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IBM Software Aids Research Aimed at Extending Seniors’ Independent Living
IBM announced its software is being used to correlate data from sensors capturing patient activity and replicate that in a virtual world with avatars that represent the elderly subjects in a unique pilot aimed at providing health researchers and students with insights on how to care for Canada’s aging population.
Since June, 2011, University of Alberta researchers in collaboration with Edmonton’s Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital have been using IBM software to study elderly clients who volunteer to stay in a model, self-contained “independent living suite” at the facility. The suite is instrumented with sensors and equipped with smart devices collecting information about their daily activities.
The data will be used to understand how to make better use of healthcare resources, enable remote collaboration among providers, and contribute to early intervention and long-term management of chronic diseases. Researchers will also learn how to prepare older people for independent living, and extend the length of time seniors are able to live in their homes.
The number of Canadian seniors will increase from 4.2 million from 2005 to 9.8 million by 2036, and seniors’ share of the population is expected to almost double, increasing from 13.2 percent to 24.5 percent, according to most recent information available from Statistics Canada. The number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to rise to 88.5 million in 2050 making up 20 percent of the population, according to the US Census Bureau. The healthcare needs of this growing demographic are significant and expensive. Read more
IBM is Helping Make Customer Checkout Easier, Faster, Smarter
IBM announced retail technology that allows stores to offer targeted third-party products and services to consumers at checkout, and add future services with close to “plug-and-play” simplicity. Essentially, retailers will have a quick and easy way to extend the traditional point-of-sale aisle to a revenue-generating point-of-service.
IBM’s new Smarter Checkout solution provides shoppers a more personalized, interactive experience that includes letting customers purchase specialized items such as lottery, theater and show tickets in the checkout lane. For example, shoppers can buy their favorite Quick Pick draw games with the scan of a bar-code in the main aisle just like other store items. They can also use mobile devices, such as a cell phone, to help process their orders, redeem digital coupons, access loyalty points, and pay for their orders at an IBM self-service pay station.
According to a recent study of global retailers, 85% of consumers prefer to complete their transactions through a traditional point-of-sale station, whether they take goods home or have items delivered. The checkout aisle is the retailer’s last chance to save a sale, generate extra revenue, and make a lasting impression on shoppers. Read more
IBM Advances its Security Intelligence Portfolio with New Analytics
IBM is extending its proven security services portfolio to include enhanced analytic tools and services to provide deeper, real-time analysis of advance threats.
By detecting outlying behavior and threading together diverse contextual data, these services can help organizations make rapid decisions to prevent security breaches from impacting the business.
IBM’s new intelligence tools and services enable enterprises to analyze complex data from multiple sources to determine in real-time how to adjust or change their security strategies. Today, critical information that can affect a company’s security profile comes from a variety of sources – including the Cloud, social media networks, and mobile computing applications.
With these new tools and services, business leaders can more clearly map their security, risk and compliance requirements to business needs while allowing for growth and innovation.
Today’s announcement strengthens IBM’s offerings around advanced security analytics — following IBM’s acquisition of Q1 Labs, a provider of security intelligence software, and the creation of the new IBM Security Systems Division in October. Q1 Labs will join the more than 10 strategic security acquisitions IBM has made in the last decade and the more than 25 analytics-related purchases. Read more
New IBM Software Portfolio Advances Predictive Analytics to Help Improve Business Performance
IBM announced a broad portfolio of software that uses analytics to provide greater visibility and integration between the applications that run on an IT infrastructure and key business processes. By applying analytics expertise to the data center in this way, the new software will enable clients to make more intelligent, automated business decisions and help them embrace cloud computing.
The software enhances business decision management, predictive business service management and integration. In addition, IBM is debuting new products to help organizations drive smarter application development and deployment.
With IBM software, Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago, a large stock exchange in Chile, is now able to process high-volume trading in microseconds, increasing their transaction capacity by 900 percent. By improving the speed that its system operates and applying analytics, the company significantly improved order routing, giving its traders visibility into business activity in real time.
The Chilean stock exchange system can do all the detective work of analyzing current and past transactions and market information, learning and adapting to market trends and connecting its traders to business information in real time. Ultra-fast throughput in combination with analytics now allows traders to make more accurate, predictive decisions. As a result, the company is more competitive in the financial services industry. Read more
IBM X-Force Report Reveals Mobile Security Exploits to Double in 2011
IBM released the results of its X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, which demonstrates the rapidly changing security landscape characterized by high-profile attacks, growing mobile vulnerabilities and more sophisticated threats such as “whaling.” To help clients combat these and other security issues, IBM is opening the Institute for Advanced Security for Asia Pacific, which joins the IBM Institutes in North America and Europe.
Poised at the frontline of security, the IBM X-Force team serves as the eyes and ears for thousands of IBM clients – studying security attack techniques and creating defenses before many vulnerabilities are even announced. The X-Force Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report is based on intelligence gathered through IBM’s research of public vulnerability disclosures as well as the monitoring and analysis of an average of 12 billion security events daily since the beginning of 2011. Read more