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What is IBM Streams?

Real-time analytics for real-time decisions

Make sense of your data, turning fast-moving volumes and varieties into insight with IBM® Streams. Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks as they happen.

Combine Streams with other IBM Cloud Pak® for Data capabilities, built on an open, extensible architecture. Help enable data scientists to collaboratively build models to apply to stream flows, plus, analyze massive amounts of data in real-time. Acting upon your data and deriving true value is easier than ever.

Features

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Development support

Rich Eclipse-based, visual IDE lets solution architects visually build applications or use familiar programming languages like Java™, Scala or Python.

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Rich data connections

Data engineers can connect with virtually any data source — whether structured, unstructured or streaming — and integrate with Hadoop, Spark and other data infrastructures.

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Analysis and visualization

Built-in domain analytics — like machine learning, natural language, spatial-temporal, text, acoustics and more — create adaptive stream applications.

Customer stories

Verizon

Looking to optimize millions of customer experiences, Verizon turned to IBM and IBM Streams to create its cognitive customer experience platform.

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Medtronic

To help make daily diabetes management easier, Medtronic teamed up with IBM to build a solution that provides real-time actionable glucose insights and predictions.

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IBM Streams FAQ

Get answers to the most commonly asked questions about this product.

Where did IBM Streams come from?

IBM Streams is a premier streaming analytics engine, developed as a joint project between the U.S. government and IBM Research.

The project's goals were to process any type of data as fast as possible and have a scalable architecture. IBM Streams first became available commercially in 2009. Since then, multiple government and private industry customers have chosen Streams for vital real-time use cases.

Why should I care?

Companies around the world have increasingly more pressure to respond to events in real time, as the amount of necessary data increases exponentially. As examples. look at the data generated on social networks, the Internet of Things and weather apps. IBM Streams has also been adopted by the Weather Company (IBM) as a critical component of its "fabric."

How do I get started with IBM Streams?

The best way to get started is to complete the IBM Streams introductory lab available on streamsdev.

IBM Streams versions

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IBM Streams for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Delivers a platform for combining streaming and stored data with AI to build solutions that impact business decisions in real time.

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IBM Streams

Delivers a programming language and IDE for applications, a runtime system and analytic toolkits to speed development.

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Resources

Blogs

The impact of continuous intelligence

Learn how continuous intelligence allows companies to make informed decisions as events occur, across industries.

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The Clickstream Analytics transformation

Learn how businesses use clickstream analytics to ingest data, analyze it and create new web experiences fast.

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AI, machine learning for IoT

Learn how fast data capabilities, built-in machine learning and data science enable smarter responses to events.

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Reports and more

Real-time analytics with IBM Streams

See how IBM Streams helps organizations spot risk and find opportunities in high velocity data from streaming sources.

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Don’t get caught waiting on fast data

This Forrester report evaluates the state of data and analytics strategies across more than 250 enterprises.

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Fast data solutions

A Forrester study reveals how fast data solutions using machine learning can help avoid the cost of data delays.

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Webinar

Fast data management for your business future

Forrester and IBM representatives discuss what inspires a new generation of event-driven business applications.

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