#SXSW - IBM Day at the Radisson: It’s all about the entrepreneurs!
What to learn more about Watson? Come to our IBM Day at the Radisson!
We've got great sessions dedicated to CAMSS and IoT focused on developers and entrepreneurs. The session on the Startup Go-to-Market Guide will help entrepreneurs learn how to plan your go-to-market strategy and leverage the right partnerships to your advantage.
Likewise, the session on Innovating Development of Cloud, Mobile, and Social will help entrepreneurs and startups understand how new approaches to development and new APIs and capabilities could radically change product/app definition, design, development and deployment for themselves and their clients. Bluemix will be showcased, as well as embedding Watson services and content through cloud-based APIs.
Click on the links to add them to your SXSW schedule!
- 9:30AM - 10:30AM Future of Analytics: Info when you NEED to Know
- 11:00AM - 12:00PM Stand Out & Break In: Startup Go-to-Market Guide
- 12:30PM - 1:30PM Innovating Development of Cloud, Mobile, and Social
- 2:00PM - 3:00PM Put IBM Watson to Work and Transform Your Business
- 3:30PM - 4:30PM IBM & Twitter on the Future of Digital Engagement
- 5:00PM - 6:00PM What Will You Build with Watson on Bluemix?
As you can see, there's a ton of great stuff to hear and learn about on Watson and Bluemix, plus plenty of time for questions and networking after each session!
I look forward to seeing you there!
Big shout out to Verint, our IBM Big Data and Analytics App Throwdown winner at IBM Insight!
Big shout out to Verint, our IBM Big Data & Analytics App Throwdown winner at IBM Insight! Their innovative cloud-based software and services offering captures, analyzes and correlates customer interactions, behaviors and journeys across all channels, so anyone can gain a single view of the customer experience, pinpoint areas of opportunity and deficiency and develop strategies to address them. Check out their video!
Link: http://youtu.be/fnbcDSNQTuc
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My Top 10 "Facts" of Big Data and Analytics from IBMInsight Today!
There was an exciting start to IBM's Insight conference in Las Vegas starting first with our Outstanding Partners !!! And did you know that this is the LARGEST Big Data conference in the world!
As Bob Picciano said "Data is the WHAT; Cloud is the HOW, and Engagement is the WHY"
Here's are just some of the exciting Facts that we've learned on the first day!
- 71% of companies planning to increase budgets for analytic systems and 60% of leading companies – compared to just 29% of lagging organizations – are increasing big data and analytics investment by double digits over the next two years.
- Most companies estimate they're analyzing a mere 12% of the data they have, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. Is this good or bad? Are they missing out on data-driven insights hidden inside the 88% of data they're ignoring?
- >91% of big data deployments are planned to augment existing data warehouse not replace them
- From IBM's Business Tech Trend Study, nearly 70% of leading companies say analytics are integral to how their organizations make decisions, compared to fewer than 20% of lagging organizations
- 89% of leading companies have mature big data and analytics capabilities – 2x more than lagging companies.
- 74% of leading companies have most of the big data and analytics skills they need – 2 times more than lagging companies
- 33% of leading companies have an enterprise-wide analytics strategy – nearly 7 times more than lagging companies
- More than 80% of leading companies plan to increase use of social and mobile analytics over the next two years
- 80% of all data is geo-spatially managed in some way --Robin Jones
- A medical record is worth twice as much as a credit card on the black market.
And my 2 favorite quotes of the day. "Complacency is the early stage of irrelevance!" and "Innovation is key. Its engine sits on two pillars: Culture and Team".
Big Data and Analytics doesn't have to be Scary!!! Learn more!
Here's a non frightening way to learn about Big Data and Analytics! Hear from IDC analysts in a webcast as they share insight from the whitepaper they authored, "The Big Opportunity for IBM Business Partners in Big Data and Analytics."
And, just as a teaser, here's a sneak preview about the IDC findings:
- Projected revenue of over $32 billion by 2017
- Focus on Line of Business Decision Makers for sales
- Big Data and Analytics as a profitable "fast turn" business - potential of sales cycles lasting fewer than 90 days
The IDC whitepaper (requires IBM ID and password) includes the story of three IBM Business Partners (YaData, Aginity, and eCapital Advisors) as they approach the Big Data and Analytics market with their solutions.
This is such an important opportunity, that we've dedicated a webcast for this whitepaper. I can't stress enough how important it is that you attend the webcast to learn more about the market opportunities with Big Data and Analytics.
Big Data helps to Alleviate Diabetes with companies like Diabetizer
My brother has Diabetes. He has had it since he was young so I grew up with this disease in my family.
But a cure for diabetes could be imminent after scientists discovered how to make huge quantities of insulin-producing cells, in a breakthrough hailed as significant as antibiotics.
Harvard University has, for the first time, managed to manufacture the millions of beta cells required for transplantation.
It could eventually mean the end of daily insulin injections for the 347 million people globally living with Type 1 diabetes and it will provide new forms of treatment for those suffering with Type 2 diabetes.
In the meantime, take a listen to this set of BlueMix apps -- one of which is Diabetizer using "data" to help people with this disease. ( http://www.diabetizer.com/?lang=en )
Wharton and IBM Announce a First of a Kind Exec Program for CMO and CCOs!
Wow!
Did you see the CMO announcement from IBM and Wharton? Wharton Executive Ed and IBM announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind executive program to help Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) prepare for and capitalize on the current explosion of customer data.
The course is 2 weeks long and is titled “The CMO Advantage: Evolving Beyond the Digital Revolution.” It will explore the increasing importance of the CMO in leading customer engagement innovations in the C-Suite.
What does the course look like?
- Gain a deeper understanding of the transformative impact of the connected consumer on enterprise value propositions and marketing practices;
- Enhance the role and influence of the CMO and Chief Customer Officer in the C-suite, including rallying and orchestrating the wider organization to align in support of the brand promise;
- Achieve personal transformation and challenge mental models by applying lessons through live simulations and rapid feedback;
- Improve the performance of the marketing organization, including nimble organizational design, marketing return measurement, partner ecosystems, and winning the talent war; and
Join a collaborative network of executive peers for continuous learning.
I believe strongly that the CMO needs to have credibility and authority to influence customer interactions across the organization, not just within the marketing department.
But our facts show something different -- the IBM Global CMO Study of more than 500 CMOs around the world showed that 82% of CMOs say their organizations are underprepared to capitalize with advanced analytics on the explosion of customer data.
Since most CMOs believe the complexity of data-driven marketing will accelerate over the next five years, less than half feel prepared for that (and, their confidence is eroding ... 70% reportedly felt they were prepared just three years earlier).
Clearly, the time to develop the acumen required to harvest insights and apply them to reinventing brand engagement is now!
London Welcomes Business Tech Trends! What are the European differences?
I will be in London this week for the Entrepreneur County event entitled "Follow the Entrepreneur!"with Julie Myers as well as spending a few days at Shoreditch ... especially highlighting some Europe differences of our Business Tech Trend Study.
So in prep for Europe, I wanted to know the specific differences that we were seeing in Europe! Here's the highlights! As a reference, European companies make up 47% of those who contributed to the study (primarily from UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia)
Differences:
• Social adoption is lower in Europe:
64% of European enterprises have deployed social (vs. 70% of non-Europe enterprises)
• Plans for increasing Big Data and Analytics investment are lower:
66% of European enterprises are planning to increase investment over next 2 years, vs. 75% non-Europe
• Europeans report having the needed cloud skills needed:
63% Europe vs. 56% non-Europe
• European companies are less likely to be engaging academia and clients as a partner:
73% use for activities, vs. 81% of non-European enterprises
79% use clients for activities, vs. 84% of non-European enterprises
• They are less likely to use analytical insights in their decision making:
30% Europe vs. 43% non-Europe (vs. 7 in 10 Pacesetters)
• And Finally, European enterprises are less likely to report gaining major competitive advantage from their initiatives in these areas:
- Mobile: 66% in Europe gain major comp. advantage (vs. 77% non-Europe)
- Social: 63% in Europe (vs. 77% non-Europe)
- BDA: 65% in Europe (vs. 82% non-Europe)
- Cloud: 67% in Europe (vs. 82% non-Europe)
While here I found this cool app as well -- for seeing the sights ..not that I will get to this trip but it is a fascinating app!
Googling Around London [Infographic] by the team at Cheapflights
IBM Navigator on Cloud: Try it for 30 days to Manage your content
Did you know that 2.5 billion gigabytes of data are created every day? And, that as much as 80 percent of that data is comprised of unstructured content such as contracts, claims forms, and permit applications.
The explosion of content, and more importantly new forms of it including tweets and posts to social media, has increased the need to use any type of information from nearly any source.
IBM Navigator on Cloud, available on the IBM Cloud marketplace and built on SoftLayer’s Cloud platform, is a SaaS offering that can help all businesses gain value from a huge amount of content. You can even interface to IBM Navigator on Cloud via open APIs. In addition to being a secure, scalable and reliable platform, IBM Navigator on Cloud is also easy to use and delivered through a modern user experience.
IBM Navigator on Cloud has put IBM as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. Also, the leading analyst firm IDC, for the 8th consecutive year, ranked IBM number one in worldwide market share for content management. It's a great tool to use and manage your content and files!
To learn more about IBM Navigator on Cloud, check out the video below! You can also try IBM Navigator on Cloud for a 30-day trial period.
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