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Featured Articles » What is Your Application Integration Plan? » Middle East Energy Industry Vulnerable to Cyberattacks; Preventive Security Measures Imperative to Protect Critical Infrastructure » Best Practices for Key Management in the Cloud » Five Tips on How to Get Your Patents Approved » Content is King in Cloud Collaboration   Sponsored By: TC3   Top Stories » Get the Most Out of Updating Licensed Software and Firmware » BRS Labs Intros Behavior-Recognizing Security Platform to Public Schools » Highwinds Unveils New Content Delivery Network in Manila » Wheelings & Dealings: Docker Gets $40 Million in Funding » New Version of Nuix Engine Released » New Software Certification Program Verifies Product Output   From The Expert Corner September 16, 2014 IBM Debuts Watson Data Analytics Cloud Service By Laura Stotler TMCnet Contributing Editor IBM’s (News - Alert) long-awaited Watson data analytics cloud service is a step closer to being widely available. The company announced Watson Analytics will enter a public beta period within the next 30 days with a freemium service available for all IBM business clients in November. The company offered a demonstration of the tool in New York today, showing its value for improving e-commerce performance as well as employee retention, optimizing marketing campaigns and finding patterns in sales wins and losses. Watson Analytics is designed to streamline and simplify the entire data analysis process and is geared toward untrained business users who want to glean value out of massive amounts of data. The service, which will be delivered through IBM’s growing cloud infrastructure, uses the company’s infamous Watson cognitive computing technology to offer a natural-language interface to end-to-end data analysis workflow. The solution incorporates a variety of IBM technologies including its InfoSphere Data Refinery services, which assess data sources and suggest corrections to users. The company’s Catalyst Engine features IBM SPSS (News - Alert) analytics, which find correlations among data sets as well as data trends...Read More    Featured Videos Erik Linask speaks with Terry Bradwell, the EVP & CIO of AARP about his Keynote at ITEXPO Las Vegas 2014    Featured Resources » Defending Data in the Cloud » Surveying the Cloud Service Provider Landscape » Next-Generation Service Assurance in Network Of Clouds » Neustar Delivers with Information, Analytics   Featured Channels » Application Deployment » IP Communications » Real Time Communications   InfoTechSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest IT News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit IT Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here    |    Request a Media Kit   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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