IBM Big Data Analytics Splash

IBM showcased its recently announced IBM PureData System appliance, which provides an engineering system for analytics and transactions and is part of what IBM calls IBM PureSystems.

The PureData System for Analytics expands on the IBM Netezza appliance and provides embedded processing capabilities for more than 200 analytic functions. It's not clear, however, how the IBM business analytics products take advantage of the appliance and provide a "better together" approach. Connecting big data and business analytics is critical; according to our big data research, what-if analysis, predictive analytics and visualization are top priorities for which IBM has products.

... IBM revealed more detail on its IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, which increases the volume and velocity of queries the database can handle and eliminates query tuning. Aetna was on stage talking about the significant gain it found in processing. ... IBM also furthered its IBM InfoSphere BigInsights product to help analyze very large volumes of information and presented its InfoSphere Data Explorer, which has evolved from its acquisition of Vivisimo.

In the business analytics realm IBM demonstrated how simple IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition is. It can be downloaded in more than 20 languages from IBM's Analytics Zone site, and is free for personal use. It supports a range of dynamic import and automatic analytic setup from Excel and other files.

IBM also announced a forthcoming service called Analytic Answers within the IBM SmartCloud. It will allow organization to send data to an online service and get intelligent results. This should help organizations apply technology to data and share the results, without requiring in-house skill sets in advanced analytics.

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IBM Press Release: IBM Helps Organizations Tackle Industry Specific Big Data Challenges, Oct 22, 2012.