IBM Deploys Cloud-Computing Business Intelligence
System, By Rick Whiting
IBM has launched what it calls the largest private
cloud computing system for business analytics, called Blue Insight, for its
200,000 employees and will offer customers the ability to build similar
cloud-based systems based on the Blue Insight architecture.
Blue Insight will gather more than a petabyte of
structured and unstructured data from more than 100 different databases and
data warehouses throughout IBM and make it available to employees in the
company's sales force and development operations, IBM said.
Blue Insight runs on an IBM System z10 mainframe
computer with 48 processors and uses the company's Cognos business intelligence software.
The new cloud computing system will enable IBM
employees to access information and analysis from anywhere in the world for
making sales decisions and to predict and act on business opportunities.
A sales executive, for example, can query real-time
data to identify sales opportunities and understand how many sales in their
region are ready to close. On the development side, a manufacturing process
engineer can analyze real-time data from a plant floor to improve yield and
reduce shipment delivery times, IBM said.
"This new model of cloud computing will provide
our employees with a single place to access real business insights, improve
standards compliance and create a repository of best practices throughout our
company," said Pat Toole, CIO, IBM in a statement.
The IBM Smart Analytics Cloud packages elements of Blue
Insight for large businesses. The package includes the z10 mainframe running
the Linux operating system, Cognos 8 business intelligence software, and a
range of installation, implementation, planning and strategy services.
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