By: Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
IBM announced a major strategy to deliver business analytics programs to universities around the world.IBM announced that it is working with universities around the world to bring advanced analytics training into the classroom. In a Dec. 21 announcement, IBM said it is expanding its academic initiatives for business analytics with new programs in China, India, Ireland and Scotland, helping students keep pace with the competitive job market by gaining skills in this fast-growing field of technology. IBM said each day, people create the equivalent of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data from sensors, mobile devices, online transactions and social networks—so much that 90 percent of the world’s data has been generated in the past two years. This amounts to more data than organizations can effectively use without applying analytics, IBM said. Thus, the new IBM programs are providing students and faculty members with access to the latest software capabilities and thinking on how advanced analytics can be applied to tackle complex business and societal challenges.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Takes-Analytics-to-School-654402/
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