LAS VEGAS, March 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
InterConnect – AT&T* (NYSE: T) and IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today unveiled a new way for companies to unlock more value from
their data in a simpler way, using AT&T's IoT solutions and IBM
Cloud. The new AT&T IoT analytics capability, a pilot
collaboration between the two companies, aims to help AT&T's
enterprise customers transform their industrial IoT data into
analytic insights so they can take immediate action to improve
business operations.
The demand for near real-time operations data is fueling the IoT
explosion among business customers. The key for business customers,
however, is not just collecting the data from their connected
assets, but extracting meaningful insights from it and then making
near real-time decisions.
With this new service, AT&T and IBM plan to offer AT&T's
enterprise customers valuable insights from their industrial IoT
data by tapping into:
- AT&T M2X, Flow Designer, Control Center, and other
IoT solutions that allow AT&T's enterprise customers to
effectively manage and monitor devices, as well as collect, manage
and store data.
- IBM Watson
IoT portfolio for connecting, building,
launching and managing IoT apps and devices, including analytics
capabilities such as predictive maintenance that provides insights
to improve asset performance.
- IBM Watson Data Platform-- the industry's fastest data
ingestion engine with cognitive powered decision making. The IBM
Watson Data Platform uncovers critical business insights by
providing a collaborative environment where valuable data from
machines and devices can be combined with multiple sources of data,
including a customer's own sales and inventory data and publicly
available information, such as weather and road conditions.
- IBM Machine Learning Service, as part of Watson Data
Platform on IBM Cloud, enabling AT&T's enterprise customers to
employ machine learning from IBM Watson.
With this new service, companies can utilize their own generated
IoT data to better predict maintenance and optimization for their
machines. For example, an oil and gas company wants to detect
anomalous events within its wells. By using AT&T's IoT network
and the IBM Watson Data Platform, AT&T's IoT analytics
solutions will ingest data from hundreds of wells, creating the
models necessary with appropriate machine learning libraries and
open-source technology to help predict potential failures or
machine malfunctions. The company will be able to detect anomalies
in less time and with more accuracy.
"We have more than 30 million connected devices on our network
today and that number continues to grow – primarily driven by
enterprise adoption," said Chris
Penrose, President, IoT Solutions, AT&T.
"Businesses are eager for actionable data insights from their
connected devices that help improve their processes and take the
guesswork out of decision-making. Integrating the IBM Watson
Data Platform into our IoT capabilities will be huge for our
enterprise customers."
"With the tremendous growth in IoT adoption comes the need for
more tools and services that will unlock the value in the IoT data
being generated," Steve Canepa,
General Manager, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment,
IBM. "As part of our continued collaboration to drive innovation,
IBM is working with AT&T to combine our strengths and expertise
to combine analytics solutions on the IBM Cloud that will enable
AT&T's enterprise customers to utilize their complex data in a
meaningful way and deliver insights that can help accelerate their
business transformation."
Today's news continues to build on the strong collaboration
between AT&T and IBM to deliver new IoT innovations to the
market. The companies' strategic alliance brings together leading
wireless connectivity, advanced analytics and cognitive
capabilities for AT&T's enterprise customers to help improve
their business processes.
In 2016, AT&T and IBM announced plans to integrate AT&T
Flow Designer with the IBM Watson IoT Platform and IBM Bluemix,
IBM's Cloud Platform. Today, these combined capabilities are now
available to enterprise developers, creating an end-to-end cloud
experience that enables developers to build, deploy and scale their
IoT applications.
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to the latest advancements in cloud computing through 2,000
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enterprise and startup clients for success with a complete
portfolio of cloud services and marquee partnerships, supporting a
wide range of applications including: big data, analytics,
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