The struggle for data quality is real for asset and facilities management leaders
Today’s facilities are swiftly moving towards a smarter ecosystem, with thousands of physical asset attributes to maintain and manage. To support this complex infrastructure, data management is crucial, and has conventionally been a major issue for higher education facilities. Without quality data management, organizations will struggle to define mission-critical information and achieve supported decision making. […]
The Get Connected quiz: are you ready to transform your business?
I hope you’ve gotten connected with me these last several weeks. I was talking to a colleague about why I wrote these. And it really comes down to one thing: IoT is taking place all around us. Are you and your company participating in the digital transformation, and impacting the physical world? Or are you […]
Unlock the value of your data with the right platform and right analytics
You won’t need much research to discover that IoT sensors create massive amounts of data and opportunity. Yet all this data creates business “sink or swim” scenarios leaving business leaders overwhelmed: all this new data with no way to manage and understand it. That’s because finding any useful insights from IoT can be like searching […]
Worker safety: what, why and how IoT and AI can help
Accidents in the workplace are a well-documented problem, with potentially devastating consequences for employees and employers alike. Despite clear safety regulations and procedures, risk management remains a huge challenge for employers in many industries. Today, we’ll look at the role that the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) play in addressing this issue. […]
QuickBYTES Q&A: Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist, IBM Internet of Things
I’m Bruce Douglass, Ph.D and Chief Evangelist for IBM Internet of Things. My role is to travel the globe spreading joy in technology, specifically in the systems and embedded software spaces. I help customers use modeling to improve their time to market, quality, products and increase customer satisfaction because they’re doing a better job in […]
Get connected: it’s as easy as IoT
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series. We started the series with the goal of exploring how you can successfully transform and digitize your business, regardless of the industry you’re in. And we also said that we would focus on all steps of the journey, It doesn’t matter if you’re just considering […]
Top 7 reasons to attend TRIRIGA University 2018
Did you know that we spend 87% of our days in buildings? If you think about that, it seems like a no-brainer that our buildings and spaces must be optimized to operate at peak efficiency and be designed for optimal occupant experience. This is evident when we see that 70% of a building’s costs are […]
A Retrospective: Top 10 Takeaways from the Agile Engineering Summit
What did we learn at the 5th annual Agile Engineering Summit last week in Washington, DC? If you weren’t able to make it, or if you just had to pick which sessions to attend, we’ve compiled the top highlights for you. 1. Best. Format. Ever. Attendees raved over the format of this year’s Agile Engineering […]
Why data science experimentation drags out production optimization programs
Production optimization programs aim to increase production throughput and eliminate waste by leveraging data insights. But what happens when data identification – and creating analytical models relevant to use cases – becomes a job in its own right? Can out-of-the-box templates both support production optimization and reduce the need for data science experimentation? This blog explores […]
There’s a new superhero in town: DATA, keeping your workers safe
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series about worker safety. Today, we are going to discuss the most important aspect of your organization: your people and their ability to safely be dispatched to keep the assets in your environment running. With 178 work related accidents every 15 seconds, and 374 million non-fatal injuries […]
IBM named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management 2018
We are thrilled to share the results of this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)! IBM positioned highest for ‘Ability to execute and furthest for ‘Completeness of Vision’. This is a win IBM is extremely proud of, as we have invested heavily in innovations and research around Maximo in the last […]
Buildings with DNA: why today’s “smart” buildings were never dumb
Ask yourself these questions: when was the last time you experienced the latest and most innovative technology, at work? Is your workplace more technically equipped than your home? It is widely accepted that buildings are getting smarter. But were they ever actually dumb? Or have they just been held back by closed proprietary systems and […]