New Intelligence for a Smarter Planet Driving Business Innovation With IBM Analytic Solutions

Taking a management level look at the fundamental shift of information technology in the workplace, this discussion reassesses methods of better decision making in the business world. Considering the new economics, globalization, and rapidly evolving information technology, that current business leaders must take into account while making decisions, this overview of business analytics provides information on business intelliegence information, infrastructure, and performance management. This guide also highlights the concepts behind IBM's “Smarter Planet” concept, which applies business intelligence technology to infrastures that directly affect peoples lives, such as manufacturing, utilities, finance, and health care.

Pat Bates is a senior member of the worldwide technical sales enablement group focusing on data warehousing and analytics software technologies, and has worked in software development, management, product management and technical sales for 15 years. Mike Biere is a senior member of IBM's worldwide team for data warehousing and business intelligence. Alan Meyer is the marketing manager for data warehousing in IBM’s InfoSphere organization, and has been involved in the business intelligence field since the mid 1980's. Rex Wiederanders is the manager of the worldwide technical sales enablement group, of which he has been a member for 12 years. Bill Wong is an information management executive responsible for delivering information-led transformation solutions.