“When we started looking into cognitive solutions, a senior product manager who is also very technical took it upon himself to demo the Watson platform,”
“Only SoftLayer offered the underlying setup to drive our solution and a commercial consumption model that made sense for us.”
"We’re providing a foundation on which to build processes relating to community prevention, emergency response, public education and firefighter recruitment."
"To ensure that we always go to market with competitive pricing, we are constantly on the lookout for innovative ways to shrink our costs. We realized that by achieving greater utilization of our extensive manufacturing capacity, we could drive significant savings."
"One of the great benefits of the IBM tool is Workflow Manager. This was so exciting for me because I desperately wanted to be paperless and it is 99% paperless."
"The highly flexible and stable combination of IBM DB2, AIX and Power Systems is helping us respond quickly to our rapidly changing business."
"Tabtor is on a big mission and we don’t think that this mission is possible just by us working alone on our own. We use IBM Cloudant, which allows us to scale the product to meet demands, while incorporating IBM Watson for data insights and cognitive input."
"Watson Analytics is a force multiplier, a tool that gives each of us the ability to work many times more effectively and productively."
“We were using sentiment analysis, but it lacked subtlety. If someone posted that they would ‘love’ to commit an act of violence, the tool saw the word ‘love’ and assessed the message as positive. Whereas if someone posted ‘Hillary is going to kill Trump in California’, it flagged it as a serious threat. We wanted a more flexible solution that we could configure to assess the context more appropriately.”
"We looked at a traditional relational database alongside IBM Informix, and there was no contest. It’s the engine that makes our solution possible."
“We realized that with over 1 million bin-years of experience, we were in a unique position to make the next generation of aeration systems even smarter. By using Internet of Things technologies to monitor weather and storage conditions in real time at each bin site, and harnessing sophisticated models and algorithms, we would be able to predict problems and proactively adjust the fan controllers in real time to maintain consistently perfect conditions in every bin.”
"We can better understand what criminals are doing and what are their next steps will be—helping us put more fraudsters behind bars."
"We built the whole solution in five days, and it’s been running for five months with no downtime."
"Analytics shows us people and lifestyles, not just buildings and leases. That’s the key to building smarter communities."
"Thanks to this project we were able to pinpoint weaknesses in our organization and processes and implement a solution to address the issues."