Reduce weather-related disruption to your business

Weather impacts every business, every day. Minimizing the disruption that it can cause requires more than just gathering weather data — you must employ advanced analytics and intelligent workflows to reimagine processes and better predict how weather will impact your assets, employees and customers. Fair or foul, when weather strikes, The IBM Weather Operations Center is a suite of applications that provides insight so you can plan for and respond to changing conditions to ensure business continuity.

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Benefits of the Weather Operations Center

Streamlined user experience

Enable greater application accessibility across users with mobile capabilities, intuitive dashboards, maps, charts, alerting and access to weather, earth observations, geo-spatial data and GPS.

Scalable SaaS

Support users across your organizations with industry-specific add-ons and easily scale with pricing based on specific application consumption requirements.

A growing catalog of data

Free up data scientists and developers from the cumbersome process of conventional data preparation by providing search-friendly access to diverse and continually updated geospatial-temporal data.

What’s included in the Weather Operations Center

Weather API services

Provides weather data, including high-accuracy, hyperlocal forecasts, historical and industry-specific packages such as agriculture, aviation and renewable energy

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Geospatial analytics engine

Formerly IBM PAIRS Geoscope, brings six petabytes of geospatial-temporal datasets to help businesses maintain leadership in the era of machine learning and AI

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Operations dashboard

Connects data insights to visual representations that anyone in the company can understand and configure, no matter what background and technical skills they have

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Scalable alerting

Pushes out action items to thousands of personnel, at the right time and place so that the weather insights for your business can be taken to actions instantly

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Mercados EMI helps India predict electricity demand

To balance its power supply, India’s state governments must be able to accurately predict demand — which actually has a lot to do with the weather. Find out how Mercados EMI helped India overcome this challenge by creating an AI-based demand forecasting solution based on Weather Company Data Packages. The solution helps the states predict day-ahead energy requirements by using accurate weather data combined with geospatial analytics, dashboards for visualization and alerting capabilities.

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Resources

IDC Technology Spotlight

Learn how advanced weather technologies are becoming critically important to field services and utility operations.

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Weather Academy sessions

Weather topics are covered from all angles in this great collection of fascinating webcasts from a business point of view.

See available webcasts (Link resides outside ibm.com)

Utility Dive

See how utilities are suddenly changing the game when it comes to using AI to improve outage prediction and prevention.

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Learn more about Weather Business Solutions

  • Plan for and respond to critical weather events with advanced analytics to ensure business continuity

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