Every day, people encounter multiple obstacles while traveling to their intended destinations. Sitting in traffic, waiting for the bus to arrive 15 minutes later than scheduled, driving around for 30 minutes to find a parking spot—the modern world is full of inconveniences due to underlying inefficiencies in our...
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Saturday, 27 May 2023
IBM WebSphere Liberty announces InstantOn for cloud-native Java
IBM is pleased to announce the availability of WebSphere Liberty InstantOn coming at the end of June 2023. With this new offering, you can start cloud-native Java applications up to 10x faster.IBM WebSphere Liberty is a next-generation application runtime that accelerates the delivery of cloud-native applications. Whether you’re...
Thursday, 25 May 2023
IBM IT Automation: Reflections from IBM Think
We have had an amazing week with IBM clients, partners, and stakeholders at our annual Think Conference in Orlando, Florida. For IBM, Think is a perfect time for us to connect, collaborate and help our clients and partners continue to forge ahead with digital transformation and innovation.As we...
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh: Reimagining multicloud networking with applications taking center stage
Private clouds, public clouds, SaaS, on-premises and edge—as organizations leverage a more distributed, robust cloud-based strategy, they can also face more significant management and compliance challenges. This shift to the cloud may have, in many ways, left the traditional enterprise network stranded—no longer transporting the bulk of the...
Saturday, 20 May 2023
IBM Cloud Computing: Unlocking the Secrets to Seamless Scalability
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to improve their online presence and gain a competitive edge. One crucial aspect of achieving success in the digital realm is harnessing the power of cloud computing. Among the many cloud providers, IBM Cloud stands out as a...
Thursday, 18 May 2023
How to achieve high-impact personalization at scale with managed marketing services
To help companies better deliver on their marketing vision and scale their marketing business processes, managed marketing services (MMS) offshore has become a fast growing trend. According to an Everest Group study, offshore MMS centers increased over 50% from 2019 to 2022. What’s more, the number of offshore...
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
IBM to help businesses scale AI workloads, for all data, anywhere
IBM today announced the coming launch of IBM watsonx.data, a data store built on an open lakehouse architecture, to help enterprises easily unify and govern their structured and unstructured data, wherever it resides, for high-performance AI and analytics. The solution is currently in a closed beta phase and...
Thursday, 11 May 2023
IBM Watson Orchestrate: Unlocking new levels of productivity for every employee
The world is changing faster than ever, and the way we work needs to keep up with the possibilities that new technologies bring to our day-to-day work. Companies that want to stay competitive need to help their employees quickly build new skill sets and adapt to changing market...
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
The risks and limitations of AI in insurance
Artificial intelligence (AI) is polarizing. It excites the futurist and engenders trepidation in the conservative. In my previous post, I described the different capabilities of both discriminative and generative AI, and sketched a world of opportunities where AI changes the way that insurers and insured would interact. This...
Saturday, 6 May 2023
What policymakers need to know about foundation models
The last few years—even the last few months—have seen artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs come at a dizzying pace. AI that can generate paragraphs of text as well as a human, create realistic imagery and video from text, or perform hundreds of different tasks has captured the public’s attention....
Monday, 1 May 2023
Is Artificial Intelligence relevant to Insurance?
I love the game of chess and was shocked when IBM’s Deep Blue chess-playing machine defeated the world chess champion in 1997. That ground-shaking event divided the world with excitement and trepidation about a future with thinking machines. In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy...