Sponsor: IBM Corporation

To meet the business imperative for enterprise integration and stay competitive, companies must manage the increasing variety, volume and velocity of new data pouring into their systems from an ever-expanding number of sources. Read this new whitepaper to learn about the seven essential elements needed to achieve the highest performance.

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into Watson's Question and Answer service available on IBM Bluemix. The step by step demonstration will give developers a foundational application that will take question inputs and receive back a JSON response from Watson that includes answers, confidence, and source. Using this service will allow developers to build applications that users can interact with Watson through explicit Q&A. It also opens the door to intelligent applications that can ask questions on their users' behalf setting up interesting opportunities when combined with other services available on Bluemix. Join Chris to get started with your own Watson powered application.

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into Watson's User Modeling service available on IBM Bluemix. The step by step demonstration will give developers a foundational application that can interact with a body of text and produce a personality portrait of the author. Using this service to score an author on the Big 5 personality traits has applications across industries for more deeply understanding a persons motivations, interests, and needs. Join Chris to get started with your own Watson powered application.

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into the Watson cognitive services available on IBM Bluemix. This will help developers to understand what's available from the seven cognitive services. Chris covers the inputs and outputs for each service and discusses examples of how to use them. Join Chris for deep dive into the Watson services and his follow up videos demonstrating the step by step process for building your own Watson powered application. Listeners will walk away with the practical knowledge of how to put these services into their applications and to see just how easy it is to get started with Watson services on Bluemix.

Ziff Davis recently surveyed 302 IT professionals to gain insight into their big data and analytics strategies. The survey revealed that many organizations were struggling to move from planning phases to execution and suggested a number of possible pain points around big data initiatives.

IBM is at the forefront of bringing big data to midsize businesses. With business analytics software solutions that are robust, easy to use, and accessible to all users across an organization, you place the right tools in the hands of users who need it the most. Learn how IBM can help any business take a smarter approach to analytics and data-driven management with easy to use and powerful solutions built around IBM Cognos® and IBM SPSS software.

Ziff Davis recently surveyed over 300 IT professionals on the state of big data and analytics initiatives in their organizations. The results tell a compelling story: while most IT pros understand the value of big data, actually operationalizing their analytics strategies to deliver usable insights to their organizations remains a challenge.

Ziff Davis asked its diverse audience of IT professionals and decision makers to provide their insights on these questions and help us get a better picture of the state of analytics among real companies. Ziff Davis conducted a broad, big data analytics survey, asking readers questions relating to the current status of their data initiatives, their infrastructure to support analytics, and much more.

To build and run quality mobile applications, you need an enterprise-strength platform that addresses the broader backend integration issues including security and data access management. You need a platform that can scale app development and management across your organization; that can accelerate backend integration, simplify ongoing maintenance and enable you to build once and deploy across virtually any device.

Developers are responding to the demand and high expectations for mobile apps by building native mobile apps. This approach can be more costly because you have to develop code for each platform. The benefit, however, is native mobile apps can use the full capability of the mobile device. Read the white paper and start improving your organization’s ability to deliver more effective native mobile apps

Discover the advantages of an IBM MobileFirst Developer solution for mobile application development compared with do-it-yourself options.

At the risk of stating the exceptionally obvious: Without storage, we would have no digital data. From being very much—and so-named at the time—a peripheral to early batch-based and CPU-focused IT effort, storage is now front and center in contemporary IT. This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.

An independent analysis on how cloud delivery models can help improve costs and flexibility of running ERP and CRM systems on the cloud, with an assessment of IBM's cloud managed services value proposition.

The latest generation of IBM Power Systems, with POWER8 technology, is the first family of systems built with innovations that transform the power of big data and analytics, mobile, and cloud into competitive advantages in ways never before possible, putting data to work for you.

Today’s CIOs are in a challenging situation: according to IDC, up to 70% of their IT budget is spent on systems maintenance and operations, yet business leaders across the enterprise are continuously bringing requests for new and more competitive systems and improved functionality.