IBM (NYSE: IBM); announced its developments in artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud and quantum computing at its annual Think conference. IBM’s innovations highlight the firm’s role in helping clients and business partners accelerate their digital transformation, smarter return to business, and drive better business outcomes.
IBM President and CEO Arvind Krishna, who made the opening speech of the event, said: “Looking back, 2020 and 2021 will be the period when the world enters the digital century with all its power. In the last century, we started using electricity in factories and machines. In this century, too. We will use the hybrid cloud to enable the diffusion of AI into software and systems. One thing is for sure: we will build the future based on extensive industry collaboration. No one understands this better than IBM. This is one of the reasons we are increasing investments in our partner ecosystems. Think In 2021, we also showcase our hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence innovations, technologies that form the building blocks of new IT software for business.”
Knowing that businesses need a clear and reliable way to modernize their systems, IBM focuses on hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. Research on AI adoption by IBM shows that incorporating AI into business processes is becoming more urgent during the pandemic. According to a survey of IT professionals from around the world, 43 percent of IT workers stated that their companies are speeding up the use of artificial intelligence. Also, nearly half of the IT professionals surveyed say they rate AI providers mostly on their ability to automate their processes. IBM; He attributes his focus on investments in artificial intelligence capabilities for business to these reasons.
IBM, which provides support to companies operating in various sectors with the power of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, shared the solutions it has designed to make the transformations of its customers more effortless at the Think event.
Data and artificial intelligence come together
Artificial intelligence that automates data access and management from anywhere with Cloud Pak for Data: Cloud Pak for Data customers have distributed queries; It leverages artificial intelligence to help them get answers eight times faster and at half the cost of other data stores. AutoSQL; It automates the way customers access, consolidate and manage data, regardless of where it is located or how it is stored, and without requiring it to be moved. AutoSQL not only uncovers hidden insights to make accurate AI-driven predictions, but also solves critical challenges for customers to reduce the complexity of data editing and eliminate the high cost of data migration.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data, with the release of SQL, all cloud platforms can run seamlessly in hybrid multicloud environments and include the highest-performing cloud data storage in the market. It will be one of several new technologies embedded in a new data management structure within AutoSQL Cloud Pak for Data. While the new data management structure combines completely different data sources on a common data base; on the other hand, it will automate complex data management tasks by leveraging artificial intelligence.
Watson Orchestrate helps automate employee work to increase productivity: Watson Orchestrate is designed to increase the personal productivity of all employees in sales, human resources, operations and more. Watson Orchestra, a new interactive AI capability, is helping employees reclaim 50 percent of their time to focus on more strategic work. Employees can leverage natural language email using the Watson Orchestrate solution, which requires no IT skills, and collaboration tools like Slack; they can start things in human-specific ways. Watson Orchestrate also connects to popular business applications such as Salesforce, SAP and Workday. It automatically selects and ranks the skills needed to perform a task. Watson Orchestra uses a powerful artificial intelligence engine that connects applications, tools, data and history. This enables employees to more quickly execute routine tasks such as scheduling meetings or obtaining approvals, or more mission-critical tasks such as preparing proposals or work plans. Developed by IBM Research, Watson Orchestrate solution is expected to be launched this year.
New AI transforms the way companies develop and modernize IT
Project CodeNet Dataset enables AI to better understand and translate code: IBM Research; Launches Project CodeNet, a large-scale, open-source dataset of 14 million code examples, 500 million lines of code, and 55 programming languages, to enable AI to better understand and translate code. Project CodeNet, currently the largest, most differentiated dataset in its class, covers three major use cases in coding today:
Code lookup (automatically translating one code to another, including legacy languages like COBOL) Code similarity (identifying overlaps and similarities between different codes) Code constraints (customizing constraints based on developer’s specific needs and parameters).
IBM believes Project CodeNet will help businesses accelerate their AI implementation with its ability to source-to-source translation and migration of legacy codebases to modern code languages.
Mono2Micro takes the hassle out of migrating to the cloud: IBM has added a new capability to WebSphere Hybrid Edition that enables businesses to optimize and modernize their applications for hybrid cloud. IBM Mono2Micro to analyze large enterprise applications and make recommendations on how best to adapt them for migration to the cloud; It uses artificial intelligence developed by IBM Research. This solution can reduce costs and maximize return on investment by simplifying and speeding up an error-prone process.
IBM continues to invest in partner ecosystem
New benefits to drive partner success: IBM as part of its $1 billion investment to support partner ecosystem; announced the new competencies, skills training and benefits it offers to enable its partners to succeed in an increasingly competitive market. Company; established a fund called Cloud Engagement Fund (CEF – Cloud Participation Fund) to increase its investments in ecosystem partners. This fund provides investment through significant technical resources and cloud loans for partners to help migrate customer workloads to hybrid cloud environments.
An example of how CEF has helped partners scale is IBM’s collaboration with Siemens Digital Industries Software. Thanks to this joint venture, IBM Siemens; To increase the flexibility of MindSphere as an industrial service, Red Hat will implement an open hybrid cloud approach built on OpenShift.
IBM Brings Quantum Computing One Step Closer to Daily Life
Qiskit Runtime software increases quantum circuit processing speed by 120 times: IBM enables developers to use quantum software faster and easier thanks to Qiskit Runtime. This software keeps most of the code in the hybrid cloud instead of running it on the user’s computer. This feature, along with improvements in software and processor performance, includes Qiskit Runtime; It allows quantum circuit speeds to increase 120 times. Qiskit, an open-source quantum computing framework developed by IBM, aims to make quantum computing accessible to everyone. IBM is making the Qiskit Runtime software available, allowing quantum systems to run complex calculations such as chemical modeling and financial risk analysis in hours rather than weeks.
IBM recently demonstrated how the lithium hydride molecule was modeled on a quantum device to demonstrate the power of the software. This process, which took 45 days, was reduced to 9 hours with new developments. This kind of progress is crucial so that quantum computing can scale for new use cases.
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