Information used to be a river, flowing in one predictable direction with a visible source. No more.
Today, it's a roiling ocean of data, constantly expanding its shores. In fact, nearly 15 petabytes of data are created every day—eight times more than the information in all the libraries in the U.S. It can be a daunting task for any enterprise to sift through massive amounts of data, extract information and transform it into actionable knowledge. But action without analysis is just guessing.
The globally integrated enterprise needs something more powerful. Today's information management tools offer situational awareness and predictive abilities. This "new intelligence" combines human cognition with computational power, shifting the agenda from "sense and respond" to situational awareness and something very much like prediction.
New intelligence gives you more than a window into your current operations. It provides a likely view of what is just around the corner and even further down the road. Analytics and reporting tools slice and dice data, crystallizing trends, patterns and anomalies that yield invaluable business insights to help you drive smarter decision-making.
Keeping drugs and vaccines fresh
Together with IBM and its partner Infratab, DHL (US), a unit of Deutsche Post World Net, developed an advanced temperature tracking solution that combines sophisticated sensing and RFID technology to enable real-time monitoring of temperature-sensitive shipments while in transit.
Predicting changes in the tiniest patients
IBM's breakthrough "stream computing" software helps doctors at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (US) detect subtle changes in the condition of critically ill premature babies.
Monitoring and forecasting changes in our waterways
The Beacon Institute (US) and IBM have created the first technology-based monitoring and forecasting network for a major American river and estuary. The River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) will allow for minute-to-minute monitoring of New York's Hudson River via technology distributed throughout the 315-mile river.
Stream computing automates market decision-making
TD Bank Financial Group (US) is using IBM stream computing software systems utilizing the IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer, in a first-of-a-kind project to support financial services companies as they capitalize on up-to-the-minute changing market conditions.
