theCUBE concluded its inaugural visit to IBM Vision 2015 with key observations on IBM’s mission for analytics and the show itself. The conference caters to the finance, sales and GRC executives, but brought in executives from many industries and experience levels. Watson Analytics’ business and predictive capabilities   theCUBE’s Dave Vellante noted that IBM has ...

Sometimes we wish we had a crystal ball. In business, we do: predictive analytics. The process combines technology, business practice and user experience. It allows the user to determine “what the future may hold and do it with confidence,” Jane Hendricks, marketing manager for Predictive Analytics at IBM, told theCUBE during IBM Vision 2015. A ...

The regular business owner has access to volumes more data than in years past. There is no longer a need to compress data, to save space, to work from aggregates. The value of this data comes when the business owner applies analytics. Watson Analytics supports the notion of the “citizen data scientist,” bringing complex data ...

Decision Optimization has been around in some form for decades, although many business owners are just now discovering what it can do. IBM’s Decision Optimization Center provides a platform to support businesses with analytics to solve difficult planning and scheduling challenges. Decision Optimization is the third component of analytics, the action step that works alongside ...

One of the main themes at IBM Vision 2015 is how to package analytics in a way that suits the general businessperson. As technology changes seemingly every second, the businesses that stay in the game will adopt analytic insight. “Some of our clients are really trying to figure out how to fundamentally change the way ...

As director of product marketing for IBM’s Analytics department, Doug Barton specializes in finance, sales and GRC professionals. His clients must balance regulatory compliance with productivity. As case studies have shown, analytics can aid productivity. “There’s a wealth of data that used to be incidental that can now give us insight into the behavior of ...

theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick settled in for a second day of interviews at IBM Vision, held May 18 to 20 in Orlando, Florida. On Day Two, IBM executives and other business leaders discuss how to unlock key insights using Big Data and cognitive technology with Watson Analytics. During the morning keynote, IBM ...

IBM’s Cloud-centric technologies have helped it adapt to the industry’s rapid pace. The company, with its vast portfolio, a large customer base, and a mix of legacy and new technologies, had to find ways to maintain agility, especially when it comes to analytics. “There are a lot of new vendors and technologies arising,” Michael Curry, ...

Performance-management software allows businesses to perform basic budgeting and forecasting, as well as complex financial and operational planning. When companies graduate from basic forecasting, they use performance-management tools to “achieve more alignment across the organization, and make sure their operational plans, marketing campaigns, sales revenue plans, and demand cycles all map back to the financial ...

IBM’s data powerhouse, Watson, offers two sides to the same coin. Watson Group focuses on cognitive, unstructured data, while Watson Analytics focuses on numerical data. In some aspects, the two sides come together. “Watson Analytics is the first example of an IBM solution within another division that consumes a large number of Watson Group’s cognitive ...