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IBM lance sa nouvelle ligne de service Business Analytics and Optimization


Paris - 16 avr. 2009: IBM annonce la création d’une nouvelle ligne de services, Business Analytics and Optimization au sein d’IBM Global Business Services. S’appuyant sur l’expertise d’IBM en matière de stratégie métiers, d’algorithmes mathématiques et de gestion de l’information, les consultants d’IBM GBS pourront aider les clients à améliorer la rapidité et la pertinence de leurs décisions et à mieux anticiper leurs conséquences et l’impact sur le business.

Une étude menée par IBM avec « l’Economic Intelligence Unit » révèle que 74% des dirigeants d’entreprises souhaitent pouvoir mieux anticiper en s’appuyant sur des analyses prévisionnelles et prendre ainsi de meilleures décisions. Cette étude montre également que huit dirigeants sur dix prennent d’importantes décisions sur la base de mauvaises informations. Les dirigeants sont donc aujourd’hui à la recherche de nouveaux services permettant d’intégrer des données prévisionnelles et plus de certitude dans leurs processus de prise de décision.

En s’appuyant sur les analyses des consultants de Business Analytics & Optimization, IBM a aidé la ville de Stockholm à repenser la gestion de son trafic automobile et à mettre en œuvre une solution qui a permis une réduction de 18% des embouteillages.

Cette nouvelle ligne de service est la première lancée au sein d’IBM Global Business Services depuis le rachat de PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting en 2002. Elle est dirigée par Fred Balboni, précédemment en charge du secteur Retail pour IBM GBS. L’activité de cette nouvelle ligne de services s’appuie sur le portfolio Information management dont font partie Cognos et iLog, mais également sur l’expertise du département Recherche d’IBM dédié aux mathématiques et au Business Analytics. IBM a réalisé d’importants investissements en terme de recherche durant les 10 dernières années en construisant des modèles de solutions analytiques métier et d’optimisation des décisions.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the creation of a new consulting organization dedicated to the market for advanced business analytics and business optimization. IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services will draw on the company's deep expertise in vertical industries, research, mathematics and information management to help clients both improve the speed and quality of business decisions while better understanding the consequences and business outcomes of those decisions.

A survey of business executives published in a study by IBM's Institute for Business Value and released today reveals one in two business leaders say they don't have access to the information in their organization they need to their job. With organizations facing unprecedented scrutiny, pressure and ever-shrinking margins for error, leaders are looking for new ways to inject certainty and predictability into their decision making. The survey also showed that eight out of ten business leaders make major decisions with missing or untrusted information.

"Our clients understand they're operating in a competitive environment where more than ever before, in addition to being fast, they have to be right. That requires something beyond the traditional notion of 'sense and respond,'" said Frank Kern, senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services. "That drives the need to speed business decisions, understand the consequences of any decision and predict outcomes with more certainty -- in short, moving to a new level of enterprise intelligence."

This marks the first launch of a new service line by IBM Global Business Services since it was formed in 2002 following the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. The new service also will draw on IBM's vast Information Management portfolio, including technologies from the recent acquisitions of Cognos and iLog, as well as the expertise of the only research department in private industry dedicated to mathematics and business analytics.

Working with more than 4,000 consultants dedicated to this effort will be experts from IBM Research's world renowned laboratories with more than 200 mathematicians and advanced analytics experts. The company also made significant investments in Services Research for the past 10 years to build technologies and intellectual property that optimize new services offerings -- all culminating in this new consulting practice in support of IBM's Smarter Planet strategy, which recognizes the need for improved business insight.

The growing market for a more sophisticated way to use information, extract insight, and optimize business processes, models and individual business decisions has been demonstrated by IBM through a number of pilot initiatives leading to the formation of the new Business Analytics and Optimization service line.

One such pilot, the IBM Center for Business Optimization (CBO), was formed five years ago inside Global Business Services. Last year, the CBO engaged with more than 200 clients to use advanced analytics to solve complex business problems. A related capability housed in IBM Research, On Demand Innovation Services, has completed another 1,000 client engagements during the past six years.

IBM worked with The Sentinel Group, which provides healthcare fraud detection and investigation services to payers throughout the United States, to enhance the fraud and abuse detection capabilities of their investigators. Through advanced analytics, IBM transformed what was once a manual process for identifying potential fraud to a data-driven process that helped the company identify over $45 million in fraudulent claims since 2005.

The new IBM Business Analytics and Optimization service line is led by Fred Balboni, formerly the leader of IBM's retail industry consulting practice. An expert in data-intensive industries and consultative capabilities, Balboni leads a core team of analytics experts within each industry IBM serves and will address five core areas, including Strategy, Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management, Advance Analytics and Optimization, Enterprise Information Management, and Content Management.

The Business Analytics and Optimization service line rounds out IBM Global Business Services' established lines of business, including Application Innovation Services, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Strategy & Change, and Supply Chain Management.

Further details on the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services are available, please visit: www.ibm.com/gbs/analytics.

For more information on the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services announcement, visit the online press kit at www.ibm.com/press/analytics. Also, for a video on the launch of IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services, visit IBM's New Intelligence video channel.

Further details on the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services are available, please visit: www.ibm.com/gbs/analytics.

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