By David Stokes on 19 April, 2023

5 Takeaways from the Early Days of IBM Partner Plus

The past three months have been transformative for the IBM Ecosystem. Our investment in the ecosystem is deeper than ever before, and momentum is accelerating across all partner types as they continue to scale and innovate – demonstrating their commitment to clients, deep expertise, and hunger to collaborate and co-create with us. Thanks to each […]

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By Adrian Townsend and others on 5 April, 2023

Nationwide Building Society engages IBM to assess the capability and maturity of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

In this blog post, we discuss how Nationwide Building Society partnered with IBM Client Engineering and IBM Research to investigate the functionality, performance and viability of Fully Homomorphic Encryption as a potential candidate technology for the Society’s data security strategy. Protecting Nationwide member data. Adrian Townsend, Nationwide Proof of Concepts Lead: Nationwide Building Society is […]

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By Deborah Threadgold on 31 January, 2023

Re-imagining the workplace of the future at IBM Ireland

Monumental changes have taken place over the past few years, not least because of the unparalleled impact of the Covid pandemic. Add in other macro trends, including a heightened focus on sustainability, and it’s clear there’s no returning to the pre-pandemic ways of working.   One of the opportunities thrown up by all this change is […]

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By Andres Villena and Nick Dubernard on 26 January, 2023

Is improving Trade Promotions effectiveness the last chance to avoid category commoditisation?

Picture this: “The year is 2030. The most sold brands across all grocery categories are private label. What started as a temporary transition to private label in some key categories to avoid inflationary pressures during recession quickly became a fight for survival. Brands overspent on price support and promotion activity, and they were unable to […]

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By Hannah Rhind on 24 January, 2023

This is Erika. Creating trustworthy AI for our clients

Welcome to episode 10 in our interview series, This is my IBM This week I talk to Erika Agostinelli, a senior data scientist and project lead at IBM. She gives an insight into her experience helping clients establishing AI Governance frameworks with a focus on human-centred and trustworthy AI implementations. She shares how IBM enables […]

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By Carlo Marcoli and Tolga Eroğlu on 21 December, 2022

IBM and HSBC, promoting innovation by collaborating like a start-up

When I first heard about IBM Client Engineering, a team focused on driving innovation by “co-creating” with customers, I questioned how it would work in practice: investing in “co-creation” could be expensive and the complexity of our corporate customers would challenge our ability to run fast experiments. However, the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team, using design thinking and lean […]

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By Simon Levine on 15 December, 2022

Leading in a changing world – how technology and innovation are reshaping the UK services industry

In just a few years artificial intelligence has gone from being a novelty in law to an essential part of everyday business. We are only just beginning to realise its potential. In time it could bring transformative change to the services that solicitors offer, and that clients expect. In my opinion, it will not, though, […]

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By Prakash Pattni on 14 December, 2022

Financial Services Panel Discussion Summary

Prakash Pattni, Managing Director, IBM Cloud for Financial Services, EMEA reflects on a vibrant discussion hosted at IBM London which explored the challenges and opportunities facing fintechs and banks as they look towards the new year, with senior leaders from Lloyds Banking Group, Starling Bank, Innovate Finance and Scribe.  As another transformative year in banking […]

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By Alex Solly on 13 December, 2022

Meridian IT and IBM: a partnership going from strength to strength

For years global services provider, Meridian IT, has been backed by IBM Storage and IBM Power servers to support its suite of enterprise cloud solutions. Recently, Meridian IT became the first IBM Business Partner to utilise IBM Power10. IBM solutions allow Meridian IT to build cloud environments suited to a broad range of clients, and […]

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By Chris Nott and James East on 2 December, 2022

Navigating complexity: powering better-informed decision making with Improbable Defence’s Skyral and IBM’s DSaS

Our lives are defined by unprecedented volumes of data. Massive data – what we used to call ‘big data’ – has propelled us into The Information Age and continues to drive unprecedented technological innovation. It’s transforming how we live, connect and operate. Here’s one example. The Information Age has accelerated an unfortunate but perhaps inevitable […]

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By Prashant Jajodia on 24 November, 2022

Digital Transformation in Banking – Chapter Three

I am a bit of a banking nerd. I use several banks and often find myself comparing their digital banking services. They are all very good. You can securely check your balance and make a payment on your mobile app with all of them. You can also do many everyday banking tasks like move money, […]

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By Richard Davies on 17 November, 2022

Defence 4.0 and Enabling Capabilities in an Ecosystem

Previous IBM defence blogs we have talked about the paradigm shift to Defence 4.0 which impacts a range of business and technical dimensions. A particular challenge in this transformation, for both industry and defence, is to clearly articulate and operationalise a ‘digital ecosystem’ which is underpinned by collaboration. The benefit of an ecosystem is that […]

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By Chris Nott and others on 11 November, 2022

Embedding analytics and AI in mission command

Defence chiefs are grappling with how to apply analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) for decision advantage knowing that commercial sectors already benefit.  In particular, responding to activities designed by adversaries to coerce without military conflict and assist in decision making to act on specific operational problems. A study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value last […]

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By Sreeram Visvanathan on 8 November, 2022

Building economic resilience and unleashing productivity through digital innovation

UK enterprises are facing a number of disruptive forces that necessitate transformation at pace – macro-economic challenges, socio-political challenges, and the focus on our own resilience. Industries from across the country are in the grip of a far-ranging digital revolution; an accelerated transformation that’s being driven by the desire to innovate and an appetite for […]

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By Hannah Rhind on 27 October, 2022

This is Rosie. Creating first class digital solutions.

Welcome to episode 9 in our interview series, This is my IBM. This week I talk to Rosie Rossington from IBM Consulting. Rosie explains about her work developing the digital experience for London Fashion Week and Boots, how much she loves a plan and the inspiration she draws from her favourite podcasts. Can you tell […]

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