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Keeping Aucklanders Informed and Safe through Mobile & Cloud
New Zealand is revered for its natural beauty and lush landscapes. But with a long coastline, and our location straddling a tectonic plate boundary at the edge of the vast and windy Southern Pacific Ocean, we are extremely susceptible to the threat of natural disasters. Tsunami, earthquake, flood and landslide warnings are not uncommon, and […]
How the Ottawa Police Hardened Online Ops with Secure Cloud Services
The Ottawa Police Service dates back to 1847. Since then it has been protecting the safety and security of our communities in Ottawa, Canada. But in November of last year, it was the Ottawa Police Service that became the target of an attack – specifically, over the web. It all started on a Wednesday when […]
Recruitment is Marketing: A New Approach to Attracting Talent
Today, individual preferences and needs dominate and drive decision-making in every sphere of life. Consumers expect personalization of service, product, and experience, and the ability to tap into all this via the device of their choice. Marketing has recognized and reinvented itself to meet this expectation. So why should recruitment be any different? Candidates today […]
A Letter to Our Clients About the OpenPOWER Initiative
To Our Clients: IBM has long viewed open and collaborative innovation as a way to deliver breakthrough enterprise technologies that help our clients compete and succeed. More than a decade ago, we began actively supporting the Linux open source initiative. Today, Linux has become a mission-critical operating system on servers, mainframes and high-performance computers around […]
Fortune: Ginni Rometty and the Most Disruptive Trend in Tech
Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM, speaks to Fortune Editor, Alan Murray about the most disruptive trend in technology – Cognitive Computing. The interview is part of the magazine’s Most Powerful Women series and first appeared online on Oct. 13, 2015.
How the Peace Corps Embraced Cloud for Talent Management
In the final weeks of the 1960 Presidential campaign, then Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to a group of students at the University of Michigan about commitment to public service. The speech foreshadowed the launch of the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, an organization whose mission is to promote world peace and friendship. Like […]
Westpac: Empowering Customers Through Digital Transformation
At Westpac we’ve set a goal of becoming one of the world’s great service companies, recognising that our customers compare us not just with the experience offered by local banks but by the global web-based businesses they conduct and experience every day. Customers of businesses across industries around the planet are empowered with greater knowledge, […]
Catch John Kelly’s Speech at the Cognitive Colloquium in San Francisco
IBM is hosting some of the leading thinkers in cognitive computing and artificial intelligence in San Francisco on October 13 at our annual cognitive colloquium. Tune in here starting at noon Eastern Time for a live blog–kicking off with live video of a talk about the future of computing by John Kelly, the IBM senior […]
Three Ways Cognitive Banking Will Help Manage Your Life
Computers have changed our lives over the past 50 years. Yet computing itself has not fundamentally changed, nor has banking. Until now. We’re entering a new era of computing, one we call Cognitive Computing. Cognitive Computing changes the way humans and systems interact. Cognitive systems have the ability to understand natural language in order to […]
Here Come the Drones: Creating Buzz in the Ag Industry
I have a cousin in Kansas who raises corn and sorghum on a 1400-acre family farm. He calls himself an old-time farmer because he likes to walk his fields to see how the crops are doing. But he sometimes climbs on a powered parachute, which looks like a tricycle with an aircraft engine and a […]
Learning How to Run Again with Mobile and Cloud
I had it all planned out. We’d hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite and I’d propose to my girlfriend, Sian, at the top. The only problem was, climbing up steep, rocky ledges when you’re blind is not the safest date activity. The rocks were slippery, and one small misstep could mean death. […]
Fulfilling the Promise of Smarter Cities
Amazing things are happening in Madrid, Spain. Government leaders in this city of 3 million people are transforming the way they manage and pay for city services provided by outside firms: services covering everything from street maintenance and irrigation of trees to garbage pickup. Instead of paying for effort, they’re paying for results. This big […]