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Innovate with new analytics tools and technologies


In this age of big data, organizations must be able to fully exploit all sources of data and content for insight.

Executives need to make decisions based not only on operational data and customer demographics, but also on customer feedback, details in contracts and agreements, and other types of unstructured data or content. How can you manage all of this data, and give executives access to the visually compelling information they need to make timely, informed decisions?

Smarter Analytics can help you expand from enterprise data to big data with an enterprise-class big data platform that is part of a comprehensive information management foundation. Smarter Analytics also includes software and tools for business analytics, such as predictive analytics, social media analytics, text analytics, business intelligence and other analytics applications.


Accelerate delivery of pervasive analytics with a big data platform


2010, 90%, 2012, of the data in the world today has beed created in the last two years alone

Your infrastructure must support, secure and provide efficient access to big data—without adding complexity. But data often is dispersed throughout an organization in fragmented systems. Existing systems struggle to manage the complexity of new data sources, such as streaming data and video content. And information is not trusted.

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Use business analytics to identify and respond to new opportunities


The ROI of business analytics sulutions that incorporate predictive analytics is about 250%

Decision makers need to be able to spot and analyze trends, patterns and anomalies. Plan, budget and forecast resources. Compare what-if scenarios. Predict threats and opportunities. Identify, measure and manage risk exposure. IT systems and software must support these efforts.

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Improve decision making with content analytics



80% of organized data is unstructured

About 80% of the information created and used by an enterprise is unstructured data located in content. This figure is growing at twice the rate of structured data.

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Content analytics resources


Deliver more actionable insights with a data-ready infrastructure


IDC predicts that traditional & digital data will surpass, 8 Zettabytes by 2015

Visionary leaders are rethinking their IT infrastructures to align them around information, to anticipate and shape business outcomes, and to act at the point of impact to optimize results.

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IBM was named a Leader and the highest ranked vendor on “Completeness of Vision" in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. IBM Global Business Services also received a "Strong Positive" rating in Gartner´s recent MarketScope for Business Intelligence and Information Management Services.



IBM has the world's largest
math department
in private industry focused on solving business challenges since 1960

IBM has more than

10,000
technical professionals around the world

IBM earns nearly

600
analytics patents per year and has been the leader in patent ranking for 19 years

IBM is positioned in the
Leaders Quadrant
of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools and Data Integration Tools


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