Automatic Leak Detection, Pressure Management Aims to Reduce Water Loss

IBM Research scientists and the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA), which supplies water to more than 600,000 people in the heart of Northern California’s wine country, have once again teamed up to address the pressing problem of water conservation. 

The new program, which builds on an existing IBM-SCWA water management collaboration, uses analytics technology to helpValley of the Moon Water District (VOMWD), a purchaser of wholesale water from SCWA, to reduce water loss. This is done by optimizing the setting of the pressure reducing valves at the entrance to their distribution network based on data from existing sensors as well as from SCADA, billing, pressure gauges, and flow loggers throughout the water system.          

• Researchers invent novel technique by fabricating tiny holes in a single quarter-inch chip to boost data transfer rates 
• Until now, it was not possible to transport terabits of data for existing parallel optical communications technology 
• New prototype compactly and efficiently delivers ultra-high interconnect bandwidth to power future supercomputer and data center applications

IBM scientists today will report on a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will be presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference taking place in Los Angeles.

Quiterian spreads its Business Partner Network in Europe through a strategic alliance with the Dutch company CPM Factory that specializes in Corporate Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Barcelona, March 8, 2012. - Quiterian, the developer of the self-service and agile Business Analytics platform Quiterian Analytics, announces a partnership with CPM Factory. With more than ten years of experience in Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, the Dutch company joins the Quiterian Business Partner Network made up of a worldwide group of distributors specializing in Business Intelligence and Data Mining. As a result of this agreement, CPM Factory will distribute Quiterian Analytics in its area of market influence.

Leading hotel/casino group’s Marketing Department is now using Quiterian Analytics for deeper understanding of customer needs.

Los Angeles, California – March 6, 2012 – Quiterian, the leading European developer of advanced and predictive analytics software for business and non-technical users, today announced that Station Casinos has adopted  Quiterian Analytics 3.0 (see guided tour),a Visual Data Mining platform capable of analyzing large volumes of raw data at record-breaking speeds. Selection followed a lengthy evaluation of Business Analytics tools.

Quiterian develops, markets and supports Quiterian Analytics, a self-service and agile Business Intelligence (BI) platform offering Visual Data Mining, advanced and predictive analytic tools for non-technical users. Station Casinos owns and operates 17 hotel and casino properties in the Las Vegas area and manages Aliante Station there.

IBM unveiled new capabilities planned for its security intelligence platform designed to combine deep analytics with real-time data feeds from hundreds of different sources to give organizations, for the first time, the ability to help proactively protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated and complex security threats and attacks using a single platform.

The European software developer will help organizations obtain predictive insights by easily integrating social media data with information from other sources  

Miami, Florida -- February 16, 2012. – Quiterian, the leading European developer of advanced and predictive analytics software for business and non-technical users announces that their “Customer Analytics” Solution providing consumer behavior knowledge now integrates data from social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) at record breaking speeds.

Quiterian Analytics, a self-service and agile platform that integrates data from multiple sources (social media, web, CRM, ERP, campaigns, emailing), is specially designed for non-expert users that want to make faster and better decisions based on consumer behavior knowledge. Through advanced and predictive analytics techniques, Quiterian identifies patterns and profiles of the most profitable customers, performs smart segmentations and executes automated marketing campaigns with customized offers, all with total independence from the IT department.   

Pentaho Corporation has made freely available under open source all of its big data capabilities in the new Pentaho Kettle 4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License, Version 2.0. Because Apache is the license under which Hadoop and several of the leading NoSQL databases are published, this move will further accelerate the rapid adoption of Pentaho Kettle for Big Data by developers, analysts and data scientists as the go-to tool for operationalizing big data.

Pentaho Corporation announced that Proniño, Fundación Telefónica’s charitable social action program, has implemented Pentaho Business Analytics to explore and visualize its data in real time and help define targeted measures for eradicating child labor in Latin America.

Recently, IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years:

• People power will come to life

• You will never need a password again

• Mind reading is no longer science fiction

• The digital divide will cease to exist

• Junk mail will become priority mail
  

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