Posts Tagged ‘Watson’

Data visualization and prediction tools are becoming more and more consumable, so that we’re seeing use cases that reach beyond complex business scenarios into the arena of sports. As fans gear up for fantasy football season, there’s a new array of data analysis and visualization tools to help optimize draft picks or lineups. Tools were […]

Digital Transformation is more than a catchphrase – we believe it’s a business imperative and the key to business success. Trends analyst Altimeter defines digital transformation as “the realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touch point in the customer experience lifecycle.”  Success in […]

In mid-May, at the IBM Vision Conference, IBM announced a deal for a free year of licenses of IBM Watson Analytics for existing Cognos BI and TM1 customers. If you missed that offer, IBM has recently introduced another offer for free licenses: Watson Analytics Professional Edition Up to 60 users 6 months of use Offer […]

Last week IBM and Box announced a partnership that benefits a wide variety of customers. The IBM press release, found here, IBM and Box Press release detailed three areas that the companies will work together: IBM and Box will partner in three key areas: Transformation of Enterprise Work Content Management: Box will integrate IBM industry-leading enterprise content management including […]

At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the digital disruption that is already underway: […]

Amplify 2015 is IBM’s conference for Digital Marketing and Commerce. This is a big year for IBM as they look to take advantage of their cloud capabilities and bring together all of the systems they have purchased over the last few years. Alex Banayan kicked off the opening session talking about how life has changed […]

Earlier this year, we examined how IBM Watson can help healthcare organizations analyze vast quantities of unstructured data to gain quick insights from previously untapped data sources. We found that the content analytics solution, along with IBM’s healthcare tools and accelerators, uncovers valuable intelligence from disparate healthcare data and content, including physician notes, patient surveys, […]

Advanced analytics has a home in banking and financial services, but it transcends the traditional use of Excel and OLAP to run trend-lines on revenue and cost as they affect the classic Profit and Loss statement.  While macro trends are important to the financial services professional, two more important challenges involve: understanding the customer at […]

Imagine sitting in a conference room discussing potential targets for a merger or acquisition. You say to the staff, “Let’s find the top 10 companies in the robotics space that have annual revenue between 20 and 50 million dollars.” This is where our M&A search will start. The staff goes off and researches data and […]

The transformation of the healthcare industry from a fee for service model to a value-based care model will only succeed if healthcare providers are able to generate a complete, 360 degree view of the patient. In a recent blog Stephanie Banks, Senior Marketing Manager at Perficient, talks about how the importance of leveraging technology to […]

Healthcare companies in the digital age are now responsible for vast amounts of data. This data is created and acquired on a daily basis, and the volumes are increasing substantially with each patient visit or interaction.  Some information is stored in pre-determined, structured fields within Electronic Medical Records (EMR), claims or financial systems and is […]

Perficient is proud to be a Gold Plus Sponsor of IBM Insight 2014, the premier conference for big data and analytics, which is being held October 26-30 in Las Vegas. Visit us at booth #G-721 in the EXPO Hall, where you can learn how we’ve leveraged our extensive expertise in big data, information management, enterprise […]