IBM One of Most Innovative Companies In Big Data

IBM is one of the biggest global data preachers in sharing problem solving solutions in cities around the world, mainly in businesses and universities.

The US multinational made its name in computer hardware but has transitioned into a leading supplier of information technology, business services and software. In 2005, through it’s General Manager Nicholas Nesbitt established the first East African call centre in Kencall, which was voted Top Non European Call centre in the World in September 2008.

IBM brought more revenue from big data–related products and services—to a total of $1.3. billion—than any other company in 2012, and it’s not simply because Big Blue excels at data storage and analytics.

According to Fast Company, in the early days of big data which still is, IBM is its biggest and much needed, evangelist. Through the Smarter Cities initiative it launched three years ago, it continues to teach the world what big data can do by launching a new technology in the French city of Lyon, for example, to improve traffic flow by predicting points of congestion.

IBM is also launching new curriculums centered on big data and analytics at schools like Georgetown and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in an effort to prepare students for the estimated 4.4 million big-data jobs that will be created by 2015.

Patricia Kahill

Patricia Kahill is a multipotentialite Christian entrepreneur, Content Marketing Coach and founder of the Content Marketing agency, Kahill Insights that helps business owners create engaging and interactive content items for digital platforms with a focus on returning a desired outcome. Patricia was the producer of SlamDunk Basketball Talk a show on House of Talent online TV, a former fellow at Harvest Institute for leadership and now an assessor there, and an alumnus of the YELP class of 2017. A member of the BNI Integrity chapter and African Women Entrepreneur Cooperative. She is driven by passion and curiosity, been taking every opportunity that has been given to her with an ambition of stamping her footprint on the world.