Offerings

The IBM Analytics Solution Center (ASC), located at the Institute for Electronic Government in Washington, DC, is part of a network of global analytics centers that provides clients with the analytics expertise to help them solve their toughest business problems. The ASC is available to help public sector customers understand how analytics can help solve their business problems. The Analytics Solution Center:

• Helps organizations understand how analytics can benefit the performance of their mission through thought leadership events
• Demonstrates analytics solutions and technology options for solving your organization's mission problems
• Provides collaboration to seek and explore innovative, yet realistic, technical approaches
• Supports the development of proofs of concepts and pilot analytical solutions
• Acts as forum for thought leadership and intellectually stimulating discussions that inspire actions
• Enables innovative collaboration

We can show you how others may have solved similar problems, demonstrate the state-of-the-art in analytics, and conduct brainstorming sessions with your staff and our analytics consultants, developers and researchers. The ASC team helps clients understand how analytics can benefit the performance of their mission through:

• Thought leadership events – Seminars on key topics of interest to public sector leaders. These events provide education, ideas, best practices and the ability to network with other public sector leaders on analytics.
• Demonstrations – Analytics solutions and technology options to help clients envision solutions for mission-critical problems.
• Collaboration – Helping clients in search of innovative, yet realistic, technical approaches.
• Support – Assisting clients as they consider options, develop proofs of concepts, and pilot analytical solutions.

Demos

The ASC offers a variety of demos including:

• PerformanceView (Cognos/Global Business Services)
• Municipal Scorecard (Cognos)
• Cognos Websites
• COBRA – Corp Brand and Reputation Analysis (FDA and Higher Education)
• DIOS – Dynamic Inventory Optimization System
• CPP – Crime Prediction and Prevention (Cognos/SPSS)
• FAMS – Fraud and Abuse Management System (Global Business Services CBO)
• TACS – Tax Audit Compliance System (Global Business Services CBO)
• GNR – Global Name Recognition (Software Group)
• Alameda County – Cognos & EAS for Social Service Agency
• TALES – Translingual Auto Language Exploitation System (Research)
• Infosphere Streams Neonatal
• Smart Surveillance System (Research)
• Watson / Jeopardy
• Global Pulse 2010
• Advanced Analytics for Information Management (AALIM)

Before you begin your journey, you need to assess the maturity (or readiness) of your organization and business environment to move toward analytics. IBM offers a free Analytics Quick Assessment (AQA) to help your organization understand your starting point. The AQA is conducted at a fairly high level by an IBM Assessment Leader and includes business and technical subject matter experts from the organization being reviewed.

A full analytics assessment may involve many steps, but for the AQA, we have reduced this to a set of key steps that help to identify some opportunities for analytics near-term steps going forward. AQA will help identify key pain points and projects that could provide high returns on investment. It is also a good way for departments to get started with analytics by helping to identify a project that may be implemented quickly and provides significant return for a small investment of time and effort.

There are many reasons why an agency leader may consider an AQA:

• An AQA provides a short introduction to analytics strategy and implementation approach. This overview allows everyone participating in the session to start with a solid base level of knowledge on analytics.
• Through identification of the “as-is” and “to be” states of the organization, the key pain points are identified, allowing action plans to be created.
• The AQA is structured to allow discussion, encouraging pain points to be put on the table so they may be addressed in the larger context of business goals, existing processes and agency direction.
• Although the AQA is not as exhaustive as the Analytics Maturity Assessment Engagement (AMAE), it is very useful for identifying potential near-term projects and areas for future study.
• The assessment from the AQA provides key input to analytics engagements, including valuable input about priorities and key business areas needing focus.