The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data. For harnessing data from its planes and trains to power a new Industrial Internet, potentially saving billions.
General Electric is best known for its machine making, but it’s gotten smart and branded itself as a big-data company, too, by pushing its vision for an “Industrial Internet”—the notion that machines should be connected like the web in order to increase efficiency and reduce downtime. In 2012, it launched software to help airlines and railroads move their data to the cloud and partnered with Accenture to form Taleris, a startup that will help airlines predict mechanical malfunctions and reduce flight cancellations. IBM Knows When to Acquire and When to Divest - Arik Hesseldahl. IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud - Arik Hesseldahl. Effective Data Visualization. GE Data Visualization.
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