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Business Analytics & Optimization Services: IBM's New Consulting Organization

Can you predict and respond to opportunities and threats? Optimize operations to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Proactively manage risk while ensuring efficiency? IBM Business Analytics and Optimization capabilities are your most powerful ally in the new economic environment.

In addition to this overview on this new business analytics focus -- helping to build smarter enterprises, including healthcare organizations -- you can follow developments through two new social media channels:

• The Smarter Planet Network on Tumblr
• IBM Business Analytics: Twitter ID, ibmbizanalytics

Jack Mason, IBM Global Business Services, Strategic Programs and Social Media

Smarter Health and Medicine Via Systems Biology

Crucial breakthroughs in the treatment of many common diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's could be achieved by harnessing a powerful scientific approach called systems biology, according to leading scientists from across Europe. Systems biology is a rapidly advancing field that combines empirical, mathematical and computational techniques to gain understanding of complex biological and physiological phenomena. (via Key to future medical breakthroughs is systems biology)

Using mashups to coordinate healthcare IBM researcher Ohad Greenshpan talks about using mashups to address the technology disconnect in hospitals.

From IBM's Computer Science Spotlight podcast series.