IBM, Automation Anywhere want to automate rote, data-intensive tasks

The collaboration is intended help companies improve processes and free employees to focus on more creative aspects of their jobs.

By Justine Brown • July 14, 2017

IBM Watson takes on IT services

The new platform can provide IT staff with critical information to help them make faster, data-driven decisions.

By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017

Microsoft shares details on its AI lab

With an eye towards faster AI integration, the research and incubation hub is taking on the more challenging issues standing in the way of product and service advances. 

By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017

SAP's Leonardo aims to help companies manage collected IoT data

The tool could be an asset for companies attempting to track information in real time. For example, manufacturing companies could use it to help predict machine break-downs. 

By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017

Walmart wants to create the store of the future using machine learning

The retail giant has brick and mortar and virtual shopping operations, and can use tech to combine data from both for a more powerful user experience.  

By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017

Google looks to redesign the ways people interact with AI systems

The company's researchers want to figure out how and where to best use AI from a human standpoint.

By Justine Brown • July 11, 2017

The Big Brother you want: Finding the data privacy sweet spot

When it comes to personal data and privacy, businesses, policy makers and consumers are still trying to find the sweet spot, where all parties feel like the right balance between data privacy and data innovation is struck.

By Steven Hillion • July 11, 2017

IBM: 50% of global CEOs plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019

Respondents indicated their first priorities for cognitive computing are IT, sales, information security and innovation.

By Justine Brown • July 10, 2017

What's the global value of AI? $15.7 trillion by 2030, PwC says

Productivity improvements are expected to account for about 50% of those gains. 

By Justine Brown • July 7, 2017

Big Data — What you need to know

The advent of cloud computing and increased storage capacity made bulk data collection possible, but now organizations are trying to figure out how to use it.

By Naomi Eide • July 7, 2017

Alexa, how are we performing? Adobe brings analytics to virtual assistants

As part of the Adobe Analytics Cloud, companies can analyze voice data across all major digital assistant platforms.

By Naomi Eide • July 5, 2017

Saved by the cell? Quick service restaurants are looking to dial-in loyalty via mobile

At a time when it is increasingly difficult to convince consumers to devote smartphone real estate to apps, quick-service restaurants are investing in them, opening a new portal for businesses.

By Mary Catherine O'Connor • July 5, 2017

Medicaid, genomics and ATMs: 3 examples of Big Data in action

Institutions like the Smithsonian and the federal Medicaid program are tapping into data to create insight and better understand their work. 

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

Digital hoarding: Big Data by the numbers

Here are 10 numbers that put into perspective just how promising, and potentially challenging, the market will become. 

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

The rise of Big Data: Why companies are amassing information to drive insight

The payoff is in leveraging relationships from an array of data sets living across disparate systems. How did the enterprise get here?

By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017

Big Data obstacles — and best practices to overcome them

Experts often highlight the benefits of companies employing Big Data. But to take full advantage of collected data, companies have some obstacles to avoid. 

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017

5 trends driving Big Data in 2017

How companies are using data is changing, marking the advancement of tools and the executive buy-in for forecasting more parts of the business.

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017

AI and high-tech sequencing take on food safety

A consortium led by IBM is using AI to help identify food hazards in the global milk supply. 

By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017

Let it rain: IBM looks to disrupt the weather business through supercomputing

Supercomputers and data could soon lead to more accurate long-range forecasts.

By Justine Brown • June 22, 2017

50 billion bits served: What fast food can learn from tech

McDonald's, Starbucks and Shake Shack are just a few of the many fast food restaurant turning to technology, particularly the use of mobile technology, to enable order-ahead features to hopefully help stop market stagnation.

By Mary Catherine O'Connor • June 22, 2017

Tech titans Intel, Microsoft pouring money into AI companies

Intel Capital alone now claims more than 25 AI companies in its portfolio.

By Justine Brown • June 19, 2017

DOE selects 6 tech companies to help US develop exascale supercomputer

The program supports R&D in hardware technology, software technology and application development, with the goal of delivering at least one exascale-capable system by 2021.

By Justine Brown • June 16, 2017

IBM Watson tackles financial services risk and compliance

Experts have long predicted that financial services industry in particular is ripe for disruption via automation. Now it looks as if IBM has taken a big leap forward in that respect. 

By Justine Brown • June 15, 2017

IDC: Global IoT spending to reach $800B in 2017

Manufacturing operations, freight monitoring and production asset management are expected to attract the biggest IoT investments this year.

By Justine Brown • June 15, 2017

Deal or no deal? Facebook researchers train AI bots to negotiate

More advanced chatbots could help companies handle larger volumes of customer inquiries.

By Justine Brown • June 15, 2017