IBM Extends Analytics and Archiving Footprints

Trying to position the company at the front end of a new wave of information-led transformation in the enterprise, IBM long-term is working to bring together SPSS and its recent acquisitions of Cognos and FileNet with existing investments in Notes, data warehousing, middleware and other business intelligence applications into a cohesive whole that differentiates IBM from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and other enterprise software rivals.

The latest IBM offerings include the ability to analyze both structured and unstructured content by more closely integrating IBM’s Filenet content management software with analytics technology. In addition, IBM is now offering Cognos templates for analyzing sales performance, employee talent and supply chain processes.

IBM also upgraded its streaming analytics offering for analyzing flows of data in real time to add support for multiple scoring models and a Master Information Hub that is an extension component of the company’s InfoSphere master data management software that has been customized with specific type of customer domains.

Finallly, IBM is rolling put a new Smart Archive offering that includes content assessment services and a InfoSphere tool for harvesting content from specific data sources, including Microsoft SharePoint, e-mail systems and various file systems. IBM also enhanced the ability of InfoSphere to automate the data classification process, increased the capacity of the records management software to handle up to 20 million record a day, and previewed a cloud computing implementation called the IBM Enterprise Content Management and Global Technology Services’ Software-as-a-Service that will allow customers to outsource the management of their archives to IBM.