WIPRO delivers Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service solution on IBM Bluemix

Wipro has announced that it is delivering analytics-based insights for specific industries with the Data Discovery Platform, its newest Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service solution. Built with IBM BigInsights and IBM dashDB and developed on Bluemix, IBM's cloud platform, the solution accelerates insight-driven decision-making through pre-built applications for specific industries, such as banking and financial services, retail, energy, education and manufacturing.

The Data Discovery Platform helps businesses unlock the true value of their structured and unstructured data to deliver insights customized to the customer’s industry sector.

Wipro and IBM developers collaborated on the solution which is available in an outcome-based “pay-per-insight” cloud delivery model. It has been customized for a number of specific industries and their associated overall processes, including:

* Banking and financial services to reduce customer attrition, forecast sales volume, segment customers, create revenue models and predict claims subrogation

* Education to improve graduation rates by identifying positive and negative academic and non-academic influencers and creating student risk profiles

* IT to monitor data operations and predict batch delays and failures in real time

* Energy to detect anomalies, predict fraud and profitability in energy trading

* Marketing to automate, configure and integrate social feed monitoring

* Manufacturing to measure the health of individual assets and develop predictive maintenance schedules

* Mining to predict maintainability of assets and reduce risks in work environments

* Retail to understand customer’s behaviour inside stores using Wi-Fi logs and iBeacon traces, recommend product bundling and identify factors influencing store performance.

The Data Discovery Platform offers a unique value proposition driving an accelerated time-to- market for insights, resulting in augmented and better decision-making. The solution's modular, approach, coupled with machine learning, natural language processing, visualization and stream computing capability enable flexible and scalable responses to dynamic business requirements.

“Today’s businesses, without exception, have to be disruptive. Wipro’s Data Discovery Platform, built on IBM’s Cognitive and Cloud Platforms offers clients immediate access to insights giving them a competitive edge. IBM and Wipro are working together to help our customers discover the value of their existing data while leveraging leading-edge cloud and cognitive technologies,” said Pallab Deb, Vice-President & Global Head – Analytics, WIPRO.

“As businesses transition into cognitive enterprises, it is not enough to simply leverage big data platforms. Companies need to generate true, business changing insights that can pull data from wherever it might be stored,” said Stephen Crain, Business Unit Executive, Global System Integrators, IBM. “By incorporating IBM BigInsights and IBM dashDB into Wipro’s Data Discovery Platform, Wipro clients will be able to accelerate their transformation into cognitive enterprises.”