IBM ouvre son premier centre analytique européen à Berlin (Allemagne)

Berlin - 23 juin 2009: At the SmarterCities forum today in Berlin, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of its first European Analytics Solution Center in Berlin, initially designed to serve public sector clients, universities and healthcare organizations. The new center is the first step, in a recently announced global network that addresses the emerging market for advanced analytics capabilities, which will help clients build smarter business systems and drive improved decision-making.

Based at IBM’s Spreebogen site, it will operate with around 100 employees and will draw on the services of over 300 consultants, software specialists and mathematicians across Germany. It will access expertise from the IBM Boeblingen Development Lab, one of IBM’s largest development labs worldwide that designs technologies that are key components to providing modern and innovative IT-solutions to clients.

The new center was announced at today’s IBM Smarter Cities Summit in Berlin, which is exploring how progressive cities are modernizing to spur economic development, drive greater innovation, transform for competitive advantage and meet the pressing demands of a more engaged and intelligent citizenry.

“Precise business decisions with far-reaching consequences for the entire organization today need to be made at ever shorter intervals. The cause for wrong decisions often stems from insufficient information at the time of the decision-making process. The public sector—like private enterprise—needs suitable tools and more advanced analytics to have always crucial information and knowledge at the right time and place at its disposal,” said Martin Jetter, General Manager, IBM Germany.

“We welcome IBM’s continued commitment in Berlin,” said Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin. “The decision in favor of a Berlin location with around 100 highly qualified jobs in IT services is a further positive sign of the city’s attractiveness.”

Berlin was chosen for this investment due to its status as a center for administration with an international skills base. The Berlin Center is part of a network of centers recently detailed by IBM as the company expands its capabilities around business analytics. Additional centers will be located in Tokyo, New York City, Beijing and Washington, D.C.  

The Berlin Center will have access to IBM’s comprehensive Information Management portfolio that includes technologies integrated following acquisitions of Cognos and iLog. It will also utilize mathematicians and advanced analytics experts from IBM Research and industry expertise from management consultants in IBM’s Business Analytics and Optimization services organization. The performance scope of these services becomes visible, for example, in a traffic-project with the administration in Singapore. There, a system was developed to precisely predict the time of traffic flows in the city's Central Business District.

The Berlin Center’s main task will be to help administrations, universities and healthcare sector clients to access higher quality data faster and more efficiently across administrations and organizations and to analyze and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. Other innovative approaches will deal with key issues such as proximity to the public, transparency, efficiency and competitiveness.

Within this range of issues the focal points will include redesigning front and back office processes including topics such as RFID, telematics, the e-health card and e-file, the use of shared service centers, and IT transformation.

For additional resources for press on today’s news, please visit:

http://www.ibm.com/press/smartercities.

For more information on IBM, please visit: http://www.ibm.com.

For additional information on how forward-looking cities and businesses can make use of advanced analytics, follow developments on IBM Business Analytics at:

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Rotterdam et IBM construisent la première « Smart City » du delta

La ville hollandaise cherche à réduire l'impact du changement climatique et améliorer la gestion des eaux urbaines grâce à l'analyse avancée de données en temps réel

Rotterdam and IBM to Build First Smart Delta City

Dutch City Aims to Reduce Climate Change Impact, Improve Urban Water Management with Real-Time Advanced Data Analytics

Berlin, June 23, 2009 -- At the SmarterCities forum today in Berlin, the city of Rotterdam, one of the main hubs of the Dutch economy and the largest port in Europe, announced a collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to design and test a monitoring and forecasting system for smarter management of water and energy.  The advanced information integration system will bring together multiple data streams from currently unrelated sources in the region, rivers and estuary to provide an overview of current and developing conditions.

With this collaboration with IBM, Rotterdam aims to transform into the first Smart Delta City – a city that utilizes real-world, real-time operational information to manage infrastructure and operations related to the effects of climate change in a dynamic, complex natural water system. The Smart Delta system’s information portal will enable officials and professionals to more quickly and effectively respond to concerns such as flood and drought threats, safety or accessibility issues, and changes in water conditions that could harm fish and other aquatic life.

“We are committed to reducing carbon dioxide by 50 percent and reaching a climate adaptive situation while also strengthening our region’s economic condition by 2025,” said Paula Verhoeven, Rotterdam Climate Office Director. “To reach these goals, we have defined a holistic approach to climate change and water management, considering economic and spatial planning factors in the decision-making process.  This collaboration is important to help Rotterdam evolve to a Smart Delta City.”

As part of the collaboration, IBM intends to leverage the expertise of its Research arm, involving scientists across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore additional areas such as the management of carbon in logistics processes.

Together with leading people from academia, industry and government, IBM has engaged over the past two years in projects worldwide to identify current and future impact on operations from changing water availability, accessibility, quality and quantities.  In February 2008, IBM opened the Global Center of Excellence for Water Management in the Netherlands.

“Governments and companies that don’t understand how climate changes will impact their operations will increasingly find themselves at a disadvantage,” said Sharon Nunes, Vice President, Big Green Innovations, IBM. “Over the next few years, the business impact of either too-much or too-little water will be devastating in many parts of the world. The Smart Delta City initiative addresses the need to start thinking and acting in new ways to make our systems more efficient, productive and responsive.”

For additional resources for press on today’s news, please visit:

http://www.ibm.com/press/smartercities.

For more information on IBM, please visit: http://www.ibm.com.

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IBM lance de nouveaux outils d'évaluation pour aider les villes à relever les défis et les opportunités liés à une urbanisation sans précédent

IBM Offers Smarter City Assessment Tool to Help Cities Prepare for Challenges and Opportunities of Unprecedented Urbanization

Berlin, June 24, 2009 -- At the SmarterCities forum today in Berlin, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that it is offering a new Smarter City Assessment Tool to help cities better understand and meet the new demands of an increasingly urbanized world.

Last year for the first time in history, according to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, the majority of the world’s people lived in cities. By 2050 seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities. To put this into perspective, a century ago, fewer than 20 cities around the world had populations in excess of 1 million people. Today, that number has swelled to 450 and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

Recognizing the pressure increasing urbanization will place on urban planners and local governments, IBM has developed a Smarter City Assessment Tool, to help cities focus on how best to move forward.

Cities using the Smarter City Assessment Tool will provide IBM with specific data about their core operational systems (people, business, transport, communication, water and energy) which are then analyzed to benchmark a city’s overall capabilities against peer locations, highlight relative strengths and weaknesses and provide initial recommendations for improvement. The tool, which leverages research done by the IBM Institute for Business Value, is based on a methodology developed by IBM’s Global Location Strategies consulting service, which helps corporations determine the best countries and cities in which to locate businesses.

 “Cities are in the midst of a realignment of power – with greater influence highlighted by greater responsibility,” said Peter Korsten, Global Leader for the IBM Institute for Business Value. “Aspects of a city’s operations that city managers have previously been unable to measure – and therefore unable to influence – are increasingly being digitized, creating brand new data points. With the greater digitization of its core systems and the use of advanced analytic capabilities, cities can enhance decision-making and improve urban planning.”

Additionally IBM’s Institute for Business Value, part of IBM Global Business Services, is doing extensive research into cities and has just published the first in a series of three studies on smarter cities.

Titled “A vision of smarter cities – How cities can lead the way into a prosperous and sustainable future” the study outlines the new central role that cities are playing in the world economy and the associated need for cities to address their sustainability challenges by transforming their core systems -- individually as well as holistically.

The new IBM Smarter City Assessment Tool and accompanying thought leadership study were announced today at the Smarter Cities forum in Berlin, hosted by IBM to explore how progressive cities are modernizing to spur economic development, drive greater innovation, transform for competitive advantage and meet the pressing demands of a more engaged and intelligent citizenry.

IBM defines a smarter city as one that makes optimal use of all the interconnected information available today in order to better understand and control its operations and optimize the use of limited resources.

For additional resources for press on today’s news, please visit:

http://www.ibm.com/press/smartercities.

For more information on IBM, please visit: http://www.ibm.com.

For more information on the IBM Institute for Business Value, please visit:

http://www.ibm.com/iibv.

For additional information on how forward-looking cities and businesses can make use of advanced analytics, follow developments on IBM Business Analytics at:

IBM Business Analytics & Optimization Online Press Kit

IBM Business Analytics & Optimization: Smarter Planet on Tumblr

IBM Business Analytics on Twitter

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