Forrester Consulting to conducted a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying an IBM Application Security Solution. The study uncovered that organizations achieve cost and risk reductions while increasing productivity and tactical efficiencies from implementing AppScan Source. Read the study to learn more.

Read the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to learn how to:

• Achieve cost and risk reductions
• Increase productivity and tactical efficiencies
• Evaluate the potential return on investment (ROI) your organizations may realize

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By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications. Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles.

This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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Do you want to do Hadoop in the cloud? Explore the The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report to understand how to evaluate Hadoop cloud solution vendors across 37-criteria.

The report explains the benefits for Hadoop cloud deployments including economizing the analysis of more data using cheaper infrastructure, enabling faster advanced analytics, scaling to unlimited resources in minutes, providing a self-service analytics platform, and simplifying big data deployment. Come away armed with how to evaluate IBM BigInsights on Cloud and other vendors across several dimensions including current offering, strategy and market presence. The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report details how elasticity, automation and pay-as-you-go features are driving enterprise adoption of Hadoop in the cloud.

IBM differentiates BigInsights with end-to-end advanced analytics, and also has among the highest scores in the Cloud Platform Integration, data security, data management, partnerships and solution configuration criteria. Learn more about how to get started with Hadoop in the cloud with IBM.

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This tutorial describes how data scientists and developers can build an application to predict flight delays. The app uses machine learning (Spark MLlib), fueled by publicly available airplane flight data and enriched with weather data, to predict flight delays due to weather conditions. In the event that a delay is likely, the app can also help determine the degree to which the flight will be delayed. To build the app, you will learn how to use a Get-Build-Analyze methodology and the IBM® Analytics for Apache® Spark™ service, which includes an interactive Jupyter Notebook. Learn how to:

• Collect data from various sources, including weather and flight patterns.
• Build the data collected, and test a predictive model.
• Analyze the data for business advantage, and quantify the impact of weather on flight delays.

Get started building this flight prediction application, and gain inspiration for your next data science projects.