In the corporate jungle, survival means getting an edge on the competition. For an analog business, numerous factors, such as proximity, brand and price, can keep it viable. But the rules of the game are different in the digital world where a form of Darwinism, the process of natural selection favoring the survival of some species ...

What happens when customers leave and a business has no idea why? That was the central question for Claro Colombia, the country’s largest mobile carrier, when it was confronted with the need to address customer churn. The answer came from working jointly with the Data Science Elite Team at IBM Corp. By gathering a massive ...

When IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty declared in her keynote address at last week’s Think conference that “there can’t be AI without IA,” she was making a crucial point regarding her company’s strategy. Before becoming distracted by the allure of artificial intelligence and the innovation it can bring, IBM intends to focus on the ...

The leading image for IBM Corp.’s case study with a banking customer — Nationwide Building Society — is not a teller window, deposit slip, or even an ATM. It’s a digital watch. That’s because as the United Kingdom-based financial institution sought to reinvent its business processes for the digital age, it could no longer rely solely on ...

A major focus of the announcements from IBM Corp.’s Think conference last week involved artificial intelligence and making it available across all cloud platforms. This “AI everywhere” approach applies to IBM’s storage strategy as well. In December, IBM announced a storage system co-designed with Nvidia Corp. for AI workloads and various data tools, such as ...

When it comes to cloud-managed databases, IBM Corp. has designed an approach to let developers focus on building applications while it maintains cloud-based systems to save cost and make administration easier. “Cloud-managed databases, at its core, is about simplifying adoption of cloud-provided services and reducing the capital expense that comes along with developing your applications,” said ...

Multicloud means multichoice, and that can get complicated real fast. When Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., spoke on his company’s earnings call last week, he acknowledged what enterprise companies had been experiencing for some time. Today’s businesses have a “more complicated environment than they had five years ago,” said ...

Linux has blossomed into the right platform at the right time for enterprise computing. When she was vice president of Cognitive Systems at IBM Corp., Stefanie Chiras (pictured) kept a vial of metal on her desk, a memento of an internship spent developing advanced materials for NASA that would be light enough to be carried ...

IBM Corp.’s customers are not just looking for the company to simply deliver services anymore. They want help in developing new business models and transforming the enterprise, according to analysts. Meeting customer need will depend a great deal on how IBM leverages its cloud strategy and the acquisition of Red Hat Inc. “IBM has taken ...

On today’s farm, a silo is more than just a place to store grain. It represents an isolated pocket of data, information that could dramatically improve crop yields and capitalize on consumer demand if properly channeled across the agricultural ecosystem. The Weather Co., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., is looking to break down data silos ...