying analytics. I think we have a lot of data but not a lot of intelligent intrepretation.
Yes, the military uses i2 software to do the following, per i2: Over the years, our applications have been used across the world to analyse, process, fuse and disseminate data from HUMINT, SIGINT and OSINT sources. Today, i2 technology is a world-wide acknowledged currency for the exchange of intelligence between military forces
Actually, here's the deal The link you provide is to i2 Technologies, versus i2. The Technologies portion was sold off in 2010 and wound up as part of a scandal too.
Anyway, back to smart cities. IBM sees i2 offering a way for police to track criminals in specific geographic areas, I guess by using input from multiple police reports.
So, the software looks over bunches of bank transactions, finds ones that, according to various formulas, comprise red flags for fraud, and puts that info into a readable visual report that can be sent around to different workers.
Semifore, here's how i2 states its mission: "Our Products and Solutions are used every day by investigations, analytical and security personnel from major Telecoms, Financial, Insurance, Legal, Pharmaceutical and Retail organisations to detect and prevent fraud, credit card crime and other evolving threats."
The key here is that the software gathers all kinds of intelligence from many data sources, like the international intelligence databases, makes sense of it and presents it to users. Then they in turn can INTERACT on the basis of what the system finds.
Here's how the company puts it: In Afghanistan, 36 out of 44 countries involved in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) take full advantage of i2 Defence Solutions to maximise their intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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