Business transformation November 2, 2022

Progressing supply chain resiliency

5 min read - Managing a complex supply chain is challenging at the best of times. Since 2020, the coinciding forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical turmoil, and trade conflicts have caused unprecedented disruption to global supply chains, underscoring the need for proactive approaches…

Civil Infrastructure April 12, 2022

What asset-intensive industries can gain using Enterprise Asset Management

3 min read - Not that long ago, asset-intensive organizations took a strictly “pen and paper” approach to maintenance checks and inspections of physical assets. Inspectors walked along an automobile assembly line, manually taking notes in an equipment maintenance log. Teams of engineers performed…

Transportation July 29, 2021

Enabling resilient electric vehicle engineering and design

4 min read - Guest blog by IDC blogger: Jeff Hojlo Progress in the evolution of autonomous electric vehicles (EVs) has been relatively slow given the multiple layers of complexity that manufacturers and suppliers need to address. These complexities include the development of new…

Government July 23, 2021

Public infrastructure development: Optimizing safety and quality across the project lifecycle with engineering lifecycle management

5 min read - Guest blog by IDC blogger: Jeff Hojlo Much has been written in the press about the condition of public infrastructure in the U.S. and worldwide. Articles highlight that many major roadways, bridges, railways, and tunnels are aging, and some are…

Business transformation July 15, 2021

IDC and IBM lists best practices for scaling AI as investments set to double

2 min read - The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both our collective fragility and resilience – and for many organizations, it was also an impetus to charge ahead with their AI plans. According to IDC, worldwide spending on AI technology is expected to more…

Cloud May 3, 2021

Banco Inter taps market-leading IBM AI for payment fraud prevention

2 min read - Banco Inter, Brazil’s first all-digital bank, was recently named Latin America’s best digital bank by Euromoney. They’ve teamed up with IBM, which was recently ranked the market share leader in artificial intelligence (AI), for the fifth consecutive year by analyst…

Cloud September 17, 2020

IBM secures fifth consecutive year of AI Software Platform market share leadership, says new IDC report

3 min read - For the fifth consecutive year, IDC ranked IBM® the #1 market share leader in AI software platforms for 2019. Whether breathing life into virtual assistants or refining machine-learning models, IBM Watson® shines as one of the company’s crown jewels. In…

Technology May 26, 2020

Technology for good: Advancements with social responsibility

2 min read - Sweden’s blood services agency texts donors when their blood donations save a life. In Australia, underwater robots plant coral “babies” to repopulate the Great Barrier coral reef. IoT-driven, dynamic congestion tolling in the UK has led to the lowest carbon…

Business transformation August 6, 2019

For enterprise AI, horsepower changes everything

4 min read - This blog post is sponsored by IBM. The author, Peter Rutten, is a Research Director for the IDC Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, focusing on high-end, accelerated, and heterogeneous infrastructure and their use cases. Information and opinions contained in this article are…

Cloud May 6, 2019

Network-attached storage is dead – here comes modern file storage

2 min read - Is network-attached storage (NAS) really dead or dying? Not exactly, but file storage is being transformed very quickly as more modern file options are being optimized for larger repositories of data and more efficient and scalable file storage solutions. If…