Jochen Schneider is a Cloud Architect in the IBM Cloud Unit. His main responsibilites are the Hybrid Integration between IBM Software On-Prem and Bluemix Services . Jochen joined IBM in 1995 ( Tivoli ) and he has over 30 years experience in IT, Development, IT Operations Management and Cloud Architecture.

 

From Digital Business to Cognitive Business - to help companies of all sizes transform their business models digitally and harness the power of digitalization, IBM is focusing on the growth initiatives of Business Analytics, Cloud Computing, Mobile Enterprise, Social Business and Security. These strategic fields provide IBM with both the foundation of their ever-expanding portfolio of solutions and the foundation of their ongoing transformation into a Cognitive Solutions and Cloud Platform provider. Innovation is at the heart of IBM's strategy. With the re-founding of the IBM Watson Group in January 2014, IBM underlines the importance of "cognitive computing" to the business - a new era of IT systems that learn can argue and interact with people in natural language. IBM's IBM Cognitive System - IBM Watson - has been designed to handle the analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of massive amounts of unstructured data in fractions of a second based on natural language. It is able to independently extract information from data and draw conclusions. Thus the system approaches the cognitive abilities of humans and holds enormous potential for future applications in economy and society. With the vision to intelligently network devices, systems and sensors through cognitive capabilities, IBM will collaborate with customers and partners at the new IBM Watson Innovation Center in Munich. Here we are working on a new generation of networked solutions at the interface of Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Founded in December 2015, the first European Center will also serve as the global headquarters of Watson / Internet of Things.