Pandemic Impacts Millions of Students; How Digital Learning Can Help
The global scale and speed of disruption in education from the COVID-19 pandemic is “unparalleled” according to the United Nations with an estimated 290 million students impacted globally and growing. And several schools and universities have chosen to forgo in-person classes in favor of remote learning. The closing of classroom doors couldn’t come at a […]
Paying it Forward During Women’s History Month 2020
The next generation of women will ask one simple question of us – did we make the world better for them? As I reflect during this Women’s History Month, I truly believe there has never been a better time to be a woman, and there has never been a better time to make progress together. […]
How IBM is Advancing AI Once Again & Why it Matters to Your Business
There have been several seminal moments in the recent history of AI. In the mid-1990s, IBM created the Deep Blue system that played and beat world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a live tournament. In 2011, we unveiled Watson, a natural language question and answering system, and put it on the hit television quiz show, […]
Think 2020: Update
The health and wellness of our clients, employees, and partners is our top priority. Given the global precautions for the COVID-19 Coronavirus, and building upon recommendations from the World Health Organization, we have decided to recreate IBM Think 2020 and PartnerWorld for our Business Partners, from a face-to-face event to a global, free, digital-first experience, […]
IBM Statement on the Coronavirus and Events
The health of IBM’s clients, employees and partners is our primary concern. In light of global precautions for the COVID-19 Coronavirus, and building upon recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO), IBM is taking a new approach to its signature events and adopting new travel policies. “IBM Think 2020,” the company’s premier client and developer […]
IBM Named One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies of 2020
IBM today was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the second year in a row by the Ethisphere Institute, an organization devoted to defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices across the globe. The list distinguishes companies that influence the business community and societies around the world in order to […]
Digital Transformation & ERP: Why Enterprises Need to Modernize Now
Building a cognitive enterprise – one that can respond immediately and intelligently to streams of real-time data – requires agility across the information backbone. For many, that backbone is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, that connects all operations, from sales and customer management, to inventory and finance. It’s one of the reasons SAP, the […]
How Consumer Data, Insights Can Aid Players in the Video Streaming Wars
Video streaming has been around for years, but the technology has advanced to the point now that it’s about to shake up a decades-old business model to its foundation and disrupt long-established players in film and television. Let the video streaming wars begin. For more than 50 years, studios have operated a lucrative B2B content […]
Automotive Data Privacy: Securing Software at Speed & Scale
The superhighway of connected car systems is widening, and it’s yielding greater volume and velocity of information across intravehicle and intervehicle networks. But with speed and scale come new security concerns. Vehicles now boast more than 100 million lines of code, hundreds of task-specific microchips and multiple operating systems. With consumers increasingly prioritizing seamless service […]
On Privacy Day, Remembering How Much Work Still Lies Ahead
International Data Privacy Day is meant to raise awareness about how personal data is being used, collected and shared in today’s digital society. That’s critically important, as we know that data privacy is increasingly top of mind for so many of us. A recent Morning Consult poll of consumers in the U.S. and E.U. commissioned […]
Invested in FinTech: IBM Ranked #1 in New Study
The financial industry has long been at the tip of the technical spear, eager to take advantage of the latest technologies to improve everything from backend processes to frontend customer experiences. The willingness to engage and adopt has led to not only banking, but profound societal transformations with the advent of things like digital trading […]
On the Baroque Art Trail with IBM Watson
Art is a social and relational process. It involves interaction between the artist and the audience. It provides a dialogue, an exchange of impressions, feelings, knowledge and thoughts. This relationship can be complete, attractive, authentic and satisfactory, especially when the viewer fully understands as much as possible of the context and value of the artwork. […]