Cloud Launches DevOps Service to Improve App Quality and Functionality

Now in beta, IBM Cloud DevOps Insights automates the quality of code to help achieve a consistent, high-quality user experience ARMONK, NY - 09 Mar 2017: IBM today announced new DevOps tools on Bluemix, IBM's developer platform, which allow companies and development teams to continuously and automatically ensure the quality of the code in their apps. This ability to better control code quality at all times helps to specific apps and to block the deployment of changes that do not meet these requirements.

IBM and Avamere to Bring Cognitive Eldercare Research to Senior Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities

Cognitive computing and sensors to help monitor daily activities and general health status of residents and patients at select Avamere facilities Armonk, NY and Portland, OR, - 22 Feb 2017: IBM and the Avamere Family of Companies today announced a six-month research study that will apply the power of IBM cognitive computing to help caregivers improve eldercare at senior living and health centers. By analyzing data streaming from sensors in senior living facilities, Avamere hopes to gain insights into physical and environmental conditions, and obtain deeper learnings into the factors that affect 30-day hospital readmission rates in patients.

IBM Reportedly Ends Remote Working as Layoff Rumors Grow

Is IBM trying to reverse 19 consecutive quarters of declining revenue through layoffs disguised as relocations and a tough new ban against remote working? According to a series of news reports from the UK publication The Register, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM has already instituted a regressive policy that effectively ends remote working. The Register, citing a confidential internal video , reports IBM is pulling the plug on its remote workers in the US.

IBM Launches Digital – Nation Africa: Invests $70 Million to Bring…

IBM Launches Digital - Nation Africa: Invests $70 Million to Bring Digital Skills to Africa with Free, Watson-Powered Skills Platform for 25 million people a "IBM Digital - Nation Africa" Education and Skills Initiative Expands IBM's Global Emphasis on "New Collar Jobs" a Program designed to reach up to 25 million people across Africa, supports development of skills required for career success in a knowledge-based economy Johannesburg, South Africa and Armonk, NY - 08 Feb 2017: IBM is investing $70 million in building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa.