More businesses want to glean information from their data, but there is a shortage of resources geared toward non-data-scientists. Enter IBM Watson Analytics. “Users may have information, but they don’t have insights, and they may not be able to drive those insights into action,” John Colthart, Product Experience and Design for IBM Watson Analytics told ...

Varian Medical Systems sales representatives work off of a complex compensation process. The Palo Alto, California-based company, which manufactures radiation equipment and software for cancer treatment, may take more than a year to ship a $10 million piece of equipment. The transaction also involves multiple representatives, which adds to the complexity of the payout structure. ...

IBM’s Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) software helps businesses drive sales performance, while Watson Analytics brings a predictive nature to the business. “When you put the capabilities of a solution such as ICM alongside the analytics platforms that we’ve invested in, you can really unlock the capabilities of the data,” Alan Chapman, IBM’s director of Sales ...

Evolving Solutions, iNC., a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based IT infrastructure solutions provider, has experienced significant growth over the past few years, in part due to its focus on healthcare and other technology-consuming industries. “We have a deep awareness of healthcare environments, so we’re able to replicate capacity needs, capacity planning, and really understand some of the core ...

IBM Mainframe Business Partner GlassHouse Systems, Inc. recently invested in technical training and customer awareness to become a specialist in IBM Power Systems. The effort has paid off for the Toronto-based company in more ways than one. “Power has been a great platform for us, and we’re seeing a resurgence,” John Callisto, VP of Business ...

IBMs’ z13 platform has the potential to revolutionize the industry with its ability to combine transaction processing and analytics. We’re not talking a small amount of data. We’re talking analytics on healthcare data, genomic data, and global climate modeling. Big Data with high performance. “What would take a week to run on Intel takes an ...

The IBM System Storage DS8000 series often gets overlooked as new products enter the market at rapid pace, but the high-performing system has more to offer than ever before. “A huge percentage of the world’s data processing runs through the DS8000,” said the system’s Business Line Executive Jeff Barber to theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “The banks ...

Serial entrepreneur and software engineer Poornima Vijayashanker started her current project, Femgineer, as a blog and gradually built it into an education company that offers online courses in product development, entrepreneurship, and leadership. A blogger since 2006, Vijayashanker told theCUBE during IBM Edge2015 that being an early adopter helped her build a brand and an ...

Risk analytics is gaining importance, even in industries other than financial services and insurance. “Wherever there is a regulation, there is going to be a need for risk management,” Mina Wallace, VP of Risk Analytics for IBM told theCUBE during IBM Vision. “And there is regulation across most industries.” Building solutions that enable technology to ...

NTT Data, the system integration arm for NTT Group, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, began collaborating with SAP and IBM to validate the performance of IBM’s Power Systems for the SAP HANA Platform. According to Jauder Ho during an interview with theCUBE, VP of Cloud Services for NTT Data, “SAP owns ...