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IBM sets up Analytics Competency Center in B'lore

The Analytics Competency Center will house 200 analytics experts

Sudesh Prasad

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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Armonk (New York), USA: In what is a clear indication of its focus on the growing analytics business, IBM today announced the setting up of specialized Business Analytics Center of Competency in Bangalore.

This is the latest in a spate of steps aimed at tapping the growing analytics and optimization (IDC estimates worldwide market for business analytics to grow to $25 billion during 2009-2010).

This full-fledged foray of IBM into analytics space can be traced to April 2009 when the company announced the setting up of Business Analytics and Optimization Services as a new business division. This division comes under IBM's Global Business Services headed by Frank Kern.

This was followed by IBM's acquisition of SPSS (July 2009), a leader in the predictive analytics space. Going further back, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting's acquisition was a step in the direction of its increased focus on business consulting focus.

Some of the other players in the business analytics space as per IDC report are Oracle, SAP, SAS, Microsoft, Teradata, Fair Isaac, Informatica, Infor and MicroStrategy.

The Bangalore center will have 200 employees with deep subject matter knowledge and will be skilled to support all analytics customers across the world. The center will have experts and leverage IBM's patented analytics capabilities and assets.

Advanced Customer analytics, apart from Web 2.0, risk and fraud and social media are some of the areas IBM's center in Bangalore would be working on. These will primary address customers in the telecom, retail, financial services vertical.

According to Fred Balboni, Global Leader, IBM Analytics and Optimization, "The launch of Analytics service arm is the biggest new line of business from IBM after CRM. Through our extensive experience we have built the broadest and most sophisticated analytics services and solutions in the industry to address customers' critical business issues."

Balboni said IBM intends to extend its portfolio to medium business as well, who are willing to capture data to get competitive advantage. He also believes that organizations would move from reactive analytics to predictive analytics.

According to IBM's Global CIO Study, enterprises surveyed saw business intelligence and analytics as the top priority to maintain their competitive advantage.

The Bangalore center will be supporting IBM's recently announced business analytics solutions centers in Berlin, Beijing, New York, Tokyo. It is also in the process of announcing the setting up of such centers in Washington. IBM also has plans to partner with Indian universities to ensure that analytics becomes an important part of their curriculum.

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