Is your enterprise ready for AI?

Issued by IBM South Africa
Johannesburg, 14 Jun 2018

IBM PowerAI is a flexible, efficient and unified platform that helps enterprises put their data to work effectively.

According to IBM Cognitive Systems Software's VP, Tim Vincent, artificial intelligence (AI) will be a game-changer even though there is no 'magic bullet' when it comes to AI. He adds that most enterprises are in very early phases of AI adoption.

In his blog post titled "Is your Enterprise ready for AI," Vincent points out that when an enterprise embraces a holistic AI strategy to drive insights from their data, it is critical to look at their infrastructure as well as their data management strategy and AI capabilities. And that enterprises that are deriving the most value from data are building their data management and AI platforms close to where the data resides, thereby reducing latency.

Additionally, they are using infrastructure specifically designed for data and compute-intensive workloads like advanced analytics and AI, as well as deploying software that is optimised to exploit it. Together this maximises efficiency of deployment and the value of insights.

Vincent asks enterprises to consider these AI adoption facts from IDC's report: When Computing Becomes Human: Automation, Innovation, and the Rise of the All-Powerful Service Provider:

* 31% of organisations are in discovery/evaluation.
* 22% of organisations plan to implement AI in next one to two years.
* 22% of organisations are running AI trials.
* 4% of organisations have already deployed AI.

Click here to get more insight from IBM Cognitive Systems Software's VP, Tim Vincent as he unpacks IBM PowerAI.

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