With a torrent of weather data, IBM hopes to know the world
IBM's deal last week to buy The Weather Company adds to its cognitive computing capabilities something IBM really needs -- data, and lots of it.
But the implications of the acquisition go well beyond just that.
To be effective, intelligent systems need to be able to handle complex questions and marshal vast amounts of data. IBM now has weather data and analytics it can use in multiple industries and it gained an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that collects information from many sources, including airplanes and even mobile phones. IBM plans to extend that platform to gather data from any source and sensor-enabled device.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here