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Smarter medical research
Industry: Healthcare (United States)
The University of North Carolina’s smart healthcare system
allows researchers, clinicians and administrators to analyze
and correlate data in new ways, leading to improved patient
outcomes and compliance, and advances in research on
diseases such as diabetes and cancer—shortening query
times from weeks to seconds.
Smarter microfinance
Industry: Banking & Financial Markets (India)
Micronance bank Grameen Koota uses an open-source
banking platform for accurate, near-real-time information,
enabling them to predict capital requirements; to expand their
microloans, insurance accounts and other banking functions;
and to grow from 70,000 to 350,000 low-income clients.
Smarter luggage
Industry: Transportation (Netherlands)
An integrated baggage-control and passenger-check-in
system at Amsterdam’s airport streamlines luggage
tracking, ofoading and redirection of bags on alternative
ights, and fully automated security screening for all
transfer baggage travelling through the airport.
Venezuela
Brazil
United States
Canada
Mexico
Argentina
. . . and our investments position us for growth
in the next decade—the Decade of Smart.7
We are focusing on four major growth opportunities in 2010:
Peru
Smarter oil and gas imaging
Industry: Chemicals & Petroleum (Venezuela)
3-D seismic imaging technology helped Tricon
Geophysics cut processing time by 50 percent and
realize a 40-percent savings in power and cooling
infrastructure, and operational costs.
Growth markets: IBM serves clients in more than
170 countries around the world. In both mature and growth
economies, infrastructure represents a major technology
and business opportunity, with more than $2 trillion in fiscal
stimulus earmarked by governments.
Analytics: Enabling clients to get far more value from their
information, IBM’s new analytics service line draws on
4,000 dedicated consultants, plus 200 mathematicians and
advanced analytics experts in IBM Research. We have
invested $10 billion in 14 acquisitions since 2005, creating
seven analytics solution centers around the world.
Cloud and next-generation data center: These new models
are enabling efficient consumption and delivery of IT-based
services. More than 18 million people use LotusLive, IBM’s cloud-
based collaboration suite. More than 200 IBM researchers are
working on breakthroughs in areas like cloud security and privacy.
Smarter planet: We estimate that smarter planet increases
IBM’s addressable opportunity by 40 percent over the decade
ahead. The sampling on this map of recent partnerships with
more than 300 clients illustrates the reach of smarter solutions
across industries and markets.
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