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AppleCare For Enterprise Site Touts 24/7 Phone Support And One-Hour Response Time

Screen Shot 2014-11-06 at 8.31.33 AM Apple’s comprehensive offering for enterprise has yet to launch officially, at least via formal announcement from Apple and IBM, but a new website detailing AppleCare for Enterprise suggests it may already be in effect or being sold to actual organizations. The website basically advertises AppleCare for enterprise as an outsourced IT department for Apple software and hardware used by… Read More

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Twitter Partners With IBM To Bring Social Data To The Enterprise

twitter-analytics Twitter and IBM announced a significant partnership today that will involve Twitter sharing its data with IBM for integration into IBM’s enterprise solutions, including the Watson cloud platform. The deal means IBM will gain access to the Twitter “firehose,” allowing businesses to incorporate insights gained from the social network into their decision-making… Read More

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IBM Earnings Reflect Just How Difficult Transformation Really Is

IBM logo on earthscape. The news came out this week that IBM had another bad quarterly report card. Unfortunately for IBM it marked the 10th straight quarter of falling revenue, indicating that maybe something’s not quite right at Big Blue. IBM’s earnings illustrate the challenge they face as they transform themselves into a cloud-centric company.
It could be that it will take some time for that… Read More

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IBM’s New Watson Analytics Wants To Bring Big Data To The Masses

Woman holding iPad displaying Watson Analytics app. IBM today announced a new product called Watson Analytics, one they claim will bring sophisticated big data analysis to the average business user. Watson Analytics is a cloud application that does all of the the heavy lifting related to big data processing by retrieving the data, analyzing it, cleaning it, building sophisticated visualizations and offering an environment for communicating… Read More

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BlackBerry Ends Its Three-Year Workforce Reduction And Looks To Begin Modest Growth

blackberry-passport-spreadsheet-productivity BlackBerry has closed the book on its three-year extensive workforce reduction process, according to an internal memo to employees obtained by Reuters. The note from BlackBerry CEO John Chen says that all notifications which were sent out to employees being let go as part of the restructuring have now gone out, and in fact, the company will begin hiring in key areas including product… Read More

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Apple Teams Up With IBM For Huge, Expansive Enterprise Push

apple-ibm Apple has announced a strategic partnership with IBM that will see the enterprise giant transfer over 150 of their enterprise and IT apps and tools to Apple platforms natively, and will also have IBM selling Apple iPhones and iPads to its business clients all over the world. In an interview with CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Virginia Rometty both told the network that Apple and IBM are… Read More

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